​Every child carries a universe within them—hope, curiosity, possibility, and a light powerful enough to brighten entire communities. On this World Children’s Day, we pause not just to celebrate, but to confront the realities that dim children’s potential and to reaffirm our commitment to creating a world where every child is safe, empowered, and free to dream.
​At Protect A Girl’s Image Organization (PGIO), this day is more than a date on the calendar. It is a daily reminder of why we exist, why we fight, and why we show up for the most vulnerable.

​The Fragile Rights: Why World Children’s Day Matters

​World Children’s Day is a global call to action for child rights. It asks us to listen to the voices of children and to be accountable for the world we hand over to them. But for thousands of children across Kenya, these rights remain fragile:

• ​Many still face sexual violence, exploitation, and early pregnancies, robbing them of childhood and opportunity.
• ​Others grow up amid substance-abuse-ravaged homes, carrying emotional burdens too heavy for their young shoulders.
• ​Far too many lack access to basic needs: education, counselling, protection, and safe spaces.

​This is not the world they deserve.

​PGIO’s Commitment: Protecting Childhood, Restoring Dignity

​For years, PGIO has stood in the gap—advocating, rescuing, empowering, and walking with children and families through their darkest moments. We exist to strengthen families and ensure children thrive.
​Our core areas of work include:

• ​Substance Use Disorder Prevention: Breaking the cycle of addiction through counselling, awareness, and spiritual support for at-risk families.
• ​Protection Against Early Adolescent Pregnancies: Empowering girls with knowledge, self-worth, and confidence through school programs and mentorship.
• ​Advocacy for Sexual Violence Survivors: Standing on the frontlines to ensure survivors receive justice, emotional support, and pathways back to healing.
• ​Empowering Families Through Economic Support: Offering zero-interest loans, skills training, and community support systems to end poverty.
• ​Education & Skill-Building Through Our Polytechnic: Giving youth practical skills, job opportunities, and a fresh start toward self-reliance.

​This Year’s Theme: Listen. Protect. Empower.

​This World Children’s Day, we join the world in committing to three powerful actions:

• ​Listen: Children have voices, opinions, dreams, and fears. We must make room for their stories, their feelings, and their hopes.
• ​Protect: Protection means creating environments—at home, in school, online, and in our communities—where children are safe and cared for.
• ​Empower: Empowerment means giving children not just what they need to survive, but what they need to succeed, ensuring every child has equal opportunities to grow mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and socially.

​A Call to Action for the Community

​Our mission is big, but together, we are bigger.
​As we mark this day, we invite parents, teachers, community leaders, and every Kenyan of goodwill to join us in:

• ​Mentoring a child in your neighborhood.
• ​Reporting cases of abuse to the proper authorities.
• ​Supporting our grief and counselling sessions through donation or volunteering.
• ​Partnering with PGIO programs.
• ​Creating safe, healthy environments for the children around them.

​Because children are not just the future—they are the present, shaping who we are and who we become.

​At PGIO, every day is World Children’s Day. And today, we recommit to ensuring that every child we reach is seen, heard, valued, and protected.
​Let’s build a world where all children can rise.

Science is more than formulas and white coats; it is compassion distilled into action. At Protect a Girl’s Image Organization (PGIO), we believe the deepest healing happens when empathy is backed by evidence. As we mark the International Week of Science, we pause to celebrate this truth: science is the silent, essential engine transforming lives, from a healed mind to a sustainable livelihood.

For PGIO, science is not an abstract concept. It is a living force behind every success story. From understanding how trauma rewires the brain to utilizing environmental science for sustainable livelihoods, PGIO bridges knowledge and humanity every single day.

​🧠 1. Neuroscience: Rewiring Trauma and Addiction

​Addiction and trauma often feel invisible, but neuroscience gives us the language to understand them. We know how stress, loss, and pain physically affect the brain—and how intentional recovery can foster powerful rewiring.
​At PGIO, this specialized knowledge fuels our rehabilitation and mental health programs. We approach individual healing with both empathy and evidence, providing our teams with the tools to heal and guide, grounded in science.

​🫀 2. Public Health: Building Resilience from the Ground Up

​A healthy mind requires a healthy environment. That’s why PGIO integrates foundational public health science into our community education programs, teaching families about nutrition, hygiene, and disease prevention.
​When a mother understands how clean water or balanced meals prevent illness, science has already done its most sacred work: protecting lives through informed awareness.

