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WEmpower Programmes Coordinator and Research Director, Rebecca Odhiambo, is the biennial International Aids Society 2024 recipient of the Women Girls and HIV Investigators prize presented by H.E the Global Alliance Patron and Spouse of the Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa (left)

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Women Empower and Mentor All (WEmpower) is an LBQT+ persons-led feminist community-based organization (CBO) based in Kisumu, Kenya, committed to advancing socio-political consciousness, civil and political rights, and health equity for LBQT+ individuals.

Rooted in Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR), Feminist Popular Education (FPE), and Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) methodologies adapted for the digital age, WEmpower blends community-centered approaches with digital tools to ensure inclusive engagement and representation of marginalized voices.

Our guiding principles

WEmpower is Guided by the concept of comprehensive wellbeing and seeks to respond to the social determinants of health (SDOH) experienced by LBQT+ persons, including: the conditions in which they are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of their daily life, including policy, politics, and law.

In alignment with the World Health Organization’s definition of the social determinants of health, we focus on forces that shape the daily lives of diverse women, such as economic policies and agendas

Mission

We are committed to empowering LBQT+ individuals in all their diversities, working to enhance their overall well-being—emotionally, financially, psychologically, and socially.

Vision

A world where LBQT+ individuals can access empowerment on their own terms and make healthy choices through research, community development, advocacy, and safe intersectional and intergenerational spaces

Our comprehensive approach to well-being is guided by the Process of Empowerment Model, Transformative power model and Feminist popular Education grounded in a health equity lens. We recognize that LBQT+ individuals face structurally and socially different health outcomes as a result of minority stress and intersectional oppression.

We align our Interventions with:

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

SDG 5 Gender Equality

SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth

SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

SDG 13 Climate Action

SDG 16 Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions

core values

Safety and well-being for All.

Accountability to self and others.

Inclusivity in all aspects of life.

Integrity as matter of principle.

Feminism in all its entirety.

Empowerment.

Equity.

“I want to live in a liberated intersectional society. As long as inequality and discrimination exists, I cannot be satisfied with the life that we are forced to live. "

-Malebo Sephodi

Jomo Kenyatta Highway,Kisumu

info@wempowermentor.org