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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.

15/07/2026

Two years ago, our team tent sat behind the toilets at race venues. Today, it's in the main area, bikes racked alongside everyone else's, same mechanic, same queue for bike checks.
That didn't happen through patience or hope. It happened through persistent, documented advocacy: emails to federation officials, meetings, showing up with our athletes so they couldn't be reduced to statistics. Eventually, it became easier to move the tent than to keep saying no.
This is what justice looks like: not a headline, but a tent moved from the margins to the main area.
Women and girls with disabilities from Nairobi's informal settlements are now training under qualified coaches, competing in proper kits, and getting the same technical feedback as any other athlete. A federation official who once ignored them now discusses next season's calendar as part of the plan.
To the ONSIDE Fund: thank you for the trust-based funding and the space to do this work our way. That trust is what let us invest in advocacy that doesn't show results overnight, but changes systems when it's sustained.
The tent could move back. The gains aren't permanent. That's exactly why we keep showing up.
Women Win

14/07/2026

Elevate Her, in partnership with Kesho Connect and S4L, held a Youth Employability Training Workshop at St. Charles Lwanga! Young people, including those with disabilities, learned CV writing, LinkedIn optimization, and job application skills to help them stand out in today's job market. Proud to be building a more inclusive path to employment for youth in Kibera and beyond.

13/07/2026

125 Kenyans hold more wealth than 42.6 million of their fellow citizens. (Oxfam, Kenya's Inequality Crisis: The Great Economic Divide)
This isn't just a wealth gap, it's an exclusion gap. Starved health budgets push assistive devices and care out of reach for persons with disabilities first. Shrinking education funding pushes children with disabilities further to the margins. And with only 9% of Kenyans covered by social protection, women and girls with disabilities, carrying both poverty and unpaid care, are left with the least cushion.
Inequality is never disability-neutral. At Elevate Her, we see this daily. Reversing it means building disability inclusion into budgets and social protection from the start.
Onward.

07/07/2026

Femicide is the killing of women and girls because of their gender, often by intimate partners or family members, rooted in discrimination and power imbalances.
Between January 2025 and March 2026, Kenya recorded more than 10,500 child protection cases, including 1,952 abductions and 6,820 cases of abandonment.
Women and girls with disabilities face compounded barriers to justice. Elevate Her is committed to justice that reaches everyone, regardless of ability.

06/07/2026

A young girl in Kakamega is gone, and her family left grieving. It's a painful reminder of why strong, proactive child protection systems matter.
At Elevate Her, we advocate for justice that is swift, fair, and consistent, "Haki Bila Upendeleo." Our hearts are with the Kakamega community.

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