Uniform Euphoria
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Uploaded by AdvProject on Aug 12, 2009
In this short clip, Kakenya Ntaiya - founder of Kakenya's Dream - finally realizes one of her biggest wishes: buying uniforms for her 31 students. She opened her girls primary school in May 2009, and has been dedicating her time to fundraising in the US for the girls' books and uniforms (that is, all the time she has left over after a full day of writing her PhD dissertation and taking care of her two year-old son).
Kakenya was the first girl from her Maasai village in western Kenya to go to the United States for college - and she vowed she would come back with gifts for her community. Now, not even finished with her education, Kakenya has created a better future for the girls in a village where girls are valued for the number of cows they garner from their early marriage to a person of their family's choosing. Because of Kakenya's example, the 31 girls at her school and other young women in the community know there are more choices in life, and it is no long acceptable to be limited by gender.
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Video produced by Kate Cummings, Advocacy Project Peace Fellow and Vital Voices Field Correspondent in Kenya. For more about Kakenya, visit: www.kakenyasdream.org; and for further information about Vital Voices, her tireless supporter, check out: www.vitalvoices.org
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