Meet Our Alumni

From leading our programs to funding our initiatives across Kenya and Zambia, these powerhouse women are creating new pathways for the women around them and for Freely In Hope scholars.

Want to help us celebrate the stories and leadership of women this month? Here are ways to get involved and empower women!

March is International Women’s Month, and in honor of women worldwide, we’d love to invite you to our virtual Hope Circle Launch! We can’t wait for you to hear uplifting stories from our scholars and see what exciting things we have planned for 2021. Come see what the Hope Circle membership is all about.

We’ve done a lot this year, pivoting our outreach programs during a pandemic, ensuring safe housing and education for our scholars, and learning to disseminate lifesaving materials on sexual violence prevention, advocacy, and reporting to our communities in new ways.

The pandemic was difficult for us all. Overall, it has challenged us to innovate and find unique ways of serving our communities in Kenya and Zambia. Together we reached over 13,172 people this year! Programs provided critical resources for survivors, engaging programs for our global audience, and important education on ending sexual violence. This year we reached thousands more than we would have before!

The use of violent language against women and girls is rooted in toxic power dynamics, and if we are to deal with it we must uproot it from it’s core. I believe that the starting point would be to call it what it is: sexual violence.

Happy Holidays from Freely in Hope! Shop our online store with a limited time sale for the perfect gifts this Christmas season.

When schools shut down in Kenya and Zambia, the dreams of our scholars started to disappear. But Freely in Hope staff quickly mobilized programs at our live-in community centers. Help us raise $16K in 16 days to continue this important work.

This month, we distributed clothing to our Malkia women and graduated scholars in Leadership Development and Entrepreneurship.

For the International Day of the Girl, Freely in Hope launched an arts competition to invite communities to be a part of reimagining a safer Kenya for teenage girls. We received 44 submissions from 12 counties across Kenya. See the winners here!

Take a look at everything that went down at the Book Launch Party where we celebrated the release of Nikole Lim’s new book, Liberation is Here!

Vote for who should win our International Day of the Girl competition!

Our Kenyan team finally got to move all of our high school scholars to the safe house! We are excited for the opportunity to engage them more, both academically and psycho-socially.

Join the Book Club for Liberation is Here! We’ll be joined by Freely in Hope staff and alumni to discuss the themes of the book, ways to incorporate learnings, and a discussion guide to utilize to start your own Book Club!

Learn about what giving in a pandemic means to some of our Hope Circle Members.

We distributed hundreds of Sexual Violence Prevent Resource Cards along with our program of supporting academic success in our scholars this month. Exciting events you won’t want to miss are up and coming!

Our Kenyan team finally got to move all of our high school scholars to the safe house! We are excited for the opportunity to engage them more, both academically and psycho-socially.

This month, we distributed clothing to our Malkia women and graduated scholars in Leadership Development and Entrepreneurship.

By joining the Liberation is Here Launch Team, you’ll play an integral role in promoting the book on your social media, writing a review on your retailer’s site, and sharing these powerful stories of hope and healing with your community.

Freely in Hope believes that girls deserve equal access to education. However, COVID-19 has caused a rise in cases of sexual and domestic violence as socioeconomic disparities are widening, schools are still closed, and girls are forced to work and shelter in unsafe places.

This month, we started individualized tutoring, group therapy, and we attained textbooks for our high school scholars in Zambia!

Our team in Kenya conducted a career test where our high school scholars were able to align their education with their future aspirations! They have big dreams and we are excited to collaborate with them!

As a leader in social impact the change doesn’t come from you. The “social” in “social impact” at its core implies the ownership and involvement of the community.

Even though COVID-19 is new, the trauma it has caused is not; therefore we are able to learn from past experiences and use that as a way to propel us forward.

If we believe that inherent dignity is within every single human being, we won’t call them words that we wouldn’t want to be called, we wouldn’t tell their story in a way that we wouldn’t want our story told because we see them in a higher light.

Wholeness looks like the art of kintsuge – broken pieces of pottery that are mended together with pure gold. This image reminds me to accept the way things are within myself, while also moving toward the woman I am becoming, for she can be both broken and whole at the same time.

At Freely in Hope, we believe that recognizing the inherent dignity of oppressed peoples is essential to the pursuit of justice.

This month, we started individualized tutoring, group therapy, and we attained textbooks for our high school scholars in Zambia!

We, like you, had a month of transition. We are learning, unlearning, and learning again to navigate our world safely and compassionately.