Meza Yetu Collective

15/08/2026

"Sympathy will never be sustainable. Sympathy actually lowers your dignity as a human being."

Episode 5 continues the caregiving conversation that Episode 4 opened.

Purity Jebor joins the conversation with a challenge. Kenya has finally measured unpaid care, but the country is acting like the work to recognise it is finished. Purity makes it clear that the work has only just started.
She explains that girls first learn care by watching their mothers. This learning follows women from home into workplaces where they serve tea, clean the room, and manage the atmosphere, often sacrificing the skills they were hired for. It continues as women turn down promotions, delay political goals, and reproductive policies get stuck because the women who could speak up are not in the places where decisions are made.

Purity says sympathy is the wrong basis for a care economy. Sympathy does not have a budget. She also changes the generational view: millennials are caring for their parents now, but Gen Z has already made it clear they will not take on that responsibility.

Watch on YouTube. Link in bio.

10/08/2026

Caregiving is where silence gets called love. Much of the work women do inside a household, for a parent, a partner, a child, or a sick relative, is absorbed into the language of family duty, which makes it harder to name what caregiving quietly takes from women: the exhaustion, the income they never earned because the work was never paid, and a life slowly narrowed by decades of assumed duty.

We Were Not Taught is a series of conversations between women about what silence protects and what it costs. Across nine episodes, women of different ages sit together and name the things they were never taught to name, moving through money, widowhood, living with illness, medical silence, and shame.

Watch the full episode out now on YT, link in Bio.

06/08/2026

Unpaid domestic and care work in Kenya is worth KSh 2.24 trillion per year, about 23% of the national GDP, comparable to formal agriculture and greater than manufacturing, construction, and transport combined. This is the first national valuation of this work.

Yet the impact on the women who perform this work remains unclear.

Women work 25.8 billion of the 30.7 billion unpaid hours each year, nearly five times as many as men. If paid, a Kenyan woman aged 15+ would earn KSh 118,845 a year, compared to KSh 22,676 for a man.

This pattern is typical of Kenyan households. When hospitals discharge patients early, care moves home. Daughters and mothers usually take on care for elders or children, often at the cost of paid work or long-term security.

Caregiving means the country is quietly, permanently subsidised by women.

But numbers alone cannot capture what caregiving means in the home. Episode 4 of features two women sharing their experiences.

03/08/2026

To each and every one of you, we are grateful for your voices, ideas, trust, vulnerability and presence this past Saturday.

29/07/2026

The Matrimonial Property Act recognizes all types of contributions, even unpaid ones. However, courts have taken longer to decide how to measure these contributions.

Women often learn about property, wills, and inheritance only after something has already gone wrong. In Episode 3, legal and wealth-protection expert go sunrise explains what the law says about contributions, ownership, cohabitation, and inheritance, and shares what women can put in writing before a crisis happens.

Watch the full episode now on YouTube. The link is in our bio.

28/07/2026

23/07/2026

In 2022, the High Court decided that a widow should keep her inheritance even if she remarries. However, the Law of Succession Act still contains the old wording.

Most of what a widow faces in those first weeks never ends up in court. Relatives often show up with questions about property even before the burial, and the community already has its own ideas about how she should grieve.

In Episode 2, two women share their experiences of becoming widows in very different circumstances. One understood what to ask for but still went through a slow and confusing process. The other was just thirty, an age when most people do not expect to lose a spouse. She had to manage everything herself while her husband's family turned against her.

Watch the full episode on YouTube. You can find the link in our bio.

21/07/2026

16/07/2026

Episode 1 is out now on our YouTube channel. Check it out, link is in Bio or just type in MezaYetuCollective on YT and it'll be the latest video!

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