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About Us- Members of the Daughters of Mũmbi (DoM) network (a group of five or more people - currently the network is 85% women) meet regularly with animators to work on autonomous activities such as food sovereignty projects, advocacy on fighting stigma (especially against people living with HIV/AIDS), gender rights, and income-generating projects;
- Family and village level food sovereignity training focusing on those with no or limited access to land through the use of garden bags;
- An Indigenous & Traditional Seeds Project (ITSP), providing non-hybrid seeds (maize, beans, cowpeas, and butter beans) and plantings of “orphan crops” (cassava, sweet potato vines, bananas, sugarcane, and arrowroots) to network members;
- Seminars and trainings for members bringing in diverse and resource people to enhance educational efforts and initiatives of staff animators;
- Movement building on women’s issues and gender rights - eg. took lead role in conceiving and organizing the first-ever Kenya Gender Festival. Over 60 DoM network members participated in the first Kenya Gender Festival (2009), making DoM the largest delegation at the event;
- Seminars for children and youths of network members in age-group cohorts (6 to 10; 11 to 15; 16 to 25) covering diverse topics and using age-appropriate language on HIV/AIDS, drug & substance abuse, sex education (including rape and sexual assault), self-awareness & self-esteem, culture, intergenerational exchanges, and civic education;
- In 2008, we responded to the post-election violence crisis in Kenya by offering food and material aid to internally-displaced persons (IDPs) in three camps. The outreach continues - in March 2009, we participated in a celebration of International Women’s Day at an IDP camp for 800+ families in Mai Mahiu (Rift Valley Province);
- Public education and mobilization through observance and celebration of global/international days - Day of the African Child, International Women’s Day, World AIDS Day, and other days of action on issues such as debt, climate change, gender rights, and the World Social Forum (WSF);
- Support for groups and people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWAs) in fighting stigma, raising funds, income-generating projects, and public education, mobilizations, and witness; Organizing government and private agencies to provide free medical services and education, especially mobile voluntary counseling and testing clinics (VCT) on HIV/AIDS;
- Media work and advocacy on national issues, (e.g. post-election violence, gender rights, gender-based violence, food sovereignty, etc) and international issues (aid effectiveness, international financial institutions, debt, climate change, global food crisis, etc) - have received significant print and broadcast coverage nationally and internationally;
- Alternative Rites of Passage (ARP) program offering initiation programs for adolescents, which revive positive aspects of cultural practices - medical circumcisions for boys, in addition to counselling. Advocacy to end female genital mutilation (FGM) and offering girls other options through the ARP program including counselling and an experiential program which qualifies as a rite of passage without FGM. The program, now in the 6th year, has reached over 1,000 participants and their parents through outreach seminars and residential program - 8 days for boys and 5 days for girls; and
- Capacity building of individuals and member groups in the network through seminars and trainings, exchange visits with allies and like-minded groups - the exchages have included participation in the WSF process at national, continental, and global levels; the Tanzania Gender Festival in Dar es Salaam, as well as, exchanges with national networks in Eastern, Rift Valley, Central, and Nairobi Provinces.
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