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Jelida Foundation -JF, Meru (2025)

21/11/2025

Same location, same circumcisers 6 yrs down the line. She killed a girl no arrest were made and she is here again mutilating girls.
Hoping this woman will face the rule of law accordingly

20/11/2025

Meru County
Igembe North Sub County
Laare Division
Ntunene Location
Linjoka Sub Location

SUBJECT: FEMALE GE***AL MUTILATION (FGM) INCIDENT REPORT

OB 15/20/11/2025 AT 1319HRS REFERS

Please be informed that following an intelligence report regarding a female ge***al mutilation (FGM) incident at Linjoka area, a team of KPS officers from Laare Police Station, led by the OCS, together with DCI officers and the Linjoka area chief, visited the residence of one Priscilla Kabutia, a female adult aged 40 years.

Upon arrival, the team found two female juveniles, namely B.K. aged 16 years and M.K. aged 15 years, who were recovering from FGM allegedly conducted on Monday, 17/11/2025, where the victims had been harboured after the illegal act.

A total of five (5) suspects were arrested, including:

1. Priscilla Kabutia – owner of the house;
2. Sarafina Muthenya – believed to be the circumciser;
3. Ibrahim Ntotene – father of one of the victims;
4. Rhoda Mukiri – present within the compound;
5. Joaninah Nkrote – present within the compound.

A search was conducted within the premises, and the following items were recovered and kept as exhibits: two (2) blood-stained razor blades, blood-stained clothes, two bottles of hydrogen peroxide antiseptic, stained cotton wool, among other relevant items suspected to have been used during the procedure.

The two juveniles were escorted to Maua Level IV Hospital for medical attention and further examination to ascertain the extent of injuries sustained.

The suspects were placed in police custody pending further investigations and arraignment in court for offences related to FGM contrary to the Prohibition of Female Ge***al Mutilation Act No. 32 of 2011.

This is the same village where .
As we celebrate girls continue to experience FGM.

19/11/2025

Preparing and Protecting the Girl Child Starts Early

At Jelida Foundation, we firmly believe that safeguarding the future of our girls begins long before they face the pressures and challenges of the world. Protection is not just about reacting to dangers — it is about preparing, equipping, and empowering young girls with the knowledge and tools they need to navigate life safely and confidently.

By introducing critical topics such as Gender-Based Violence (GBV), Female Ge***al Mutilation (FGM), and teenage pregnancies at an early age, we provide girls with the understanding they need to make informed choices, recognize harmful practices, and assert their rights. Awareness is more than just education — it is a shield, a form of protection that allows girls to act decisively when confronted with danger or coercion.

Our recent session in Meru County was a powerful reminder that early intervention matters. When girls are taught about their rights, understand the potential dangers around them, and are encouraged to voice concerns without fear, they gain confidence and resilience. They learn that their voices matter, their bodies belong to them, and that they have the power to stand against harmful cultural practices and societal pressures.

Creating safe spaces within schools, homes, and communities is essential. In these environments, girls can ask questions freely, share their experiences, and grow without fear of judgment or harm. Every conversation, every workshop, and every mentoring session contributes to raising a generation of girls who are not only aware but also empowered to change the narrative for themselves and for future generations.

We call upon parents, educators, community leaders, and policymakers to join us in this mission. By working together, we can ensure that every girl grows up in a supportive environment where knowledge is protection, confidence is power, and empowerment starts early.

Empower her early. Protect her always.

📍 Location: Meru County
📞 Contact: 0734 402 668

Jelida Foundation

18/11/2025

When a society chooses to stand together for a shared purpose, transformation becomes not only possible—but unstoppable.
At Jelida Foundation, we have seen firsthand the power of unity. When men, women, youth, partners, and community leaders join hands, we build a collective force capable of ending Gender-Based Violence (GBV), Female Ge***al Mutilation (FGM), and teenage pregnancies.

Ending harmful practices is not the work of one individual—it is the work of an entire community that believes every girl deserves safety, education, dignity, and a future full of possibilities.
Through survivor-led movements, awareness forums, mentorship programs, and community dialogues, we continue to empower families and strengthen the voices of those advocating for change.

