About Us
Why DadaPower?
DadaPower Initiative is a young women-led, grassroots community initiative founded in 2015 and registered in 2019 as a Community-Based Organization in Murang’a County. Our goal is to promote and enhance teenage girls’ and young women’s rights for their academic, socio-economic, and political advancement. We strongly believe that every girl and woman is entitled to a dignified life with sufficient access to development opportunities.
Word from the founder
I will forever treasure the day I received a call from the school Headteacher at Rurii Primary School, thanking the team and I for a mentorship talk with the school’s teenage girls in 2015. To this, she attributed the school having a girl lead in the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) that year, for the first term ever in the school history.
Birthed from a desire to see teenage girls in rural public schools equally enroll and complete school and take up leadership positions as boys, the story of Dadapower’s work has taken a rewarding and promising trajectory.
What Drives Us
Our Vision
A society with confident, competent and civically engaged women.
Our Mission
To promote and enhance the progress of women and girls through capacity building, advocacy, and policy initiatives aimed at their socio economic and political advancement
Programmes
Feminist Climate Justice
Feminani
Vijana Dialogues
Vijana Dialogue Series
Vijana Dialogues
Murang'a Vijana Dialogue
On July 16, 2022, the DadaPower Initiative convened the Murang’a Vijana Dialogue at the National Library Hall in Murang’a County. The event aimed to engage youth voters on their crucial role in fostering peaceful elections and making informed decisions during the upcoming August 9, 2022, elections.
Why is There Massive Rural to Urban Migration by Murang’a Youth?
For Murang’a County to grow and develop the sectors of agriculture, education, health, infrastructure and tourism .Its young people need to continually give their time, skills and resources towards their growth.
Upcoming Dialogues
23rd November 2024
Step Up Outdoor Meetup
25 November 2024 – 10 December 2024
16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence
Latest News
Step Up Young Women’s Event
Unemployment levels among young people in Kenya persist, disproportionately affecting young women who often also grapple with other challenges caused by patriarchal norms and safety issues such as sexual harassment in school, at work and even homes. Young women are...
ENFORCE THE LAW TO ERADICATE GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE (GBV)
Dear Mr. President, During this year’s #16DaysOfActivism, we highlight the need to enforce Kenya’s Gender-based violence (GBV) laws and policies to eliminate all forms of Gender-based violence (GBV) that have claimed the lives of many girls and women in Kenya, and...
Herstory has been made! Herstory has you on the right side, sheroes!
What a time to mark the International Youth Day 2024 when youth-led organising and agitation for just and citizen-centric government services and responsiveness are at an all time high. From Kenya’s Gen Z-led protests to the student-led riots in Bangladesh and in...