South Valley Review
VOL. 1, NO. 3
April 21, 2017
Better at knowing what matters to you. A Visit to The UN Special Assignment Editor at Large Pearl Baeni
Ivy Nyawira Wahito in front of United Nations Church Building
RCWG: The Resource Center for Women and Girls is an organization that not only seeks to empower girls through personal development, but also hope by this feat to facilitate positive change in the communities these9 girls live. Ivy Nyawira Wahito came to New York to attend The Commission on Status of Women Conference held at the United Nations. I felt the need to tell the world her story; her personal development at the Resource Center for
Women. IVY: I work with the Resource Center for Women and Girls (RCWG). I joined the organization in 2010 as an intern and also a personal assistant to the director of the organization. And through her mentoring I was able to continue with the organization professionally because I went to school, studied and got a BA in sociology in philosophy. And now I am working full time at the organization. RCWG was founded in 2007 by Zeedah
Meirerhofer-Mangeli, who is the director of the organization. Out of the realization that many households in Eastern Kenya were led by young girls because their parents were deceased. The girls were orphaned due to parents dying of HIV and AIDS. So she observed that girls were not going to school because they were busy caring for their siblings and that is how the idea of the Resource Center for Women and African Girls in Kenya was born. She joined together with another organization, a local ACBO in Machakos, Kenya. They organized the group RCWG in 2010. So the camps are basically run for girls during school holidays for a minimum of ten days. The girls are taught on sexual reproductive health and rights, personal development- which includes emotional intelligence, governance, peace education, and this happens for the period of ten days that they are in the mentoring camps.
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