Protection and Prevention
A loving home for rescued survivors. Prevention and empowerment programs for girls at high risk
How the Resource Center Supports Girls
A Safe Home for Rescued Girls
For girls who have been removed from their homes because they have already been cut or married, or were at immediate risk, the Safe Home provides loving care, medical care, trauma counselling, and the simple things a girl needs to thrive: a bed, a meal, soap, clothes, time to play, rest and study. At the Safe Home, girls can sleep in peace, watched over by caring adults whose job is to ensure that education — not marriage — is the ultimate goal for their lives.
Community Center of Excellence
Our Resource Center offers leadership and prevention programs, a Technovation Hub, and sports programs for hundreds of girls from all over Samburu County, along with vocational and financial literacy programs for women. The goal of these programs is to reach more people with impactful programs, create leaders from within, strengthen communities’ ability to protect girls, and build awareness of SGF’s presence in the region, so that people know where to go when a girl is about to be harmed.
Safe Home
Kenyan law forbids child marriage, female genital mutilation, and sexual violence against girls. But in the villages where we work, these harmful practices still destroy the lives of many young girls. Girls are rescued from harmful practices by the SGF staff or government agencies, or are brought to us family or community members. If it is not possible for them to live at home, they can stay at the SGF Safe Home.
Every girl arrives by a different road
She finds her own way
Sometimes girls run away or get help from a teacher to make their way to our shelter.
Referred by the authorities
Some are rescued and brought to SGF by the police, court or social welfare agencies.
Her family raises the alarm
Sometimes a mother or brother contacts SGF to alert us that a girl is about to be cut, or has just been married.
Our staff hear first
Sometimes our own staff hear that the preparations have begun for a girl to be cut and married.
Some girls have already been cut and married. Some are at imminent risk, and can still be kept from the ceremony if there is somewhere to go tonight.
Give her somewhere safe tonight
Sponsor a girl, partner with us, or write to info@samburugirls.foundation