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So I stepped into development spaces, determined to help fix the system from above. But
what I saw there was worse. Women and girls were not only underrepresented but absent.
Their lived truths were dismissed, reduced to checkboxes. Especially those most underserved:
adolescent mothers, women living with disability, pastoralist and Indigenous women,
refugees, and those navigating deep poverty. Rarely consulted. Often spoken for. Almost
always excluded.
That was my turning point. I could no longer patch broken systems. I had to go to the root
and start again.
In 2017, I founded White Ribbon Alliance Kenya — built on one radical shift: Ask. Listen.
Act.
We’ve since listened to over 3.5 million women and girls across Kenya. What they shared
wasn’t anecdotal. It revealed a polycrisis — of survival, care, dignity, and access. They
named what they wanted. We took that as instruction. And we began turning asks into action.
Today, we are building real, lasting solutions with women, girls, and communities — through
Action Villages and Women and Girls Action Networks for Change. These are shaped by
those most often forgotten. This approach now serves across counties, sectors,
countries and regions. But still, no amount of training could correct what was fundamentally
unjust.