Every article here is grounded in published data — the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey, UNESCO, the Ministry of Health, IFC and Afrobarometer among them — and in what our teams see on the ground in Mombasa and across the Coast region. Sources are listed at the end of each post.
86% of Kenyans gave to a cause last year, but most say they want proof of impact first. Here is how giving works in Kenya, and how to check an organisation before you send a shilling.
A calm, practical guide for anyone affected by gender-based violence in Kenya: helplines and services first, then what the national data and the law actually say.
Kenya's constitution promised a two-thirds gender rule that was never legislated. Mentorship is the practical bridge between leaving school and holding a seat at the table.
Kenyan women run enormous numbers of businesses, yet only 7% of women-owned MSMEs have formal access to finance. Here is the real funding landscape, route by route, and where the system falls short.
Kenya has almost closed the primary school gender gap, then loses more than half of its girls before Form Four. Where the pipeline breaks, why, and what holds girls in school.
A data-first explainer on period poverty in Kenya: what pads cost, what the 2017 sanitary towels law promises, where delivery falls short, and which interventions actually keep girls in school.