Why Our Work Matters
In rural pastoralist communities, a girl's ability to stay in school is shaped by a complex ecosystem. We respond directly to household economic pressures, geographical margins, menstrual equity constraints, and early marriages by creating community-driven systems change where girls lead the resolution.
2025-2029
Strategic
Pillars
Latest Updates
Active Project Portfolio
Education Framework
KUZA Program
To address foundational literacy and numeracy gaps and improve access to quality education for children in Kajiado Central Sub-county.
Utilizes custom Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) methodologies, facilitator leveling, and localized parental accountabilities to make basic mastery a communal win.
Result: 324 unique primary learners moved confidently out of non-reader brackets into fluent story comprehension this cycle.
Advocacy Strategy
Voices Uncut
Targeting the systemic abandonments of FGM and forced marriage by reinforcing girl-led in-school Assemblies and safe-space networks.
Uniquely scales outreach by training localized boda boda motorcycle operators to act as authorized, trusted first responders and protection links across four key sub-county wards.
Result: 15 active Assemblies established, equipping 450 adolescent leaders with legal reporting pathways.
Reintegration Framework
SheRISE
Providing holistic, safe avenues for vulnerable adolescent dropouts and teenage mothers to heal, build leadership, and re-enter learning tracks.
Supplies direct academic placement financial support alongside rigorous mental health counseling workshops and expert advocacy mentorship.
Result: 30 teenage mothers successfully returned to formal primary, secondary, and vocational technical colleges.
Leadership & Voice
Sauti Ya Dada
Supporting adolescent girls in their first and second years of secondary school to build critical thinking, creativity, life skills, and advocacy.
Utilizes the Sauti Ya Dada Workbook and Creative Action Institute tools, driving girl-led community research where girls analyze localized barriers to education.
Result: Girls moved leadership beyond classrooms, leading community engagements and sending 6 cohort members to the East Africa Girls Leadership Summit.
SRHR & Protection
Break Free
Promoting sexual and reproductive health rights, ending child marriage, and reducing teenage pregnancy through youth empowerment and policy advocacy.
Implemented from 2021 to 2025 via a strategic consortium, training local nurses to improve youth-friendly services and launching the Community Leaders Accelerator Fellowship.
Result: Built a lasting foundation for county advocacy, increasing health protection awareness and strengthening stakeholder networks.
School Infrastructure
For Her
Improving school learning conditions and infrastructure and minimizing distance-related safety risks.
Renovated primary classrooms, existing dining halls, kitchens, and supported the operationalization of a secure girls' dormitory.
Result: Provided safe boarding options for girls from remote areas, while supporting 30 vulnerable scholars via the MG Takey Scholarship Program.
Youth Resilience & Belonging
CDSC4YRB Program
Strengthening youth empowerment, community belonging, and vocational technical skills development in areas with limited training institutions.
Operationalized the Malkia-Olgulului Youth Resource Center in partnership with the Maasai National Polytechnic to deploy qualified training facilitators.
Result: Created a localized training space serving youth across fashion design (20), pottery (10), ICT (10), and traditional beading (30).From Our Annual Report
2025 At A Glance
26,009
Cumulative Reach
Total unique adolescent Malkias and youth actively resourced and reached since our operations began in 2015.
30
Re-Entry Successes
Vulnerable teenage mothers returned directly back to primary, secondary, or national polytechnic tracks.
526
Foundational Learners
Children supported with structured level-based foundational numeracy and literacy facilitators.
587
Learners Enrolled
Active learner capacity recorded at Olgulului Primary following safe dormitory and dining hall modernizations.
7
Schools Supported
Addressing foundational literacy and numeracy blockages for learners in Grades 2, 3, and 4 in Kajiado Central Sub-county.
450
Voices Uncut
Sustainable abandonment of FGM by expanding girls agency, strengthening family and community environments, and building a grassroots movement for protection.
136
Mentored
Girls and boys reached through Malkia Mentors on the Road - Narok Edition.
70
Skills Enhanced
Youth enrolled at the Malkia Olgulului Youth Resource Center across fashion and design, pottery, ICT and beading.
2542
Beneficiaries in 2025
We supported girls and teen mothers through education, safe spaces, mentorship, leadership and girl-led advocacy.
10
Years Of Service
Malkia's grassroots leadership journey, strengthening the use of girls' experiences, school realities and community insights.
Sponsor the
Standard of Rigor
The 529-Day Campaign To 2027 Success
1 Girl
Secures full education, SRHR mentorship, and dignity kits for 1 girl.
10 Girls
Secures programmatic support for a local school cohort of 10.
Anchor
Funds a regional training circle of 50 adolescent girls.
Anchor
Underwrites 100 girls, providing audited ledger reports.
32K
Malkia by 2027
Our Partners
Supported & Resourced With Gratitude By
Our deepest gratitude goes to our global donors and community partners walking alongside the adolescent girls and teen mothers driving sustainable change across Kajiado.