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From Rescue to Empowerment: Women Teaching Girls, Boys to Choose Education

In the dusty villages of Kilgoris in Narok County, where generations of girls have quietly disappeared into early marriages and harmful cultural practices, a quiet revolution led by women is challenging traditions that for decades silenced dreams. The revolution has no grand headquarters, no government convoy and no multimillion-shilling funding. Its battleground is the homestead, the classroom, the village meeting and sometimes the tense negotiations between determined mothers and families preparing to marry off underage girls. At the centre of this movement stands Olerai Manyatta Community-Based Organisation (CBO), a grassroots women’s group that has steadily transformed lives across Narok and beyond by rescuing girls from forced and early marriages, returning them to school and equipping vulnerable children with the tools to reclaim their futures. What began as a small collective of concerned women has evolved into one of the most influential community-led education and ...