What we do

 

What we do in Kenya

 

• Rescue centre

In future we would like to build rescue centre for the girls who might run to us with are reason that mybe they run away from family due to F,G,M , Early Marriages and forced labour

• Organizing seminers for Parents

We organize for seminers in the villages to speak about F.G.M and the effects it brings to the life of the girls when they grow to be young women in future

June 2019 in Loiyangalani, Kenya: Fatuma Nabosu invites to a meeting about child education.
15. June 2019 in Loiyangalani, Kenya: Fatuma Nabosu invites for discussions about child-raising and education. 15 different tribes of the Marsabit County region arrived. This was a great success. Topics were female genital mutilation, child marriages, HIV, child labour and the importance of school education.
June 2019 in Loiyangalani, Kenya: Fatuma Nabosu invites to a meeting about child education.
15. June 2019 in Loiyangalani, Kenya: Fatuma Nabosu invites for discussions about child-raising and education. 15 different tribes of the Marsabit County region arrived. This was a great success. Topics were female genital mutilation, child marriages, HIV, child labour and the importance of school education.
Fatuma Nabosu organizes a concert with Sainingo Dimero. This will serve as a kick-off for discussions about child development.
Fatuma Nabosu organizes a concert with Sainingo Dimero to make it easier to talk to the different tribes after this shared experience.
Fatuma Nabosu talks with children from the village of El-Mollo about the importance of school education for their future.
Fatuma Nabosu talks with children from the village El-Mollo about the hard life in this region and the importance of school education for their future. The inhabitants of El-Mollo have only salted water to use. This leads to many serious health problems for them.
Fatuma Nabosu talks with children from the village of El-Mollo about the importance of school education for their future.
Fatuma Nabosu talks with children from the village El-Mollo about the hard life in this region and the importance of school education for their future. The inhabitants of El-Mollo have only salted water to use. This leads to many serious health problems for them.

 

• Education and Mentorship

To increase the number of girls with tertiary level of education which will actively contribute to the development. We also organise seminars in schools, whereby we talk to girls and also motivate them; we do this by co-operating with teachers.

• Women Empowerment and Advocacy

We do this by connecting women to organizations that promote economic empowerment

• Networking and Partnership

By networking with organizations that can support to advance Gargar Charity e. V. mandates.

Every year on May 28 is International Menstrual Hygiene Day. This is to draw attention to the problem that many girls in the world can not afford sanitary pads. They then manage with old rags or leaves and are therefore unable to go to school or work during their period.

This puts the girls at a great disadvantage. Gargar Charity is involved in hygiene education to break the silence and raise awareness about norms around menstrual hygiene that disadvantage women. In the district where the girls' shelter is located, we provide large quantities of reusable, washable pads to poor girls and women.

The sanitary pads for this purpose were donated to us by cooperating associations in Germany:
'Leben mit Behinderung Hamburg' a self-help association of families with disabled relatives. The disabled members of the association make the bandages themselves in their own workshops. A wonderful cooperation!
Then there is 'Asili ya Mwanamke - Natur der Frau e. V.', an international association that supports education about gynecology and menstruation.

In Marsabit County, we were then able to educate ten schools about menstrual hygiene and distribute the pads. We were also able to give sanitary pads to women in prisons. Many were very touched by our donations, as the women cannot afford to buy sanitary pads themselves. They were just as touched to be taken seriously with their problems and to be able to talk about it.

 

Fatuma Nabosu explains sanitary pads and hands them out to women in a Kenyan prison
Fatuma Nabosu explains sanitary pads and hands them out to women in a Kenyan prison
Fatuma Nabosu explains sanitary pads and hands them out to women in a Kenyan prison
Fatuma Nabosu explains sanitary pads and hands them out to women in a Kenyan prison
Fatuma Nabosu explains and gives out sanitary pads in a village school
Fatuma Nabosu explains and gives out sanitary pads in a village school
Schoolgirls learn about sanitary pads
Schoolgirls learn about sanitary pads
Sanitary pads are handed out and explained and then someone posts it on Facebook
Sanitary pads are handed out and explained and then someone posts it on Facebook
Sanitary pads are handed out and discussed
Sanitary pads are handed out and discussed
Women in a Kenyan prison are waiting for sanitary pads to be given out and explained to them
Women in a Kenyan prison are waiting for sanitary pads to be given out and explained to them
For the first time in life sanitary pads - after that someone posts it on Facebook
For the first time in life sanitary pads - after that someone posts it on Facebook

