Peggy Who Am I?

Peggy's community has a tendency to discriminate against women, particularly those who are young or unmarried. Women and girls are denied sexual education and reproductive rights, resulting in many problems with early pregnancy, early marriage, adolescent prostitution, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. In fact, her Luo community has the highest HIV/AIDS rate in all of Kenya. To combat these frightening statistics, Peggy created "OKOA WASICHANA PROGRAM" ("save girls" in Swahili) which improves the social and economic status of adolescent girls by spreading information about reproductive health and sexual rights, while also empowering them with life skills. So far, Peggy's program has trained over 80 girls on how to be financially independent, improve their decision-making and improve their health. Peggy hopes to one day see a Kenya with gender equality and a culture of empowered, independent women.

This Public Service Announcement, directed by award-winning director Rick Fernandes, was written and filmed at the 2008 Three Dot Dash® Just Peace Summit in New York City, and helps Peggy spread her message to millions around the world.

Three Dot Dash is a yearlong global initiative of the We Are Family Foundation® that supports teen leaders around the world who are doing projects that help promote a more peaceful society by addressing one or more basic human needs:
-Food
-Water
-Health
-Shelter
-Safety
-Education
-Environment

Every year, Three Dot Dash provides Global Teen Leaders (GTLs) with the tools to expand their impact and learn how to better tell their stories from prominent leaders in order to gain media attention and public support for their projects.

To learn more, please visit www.threedotdash.org.

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[abufidu]

Girl, you are doing something right. Keep it running. We need change, and with such efforts there could be hope...who knows!!

[robertgalinsky]

Peggy Rocks!!! Gender equality!!!