Kiwis urged to join well-known local faces in challenge to curb high number of Kenyan girls forced into child marriage msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
13/03/2021 By challenging ourselves, we can challenge these shocking statistics. Photo credit: Getty Images.
Kiwis are being urged to join other well-known New Zealanders by participating in a challenge to help get the high number of girls in Kenya who are forced into child marriage and experience female genital cutting into education.
About 85 percent of girls in East Pokot face this, so the inaugural 1 Human Race challenge asks people to move 85 kilometres to help raise money to get them into education to improve their lives and the lives of generations to come.
So They Can is the charity behind 1 Human Race. Founder Cassandra Treadwell says the idea to start the organisation came after she heard the stories of girls in Pokot.
Advice industry urged to get fit to raise funds for vulnerable girls in Africa
Advice industry urged to get fit to raise funds for vulnerable girls in Africa
Wealth and advice professionals are being called on to take part in a sponsored fitness challenge in March to help combat FGC and child marriage in Kenya.
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International charity So They Can, the not-for-profit partner of Momentum Media s Women in Finance Awards, has launched a fundraising initiative aimed at combating Female Genital Cutting (FGC) and child marriage in Kenya.
The charity, which delivers education and empowerment programs in some of the most vulnerable communities in East Africa, has launched a new initiative designed to raise awareness of the bleak future faced by vulnerable girls in some parts of Africa, and raise essential funds to deliver the education needed to help protect them from forced marriage and FGC.