Mission with a Vision

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

Our partners at Mission With A Vision in rural Kenya do a great job protecting girls who have run away from home to escape genital cutting and childhood marriage. Over the past 20 years, the Mission has helped more than 1,000 Kenyan teens and pre-teens. Working with few resources, but with an unreserved commitment to the well-being of children, the Mission’s staff works tirelessly — frequently at great personal risk — to safeguard and educate local youngsters through high school and beyond. Wherever possible, efforts are also made to work with community elders to help the girls reconcile with their families, a delicate task that frequently requires months of negotiation and counseling.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenya

Activity URL

http://africanchildrenshaven.org/projects/

Government Affiliation
Non-governmental program
Years

Not applicable or unknown

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation
Unknown
Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response
Unknown
Geographic Scope
National
Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  
Unknown
Areas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Attainment
  • Primary completion
  • Secondary completion
Cross-cutting areas
  • Community sensitization
  • Early/child marriage
  • Empowerment
  • Female genital mutilation/cutting
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

Not applicable or unknown

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
  • Community mobilization
Life skills education
  • Gender, rights and power
Other
  • Other activities to end child marriage (not captured above)
Social/gender norms change
  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
Cross-cutting goals
  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Other
  • Reduced child marriage