Together, we can protect our girls.
Together, we can restore hope.
Together, we can build a generation free from violence and discrimination.

Join us in this mission. Stand with us. Work with us. Raise your voice with us—because change begins when we all choose to act.

📍 Location: Meru County
📞 Contact: 0734 402 668

16/11/2025

💜 Empowering Mothers, Protecting Generations

At Jelida Foundation, we believe that true community transformation begins with mothers. They are the heartbeat of every home—caregivers, decision-makers, culture-shapers, and the first line of protection for their children. When a mother is informed, confident, and empowered, she becomes a powerful force against practices that harm girls and weaken families.

During this training, we invited Family Bank agents to equip our mothers with practical skills in financial literacy, budgeting, saving, and income management. Many of our mothers are the primary providers in their households, yet they often lack access to financial knowledge that can help them build stability. By strengthening their financial capacity, we open doors for them to make independent choices and secure their families' future.

Financial empowerment is deeply connected to our mission to end FGM, GBV, and teenage pregnancies.
When mothers have economic freedom and control over resources:

✨ They gain the confidence to protect their daughters from harmful practices
✨ They are less vulnerable to economic pressures that push families toward FGM
✨ They can support girls to stay in school and avoid early marriages
✨ They become role models, teaching communities that dignity and safety are non-negotiable
✨ They help break generational cycles of violence and discrimination

Mothers play an irreplaceable role in shaping values, guiding young girls, and influencing community norms. When they are empowered—financially, emotionally, and socially—they stand tall as champions for girls’ rights. They become the voice that says every girl deserves safety, dignity, and opportunity.

At Jelida Foundation, our work continues to focus on restoring dignity for girls by uplifting the women who raise them. By empowering mothers today, we protect the daughters of tomorrow.

📍 Meru
📞 0734 402 668

14/11/2025

The Powerful Role of Our Fathers in Ending FGM, GBV & Teenage Pregnancies

At Jelida Foundation, we continue to witness the incredible impact fathers can make when they take an active stand in protecting their daughters and shaping safer communities. In many households across Meru County, fathers are often the final decision makers, cultural custodians, and guiding voices. This is why their involvement is not just valuable—it is essential in ending FGM, gender-based violence, and teenage pregnancies.

When fathers step forward, they become key agents of transformation.
They challenge harmful norms, encourage dialogue, and open doors for a future where every girl’s life, body, and dreams are protected.

How Fathers Drive Change:

🌿 Breaking Harmful Traditions:
Fathers have the influence to stop FGM by rejecting outdated beliefs and embracing healthier, dignifying rites of passage. Their voice gives courage to families to choose safety over pressure and tradition.

🌿 Promoting Respect & Non-Violence:
By modeling respect at home, fathers teach sons how to treat women and girls, thereby helping reduce GBV across generations. A respectful father raises respectful boys.

🌿 Supporting Girls’ Education:
When fathers prioritize education over early marriage, girls gain confidence, opportunity, and the power to choose their own future. Education remains one of the strongest tools in preventing teenage pregnancies.

🌿 Creating Safe Spaces for Dialogue:
Fathers who openly communicate with their daughters build trust, helping young girls feel safe to speak about challenges, peer pressure, or threats they face.

🌿 Championing Community Change:
In community meetings, fathers’ strong voices influence neighbours and relatives. When they stand with organizations like Jelida Foundation, they strengthen collective action.

At Jelida Foundation, we honour the fathers who are choosing to be protectors, mentors, and champions of dignity.
Together with community elders, youth, and local partners, we continue empowering families with knowledge, awareness, and support to end harmful practices once and for all.

Let us keep working hand in hand to build a Meru County and the world as whole where every girl grows up safe, valued, and full of possibility.

