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About Us

12

Years in Service

About KESWA

Changing our narrative

KESWA is the umbrella body of sex workers led groups and organisations and it exists to strengthen the voices of sex workers and to empower their health and human rights.

Advocating for the rights of sex workers

KESWA advocates for sex worker’s rights as human rights, through awareness raising, capacity strengthening, organisational development and national advocacy.

Kenyan society that recognizes sex work as work

Our vision is to create a Kenyan society that recognises sex work as work and promotes equal protection of human rights which are foundational of a democratic society.

Our main objectives

Our main objectives are to advocate for equality, reliability, transparency, accountability and respect among sex workers.

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What We Do

Our core values

The following core values guide our work

  • Accountability.We promote transparency in our movement's activities.
  • Respect and equality. We act in a way that is open, fair, accessible, equitable, and put sex workers first.
  • Reliability.We are dependable and commit to deliver on our mandate not only for the resources allocated to us, but also how we carefully manage the relationships we build and sustain within the movement.
  • ResilienceWe are determined to work through challenging situations that arise within the sex workers movement in their diversities and come out stronger.
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Latest News

Weekly KESWA News

More than resilience!

The last month saw sex workers, representing almost all the regions across Kenya come together for the Sex Workers Advocacy Training. The main aim for this was to equip the various groups with better, diplomatic and sovereign problem solving approaches towards their day to day challenges. The three-day intense SW advocacy training was summed up by the KESWA 2021 annual report launch.

HIV doesn't kill, stigma does

HIV does not kill, stigma does. Members of the key population had a consultative meeting where they came up with anti-stigma messages for the key population living with HIV/AIDS within the region.

Nurturing our entreprenual culture.

Inequality is one of the pillars of the world economy. Every individual and organization has a role to play in mobilizing skills, talents, and life experiences to move towards a more just and equitable world where all have what they need to survive and thrive in life.