The impacts of COVID-19 in Kenya have fallen disproportionately on young girls.

The 10-month school shutdown last year has in part contributed to a staggering increase in child pregnancies, certainly one of the pandemic’s most devastating outcomes.

In these troubling times, Edmund Rice Catholic Education Centre in Embulbul unveiled CLC House, a small hostel dedicated to housing vulnerable female students. Located onsite at the ERCEC school, CLC House was made possible through the support of Catholic Ladies’ College and Edmund Rice Foundation Australia.

ERFA stands in solidarity with girls and women around the world who experience unfair disadvantage because of their gender.
Mar 2021
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