This is a new two-year project run by two branch offices in Seme and Kisumu. It aims to reduce child labour among girls and stop “unfavourable cultural practices” by closing the gender education gap, which has hindered economic development and continues to reinforce social inequalities in rural Kenya. The project comprises a number of activities:

- training in sustainable livelihoods for women heads of sole-parent households

- a human rights awareness campaign and community-wide training regarding the harmful effects of gender preference, early marriages and child labour

- a small, rotating micro-finance facility for women to help them establish sustainable economic activities

- small-scale manufacture of sanitary towels and the purchase of school uniforms for girls to enhance school attendance

- supporting orphan-headed households through property rights/inheritance ownership

- promoting dialogue with local government to support girls’s education

It is hoped that the awareness acquired form education will discourage the community form continuing unfavourable cultural practices, and have as many girls as possible enrolled in schools.

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