PN Member Meg Munn Shares her Experience from Visit to Kenya

I’M just back from Kenya where I took part in a scheme inspired by the Voluntary Service Overseas programme. I spent a week supporting the Kenyan Women’s Parliamentary Association (Kewopa) and visited projects supported by the Kenyan VSO organisation – VSO Jitolee.

VSO Jitolee has been working since 1959. It recognises that the unequal balance of power between men and women at all levels of society is a significant cause of poverty, and tackling this is a vital part of their ongoing development work. They focus on empowering communities to take action on unequal gender power relationships. (...)

Click here to read the full OpEd at The Yorkshire Post.

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PN Member Meg Munn has been Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom for Sheffield Heeley since 2001.