Patinaai Osim has been featured in national and international media for our grassroots work and community impact. Watch our interviews, event coverage, and stories that highlight how Indigenous voices are shaping change.
Our work has also been published in leading outlets and thought pieces. These articles dive deeper into the issues we tackle and the solutions we’re building with the communities we serve.
In patriarchal, pastoral communities in Kenya, women and girls face significant challenges, including limited access to education and poor reproductive health care, which are exacerbated by poverty and drought.
Notorious female circumcisers in Kajiado County have had a road to Damascus moment and ditched the barbaric practice to become champions of Maasai girls’ rights.
Gender-based violence framed as ‘discipline’. The exclusion of women from family and community decision-making because ‘the father decides’. Early marriages that prevent girls from finishing primary or secondary school.
In our sixth edition, we speak to Semerian Sankori, founder of Patinaai Osim, a non-profit organisation dedicated to empowering Indigenous children, women, and youth in Kenya.
Semerian, a Maasai woman, remembers her grandmother’s stories of a time when Maasai pastoralists roamed freely, before the post-colonial era brought sweeping changes to their ancient lifestyle.
