Reflecting on what has been a very successful year, Women for Change would like to wish all of our supporters a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
This year, Women for Change has supported 21 graduates of the Kakenya Center for Excellence (the school started by Dr Kakenya Ntaiya), to
In 2018, Women for Change launched the Standing on Our Shoulders campaign. Bringing together professionals from PwC, Minter Ellison, Ogilvy, Aberdeen, AMP, and Macquarie, the program created a network of empowered women in Australia to support each other and work together to raise funds for the education of women in
The LBW Trust, in partnership with Women for Change, is currently supporting its first cohort of graduating students at the Kakenya Center for Excellence (KCE) in Kenya. In August, a group of 13 supporters, donors, and representatives visited Kenya on a 14-day tour led by Chairman David Vaux. The group was
For years our organisation’s inspiration, Dr Kakenya Ntaiya, dreamed of seeing girls from her village join universities. This was one of the main reasons she started a boarding school for girls in her village.
And now, almost ten years since the Kakenya Center for Excellence (KCE) welcomed its first students, that
This week two young Maasai women, Sharon and Magdelene, who have been awarded scholarships to study at universities in Sydney, have experienced a series of firsts as they become familiar with their new community.
Sharon, who is soon to begin her degree in medical science at the University of Technology
Magdalene and Sharon have travelled over 12,000km from their Maasai community in Kenya to Sydney to begin university scholarships at the University of Sydney and the University of Technology Sydney, respectively.
During their first two weeks in Sydney, Magdalene and Sharon have been getting acquainted with the city that will
The Women for Change Global Mentoring program brings together the wisdom of experienced, senior business leaders and the graduating class of the Kakenya Center of Excellence. The goals of the mentoring program are to support, encourage and empower students as they navigate their way from school to university. The program
Latest news: 5 July 2018.
For her 40th birthday, Annie Bain invited her friends to help her celebrate by donating to Women for Change instead of buying her gifts. Annie and her friends and family are making a difference. They successfully raised over $1000 to support Women for Change.
It all started
Latest news: 29 June 2018
Vivian Naimutie Salah is one of the 24 Maasai women who graduated high school in 2017. She attended Dr Kakenya Ntaiya’s groundbreaking school for girls, Kakenya’s Centre of Excellence. Women for Change is supporting Vivian and the others in her graduating class to tertiary studies
A smile of delight illuminates Linet’s face. She puts her hands under her chin and raises both her eyebrows theatrically for a couple of seconds, then lowers the volume of her voice in wonder and says, “Australia was amazing! It is such a beautiful and quite privileged country and I