📍 Location: Meru County
📞 Contact: 0734 402 668
💜 Jelida Foundation — Restoring Dignity, Saving Lives

12/11/2025

🧡🌾 OUR VOICE, OUR MOVEMENT — JELIDA FOUNDATION LEADS THE 16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM IN MERU 💜

At Jelida Foundation, this season holds deep meaning for us. As the world prepares for the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence (Nov 25 – Dec 10), we rise together — as a voice for dignity, equality, and hope in Meru County. 🌸

We believe that change begins where courage meets compassion. That’s why our movement blends farming, education, and empowerment — a unique model that fights FGM, GBV, early marriages, and teenage pregnancies not just through awareness, but through action and opportunity. 🌱

Every girl we train learns more than farming — she learns freedom, resilience, and leadership. Each seed she plants carries a promise: that her story will not end in silence, but in strength. 💪🏽💜

> “For us, empowerment isn’t a project — it’s a way of life,”
we say proudly at Jelida Foundation. “When a woman’s hands touch the soil, she begins to rebuild her future.” 🌍✨

During this 16 Days of Activism, we are taking our message from farms to forums, from classrooms to communities — standing shoulder to shoulder with girls, mothers, and men who believe that ending violence starts with empowerment.

We are coloring Meru orange 🧡 — not just with slogans, but with stories of transformation, mentorship, and unity. Together, we plant seeds of peace, water them with education, and harvest dignity for all. 🌾💜

📍 Location: Meru County
📞 Contact: 0734 402 668

10/11/2025

🌱💜 JELIDA FOUNDATION – PLANTING SEEDS OF CHANGE, GROWING DIGNITY FOR GIRLS IN MERU 🌸

In the heart of Meru County, something beautiful is taking root — a movement that blends agriculture with advocacy, sustainability with sisterhood, and farming with freedom. 💪🏽🌍

At Jelida Foundation, we believe that every seed planted represents a story of hope, resilience, and renewal. As we cultivate our gardens, we’re also cultivating a generation of empowered girls — breaking the cycle of FGM (Female Ge***al Mutilation), Gender-Based Violence (GBV), and teenage pregnancies.

Our work goes beyond planting vegetables — it’s about planting values, nurturing dignity, and harvesting equality. 🌿✨ Each green shoot in our gardens reminds us that growth takes patience, care, and unity. Similarly, restoring dignity for girls requires the same — community involvement, education, and empowerment.

👩🏾‍🌾 Through innovative, climate-smart farming projects, we’re showing communities that the soil can sustain not just food, but also freedom and future opportunities. These gardens symbolize resilience — proving that from the ground up, we can grow change that feeds both the body and the soul.

Our campaign, , stands as a powerful reminder that FGM has destroyed lives, dreams, and futures — but together, we can end it. By involving youth, parents, teachers, and local leaders, Jelida Foundation is creating safe spaces where girls are protected, educated, and empowered.

🎯 Our Mission:
To end FGM, GBV, and teenage pregnancies through awareness, empowerment, and sustainable community projects.

🌾 Our Vision:
A Meru where every girl grows with dignity, free from violence and fear — and every family thrives with purpose and prosperity.

💬 Join the movement. Let’s grow a future where girls’ voices are heard as loudly as the rain that nourishes our fields. Together, we can end harmful practices and sow seeds of empowerment across Meru and beyond. 🌸🌍

📍 Location: Meru County, Kenya
📞 Contact: 0734 402 668
💜 Jelida Foundation – Restoring Dignity for Girls

08/11/2025

🌿 Men as Nurturers: Growing Change with Jelida Foundation

At Jelida Foundation, we believe that real transformation starts at the roots — in our homes, our communities, and even in our farms. Just as the soil needs care, attention, and nurturing to bring forth life, our society also needs men who are willing to cultivate safety, equality, and dignity for every girl.

Through our farm-based empowerment programs, men and boys in Meru County are learning that they too play a vital role in ending Female Ge***al Mutilation (FGM), Gender-Based Violence (GBV), and early pregnancies.

👨🏾‍🌾 Our farm is more than a place of cultivation — it’s a classroom for change.
While tending to crops, participants engage in conversations about respect, protection, and empowerment. They learn that:

Nurturing girls’ dreams is as important as nurturing the land.

True masculinity is defined by care, not control.

Every man has the power to protect girls from harmful cultural practices and create a safer, more equal future.

Through farming, we demonstrate that growth — whether in crops or in character — requires patience, guidance, and love. When men take an active role in advocacy and mentorship, they become champions of progress, helping dismantle traditions that harm and replacing them with those that heal.