 

• Career Coaching

Through the rich skills in the organization’s mentorship who offer encouragement and inspire women tob e effective in their careers and business, e. g. „micro finance“

• Peace Initiatives

Building bridges between warring communities in Nortaern Kenya by organizing tournaments, peace rallies. This is done by our youth ,young women and men as our peace agents. This is done annually.

 

• We build a safe shelter with school for girls

Wonderful, we can realise our dreams and start building a girls' shelter and associated school in Kargi, Kenya, in July 2021! Read more about it!

 

What we do in Germany

• Educational work

Low-threshold educational work with East African and especially Kenyan communities.

 

• Training of mentors and prevention

Cooperation with schools, day care centres and child family centres to conduct training of mentors (Change Engels) for preventive work with children at risk of FGM.

 

• Publicity campaigns

Joint planning and implementation of events and awareness campaigns with partner organisations from Germany involving East African communities.

 

• Implementation of educational coaching

We support women with a migration background in their school and vocational training.

 

• Networking and partnerships

Cooperation with organisations that support us, e.g. Natur der Frau e. V. and Leben mit Behinderung Hamburg. The aim is to make the concerns of Gargar Charity e. V. known to a broader public.

 

 

African Women In Europe - 2017
Meeting of "African Women in Europe" 2017 with presentation of the Award for community services organisation to Fatuma Nabosu as representative of Gargar Charity.
16 Days of Activism – against Gender Based Violence - 2018
Demonstration in Berlin 2018 „16 Days of Activism – against Gender Based Violence“ Gargar Charity is involved in planning and out on the streets
Seminar on human rights for women - Köln 2019
Representing Gargar Charity, Fatuma Nabosu is participating in 2019 in a seminar on human rights for women of African origin organized by the Kaneza Foundation for Dialogue and Empowerment e.V. in Cologne, Germany.
Seminar on human rights for women - Köln 2019
Representing Gargar Charity, Fatuma Nabosu is participating in 2019 in a seminar on human rights for women of African origin organized by the Kaneza Foundation for Dialogue and Empowerment e.V. in Cologne, Germany.
Seminar on human rights for women - Köln 2019
Representing Gargar Charity, Fatuma Nabosu is participating in 2019 in a seminar on human rights for women of African origin organized by the Kaneza Foundation for Dialogue and Empowerment e.V. in Cologne, Germany.
Gargar Charity initiates a meeting about FGM - 2019
Gargar Charity initiates 2019 a meeting with different Kenyan communities living in Germany and Switzerland. In the meeting educational opportunities about FGM for boys and girls and the current situation in Kenya regarding FGM is discussed.
Gargar Charity initiates a meeting about FGM - 2019
Gargar Charity initiates 2019 a meeting with different Kenyan communities living in Germany and Switzerland. In the meeting educational opportunities about FGM for boys and girls and the current situation in Kenya regarding FGM is discussed.
Gargar Charity initiates a meeting about FGM - 2019
Gargar Charity initiates 2019 a meeting with different Kenyan communities living in Germany and Switzerland. In the meeting educational opportunities about FGM for boys and girls and the current situation in Kenya regarding FGM is discussed.
Gargar Charity initiates a meeting about FGM - 2019
Gargar Charity initiates 2019 a meeting with different Kenyan communities living in Germany and Switzerland. In the meeting educational opportunities about FGM for boys and girls and the current situation in Kenya regarding FGM is discussed.
Educational work on FGM in Hamburg 2019
African youth education Meeting in Hamburg 2019 Educational work on FGM with the participation of Gargar Charity.

 

 

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