​👧🏽 3. Reproductive Health: Education as the Ultimate Protection

​We firmly believe that education is the most powerful form of protection.
​By teaching adolescents the science behind their bodies and reproductive health, we empower girls to make informed, confident decisions about their future. This knowledge reduces early pregnancies, prevents exploitation, and effectively breaks generational cycles of vulnerability—proof that applied science has the power to change destinies.

​🌱 4. Environmental Science: Sustaining People and Planet

​Science is also the bedrock of our eco-empowerment initiatives.
​Through training in sustainable farming practices, clean energy awareness, and skills development at PGIO’s polytechnic, we help families create livelihoods that protect both people and the planet. When communities embrace the science of sustainability, empowerment seamlessly transforms into self-reliance.

​⚙️ 5. Education and Innovation: Where Knowledge Meets Opportunity

​Science doesn’t only exist in textbooks—it thrives in practical skill, creativity, and innovation.
​Our polytechnic programs equip youth with technical knowledge, actively transforming curiosity into marketable careers. From electrical repair to environmental design, every skill taught is science in action, building futures, one learner at a time.

​💫 Our Ongoing Promise: Science for a Humane World

​This International Week of Science, we celebrate the power of knowledge not just to inform, but to profoundly heal.
​At PGIO, science is more than study—it is the essential bridge between awareness and action, compassion and change. We are committed to fostering thriving communities where science walks hand-in-hand with empathy.

In a small village called Kareng Pangi, deep within Central Kalimantan, Borneo, a young female Orangutan named Pony endured unimaginable horror. She was chained to a filthy mattress in a makeshift brothel, her body shaved, her spirit broken, and her innocence stolen. What happened to Pony is one of the most disturbing and heartbreaking cases of animal sexual abuse ever documented.

Pony’s nightmare began when poachers murdered her mother. An all-too-common method used to capture baby Orangutans from the wild. The terrified infant was then sold illegally to a brothel, where her captors subjected her to sexual slavery. Every few days, they shaved her entire body, bathed and perfumed her, and applied makeup to make her appear more human. Then, they chained her to a bed and forced her to perform sexual acts with men who paid between two and three dollars per encounter (same price charged for a human sex worker).

The men who abused her were clearly not driven by desperation or poverty; they sought her out because she was helpless. Because she could not resist. Because cruelty gave them power.

When the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOS) learned about Pony, they joined forces with local authorities to plan her rescue but those that benefitted from Pony’s suffering refused to let her go. They fought to keep her. It took over a year of negotiations and preparation before authorities could safely move in. In 2003, a team of 35 armed police officers carrying AK-47s entered the village and freed her.

What they found was devastating. Pony was terrified of humans, her skin completely bare and covered in sores from years of shaving and infection. Whenever a man approached, she automatically assumed a submissive position; a conditioned response from repeated sexual assault, since her refusal led to severe beatings.

Pony’s physical injuries could be treated, but her emotional wounds ran deep. Years of captivity left her unable to survive in the wild, and her behavior showed signs of severe trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Yet despite everything she fought hard to live.

At the Nyaru Menteng Rehabilitation center, under the care of BOS Foundation, Pony began the slow process of healing. Through Physiotherapy, enrichment activities, and socialization with other rescued Orangutans, she started to trust again. She even learned to feel safe around male caregivers; an extraordinary sign of her strength and capacity to forgive.

As of late 2024, Pony is in good health and continues to live at the Nyaru Menteng socialization complex. She may never return to the wild, but the foundation hopes she will soon move to a sanctuary Island, a place where she can live peacefully, surrounded by nature, free from fear and harm.

Pony’s story is not just about one Orangutan. It is a mirror held up to humanity, exposing the depths of cruelty that thrive when greed and domination go unchecked. Her suffering is a reminder that exploitation, in any form, is rooted in the same mindset that enables Gender-Based Violence and sexual abuse across the world.

At Protect Girl Image Organization (PGIO), we speak for the voiceless and stand against all forms of sexual exploitation; be it human or otherwise. Violence against the vulnerable is not justified. Whether it happens to a girl to a girl in a hidden room or to an Orangutan in a cage, the violation is the same: a theft of dignity, freedom, and life. We must never look away. We must speak, act and Protect, because silence only protects the abuser, never the abused.

Have you heard the story of the woman whose brain tumor spoke to her?

