About: kakenya

Kakenya grew up in the rural village of Enoosaen, Keyna. She negotiated her escape from female genital cutting and early child marriage to acquire a high school education in Kenya and higher education in the United States. She received a scholarship to Randolph-Macon Women’s College in Virginia and fter completing her undergraduate studies, she became the first youth advisor to the United Nations Population Fund. Today, she travels around the world as a passionate advocate for girls’ education, which she sees as a crucial tool for fighting the practices of female genital mutilation and child marriage. Currently, she is working to establish a school for girls in her home village and recently broke ground for the school in August 2008. For her outstanding work, Vital Voices honored Kakenya Ntaiya with the Rising Voices Global Leadership Award in April of 2008.

Posts by kakenya:

• Breaking Ground: Launching the Kakenya Center for Excellence, 22 Sep 2008 in Africa& Gender Gap& Mentoring
• Going Home: Revisiting the Needs of Girls in Rural Kenya, 22 Sep 2008 in Africa& Gender Gap& Mentoring