Youth led, community rooted, Kenya wide

We stand united to end FGM.

We are a network of young people in 22 counties across Kenya. Together we are protecting girls, pushing for stronger policy, and building the kind of communities where FGM is part of the past, not the present.

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Why We Exist

United for dignity, equality, and change.

We started in 2015 focused on ending FGM in Kenya. Ten years on, our work also takes on child marriage and gender based violence. What has not changed is how we do it: young people leading, communities alongside us, and a coalition strong enough to move things.

Our Mission

To galvanise youth momentum through advocacy, capacity building, knowledge sharing, and innovation for social change that ends FGM.

Our Vision

A society free from FGM, where young people can turn their aspirations and dreams into fulfilling lives.

Our Core Values

  • Participation
  • Innovation
  • Youth Rights
  • Accountability
  • Collective Action
YANK youth advocates in action
Who We Are

A youth led coalition ending harmful practices.

Youth Anti FGM Network Kenya (YANK) brings together young people, community based organisations, and youth led NGOs into one movement. We began in 2015 with a single focus, the abandonment of Female Genital Mutilation. Today our work stretches to include child marriage and gender based violence too.

  • Members in 22 counties with high FGM prevalence
  • Strong roots in the communities we work with
  • Advocacy that shapes county policy and national strategy
  • A pipeline for the next generation of movement leaders
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Our Reach So Far

A movement measured in miles walked together.

22
Counties in the network
17
Chapters already launched
10+
Years of youth led action
12
Institutional partners
Our Pillars

Five ways we build the movement.

Each pillar plays its own part. Together they make a coalition that is hard to ignore.

Advocacy

Young voices helping to shape policy, county commitments, and shadow reports, all the way from the Narok Anti FGM Policy to national steering committees.

Capacity Building

Mentorship, leadership bootcamps, and training in advocacy and social change communication. Twenty two of our champions have been recognised by the President.

Knowledge Sharing

Lessons from the grassroots making their way onto national strategies and Pan African forums through the YANK Knowledge Exchange.

Innovation

Digital campaigns, gamified learning, community storytelling. Creativity built for how Gen Z actually lives and organises today.

Coalition Building

CBOs, NGOs, student leaders, and activists across 22 hotspot counties. The kind of solidarity that turns projects into a movement.

See how the pillars connect

The pillars are not silos. They lean on each other. Read the full breakdown of how YANK works.

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County Chapters

22 counties. One movement.

Where we are already at work across Kenya's hotspot counties, and where we are heading next.

17 Launched Chapters

Active YANK chapters organising in these counties today.

Wajir Mandera Marsabit Garissa Kajiado Samburu Tana River Migori Narok West Pokot Kisii Elgeyo Marakwet Isiolo Laikipia Bomet Meru Taita Taveta

5 Upcoming

Chapters we are standing up next.

Bungoma Baringo Embu Tharaka Nithi Nyamira
Who We Work Alongside

Partners and allies in the movement.

UNICEF AMREF Health Africa Anti-FGM Board Equality Now Africa FAWE Kenya Girls Not Brides Orchid Project Samburu Girls Foundation State Department for Youth Affairs The Girl Generation UNFPA Kenya World Vision Kenya
Join Us Today

Lend your time and skills to protect girls.

What you bring, whether it is time, an idea, or a room full of young people, is what makes this movement move. Come and be part of it.

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