In the 1980s, medical literature documented a case of a woman, known only as “AB,” who began experiencing something that most of us would instantly dismiss as insanity—voices in her head. But these weren’t violent, tormenting voices. They were calm. They were kind. They said:

“Please don’t be afraid. I know it must be shocking for you to hear me speaking to you like this, but this is the easiest way I could think of.”

The voice told her it had once belonged to a worker at a children’s hospital. Imagine that—a voice that introduced itself not with chaos, but with purpose.

AB sought psychiatric help, received medication, and for a while, the voices went quiet. Life seemed to return to “normal.” Until one day, on holiday, they came back. This time, more urgent, more insistent: “Return to England immediately. Go to this address. Ask for a scan.”

That address? A real hospital in London. And the voices were right.

Her psychiatrist, more out of concern for her distress than any medical evidence, agreed to a scan. And what they found silenced the room. There it was—a tumor, a meningioma pressing against her brain, exactly as the voices had said.

Surgery was performed. When she awoke, she heard them one last time: “We are pleased to have helped you. Goodbye.” Then—silence. Her health was restored.

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We tell this story because it’s easy to dismiss what we don’t understand. To pathologize every whisper, every strange intuition, every warning our bodies—or our minds—try to send us. But what if we started listening differently?

This isn’t about superstition. It’s about paying attention. About respecting the strange, inconvenient ways that truth sometimes reaches us.

At Protect a Girl’s Image, we believe the body and mind are not enemies. They are not separate. They are collaborators in survival. And sometimes, in the most mysterious ways, they speak.

So we leave you with this:

If your mind warned you like this, would you listen?

The more we dehumanize someone, the easier it becomes to hurt them, strip away their humanity, and suddenly violence feels possible. That’s exactly what pornography does every single day.

One of the most shocking studies I’ve read recently, involved brain scans of men watching porn. Scientists wanted to see what parts of the brain lit up. You’d expect areas linked to attraction, intimacy, or empathy. But no. The brain activity was in the region that processes objects, not people.

Read that again: when men watched pornography, their brains didn’t recognize women as human beings, they recognized them as things.

Porn doesn’t just “entertain.” It rewires the brain. It teaches viewers, especially men, to see women not as people but as consumable products. And when you start seeing someone as an object, violence against them doesn’t feel shocking anymore.

Here’s the hard truth: studies show that 35% to 88% of popular porn scenes contain physical violence or aggression. And nearly every time, the target of that aggression is a woman (Fritz, Malic, Paul, & Zhou, 2020).

This isn’t just screen performance. It’s cultural conditioning. Pornography normalizes aggression and whispers: this is normal, this is sexy, this is what women want.

But it isn’t. It’s violence dressed up as pleasure. It’s dehumanization on loop. And when men consume this day after day, year after year, it bleeds into the real world: in harassment, in abuse, in sexual violence.

Pornography is not harmless fantasy. It’s a training ground. A system that blurs the line between intimacy and abuse, and the cost is carried by women and girls every single day.

At Protect a Girl’s Image, we will not sugarcoat this. Pornography is not freedom. Pornography is not empowerment. Pornography is violence in disguise!

Until we start naming it for what it truly is, we will keep raising generations who cannot tell the difference between love and exploitation.

Disclaimer: This blog has been curated to raise awareness about abuse and exploitation in sports.

BBC Africa Eye has uncovered one of football’s darkest scandal; years of grooming, sexual abuse, and exploitation in Gabon. A sport that should symbolize dreams, unity and opportunity has instead be used as a hunting ground for predators hiding in plain sight.

The testimonies are horrifying. They cut deep because they are not just “stories”. They are lived realities of children, teenagers, and young hopefuls who walked into stadiums with nothing but dreams, only to walk out carrying scars no one should ever bear.

One survivor shared:

(crying) They would come to our room. I saw the boys being taken one by one. When they came back I could tell they couldn’t sleep. While we were training for the selection games, those boys were passing blood in the toilets and showers. We could see blood coming out of their bums and they could not play during the next game; they couldn’t run anymore. I didn’t understand what was going on, and nobody would talk about it.

On the fourth night of the camp they came to wake me and my bestfriend. They took us to a room with red lights, full of naked men. One of them was Capello (I have forgotten the names of the others.)

They started touching me and my friend and I just didn’t understand. I wanted to scream. They told me that I should masturbate them and give them blowjobs but I definitely refused.

