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Standing tall for your community, Meet Rachael Mwikali
Rachael Preparing food stuff at a local warehouse for distribution on her community photo by Frederik
#ShujaaMtaani Rachael Mwikali is a leader, community organizer ,feminist and woman human rights defender from Mathare informal settlements in Nairobi County-Kenya.
With the support of young members of her social movement ,Friends, volunteers and the support of well-wishers, Rachael has consistently fed vulnerable populations within her community and within Nairobi County during the covid-19 pandemic.
Weekly, she feeds up to 600 families through donations sent to her by her friends and well-wishers who have grown fond of her human rights based humanitarian response to covid-19, mass media and on social media platforms.
Rachael is not only feeding the families. She also promotes access to Menstrual Hygine Management products to young girls and women’s in her neighbourhood by providing them sanitary towels and menstrual cups.
She also support survivors sexual and gender based violence. Throughout her work within Mathare area, Rachael ensures that she has a few masks with her that she distributes to community members fo free. The masks are supported by friends who make them or buy and give Rachael to distribute.
She has consistently sensitized her community on the coronavirus disease whenever community members visit her for assistance and support.
Her messages are those of hope and the importance of communal solidarity for psychosocial needs while facing the impacts of covid-19.
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