Help Set Up an Educational and Life – Skills Training Centre to FGM Practices.

A Mission with A Vision Organization - STEMA WOMEN DEVELOPMENT GROUP for HUMAN RIGHTS.

Reaching out to the Needy and Vulnerable through Vocational Training in Kisii County - Kenya.

• Our Vision: Having a just society that is free from all forms of discrimination against women and girls.
• Our Mission: Ensuring that women, girls, and boys are free from all forms of injustice based on gender, sex, class, ethnic origin, physical disability, and religious beliefs.
• Our Goals: Breaking the cycle of violence against women and girls.
• We do so by training the escapees of female genital mutilation (FGM/C) in social entrepreneurship skills, in the fields of textile, metal works, wood-work, ceramics, etc. We also provide education, legal help, family support, and other important services.
• We operate in Kenya.
• In our current campaign, we have helped 50 women so far. We plan to step up our efforts drastically. Our goal is to reach over 5,000 women and girls in the coming 5 years and help them improve their lifestyles and prosperity through Education and life - skills training program activities.
• Our work in the last 18 years has focused on breaking the silence surrounding violence against women and girls. Our campaign is framing violence against women and girls as a crime in the public domain and as a violation of human rights. This change in public perception is vital to the fight against violence.
• The Stema Women Development Group for Human Rights is also addressing the root cause of violence against women and girls by incorporating young men and boys in the program's activities.
• We are a membership-based organization, and we welcome membership from all individuals who are committed to the eradication of violence against women and girls.

VOCATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMS:-

Girls and young women who flee their villages to escape female genital mutilation, sometimes known as FGM for short, face a dilemma: how to survive in a world where they are shunned by family and friends, have little education and few job prospects. Sadly, all too many face a future that condemns them to a life of poverty, sexual exploitation and, in far too many cases, physical harm.

Over the next coming years, we intend to expand our efforts to reduce the incidence of FGM, but also provide the practical job training that local girls will need to live more prosperous, independent lives. Our goal is to significantly expand our vocational training program for girls and young women and provide job training in a variety of fields, including those traditionally occupied solely by men.

Creating New Job Opportunities for Young Women and Girls.

The goal is to provide graduates with sufficient income to independently raise and educate their children and, through personal example, help break the cycle of poverty and tradition that sustains the practice of FGM. Unlike most commercial vocational training programs in Kenya, this new non-profit facility will emphasize hands-on learning as well as theory. Over time, we believe this approach will further build the Centre’s reputation as one of Kenya’s premier vocational training programs and expand its ability to sustain itself financially through government grants, foundation support, Charitable Organizations, scholarships, etc, our many overseas supporters. The center will operate as a non-commercial entity and all profits will be channeled back to the Organization to support girls fleeing FGM and childhood marriage.

An Island of Success; A culturally Sensitive Model - STEMA EDUCATION AND LIFE - SKILLS TRAINING CENTRE.

In addition, the Centre will provide its students the opportunity to participate in sex education classes conducted by a highly progressive Kenyan professionals in the specified area of expertise. They will conduct programs well-known and provide training seminars to more than 20,000 persons across much of rural Kisii County - Kenya. By combining vocational training and sex education and other relevant lessons, including in particular STD prevention, HIV/AIDS, etc, and will seek to deliver a powerful and convincing message to its clients in a novel formula involving two areas of work that are often conducted without coordination or follow-up.

Indeed, by combining vocational training and sex education, we intend to create a culturally-sensitive model that can achieve significant impact within five - years and then be scaled up to reach thousands more in subsequent years. A key objective will be to create an island of success in and around the Kisii County area and promote that success as a means of encouraging other tribal and family groupings in other parts of Kenya to abandon FGM.

The project, is expected to cost $1,000,000 over five years, and will be conducted under an umbrella provided by The Stema Women Development Group for Human Rights in collaboration with other development partners or stakeholders a Kenyan based non-profit that is responsible for coordination, fund raising and reporting.

The Stema Education and Life - Skills Training Centre shall offer the following courses for the FGM Victims housed:-
• Computer programming, repair and maintenance,,
• Video shooting and editing,
• Dress-making and dress - making,
• Bakery,
• Farming,
• Electric Installation,
• Crafting,
• Hair-dressing and Beauty Therapy, Etc.

Our hope is to train as many young women and girls as possible. This also, will include other girls from outside the Safe House (Centre) who will pay to acquire vocational life - skills training. Their recruitment training fee will be used to compensate the professional instructors at the Centre.

You can be part of this project by contributing towards the purchase of the building of the entire Centre or partial. Our current target/goal of 2023 is to raise approximately 500,000 dollars to cater for the start up expenses in buying land, buying the building materials, paying the contractor and commencement of the building of the Centre. The donations will also be used to buy the equipment required for the training program activities as outlined above.

Join hands with us and help us build this Centre for the Vulnerable.

Warm Regards,

Nyabuto Mekenye Onyambu.

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Kindly herein below photos are for our previous awareness creation which we are now taking a sustainable route that will permanently change the lives of the target groups/victims.

This is a woman circumcisior holding a blood stained razor blade. This is what we are targeting to eradicate completely from taking place or practiced.

This one shows a stone used for circumcising young girls stained with blood.

The above pic shows an FGM awareness as planned by the SWDGfHRs.

The above pic is showing Parents who are against FGM among escapees/students to campaign against the practice in Kisii - Kenya.

Classes are held at our (Stema Women Development Group for Human Rights') safe house for the girls who have escaped from their families, and the threat of FGM as per the above pic.