Filling
The Gap
"Every time you do a good
deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark."
-Charles de Lint
Lack of affordable schools. Arranged early marriages, and FGM. Lack of access to health care. Poverty. The interconnected challenges facing girls create huge barriers to their ability to get an education. Girls in the regions where we work have an additional burden: One of the highest teen pregnancy rates across Kenya, at 40%. Not only do these pregnancies often result in girls dropping out of school, they vastly increase girls' mortality risks when they start families so young.
In 2025 we're expanding our health education to not only work to prevent teen pregnancies but to keep girls safer when they happen –– and then get them back in school. Our goal is to fill in the severe health care gaps that exist in the remote regions where we work that have deepened with global aid changes.
We can make a difference.
Help us expand our vital health information work to reach girls and women in the farthest remote communities this year by supporting our summer Filling the Gap campaign.
Nashipae
Nashipae was one of the highest scoring
students on her secondary school entrance
exams and gained entrance to a National Level
school. Then, she got pregnant, and
had to forfeit her spot.
A year after having her baby,
Nashipae was able to start 9th grade
thanks to a new day secondary we opened
near her home. Two years later,
once her baby Sasha was older,
Nashipae transferred to a
high-performing girls boarding
school where she continues to shine.
Nashipae hopes to become a lawyer
to fight for justice for other girls.