So they threatened me, saying that if I didn’t do it, I would lose my place in the team. I’d be left on the bench at the end of the tournament. I was so shocked and couldn’t find the words to speak so all I had left were tears. I saw how they started to rape my friend. I looked him in the eye. He looked back at me as if to say: let’s just go with it and get it over with.

I started to pray and pray and then I wanted to get out but the door was locked. They grabbed me and threw me on to the floor; two security men and it looked like they were prepared for this. I tried to fight them off but they forced me to masturbate them and give them blowjobs. I told them I couldn’t do it; cried and screamed and screamed and SCREAMED!

Until they had finished with my friend. They let him go and told him I would never be selected to play ever again. They said if I dared to speak to anyone about what happened, my fam would be killed.

This is not just a football scandal. This is what exploitation looks like when silence becomes the rule and predators are protected by systems that should instead protect the children.

These stories are not foreign to us. We have sat with survivors who carry the same haunted eyes, the same trembling voices, the same unspeakable pain. Whether in sports, schools, homes, or streets, predators thrive where shame and silence are stronger than accountability.

We’ve heard children whisper what they dare not say out loud! We see the weight of secrets crushing innocence. We’ve seen the blood. We’ve seen the brokenness. And we’ve also seen the resilience; the will to rise from the ashes of exploitation.

What happened in Gabon is a mirror to what happens everywhere when the abuse is allowed to hide behind uniforms, titles or “opportunities.” Abuse in sports is no different from abuse in classrooms or families. It is all rooted in Power, Manipulation, and Silencing of victims.

But we refuse to let silence win. We refuse to allow fear to be the cage that holds children hostage. Every voice matters. Every tear is a Testimony. Every scar is a reminder of why we Fight.

This scandal must open the world’s eyes. Abuse in Sports is not “a few bad men”. It is a system of unchecked power that feeds on the dreams of the children. And the world must not only be shocked; IT MUST ACT!!

To every survivor who has been silenced: we hear you. We see You. And we believe YOU!

 

If you are a survivor of abuse or know someone going through it, Do Not carry that silence alone.

Because Predators thrive in Silence. But Healing Begins with Truth!

Why Every Child Deserves to Be Seen, Heard, and Protected

At Protect a Girl’s Image Organization (PGIO), these words speak directly to the heart of our mission: “And let all children come to me.” These are not just words to us. They are a call. A sacred responsibility to open our arms, hearts, and doors to every child in need of protection, healing, and hope.

Children Are Not Just the Future—They Are the Now.

Every day, countless children around us are robbed of their innocence through neglect, abuse, exploitation, and poverty. Far too often, their cries go unheard. At PGIO, we believe that no child should ever feel invisible. Every child deserves to feel safe, seen, and cherished.

Our work is rooted in compassion. It is driven by the conviction that restoring dignity to a child today builds the foundation for a stronger, more compassionate tomorrow.

What Does It Mean to Let All Children Come to Us?

It means welcoming the vulnerable. It means offering a safe space for those who have been silenced by trauma. It means being the voice for the voiceless and standing fiercely in the gap for the defenseless.

It is in the quiet conversations during our counseling sessions.
It is in the laughter we hear when children feel safe enough to play again.
It is in the confidence we help rebuild when we say, “You matter. You belong. You are loved.”

Restoring Dignity Through Action

At PGIO, we don’t just speak about change, we live it. Through our programs, we provide:

• Education support to keep children in school and away from dangerous streets.
• Counseling and psychosocial care for children recovering from trauma, loss, and abuse.
• Safe shelters provide protection and stability for those in need.
• Community outreach that educates families and caregivers on the rights and needs of children.
• Empowerment initiatives to equip children with skills, hope, and resilience.

We open our doors because we know healing begins with a simple, powerful truth: every child deserves love without conditions and protection without question.

How You Can Help Answer This Call

The journey to protecting children is not one we can walk alone. Whether you are a parent, teacher, neighbor, donor, or volunteer, your role matters. Together, we can ensure that no child feels forgotten, unloved, or unworthy.

You can support PGIO by:

• Volunteering your time or expertise
• Donating to fund school fees, counseling, and safe shelters
• Sharing our message to raise awareness
• Becoming an advocate for children’s rights in your community

 

In Closing: Love Has No Limits

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Why Every Child Deserves to Be Seen, Heard, and Protected

At Protect a Girl’s Image Organization (PGIO), these words are not a slogan—they are a sacred call.
“Let all children come to me.”

