Allan Olingo

1 week ago | nation.africa | Allan Olingo |Claire Provost |Jodi Enda

Mwaka Chimera sits on a worn-out leather couch outside her two-roomed house in Vyongwani village, in south-eastern Kenya, cradling her new-born daughter. “I dropped out of primary school, and for my first five pregnancies, I never attended a single antenatal clinic. I would just show up at the hospital when it was time to give birth,” Chimera, 31, says in Swahili.

1 week ago | msmagazine.com | Jodi Enda |Claire Provost |Allan Olingo

This piece was published in partnership with The Fuller Project and Ms. magazine. Published in partnership with The Fuller Project, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to the coverage of women’s issues around the world. Sign up for The Fuller Project’s newsletter. GOLINI, KENYA—Saumu Mwavugadi gazed from her veranda past mud-walled chicken coops and umbrella-like acacia trees to a vast horizon of hills. The heat was unrelenting on this March day, and Mwavugadi cradled her 2-week-old daughter in her arms.

1 week ago | fullerproject.org | Winnie Byanyima |Neha Wadekar |Allan Olingo |Eliza Anyangwe

GOLINI, KENYA – Saumu Mwavugadi gazed from her veranda past mud-walled chicken coops and umbrella-like acacia trees to a vast horizon of hills. The heat was unrelenting on this March day, and Mwavugadi cradled her two-week-old daughter in her arms. She was wracked with despair. “How will I get my baby vaccinated?” Mwavugadi worried aloud. “Postnatal clinics feel like an impossible dream,” she said in Swahili.

2 weeks ago | fullerproject.org | Allan Olingo

Every March, as part of International Women’s Month,  global leaders gather at the United Nations headquarters in New York for a two-week session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). The Commission is the leading global body dedicated to gender equality and women’s empowerment.

2 months ago | fullerproject.org | sanket jain |Allan Olingo |Eliza Anyangwe

On Mother’s Day in 1974, a group of women headed to New York’s Prospect Park with a stack of flyers and pressed them into caregivers’ hands. “All women are unwaged workers,” the flyers read. “We work from morning to night, but at the end of the week, we have no money to show for it…We want wages for housework!”Their call to recognize and compensate unpaid domestic labor — work largely done by women – was radical. But it struck a chord.