Now, more than ever before, we are seeing youth movements from all over the world take radical stands against the dominant politics and unjust systems that favor the ruling elite, against governments, against corporations that they see as major obstructions to their rights and future. Youth Risings today are seeing…

Source: One Billion Rising Kenya & HER Voice Kenyan women marching to stand up against the femicide. #EndFemicideKe #saynotoviolenceagainstwomen #Usikimye

Agnes Pareyio Elected Member of Kenyan Parliament, Makes History as First Woman MP from Narok Pareyio is the Founder of Tasaru Ntomonok Initiative/V-Day Safe House for The Girls in Kenya, Combatting FGM, Changing Culture and Educating Girls The results are in. Agnes Pareyio, the Founder of the Tasaru Ntomonok Initiative/V-Day Safe…

Photos by Paula Allen for V-Day Twenty years ago, the V-Day Safe House for the Girls opened in the Southern Rift Valley in Narok, Kenya. Founded and led by Agnes Pareyio and the Tasaru Ntomonok Initiative, the safe house provides shelter and education for girls running away from female genital…

Photo Credit: Paula Allen In April 2002, 19 years ago, the Tasaru Ntomonok Initiative / V-Day Safe House for the Girls Opened in Narok, Kenya. Tasaru Ntomonok is a grassroots initiative that created and runs the V-Day Safe House for the Girls in the southern Rift Valley in Narok County,…

(shared by Cecilia Brenda – OBR Kenya coordinator)

To welcome #1BillionRising 2020, the Maasai girls of the Tasaru Rescue Center / V-Day Safe House For The Girls in Narok, Kenya performed “Dear Mathilde” by Kenyan singer named Muthoni Drummer Queen. The girls made this video in solidarity with One Billion Rising. They Rise in celebration of girl’s education and for…

Kenya Rising on 14 February, with “We Men For Women Art Fest”

Photo: Paula Allen for V-Day We’ve just received the sad news that Duncan Bomba Omwani Papa Omundu Umundu passed away on 25 January. All of us at V-Day, One Billion Rising, and City of Joy mourn the loss of our dear friend Duncan, a true V-Man. Devoted to empowering and protecting African…

In 2019, organizing a ONE BILLION RISING event or staging a V-Day benefit production of The Vagina Monologues or A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer is a theatrical experience AND an ARTISTIC UPRISING. Transform Radical Spaces. Raise awareness and funds for rape crisis centers, domestic violence shelters & organizations who are serving survivors. Spotlight…