Damaris Seleina Parsitau

Riding to school: How bicycles are changing education for girls in rural Africa

Damaris Seleina Parsitau and Joel Kamoko

Thursday, July 21, 2022

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA- Children wait in line to eat amid the coronavirus crisis in Cape Town, South Africa on April 30, 2020. Entrepreneurs and foundations have teamed up to feed children in the area. Approximately 300 children are fed daily since the onset of the coronavirus quarantine. (NO RESALE)

Invisible lives, missing voices: Putting women and girls at the center of post-COVID-19 recovery and reconstruction

Damaris Seleina Parsitau

Thursday, January 28, 2021

A child watches a train passing through the Kibera slum of Kenya's capital Nairobi February 26, 2015.REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi (KENYA - Tags: SOCIETY TRANSPORT)

How school closures during COVID-19 further marginalize vulnerable children in Kenya

Damaris Seleina Parsitau and Evelyn Jepkemei

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

A nurse chats with a woman

How outlawing female genital mutilation in Kenya has driven it underground and led to its medicalization

Damaris Seleina Parsitau

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Maasai tribe elders and women gather for a forum organized by AMREF, and geared at sensitizing the elders and women towards an alternative rights of passage for young girls, that would stop female circumcision.

How young men can change the gender and social norms of the Maasai people to support girls’ education

Damaris Seleina Parsitau

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Maasai bride Baiera wears traditional bead necklaces during her wedding in Olepolos village

How girls’ education intersects with Maasai culture in Kenya

Damaris Seleina Parsitau

Tuesday, July 25, 2017