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How Empowernet Has Helped Us

Posted Jul 19, 2011 in Uncategorized by - 0 Comments

The Empowernet has help us to use computer and we have also open ania page. We can write our marks in the ania page. We also know how to write messages in computers and we can locate our school in [...]

Puberty Stage

Posted Mar 28, 2011 in Education, Empowerment, kenya, Kibera, Sanitary Pads, zanaafrica by - 0 Comments

My name is Emmaculate.I am in standard seven at the age of 13years. when I was developing, I was age 12years, I saw many different things in my body and I was shy.I saw pimples,breast appearance,hips broaden and monthly period.When [...]

Change

Posted Mar 25, 2011 in Empowerment, Kibera, Sanitary Pads, zanaafrica by - 0 Comments

When we did not have pads and panties we had challenges.We were using cloths and this was affecting our private parts.When you came to our school with pads we felt so happy and now our bodies are not the way [...]

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Call This Prejudice or Merely Ignorace

Posted Feb 21, 2011 in Empowerment by - 0 Comments

A long, long time ago the Maasai believed that girls were to be married at the age of 12.  They usually said that boys were more important than girls and would then trade their daughters for 10 herds of cattle. [...]