This is the heartbeat of our mission. We are called to open our arms, our hearts, and our doors to every child in need of safety, healing, and hope.

Children Are Not Just the Future—They Are the Now

Every single day, children around us face the harshest realities—abuse, neglect, exploitation, trauma, and deep-rooted poverty.
Too often, their pain goes unnoticed. Their voices are silenced. Their dignity stripped away.
At PGIO, we believe no child should ever feel invisible. Every child deserves to feel safe. Every child deserves to be seen, heard, and cherished.

Our mission is built on compassion. A firm belief fuels it: when you restore dignity to a child today, you make a better, more compassionate world for tomorrow.

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What Does It Mean to “Let All Children Come to Us”?

It means creating spaces where children feel safe again.
It means listening to stories shaped by trauma and responding with care, not judgment.
It means being the voice when they have none and standing boldly between harm and hope.

It looks like this:

• The silent comfort of a counseling session.

• The first laugh after months of fear.

• The moment a child finally believes the words: “You matter. You belong. You are loved.”

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Restoring Dignity Through Action

At PGIO, we don’t just talk about change—we show up. Every day.

Our child protection work includes:

• Educational support that keeps children in school and out of danger.

• Trauma counseling and psychosocial care for children healing from abuse and loss.

• Safe shelters that offer stability and security when the home is no longer safe.

• Community outreach programs that train parents, guardians, and leaders on children’s rights and protection.

• Empowerment initiatives that build skills, confidence, and resilience in every child we serve.

Because real healing begins with one powerful truth: every child deserves love without limits, and protection without question.

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How You Can Be Part of This Mission

Child protection is not a one-person job. It takes all of us—parents, teachers, neighbors, donors, and volunteers.
Your voice matters. Your support saves lives. Together, we can build a world where no child feels forgotten or unworthy.

Here’s how you can join us:

• Volunteer your time, skills, or mentorship.

• Donate to fund counseling, school fees, and safe shelters.

• Raise awareness by sharing our message across your networks.

• Speak up—be an advocate for children’s rights in your community.

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In Closing: Love Without Limits

“Let all children come to me.”
This is more than a scripture—it’s a declaration that every child deserves love, dignity, and protection.
Not just some. All.

At PGIO, we will continue to open our arms to every child in pain.
We will continue to be a place of healing, restoration, and hope.
We will continue to say, with every action: You are safe here. You are seen. You are loved.

Together, we protect. Together, we heal. Together, we restore.

June is Men’s Mental Health Month. A time to reflect, reimagine, and restore. And at PGIO, we believe that healing and restoration should extend to everyone. Not just to our girls, but to our boys and young men too—especially those quietly fading into the background of a society that forgot how much they matter.

This weekend, we lived out that belief in the most profound way.

Together with the compassionate and determined leadership of Irene Mutugi, 2027 aspiring MCA for Kangai Ward, we helped rescue a young man named Pius Bundi. A name once spoken with pride in Marura B Village; a name that had grown quiet in recent years, dimmed by hardship, addiction, and despair.

Pius is not your ordinary story. He was the first in his village to ever go to university. A bright young man, full of promise, who graduated with a Second Class Upper Division in Human Resource Management. That achievement didn’t come easy. It took the entire Marura B community—parents, elders, friends—rallying together to make it happen. They organized fundraisers, community meetings, and offered their limited resources to ensure that one of their own would rise. He was their hope.

But hope can be fragile in a country where job opportunities are scarce, and even brilliance goes unnoticed. After graduation, Pius tarmacked and tarmacked. But for how long can one soul wander with zero prospect and dimming hope?

Eventually, like so many others, Pius ended up taking what was available which was, distributing alcohol. Because as we say in Kenya, “kazi ni kazi.” And considering Pius has a Family; a wife and child, that depend on him. Not forgetting his parents who did everything they could including rallying community members so he could get through university. He really didn’t have much of an option but take the job, however much beneath him it was. But come on! Pius has a degree. A life that was meant for more. A community that depended on him to be a role model and inspiration to the rest of the children.

