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Skills
Practical capability she can take into a workshop, a stall, or a small room at home.
Kenya · Kawangware, Nairobi · Her future
A girl should never have to choose between her dignity and her future.
In Kawangware, Nairobi, period poverty interrupts education, opportunity and dignity. Nazarene for She exists so that interruption is not the end of her story.
600+Girls currently supported
01What is happening
Every month, a cycle can become a barrier to school.
For many girls, a period is more than biology. It can interrupt education, dignity and opportunity — especially where products are unaffordable, unavailable, or come with a cost no girl should ever have to pay.
600+
Girls currently supported
Verified organisational figure.
02Why it matters
She should never have to make these choices.
She deserves both.
03The turn
But the story doesn't end there.
We believe every girl deserves more than survival.
- She deserves dignity.
- She deserves knowledge.
- She deserves mentorship.
- She deserves opportunity.
- She deserves a future.
Nazarene for She
She Empowered, Community Inspired.
Nazarene for She (NS) is a community-based organisation in Congo, Kawangware, Nairobi County. It empowers young girls through sanitary pads, vocational skills, and economic opportunity.
04What we are doing
The response is immediate — and more than a kit.
05Dignity kits
She should never have to trade her dignity for a pad.
Continued distribution of dignity kits — sanitary pads, underwear and hygiene items — helps girls manage menstruation safely, confidently and with dignity.
This is not a shop. It is how a barrier is removed.
Pads
Monthly protection
Underwear
The basics of comfort
Soap
Hygiene she can keep
Notebook
School, still hers
06Faith & community
Rooted in the Word, open to every girl.
Nazarene for She is rooted in a community that gathers not only to provide practical support, but also to share the Word and Love of Jesus Christ.
- Discipleship
- Mentorship
- Prayer
- Community
- Spiritual encouragement
07What comes next
A pad can solve today.Empowerment changes tomorrow.
We do not stop at distribution. The longer work is knowledge, mentorship, skill, enterprise and a community that can increasingly sustain itself.
08Vocational training
When the thread becomes a livelihood.
Through practical vocational training in tailoring and dressmaking, girls and young women with limited educational or economic opportunities can acquire marketable skills for employment or entrepreneurship.
09Enterprise
We do not only want to help girls survive. We want them to shape their own futures.
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Enterprise
The knowledge to price, make and sell — so a garment can become a living.
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Mentorship
Someone who has walked a path, walking a stretch of hers.
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Independence
Income she can name. Choices she does not have to trade for survival.
10What transformation looks like
A model of holistic empowerment — not a single script.
Not every girl walks this path in the same order, or at the same pace. Choose a step.
14What future are we building
From dependence to possibility.
We are developing a model that can make the initiative increasingly self-sustainable. That is the vision — not a claim that the work is already fully self-sustaining.
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Support
Dignity kits, education and community care meet urgent need.
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Skills
Vocational training and mentorship grow what she can do.
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Enterprise
Making and selling becomes a practised capacity.
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Income
Work she can name as her own.
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Self-sufficiency
A community increasingly able to sustain its own future.
She empowered. Community inspired.
This is not simply about sanitary pads.
It is about a future she can claim as her own.
Nazarene for She helps girls and young women in Kawangware, Nairobi, overcome period poverty, stay in school, gain practical skills, and move toward self-sustaining futures.
