Kared Fod Women Development Programme (KAWODEP) is an indigenous women led organization in Kenya with a mission to empower women and improve living standards of communities.
KAWODEP works with rural communities (children, adolescent girls and women) to reduce gender inequalities through economic empowerment, gender advocacy promoting reproductive health and advancing human rights in Migori County through popular Education Model/Capacity Building and enabling environment for organized giving and social justice.
Kared-Fod Women Development Programme (KAWODEP) is a non-partisan, non-profit making registered as an NGO in March 2012, before then we had functioned as a CBO from 1990. The thrust behind the formation of KAWODEP was the continued deterioration of the living standards of the locals despite the intervention measures by the government departments. In the community, the girls/women were denied education. They remain easy prey to traditional attitude and unsrupulous, thus perpetuating their own low status and the vicious cycle of ignorance, powerlessness and neglect in which they find themselves. It is on this basis that the organization was initiated to work together with the local community (women) to improve the status of women and girls. KAWODEP is therefore the brainchild of the local women in their effort to advance the human rights of women and girls and reduce the level of poverty and powerlessness within the community.