Kakamega Hope for Survivors Network

06/01/2026

🏫Most of our members, the survivors of exploitative child domestic work in Kakamega county, continue to reveal to us that lack of school fees and dropping out of school at the crucial education transition stages, continues to provide the basis and initial accelerator for adolescents, girls, and young women to engage in exploitative domestic work and modern slavery in Kakamega county.
🎓We would like to appeal to all eligible candidates in Kakamega to take advantage of this scholarship opportunity that can go a long way in ensuring girls achieve their full potential through the classroom! We highly appreciate this noble scholarship offer from the H & P Foundation, and especially for extending the application deadline so no one is left behind. 👯
📔At Kakamega Hope for Survivors Network, we remain committed t driving the agenda of eradicating child domestic work and exploitation through sustainable, community driven, as well as systemic actions for a more sustainable future. ✨🌾 The Freedom Fund WE REACH Kakamega Social Services, Sports, Youth, Gender & Culture Department

09/12/2025

🌼 In just one year at the Kakamega Hope for Survivors Network (KHSN), Snidah Atieno, a survivor of exploitative child domestic work and beneficiary of the Survivor Leadership Fund, is now leading evidence-based change at WE REACH organization under the NIA Program by The Freedom Fund. 💪
🌾She has become a bold advocate against child domestic work and modern slavery, sharing lived experience and practical solutions. Through climate-smart agribusiness training and the Indigenous Poultry Production Handbook produced by the KHSN, she is equipping survivors and caregivers of children at risk of engaging in child domestic work with sustainable livelihood skills. This is survivor leadership transforming vulnerability into resilience, dignity, and economic independence. ✨

01/12/2025

From Survivors to frontiers of 👏👏🤛💪

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27/10/2025

🧵🪡 Building sustainable pathways to through market-oriented skills development.💃

⚡️ Look at us now! From learning the basic parts of a sewing machine, to the makers of such lovely pieces of art! 👗

💭 What started as a wishful thinking is steadily falling into form, one step at a time. We are gradually but surely heading there with our clothes construction under the

⚡️ “I am never going to pay for uniform making services for all my three children moving forward!” Exclaims Eglay, one of the pioneer beneficiaries. “Now I only need to sharpen my shorts designing skills and run for all the school uniforms making business in my area,” states Judy, an equally excited student. 🧵 🪡

⚡️ Here at the Kakamega Hope for Survivors Network Survivors Resource Hub, with the right resources, mindsets, and safe spaces, we are discovering and rediscovering talents, and rewriting destinies as our dreams are moulded into reality, our own way.💃
The Freedom Fund WE REACH

19/10/2025

🌿 Providing sustainable pathways to economic independence through tools, skills, and knowledge in agri-business! 🔆

🌱 We are all excited, we can't keep calm, and celebrate every little win towards fulfilling our commitment to the young women and girls who have continued to show great resilience and dedication to breaking barriers and steering their own development, and that of their wider communities through agri-business. ✨

Thank you so much Kenchic and KCB Group for honoring our girls that took seriously the call to apply in good time. Missions like these greatly compliment our work. We appreciate this opportunity and truly trust that the lucky applicants will benefit from every resource this has to offer. They are all eager and looking forward to not only learning, but cascading the learnings to their peers, and that's the beauty of our culture here at the Kakamega Hope for Survivors Network.

The Freedom Fund WE REACH

10/09/2025

Black soldier fly farming!
🌿 This is regenerative agriculture
🌿 This is hope for survivors of exploitative domestic work, at work
💰 This is us turning trash into cash the sustainable way, with the hope for a brighter, greener, safer, cleaner, and healthier future💫

08/09/2025

🌤 Is it true what we hear from the airwaves around?
☀️Ati some places jua imefanya ile kitu in the recent few days na sasa bei ya mboga imeleta shida. Closer home, mulembe nation is in panic mode awaiting the verdict of the as to whether slaughtering all chicken would be cheaper than sourcing for mboga anywhere around. 🐔🤣🤣🤣
🌿Well sincere apologies, even though here at kwa ground mambo ni different. Our young women and girls are smiling all the way from the farm to the kitchen, because our initiatives are starting to pay off. From food security to income generation, we are re-imagining our well being holistically. From between 50 to 100 shillings, the survivors of exploitative domestic work can enjoy healthy, fresh and abundant nourishment for their households, no matter the weather. 🌦

🌱 We welcome the wider community to join us in learning, and being part of this fulfilling journey✨

06/08/2025

✨🌱🌍Ever wondered why we do what we do? Why the obsession to catalyze transformation for the people that we do, in the way that we do it? Well...
🌍Domestic work is a main economic activity among the young people in Kakamega (National Youths and Adolescents Survey). Most Kenyans prefer and believe that young women and girls from Kakamega county make the best,humble, and very hard-working domestic helps. This, despite the fact that Kakamega county is well known for its rich agricultural activity and cultural heritage. It is famous for the Kakamega Forest, Kenya's only tropical rain-forest.

🎗 With economic instability in many families and poor cultural beliefs, most girls are forced to drop out of school from as early as the age of 9, ending up in early pregnancies and domestic work where they are further exploited, including physical, mental, and sexual abuse. These always go unnoticed with systemic and socio-cultural conditions normalizing these often invisible forms of modern-day slavery that exist in the exploitative domestic work systems.

🎗 This then presents a big number of survivors of domestic work exploitation in Kakamega County, with no recognition or any reparation frameworks. We have devised mechanisms to rescue and refer them to reporting and health services, but they are still faced by stigma, economic instability, limited skills, and lack of access to sustainable livelihoods, perpetuating cycles of poverty and vulnerability.
Most of them are however still the primary caregivers and breadwinners in their own families, despite the status quo presenting barriers and inequalities for women. For example, it is still a taboo in most of the communities for women to acquire/possess land, spear-head development initiatives, or enjoy
financial independence.

🌱 Looking into the agricultural sector value chains as an ideal tool to foster sustainable livelihoods, the demand for indigenous foods in Kenya is growing due to their nutritional benefits, resilience to climate change, and increasing awareness of their cultural significance. Consumers are seeking out organically grown African
Indigenous Vegetables (AIVs) like amaranth, spider plant, and African nightshade, both in traditional markets and supermarkets.

🌿 This rising demand is driving increased production and prompting efforts to promote sustainable agriculture and food systems, with the encouragement that consumers are willing to pay more for AIVs with specific characteristics like color, tenderness, and washing off of soil, according to the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development.

24/07/2025

🪰🐛 Vijana na kazi! 🏋‍♀
🎊Today, we are so excited to congratulate our followers in the NIA program by WE REACH organization, on their Black Soldier Fly (BSF) farming project inception. Hongera sana and we appreciate the Hydro Victoria team for the training and a great job done👏.

🌿 This initiative will go a long way in generating the income survivors of exploitative domestic work truly need, with prospects in waste management, BSF products and by-products like frass-organic fertilizer, BSF oil, and animal feeds. It will also enable environmental conservation, and be a great addition that will improve the poultry and indigenous vegetable farming practices.✨

🌱 We are so humbled at the opportunity to offer our mentorship and moral support so they can stay on track in this incredible journey that we were so privileged to start.
Congratulations for showing true dedication in making good use of all the support and opportunities provided to them to rewrite their own stories with their own hands.✨
🌱 A big thank you to our very own matron at Kakamega Hope for Survivors Network, Snidah for always having words of wisdom, direction, and encouragement for our dear sisters and the rest of us all. 👏
🌿 We look forward to more fellow young women and girls achieving economic independence through sustainable pathways.
The Freedom Fund Farm Africa Hydro Victoria WE REACH