Mary Muia, current SIAF President and previous SI UN Representatives in Nairobi, shares her inspiring journey from overcoming adversities in her early childhood, losing both parents at the age of seven, to her determination to pursue education and empower vulnerable adolescent girls and young women through her grandmother’s legacy and her experiences at Kawethei primary school in Kenya.
In Malawi, a transformative project addressed several of the UN SDGs and promote education, empowerment, and gender equality. The initiative aimed to combat the prevalent issue of child marriage, which is highly prevalent in Malawi.
Funded and supported by Soroptimist International Club Nairobi Central has launched an ambitious pan-African initiative aimed at empowering women and girls as environmental leaders
The ‘Steve Sinnott project Ensuring Girls’ Equitable Access to Education’ tackles two major barriers to girls’ education: period poverty and gender-based violence.
The Kori Development Project Ltd, in partnership with Soroptimist International Foundation, is building three classrooms and a toilet block at Bob Simson Technical Secondary School in Kori Chiefdom, Sierra Leone.
Soroptimists of Follo in Norway in collaboration with SI Rygge (Norway) and SI Nisporeni (Moldova) worked together to provide training sessions to 55 girls aged 15 to 18. The three SI Clubs united to deliver these sessions to help the girls increase their life skills, including public speaking.