Friday's room asked one thing of us: don't call girls together once a year and then go quiet. Fair challenge. We are taking it.
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Friday's room asked one thing of us: don't call girls together once a year and then go quiet. Fair challenge. We are taking it.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialThe Day of the Girl was on Sunday. Friday's room in Mathare asked us not to go quiet until next year. We heard them.
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Photograph river clean-ups and trainings in Mathare. Consent comes first, then the shot, then a caption that names the work. Ages 18 to 35, unpaid, and you can start any week.
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Photograph river clean-ups and trainings in Mathare. Consent comes first, then the shot, then a caption that names the work. Ages 18 to 35, unpaid, and you can start any week.
Today is Disaster Risk Reduction Day. Register: https://forms.youthandurbanism.org/public/cnwy2_WYBr3X6eS5ONRL8LQJ8JsQ7a9C
Doors 12:00 at the Y&U Hub in Mathare, programme 13:00 to 16:30 EAT, online too, free. Registered? Your joining details are in your email.
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialToday is Disaster Risk Reduction Day. Register: https://forms.youthandurbanism.org/public/cnwy2_WYBr3X6eS5ONRL8LQJ8JsQ7a9C
Doors 12:00 at the Y&U Hub in Mathare, programme 13:00 to 16:30 EAT, online too, free. Registered? Your joining details are in your email.
@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialOur SRHR Girls Outreach in Mathare runs as fourteen sessions with a planned reach of 250 girls. It treats them as contributors and leaders in the making, and documents how floods and droughts displace their schooling and rest. #ClimateAndCare4Her #YouthAndUrbanism
By 2030 Friday's young women want Mathare girls safe, in school, free of period poverty, and running for office. Count me in.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialBy 2030, girls in Mathare want to be safe, in school, free of period poverty, and running for office. And winning.
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Our first wall asked what a girl in Mathare carries that nobody sees. One answer stays with me: she becomes a second mother.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialWhat does a girl in Mathare carry that nobody sees? Our wall said trauma, a second mother's load at home, a childhood cut short.
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Pads are still sold in schools while condoms are free. Friday's room wants pads that easy to get, in every school.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialA girl's period should never cost her a school day. Pads are still sold in schools while condoms are free.
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The young men on Friday called themselves the minority of the day. They listened. Ending child marriage is our work too.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialEnding child marriage is men's work too. All men, not just young ones. Girls learn to say no, boys learn respect.
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Someone always says child marriage is a rural thing. Friday's room disagreed. Mathare has no cattle. It has rent and floods.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialChild marriage is a rural problem? The room disagreed. Mathare has no herds, but it has rent, food prices and floods.
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Friday's clearest point: if she wears a school uniform, she is a child. Child marriage gets reported, not settled at home.
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@youth-and-urbanism.bsky.socialA girl in school uniform is a child. Marriage under 18 is a crime in Kenya. Report it. Do not negotiate it at home.
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Why is child marriage still with us in 2026? Poverty, custom, and projects that stop when the money stops. Hard to argue.
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