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Connect, Support and Empower kenyan Women Living In The USA

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Our Pillar

Empowerment

KWITU is committed to empowering its members and respective families by promoting equality and equal access to opportunities across our various platforms…

Mentorship

By providing Kenyan women with mentorship, we aim to give them meaningful opportunities for growth. The impact and guidance that mentorship can provide is unmatched and just the thing that Kenyan women in the US need…

Leadership Development

Women leaders are on the rise and KWITU aims to further increase the numbers of women in executive levels of leadership. With our leadership development program, all Kenyan women who aspire to be leaders get a fair chance at their goals…

Community Engagement

KWITU aims to provide a virtual environment (haven) which is private, welcoming and comfortable for members to communicate freely…

Stewardship

KWITU is dedicated to provide support and sense of empowerment on an individual level! As a community, our general focus is on the success of the community as a whole. This tunnel-approach means we fail to assess the resulting effects nearby, on an individual level…

THE EDUCATION FUND

SAVE OUR MAASAI KIDS

KWITU is intentional and chooses to invest in our youth because we believe that they are key to sustainable change in Kenya. Education is a starting point to ensuring the youth have the opportunity to unload their potential and capabilities.

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OUR BRANCHES

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KWITU INC- The Game Changers

At KWITU Inc, we value women empowerment by building relationships, and through leadership development, stewardship, mentorship, and socio-economic support. These core values offer a blueprint for our organization as we strive to carry out our mission of transforming the lives of women and the communities we serve. We are glad you have joined us on that mission, and we look forward to your contributions as we work to achieve those goals together.

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KWITU UNITED

KWITU United is a group funding strategy where members of a particular group contribute once every month, place their savings, loan repayments and other contributions on the table then borrow immediately either as long term or short term loans to one or a number of interested members with a small interest compared to the bank.

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KWITU CHAPTERS

The purpose of KWITU CHAPTERS is to bring KWITU closer to the grassroots and the community, and help bring KWITU’s mission and vision to fruition, by decentralizing and engaging KWITU at the state level.

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KWITU SAFE HAVEN

The purpose of the KWITU Haven project is to provide victims of domestic violence (Sisters), with a way out of an abusive relationship, be it verbal, emotional or physical.This is a KWITU Inc project but is extended to our KWITU sisters across the board.

Community Engagement

KWITU aims to provide a virtual environment (haven) which is private, welcoming and comfortable for members to communicate freely…

Call To Action

Women Empowerment

By providing Kenyan women with mentorship, we aim to give them meaningful opportunities for growth. The impact and guidance that mentorship can provide is unmatched and just the thing that Kenyan women in the US need…

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Our Reunion

The Annual KWITU Grand Reunion is the best and largest gathering of Kenyan Women Living in the USA.

Kwitu Merchandise

A list of all the products we have

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KWITU Car Sticker

$ 5.00

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KWITU Bracelet - Small

$ 5.00

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KWITU Baseball Tee - Small

$ 25.00

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KWITU Awesome V-Neck Tee

$ 19.99

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KWITU Awesome Round Neck Tee - Yellow

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Latest Blogs

1st September 2021

Kwitu New England all White Cruise

Kwitu New England all White Cruise was held on the Memorial Day weekend, May 26th 2018. The successful event brought the New England ladies together to socialize and share wonderful moments, celebrate May babies and make great memories of sisterhood. They boarded the “Spirit of Boston” at 10pm and cruised down the Boston waters for a few hours while enjoying great music until 3am.

16th September 2021

KWITU Washington, DC Embassy Visit

THE EMBASSY VISIT

KWITU had a busy Tuesday this week. We paid our Ambassador Robinson Githae a courtesy call at the Kenyan Embassy in washington DC.

As KWITU, we carry the voices of over 12,000 Kenyan women living in the USA and Kenyans in general. It is no secret that many Kenyans in the USA have lost faith and do not trust the embassy for many reasons which include ignorance.

We have encountered many instances where instead of engaging the embassy, Kenyans opt to stay away and keep for themselves. By doing this, Kenyans miss out on oppotunities to get support from an entity that is here to support and protect them.

We know most of the issues in our community especially those that affect women hence we decided that it was appropriate to engage our Ambassador in order to help us find ways to better serve our community.

KWITU is currently the biggest women’s organisation in the diaspora and the most actively engaging and fastest growing Kenyan diasspora organization in the USA.

Talking to Ambassador Githae, here is what he had to say,
“The Kenyan government has vested interest in the diaspora…Diaspora remittance is the highest currency earner for Kenya… There’s no need for anyone to be afraid of the Kenyan Embassy. We are really here to help you.”

KWITU is here to ensure that our members’ interests and problems are addressed, and that we are the vehicle that helps to bridge the gap and help deliver these services to you by living up to our mission to Connect, Empower and Support Kenyan Women living in the USA through building relationships, stewardship and socio-economic support.

The ambassador addressed all our concerns some of which include the following:

– Diaspora Engagement

– Immigration

– Partnership oppotunities

– KWITU Point of contact

– Recognition of KWITU as a diaspora Organization and listing on the embassy website

– Passport, IDs and Dual citizenship

– Domestic violence in our community

We reckon the force that we are, and the voice we carry for our members. Ours is to make sure that we, with help from the Kenyan Embassy and organizations like The Africa Society, continue to serve our members and our communities, find ways to avail resources and advocate for our members, by discussing the advancement of Kenyan Women In The USA and bringing discussions to the table such as Domestic Violence, Immigration, Community engagement, Entrepreneurship, Education and Leadership etc..

We also extended an invitation to the ambassador to attend our forthcoming grand reunion in GA this August, after briefing the him on our progress since the last time we saw him in 2016.

One message was clear throughout our interaction with the ambassador; the embassy is here to protect you as a Kenyan, because when you do well here in the USA, our country does well, since now diaspora remittance is the biggest foreign income earner for Kenya.

Kenya needs us to succeed here.

We are very grateful to the Ambassador and his office for the support we Received.

Karibu Marekani

KWITU is international and chooses to invest in our youth because we believe that they are key to sustainable change in kenyan

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