🌱 Together, we are cultivating not only food security but also social change — proving that sustainable development is built on both healthy soil and healthy relationships.

📍 Location: Meru County, Kenya
📞 Contact: 0734 402 668
💜 Jelida Foundation — Building a future where every girl thrives.

06/11/2025

🌿 Jelida Foundation: Growing Change, Growing Hope

At Jelida Foundation, growth is not just about what we plant — it’s about what we nurture in people, families, and communities.
In the heart of Meru County, we are witnessing transformation sprout from the ground up — in our farms, our homes, and our hearts.

Our community gardens symbolize more than just fresh, healthy food. They represent renewed strength, resilience, and self-reliance. Through sustainable farming, we are giving families the tools to fight poverty and hunger, while promoting dignity and purpose.

But our mission goes beyond the soil.
We are also cultivating a society free from FGM, gender-based violence (GBV), and early pregnancies — harmful practices that have held too many girls and women back for generations.
Through awareness programs, mentorship, and community dialogues, we empower young girls to dream, to stay in school, and to live free from fear.
We stand with survivors, educate communities, and advocate for equality and justice — because growth cannot truly happen where pain and silence exist.

Every seed we plant carries a message: that change is possible, that healing is real, and that every girl deserves a future filled with hope and opportunity.

Together, we are growing food, growing minds, and growing futures.
When we nurture the earth and empower our people, we cultivate a generation that stands strong — a generation that says no to FGM, no to GBV, and no to early pregnancies.

📍 Location: Meru County
📞 Contact: 0734 402 668

02/11/2025

🌸 Jelida Foundation – New Month Message of Hope & Strength 🌸

As we welcome the month of November, we at Jelida Foundation stand firm in faith, hope, and strength — believing that every new month brings a renewed chance to heal, empower, and inspire. 💫

November reminds us that even in the face of pain and struggle, change is possible when hearts unite for a greater cause. This month, we continue to raise our voices for the voiceless, to protect the vulnerable, and to restore dignity where it has been stolen.

At Jelida Foundation, our mission remains clear:
✨ To end Female Ge***al Mutilation (FGM) and give every girl the right to grow whole, healthy, and free.
✨ To fight Gender-Based Violence (GBV) by standing with survivors, creating safe spaces, and educating communities on respect, equality, and justice.
✨ To combat teenage pregnancy through mentorship, awareness, and empowerment programs that give young girls a second chance to dream, learn, and lead.

We believe that hope is not just a word — it’s an action. Every outreach, every rescued child, every empowered woman is a step toward a society where dignity and equality are not privileges but rights for all. 💪💖

As we journey through November, may we find renewed strength to keep pushing forward, lifting one another, and building a future free from fear and oppression. Together, we are rewriting stories and rebuilding lives — one girl, one family, one community at a time. 🌍

📍 Location: Meru, Kenya
📞 Contact: 0734 402 668
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30/10/2025

✳️ Jelida Foundation Statement on 17 Grade 6 Teenage Mothers in Igembe

It is with deep concern that Jelida Foundation acknowledges reports by Dr. Githu Wachira, a medical officer at Nyambene Level 4 Hospital in Maua, Meru County, confirming that 17 Grade 6 girls became teenage mothers during the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) period.

This heartbreaking revelation is a wake-up call to our communities. It reflects the urgent need to address the rising cases of teenage pregnancies, gender-based violence, and harmful cultural practices that continue to rob our girls of their childhoods, education, and dignity.

Every girl deserves the chance to learn, dream, and grow in a safe environment — not to be burdened by the responsibilities of motherhood at such a tender age. We must all stand together — parents, teachers, local leaders, churches, and civil society — to provide mentorship, protection, and reproductive health education to our young girls.

At Jelida Foundation, we remain committed to:

Raising awareness against Female Ge***al Mutilation (FGM) and early marriages.

Advocating for girls’ education and safety in schools and communities.

Supporting survivors of gender-based violence through counseling, mentorship, and empowerment.

Let us unite to end the cycle of silence and neglect. Together, we can protect our daughters and give them a fair chance at a brighter future.

📞 0734 402 668
📧 jelidafoundation@gmail.com
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