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JECINTA AGUNJA ONYANGO Jecinta Agunja Onyango is a community health volunteer working in Mathare of Nairobi county, where majority not only survives in less than a dollar a day, but faces other human rights concerns such as summery executions, torture, arbitrary arrests and detentions, female genital mutilations, discrimination's, employment issues,forced evictions, inadequate access to health care, toxic wastes and its impact on environment. Since 19.....she has been giving emotional help and practical advice to the victims of rape, attempted rape, indecent assault, defilement's and other sexual offenses including sexual harassment's. Her driving force for activism is to see that respect for human rights and social justice especially respect for women rights She was born on 6 April 1987 in Mathare and attended Old Mathare primary school where she did her Kenya Certificate of Primary Education{KCPE}2001 and later .....secondary school where she dropped at form two level due to lack of school fees she was a participant in the world campaign.She is also an organizer and a mobilizer with a social movement by the name Coalition of grassroots Human right defenders Kenya and a treasurer for a local community based organization in Mathare constituency by the name Kwa Kariuki women group. Currently she is a toolkit organizer with Peace Brigade International(PBI)She has been in the fore front planning a campaign called PUSSY POWER a campaign focusing on liberating women and girls to make a decision about their bodies, make choices that makes them happy, equality and women rights to be respected She has involved herself in identifying, monitoring, handling and referring cases of abuse, neglects and exploitation of women at the community level. She has been providing the best link between women in the community level and the formal appropriate health services and protection systems. In addition, by supporting and creating open spaces for women, Agunja has ensured grass root women have access to information and are provided with up to date training and education, by ensuring right awareness and what services exist and of where to report and refer cases.

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