Our mission is to promote health, personal security and economic empowerment for vulnerable women and children.
Ask a westerner to help with Family Planning and the first thing they do is build a clinic and start distributing expensive western medications.
Ujamaa believes research should guide all our interventions. We have published 6 academic papers with Stanford and Johns Hopkins, including two large RCT's, each w/ over 10,000 participants.
Helping woman overcome Domestic Violence (IPV) starts with economic empowerment and breaking the isolation. Our support group/microloan group model decreases IPV by over 70%.
Ujamaa implements the No Means No - Kenya Program and our skills based training has enabled over 350,000 girls to prevent being raped.
