Blog & Features

December, 2023:  Imagine how proud we are of Edna Naitemua, Doreen Sopia, and Manuella Longonyek! All 3 scholarship students are the first girls in their villages to attend university! Edna (from Samburu) graduated from Mount Kenya University and received a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting; Manuella (from Samburu) graduated from Maseno

May, 2024:  Pastoralist Child Foundation partnered with Drawing Dreams Initiative to host the Second Annual Menstrual Health & Hygiene Summit in Kiltamany Village, Samburu. May 28 commemorates Menstrual Hygiene Day – a day when we all pledge to stand in solidarity with women and girls worldwide, ensuring they have the resources

April, 2024:  Fifty (50) Sponsored Students enjoyed the Annual Student Mentorship Summit. At Pastoralist Child Foundation, we believe that education is not just a fundamental human right, but also a catalyst for achieving Sustainable Development Goal #4 (SDG 4), which aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning

We are extremely excited to announce the arrival of 12 sewing machines for our women’s self-help groups in Samburu and Maasai Mara!! After attending FGM and women’s economic empowerment workshops, the women abandoned FGM and decided to take things into their own hands for the future of their families. They

Please click on link below to read article written by Maggie May for Philanthropy Women, April, 2020 PCF Announces Campaign to Fight COVID  

Please read article below written by Samuel Peters for The Organization for Word Peace, May, 2020 Female Empowerment in Rural Kenya Thanks to FGM Abolition  

During the current COVID-19 pandemic and recent devastating locust invasion that destroyed crops in Samburu County, our team is distributing rice, flour, sugar, cooking oil, and tea leaves to families in many villages. The families are so grateful for PCF’s assistance during this great time of need. As of April

With funding from Women Like Us Foundation, PCF held its very first Girls’ Empowerment Workshop in Narok County!

With funding from Wallace Global Fund we held a 2-day Youth Empowerment Workshop in January, 2018 at SIDEP in Wamba, East Samburu Sub-county.

Thanks to funding from Wallace Global Fund, PCF held a Women’s Empowerment Workshop at SIDEP Hall in Wamba, Samburu East Sub-County on March 5, 2018

The self-help group will now earn income for their families and send more girls to school, helping avoid FGM and early child marriage, giving their children a better life.

Nairobi-based correspondent Charlie Ensor interviews Samuel Leadismo for Humanosphere.

President of Pastoralist Child Foundation was interviewed by Sandra Bookman on the ABC Television program, ‘Here and Now’.

The rate of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is 95% in Samburu and Maasai Mara counties. When girls undergo FGM they’re subsequently considered “women” and many are forced to marry men who are older and sometimes polygamous or infected with HIV/AIDS. The girls then live lives of servitude – building huts,

Pastoralist Child Foundation and the Fly Sister Fly Foundation partner for an advocacy campaign in Samburu County

Janet comes from a household where money is often unavailable for meeting basic family needs, so she worried about having the means to go to school.