Women Led Action for Justice, Education and Land Rights in Northern Kenya
Feiyah Action Network is a women run group based in Laisamis. Since 2010, women from Samburu and Rendille communities have organised here for girls' education, community land rights, and protection from gender based violence.
Started by women in Laisamis. Still run by them.
Rose Orguba founded Feiyah Action Network in 2010 in Laisamis, Marsabit County. The organisation works directly with Samburu and Rendille communities on three things: keeping girls in school, defending community land rights, and ending gender based violence, including female genital mutilation.
FAN is small and based in Laisamis itself, not Nairobi. Staff and volunteers come from the communities they work with, which means meetings happen under acacia trees as often as in an office.
Read more about FAN →Three areas of work, one community
Girls' Education
Keeping girls in school
FAN works with families and schools in Laisamis to reduce dropout, supporting girls through classroom sessions, sanitary supplies, and a girls' football team that keeps them connected to school life.
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Community Land Rights
Land decisions made with women in the room
FAN trains women to understand and take part in community land governance, so land registration and management in Laisamis includes the people who depend on that land every day.
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Gender Justice and Protection
Komesha FGM Sasa
Through the Komesha FGM Sasa campaign, run with ActionAid and UNFPA, FAN brings whole communities, including men and boys, into the work of ending FGM and gender based violence.
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