Akili Dada Comes to Washington, DC

On The Road Blog

By Emmanuel Otoo on November 21st, 2011
Category: Blog, Sub-Saharan Africa

Washington, DC – It was a great privilege for GFC to have Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg, the founder of Akili Dada (one of GFC’s grantee partners in Kenya), visit the GFC office. She took advantage of her visit to learn more about GFC and to share her education-focused intervention for deprived Kenyan girls with the GFC team. As she interacted with GFC team members, she explained her organization’s concept of empowering the next generation of African women leaders and how she and her team are working with community grassroots structures to achieve this objective, with the support of GFC. She pointed out that the focus of Akili Dada’s “leadership incubator” is investing in bright, high-potential adolescent girls from underprivileged families in Kenya, offering them a self-enhancement package that includes competitive and comprehensive scholarships, essential life skills, personalized mentoring, and rigorous leadership training. Wanjiru was pleased to receive practical suggestions from the GFC team on how to enhance Akili Dada’s visibility, mobilize resources, network effectively, and consolidate the sustainability of the organization’s achievements.