Ruth is a previous honoree, and through the grassroots-based Peace Path Development Initiative, operates at the village level with the mobilization of rural women in Kenya to undertake economic activities. Ruth’s priority project for 2022 is chicken farming for meat with the members of the Eshirandala Mirembe and Wekhonye Women Group Initiative. These objectives have made the females less vulnerable to male manipulation because poverty in the households has been linked to wide-spread women and gender-based violence. The objectives are to strengthen the role of the women in their communities and promote the dignity of the women and girls through sustainable economic empowerment activities.
Ruth Nalyanya, Kenya