SISTER TO SISTER CONVENING 2025

The Sister to Sister Program is a healing-centered, feminist movement-building initiative that brings together grassroots women leaders, survivors, and frontline advocates from across Kenya’s FGM hotspot counties. Rooted in solidarity, care, and shared power, the program creates safe and transformative spaces where women can connect, heal, learn, and organize collectively to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), child marriage, and other forms of gender-based violence.

Born out of the lived realities of women working on the frontlines, Sister to Sister responds to the isolation, burnout, and under-resourcing that many grassroots activists face. The program recognizes that sustainable social change is not only driven by advocacy and policy, but also by wellbeing, trust, and strong community relationships. Through convenings, peer learning, storytelling, mentorship, and wellness-centered activities, the initiative nurtures resilient leaders who are equipped to lead survivor-informed and community-rooted movements.

At its core, Sister to Sister centers the voices, experiences, and leadership of those most affected by harmful practices. It promotes survivor-led approaches, feminist resourcing, and locally driven solutions that honor indigenous knowledge and community wisdom. Participants are supported to deepen political clarity, strengthen organizing skills, reframe harmful narratives, and amplify their collective voice at community, county, and national levels.

Beyond convenings, Sister to Sister is a living and evolving network. It fosters long-term collaboration, mutual accountability, and shared learning among members, enabling them to respond effectively to emerging challenges and opportunities. By prioritizing care as a political strategy and sisterhood as a foundation for action, the program builds a powerful, united movement committed to protecting the rights, dignity, and futures of women and girls.

Through Sister to Sister, frontline women are not only supported to survive in their work, they are empowered to thrive, lead, and transform their communities from a place of healing, strength, and collective power.