Rising to Greatness is a non-profit young women-led community-based organization established located in Kakamega Kenya. The organization strives to holistically uplift adolescent girl, youth, women and people living with disability(PWDs) in the rural parts of western Kenya, positioning them at the forefront of development and transformative change.

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Who We Are.

Rising to Greatness is a non-profit young women-led community-based organization established located in Kakamega Kenya. The organization strive to holistically uplift adolescent girl, youth, women and people living with disability(PWDs) in the rural parts of western Kenya, positioning them at the forefront of development and transformative change.

Our projects and campaigns are informed by gender equality and inclusion, peace and security and climate action as three key strategic pillars contributing to the attainment of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals number 5, 13 and 16.

 

Thematic Pillars

Our work rests on three solid thematic pillars:

  1. Peace and Security pillar: We promote peace and security by actively supporting and engaging the community in the following three focus areas: Positioning young people at the center of peacebuilding and violence prevention. Strengthen youths’ and women’s capacity to participate in peacebuilding, conflict resolution, and mediation. Building the resilience of women and girls in preventing election related conflict.
  2. Climate Action in the Extractives: Our climate action initiative recognizes that artisanal small-scale mining brings in needed income for rural communities while at the same time paying attention to the growing threat it has to the biodiversity and the compounding the environmental impacts of gold mining activities. Through this pillar, the organization designs participatory and rights-based approaches to work with artisanal gold miners and communities along the gold supply chains in delivering sustainable climate change solutions whilst building on its economic, social, and empowerment potential
  3. Gender and Inclusion: Equality is our guiding principle. We work relentlessly to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls in mining sites, promoting gender equality
  4. Economic empowerment– We believe that social justice is highly depended on economic justice and that youth and women’s economic empowerment is fundamental to long-term, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, poverty reduction, and the achievement of gender equality. Our interventions seek to improve the quality of life among rural marginalized youth and women by diversifying income opportunities. The program seeks to increase access to social protection programs that will improve their personal and family economic status, leading to improved quality of life. Subsequently, we seek to create communities and avenues where youth and women can significantly contribute to the local, national, and global economic justice agenda.

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