"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
NAIROBI - Ngara High School looks like many hard-scrabbled boarding schools in Nairobi; overcrowded. But the girl’s school is at the forefront of a new-styled secondareducation in Kenya. It is one of only ten schools that is focusing on empowering teenage girls and teaching them to say no to violence against women. A Video By a24media.com
Ory Okolloh, the Executive Director of Ushahidi , is from Kenya but currently lives in Johannesburg. Her blog is "outlet for her opinions. While it is primarily focused on Kenya, she reserves to write about whatever she wants."
Sokari Ekine is a Nigerian social justice activist living in Spain, with a background in technology, gender issues and human rights. She is interested in creating a community of grassroots African bloggers as a way for Africans to exchange ideas, share experiences and tell their own stories in our own words.
Native of Cape Town, Sean Jacobs lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in Manhattan. He obsesses about the relationship between politics and popular culture, but the main rationale for his blog is to comment on what passes for media coverage of the African continent.
Rosebelle Kagumire is an experienced Ugandan Journalist. She won the best Journalist blogger English category at the Panos hosted competition in 2009. Currently she is a student of MA. Media, Conflict and Peace studies at University for Peace (UPEACE), Costa Rica.
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In Kenya more girls are now going school. The government has implemented measures to encourage girls to complete their secondary education. The girl child needs to be fear less in all that she desires to do. Girls should be mentored at all levels so that she develops a belief system that tells her there are no barriers to her success in life. Opportunities are equal for all boys and girls and it begins with getting a good education
Thanks to the Kenyan government for supporting this & making this mission a possible one.