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About Partners for girls Africa

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Partners for girls Africa

Partners for girls Africa leadership training and rescue centre that offers a safe learning environment for young women and girls ending early marriages and teen pregnancies, and youth leadership training in Busia County in the Western part of Kenya.Busia County is home to a large number of girls andyoung women who face significant challenges in accessing quality education. Early marriages and teen pregnancies are also prevalent in the region,which further exacerbates the problem. The region is located in Lake Victoria's environs and at the Kenya-Uganda border where people practice Farming, Fishing and cross-border trading as their main economic activities.

The Challenges within the area are:

The region is located in Lake Victoria's environs and at the Kenya-Uganda border where people practice Farming, Fishing and cross-border trading as their main economic activities.

Climatic Changes

have been making the people in the area poorer by the day. The situation is getting dire. Lake Victoria is infested with hyacinths which have robbed the livelihoods of fishermen by polluting the water thus less fish reproduction, blocking fishing pathways and destroying fishing boat engines.

Outdated cultural practices

Parents marry off girls as a source of wealth through dowry. .

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