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02/09/2026

Last week, we held an SRHR training facilitated by Wanjiru Mbugua from Akili Dada, deepening our understanding of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, a right that belongs to every single person, no exceptions.
What we learned:

SRHR - a state of complete physical, mental & social wellbeing, not just the absence of disease
We have the right to decide if, when, and how often to reproduce,

We have the right to access accurate information and services to support our sexual and reproductive lives,

Consent is either yes or no; there is no grey area.

The law is on our side:
1. The Constitution of Kenya (2010) guarantees the right to the highest attainable standard of health, including reproductive healthcare, and emergency treatment can never be denied.
2. The Sexual Offences Act (2006) protects survivors and sets strict sentencing for offenders.
3. The Maputo Protocol affirms women's right to control their fertility, access family planning education, and get contraceptive services.
4. CEDAW guarantees women's right to reproductive healthcare, free from discrimination.

But the gap remains:
Cultural practices, poverty, and poor awareness still stand between women and their rights.
For women with disabilities, discrimination and stigma too often compound these barriers.
One participant reminded us: "I have rights. Just because I have a psycho-social disability does not mean I don't have rights."
Sometimes people act out of ignorance, not malice, and that's exactly why we keep showing up to educate, advocate, and create safe spaces for these conversations.
Huge thanks to the Oxfam Kenya Women's Rights Fund for making this session possible!
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26/08/2026

Elevate Her, under our FFF (Funding Fairer Futures) programme supported by CBM Ireland, held a capacity building workshop under "Inclusive Voices, Women, Youth and Climate Justice" in Baba Dogo, equipping women and youth with disabilities with the knowledge and skills to understand, respond to, and advocate on climate justice.

Participants explored what climate change and climate risk mean in practice, and why climate shocks hit harder when you live with a disability: evacuation routes and shelters that aren't accessible, early warnings that don't come in sign language or Braille, relief and resettlement sites built without consultation, and assistive devices lost in disasters with no support to replace them.

The workshop also built real advocacy skills, participants practiced making clear, specific asks to duty-bearers like Ward Climate Change Committees: "Please make the new water point wheelchair-accessible."

Every participant walked away with a personal action commitment, a concrete next step, a support person, and a date.

Because climate justice isn't complete until women and youth with disabilities are at the table.
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21/08/2026

At Elevate Her, we are an organization of persons with disabilities, not simply an organization working for them.

That distinction matters. It shapes who sits at the table when decisions are made, whose lived experience shapes our programming, and whose voices lead when we speak at policy forums and advocacy spaces.

"Nothing about us without us" isn't a slogan for us. It's how we're structured.

Onward.

20/08/2026

This week, our Executive Director Juliet Muema facilitated a session on disability inclusion and intersectionality at a training for feminist networks and Women's Rights Organizations in Nairobi.

The training, organized under the ACT Project by COVAW and DIWA, with support from the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women and Girls, brought together representatives of WROs and feminist movements to deliberate on strengthening disability inclusion in the fight to end violence against women and girls.

Juliet shared her expertise on disability rights, intersectionality, and the barriers women and girls with disabilities continue to face, reinforcing that truly inclusive feminist movements must be intersectional, accessible and representative.

Proud to be part of this vital collaboration.

12/08/2026

Today is International Youth Day. This year's theme, "Different Contexts, Common Aspirations" speaks directly to the work we do every day at Elevate Her.

Young women and girls with disabilities in our communities don't dream any differently than any other young person. They want an education that doesn't shut them out. Work that pays them fairly. A seat at the table when decisions are made about their lives. The barriers they face are different, but the aspiration is the same.

Inclusion cannot be an afterthought in youth programming. If a youth strategy doesn't name disability, it isn't leaving room for millions of young people.

To every young woman with a disability reading this: your voice belongs in every room where your future is being decided.

04/08/2026

On 22nd July, Elevate Her joined a community dialogue on gender-based violence convened by CREAW and CDTD at AIC Church, Kibera, bringing together community members, survivors, and organizations working on GBV response and support.

We brought a delegation of women with disabilities to the dialogue, because their voices are too often left out of conversations on survivor justice, even though they face some of the steepest barriers to reporting abuse and accessing help.

Justice must include everyone, or it isn't justice at all.

27/07/2026

Last week marked a significant milestone as we joined the official launch of the UN WYDE – Her Voice, Her Agency, Her Power: Amplifying Young Women's Voices in Leadership, Political Processes and Peace Building project.

Implemented by WETEC Kenya under the WYDE Women's Leadership Programme, with support from UN Women and funding from the European Union, this initiative advances women's leadership by creating opportunities for women and young women, including young women with disabilities, to lead, influence decisions, and shape the future of their communities. Leadership spaces are only truly inclusive when they are accessible, and we remain committed to ensuring young women with disabilities are active voices at the table, not an afterthought.

As one of the implementing partners, Elevate Her will work over the coming months to strengthen leadership capacity, promote meaningful civic participation, and foster inclusive peacebuilding.

Proud to walk this journey alongside fellow partners Dua ya Dada (Nandi), Nawiri (Kwale), and Vuka Forces Initiative (Homa Bay).

When women lead, all women, the whole community thrives.

23/07/2026

Elevate Her participated in a training on Feminist Leadership, Narrative Power, and Storytelling.

Feminism is the belief in full social, economic, and political equality for all genders, and feminist leadership puts that belief into practice. It centres justice, shares power, promotes equality, values diversity, challenges oppression, builds collective action, and ensures every voice matters.

From the session, our team came away with:

→ A clearer understanding of feminism and feminist leadership principles
→ The ability to distinguish feminist leadership from traditional leadership models
→ A deeper grasp of what transformative leadership looks like in practice
→ Tools to apply intersectionality to disability inclusion
→ Sharpened awareness of power, privilege, and allyship
→ Space to reflect on our own leadership journeys

Leadership that shares power instead of hoarding it. That's the work.

21/07/2026

I want to bring attention to something growing quietly but dangerously: Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV).

This is when digital tools; phones, social media, GPS trackers, apps, are used to intimidate, monitor, control, or abuse someone, most often women and girls. It shows up as cyberstalking, non-consensual sharing of images, online harassment, impersonation, and covert surveillance, often by partners or family members.

At Elevate Her, we are especially concerned about Persons with Disabilities. Many depend on caregivers or assistive technology to communicate, and this dependency can be exploited to isolate, monitor, or coerce. Add to this the lack of accessible reporting channels, and abuse too often goes unnoticed and unpunished.

I urge PWDs, their families, and support networks to:
✅ Recognize the signs, unexplained monitoring, restricted communication, pressure to share passwords or images
✅ Report early, to someone you trust
✅ Push for accessible, disability-inclusive protection and reporting systems

Technology should never be a tool of silence. Justice must be within reach for everyone.

16/07/2026

Big update from our Executive Director, Juliet Muema.
Some months ago, Juliet was elected to represent persons with disabilities on the Kibera Gender Advocacy Network (KGAN), a voting seat shaping how referral protocols, accountability structures, and coordination tools get built for the network.

Her mandate has stayed the same from day one: make referral and coordination spaces accessible to persons with all types of disabilities, push for disability to be counted as real data, not an afterthought, name where coordination is failing specific communities, connect grassroots disability knowledge to the decisions being made above it, and build real partnership between disability communities and GBV responders.

Now, Juliet has been elected as Vice Chairperson of KGAN.
Same mandate. Same commitment. No one left behind in how Kibera responds to gender-based violence.
Onward.

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