The Campaign;
The 100 girls in 100 days campaign began on March 1st with an amazing launch at Laico Regency. The campaign is an effort to mobilize resources to take 100 girls from North Eastern Kenya through school by raising resources in 100 days, visit the site. Hosted by ACV-Kenya, a non-profit organization with Health and Education programs in Nyanza and North Eastern Regions and managed by Events by Sitawa, the campaign has relied on events, partnerships, merchandise sales and a Paybill number 913800 so far and has been able to capture attention from various quarters and raise awareness of the plight of the girl child in North Eastern and the need to take her to school
The Poetry Night
As the campaign counts its last days, today on Day 82, Events by Sitawa’s poetry forum, Sitawa Ignited which has held a monthly poetry night with all the proceeds going towards this campaign would like to host a final poetry night on Saturday May 26th at The Business Lounge on the 4th Floor of The Junction on Ngong Road. The guest poets will be Kevin Man Njoro introducing his new track with Rabbit ‘Uko Sure’ and Qat who will be giving us a peep into her soon to be launched poetry book that focuses on LGB.
Entrance is Ksh 300 and the campaign’s merchandise will be up for sale.
You can RSVP on Facebook; and invite all your friends to come help take our sisters in North Eastern to school. You can also help keep the conversation alive on twitter by using the hashtag – #sitawaignited for the event and #team100ke for the campaign