Despite stigma and disinheritance, widows are finding hope, leadership opportunities and pathways to financial stability.
By Francis Orieny
Subeditor, Gender
Nation Media Group
What you need to know:
Across Kenya, widows are overcoming pain and hardship through empowerment programmes that restore dignity and opportunity.
They are overcoming exclusion through solidarity, economic empowerment, housing support, and legislative reforms.
Legal recognition of marriage remains crucial for protection from disinheritance and exploitation.
Widows call for urgent legal reforms to protect their inheritance and property rights, while seeking stronger government support…
Elderly widowers in Homa Bay County want the government to initiate an empowerment programme to boost their livelihoods.
Widow Jane Kemunto Makori has transformed her life from poverty to financial stability by investing in a boda boda business that…
Through her story and those of two others, Mary and Theresa, the documentary delves into eviction, property grabbing, stigma, and…
