Most communities in Kenya with a history of marginalization could easily be characterized by acute levels of poverty, hunger, and malnutrition. Malnutrition is a serious health concern, and has such nutritional problems as Vitamin A deficiency.
Vitamin A deficiency restricts growth, weakens immunity and eyesight, and contributes to increased childhood mortality. In women, Vitamin A deficiency could lead to miscarriage of pregnancies. Hunger, on the other hand, breeds Gender-Based Violence (GBV), which in turn perpetuates hunger and child malnutrition. The impact of these is felt on the education of children in these communities.
In remedy, African PRIDE Centre has designed targeted projects to empower women as agents of community transformation. The projects focus on UNSCR 1325 and fostering shared prosperity, including through responses to GBV, and nurturing such strategic interventions as afforestation, alternative occupations, smart farming, briquetting, etc. Find out more about these projects, and how you could support, by contacting us through africanpridecentre@gmail.com
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