Throughout Kenya, Girls & Their Communities are Soaring with Education & Human Rights Training
- Kenya Works
- Dec 10
- 3 min read
Dear Friends of Kenya Works,
This year, we stood beside Christine—a young woman who once feared her future would be chosen for her. Today, she soars as a powerful advocate for girls’ rights in her community. Her transformation from vulnerability to strength is what your generosity makes possible through Kenya Works’ holistic programs.
In the photo, I’m standing beside another Golden Eagle, Millicent. Each of these young woman is extraordinary with their own fierce and beautiful power. Together, they are unstoppable.
I invite you to read Christine’s Golden Eagles story and see how every dollar you give fuels four powerful pillars—Shelter Works, Menstrual Health & Hygiene Works, Education Works, and Community Works —to help more girls and their communities rise.
Christine’s story shows how Kenya Works’ four pillars create lasting change. Shelter and nutrition give a girl the security to stay in school. Menstrual health empowers her to attend school confidently. Education sponsorship and feeding programs open doors to secondary school with a lifetime of knowledge. Community training builds a culture of equality that protects her rights instead of limiting her future. You can read more about this amazing sisterhood below.
The POWER of Your Gift
This is the power of your gift: one donation fuels multiple interventions that work together—turning a single act of generosity into transformation for a child, a family, and an entire community.
As we close 2025 and enter a pivotal new year, your support is essential. Every gift helps more girls rise with Christine and The Golden Eagles.
Whether you make a year-end donation, become a monthly donor, sponsor a student, fund menstrual health kits, or support a child in crisis, your generosity will ripple forward in ways we can’t fully see. But girls like Christine will feel every day.
With gratitude,
Julie Schaller-Schmidt
Executive Director, Kenya Works
EDUCATION & SISTERHOOD HELP GOLDEN EAGLES TAKE FLIGHT
When Christine became a Golden Eagle, she didn’t just gain access to school.
She joined a force for change — a collective of 50 girls determined to shape their futures and uplift their community.
Together, the Golden Eagles are:
Staying in school
Speaking out against harmful traditions
Supporting one another
Inspiring younger girls to follow
And the ripple effects are profound.
Parents are attending human rights and child protection training.
Community members are choosing education over early marriage.
New voices are rising — voices that champion dignity, opportunity, and equality.
This is what your support makes possible.
You’re not just helping one girl succeed. You’re strengthening the foundation for generations of girls to rise.
Kenya Works Pillars of Opportunity
The power of your gift:
One donation fuels multiple interventions that work together—turning a single act of generosity into transformation for a child, a family, and an entire community.
Shelter Works
Shelter Works ensures that vulnerable children and families have safe places to live and daily meals, basics that protect them from the most urgent risks of poverty and instability. Your support not only provides crisis shelter, but also helps fund prevention efforts within the community—strengthening families, identifying risks early, and keeping children safe from harm.
Menstrual Health & Hygiene Works
Menstrual Health & Hygiene provides Makini Kits and education that keep girls in school with dignity and confidence. For example, your gift can supply a girl with a Makini Kit that offers about 18 months of reliable menstrual protection, dramatically reducing school absenteeism and the vulnerability that comes with missed classes.
Education Works
Education Works opens the door for students like Christine through scholarships, school fees, uniforms, mentorship, school-based support, and feeding programs that keep children in class and ready to learn. Your sponsorship gift does more than pay fees; by pairing education support with school meals, it turns one investment into thousands of hours of nourished learning and a lifetime of opportunities for a student and her family.
Community Works
Community Works delivers multi-day trainings on human rights and engages communities to end harmful practices like Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), child marriage, and gender-based violence. Your leadership gift can fund an entire training--empowering parents, guardians, elders, and local leaders to build safer, fairer communities that protect girls and support their education.