Our Programs - amkenya
Our Thematic Areas
Our work is grounded in three core thematic areas: Improved Economic Futures, Health and Well-Being for All, and Climate Justice through Community-Led Resource Governance. These pillars reflect our commitment to equity, dignity, and lasting change for women and girls in rural Kenya.
Improved Economic Futures – Economic Justice and Equitable Knowledge Access
Economic justice is a right. In communities historically excluded from decision-making and development agendas, women and girls continue to carry the burden of unpaid labor, limited access to income, and systemic barriers to education, digital participation, and vocational opportunity.
Our Economic Justice and Literacy work challenges these realities by equipping women and youth with tools that foster autonomy, confidence, and collective prosperity. We offer holistic, community-rooted programs in vocational training, financial literacy, and digital literacy to build skills and to reclaim power and agency in an unequal economic landscape.
By advancing equitable access to transformative knowledge, we are nurturing self-reliance, growing intergenerational wealth, and redefining what economic inclusion means for rural communities in Kenya. Our vision is clear: a future where the economic systems surrounding women do not extract from them, but invest in them.
Through this program, AkaMusyi is creating safe, collaborative learning spaces where women are both participants in economic life and architects of it.
Health and Well-Being for All – Advancing Sexual, Reproductive, Mental, and Physical Health Rights
Well-being is a fundamental right; physical, mental, emotional, and reproductive. In communities where silence often surrounds bodies, trauma, and tradition, we are building a new culture, rooted in healing, belonging, expression, and justice.
Our work in this thematic area centers on advancing bodily autonomy, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), and holistic wellness for women and girls in all their diversity. We provide safe spaces for healing, movement, and mentorship, from yoga and counseling sessions to dance, crafts, and art that honor both tradition and personal expression.
We champion:
Bodily Autonomy & SRHR – Promoting access to accurate reproductive health information, menstrual dignity, safe spaces for dialogue, and peer-led education. We are actively working to end harmful traditional practices including child marriage and silence around consent and shift the narrative around girls’ and women’s bodies from shame to sovereignty.
Mental and Physical Well-being – Through community sports, movement practices, therapy circles, and wellness workshops, we prioritize healing not just of the body, but of the mind and soul, creating avenues for trauma recovery, stress relief, and self-awareness.
Creative Expression as Wellness – We believe creativity is healing. Through traditional crafts, music, storytelling, and art, we encourage women and girls to reconnect with their identities, express their realities, and reclaim joy.
Our work is rooted in solidarity, mentorship, and feminist values, intentionally engaging men and boys, caregivers, cultural leaders, and wellness professionals to collectively build a world where women and girls are safe, supported, and seen. By fostering connection and community, we are not just promoting health we are affirming the full humanity of every girl and woman.
Advancing Climate Justice through Equitable, Community-Led Resource Governance
Across our community, the climate crisis is an environmental issue and a daily struggle for survival, dignity, and justice. Women, girls, and entire households are bearing the brunt of degraded lands, disappearing rains, and rising food insecurity. In the face of collapsing systems and limited resources, we are adapting and rising.
At AkaMusyi, we believe that climate justice begins at the grassroots, where the impact is most deeply felt and where the solutions are already taking root. Using the tools available to us – ancestral knowledge, sustainable farming practices, local nutrition, and environmental stewardship, we are actively resisting ecological destruction and economic marginalization.
Our approach is about reclaiming power over our land, our food systems, and our future. We are learning to govern the natural resources around us with care, equity, and purpose. We teach sustainable agriculture as a lifeline. We practice environmental conservation as justice. And through every action, we are building a climate-resilient future that centers the voices, leadership, and knowledge of women and girls in rural Kenya.
Support the leadership of women and communities on the frontlines of climate change. Help us turn survival into sovereignty.
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