I remember at some point a parent told us that even when they advice their children to study hard in school, the answer they usually get is: “why waste all that time and energy when one of us who has even gone to university is nothing. Instead he is here sitting with us drinking illicit brew?” But you do realize this wasn’t what he wanted. Pius had higher aspirations for himself and his community. But in a cruel twist of irony, the only job that was supposedly available; the only job he was offered that was meant to be sort of a lifeline, was the very thing that exposed him to what would undo him—alcohol.

Addiction crept in quietly. What began as survival became dependency. With no job, no routine, and no opportunity, idleness filled his days—and alcohol filled the void. His light dimmed. The same young man whose community once danced for his graduation now moved through the days unnoticed. Forgotten.

But not by everyone.

For weeks, Irene Mutugi carried a burden for Pius. She remembered who he was. Who he still could be. She began to speak to those around her, rallying support, asking for help. And PGIO listened—this is exactly who we are: an organization that believes in second chances and community-led restoration.

Through the incredible partnership between PGIO and Irene, we were able to enroll Pius into our Boundless Hope Rehabilitation Centre—a safe place to heal, recover, and begin again.

And when we picked him up this past Saturday, the village stood still. People cried and others prayed. They smiled through tears as they watched the return of a son, a neighbor, a symbol of hope that had nearly slipped through their fingers.

Marura B is no stranger to this disease. Alcoholism has stolen too much—parents who drink away school fees, children who drop out due to peer pressure, dreams deferred, lives derailed, and even early marriage due to extreme hardships (read Mwitha’s story). But in the midst of this pain, Pius had pushed through. He had made it to the finish line. Now, it’s our turn to help him start again.

His story reminds us that the problem isn’t potential. It’s support!

There are many more Pius Bundis across Kenya—bright, brave, and burdened by circumstances beyond their control. At PGIO, we’re not just telling their stories—we’re doing something about it. Through rehabilitation, mentorship, mental health care, and job opportunity creation, we are working to restore dignity and rewrite narratives.

But we can’t do it alone.

💛 Let’s continue to believe in our sons the way we believe in our daughters.
💛 Let’s fight for futures that look impossible.
💛 Let’s keep choosing second chances.

For Pius. For Marura B. For many more like him.

Every morning, Mwitha leaves for school on an empty stomach.
No breakfast.
No packed lunch.
No idea what she’ll find when she returns home in the evening.

What she does know is this: she must find a way to feed her younger siblings before the day ends.

Mwitha is just 14 years old, still in primary school. But life has forced her into a role no child should ever have to take on—she is the parent, the provider, and the protector of her family.

A Home That Isn’t Safe

Mwitha’s parents struggle with alcoholism. They are barely able to care for themselves—let alone their children. The burden of responsibility has fallen entirely on her small shoulders.

Each evening after school, Mwitha goes from shop to shop, borrowing flour for ugali—even though the family is already deep in debt. With whatever she gets, she then heads to the shamba (farm) to pick kale, spinach, and wild greens.

This is the only meal she and her siblings will eat. If there’s enough firewood.

Because even cooking is a challenge.
They use a three-stone stove—the only form of cooking available to them. And before she can cook, Mwitha must first gather firewood, sometimes walking long distances just to find enough to light a fire.

Where She Sleeps Will Break Your Heart

At night, Mwitha and her siblings don’t sleep on a bed.
They don’t even have a mattress.
Their “bedroom” is a patch of muddy floor, covered with an old sack. The house has no cement, no tiles, no comfort. Just cold, dirt, and silence.

Yet somehow, she still wakes up and goes to school.

School—and the Struggle to Stay

Balancing school and survival is a daily war for Mwitha.
On weekends, instead of resting or catching up on studies, she works in the rice fields to try and repay shop debts—most of which weren’t even hers, but her parents’.

And she’s not alone.
Many girls in her situation are forced to drop out of school, choosing early marriage just to escape the pressure. They give up their education, their dreams, and sometimes—their safety.

A Small Victory, But a Start

Thanks to support from PGIO, our team on the ground was able to take a small but meaningful step:
We bought a bed and a mattress for Mwitha and her siblings.

For the first time in a long time, they didn’t have to sleep on the floor.
A single mattress brought back a sense of dignity and hope to a child who has lived too long without either.

But There’s a Bigger Problem We Must Face—Together

Last year’s floods destroyed our rescue home—the one safe space where children like Mwitha could find shelter, protection, education, and care.

And now?
They have nowhere else to turn.

We urgently need to renovate and restore the rescue home. Children like Mwitha are waiting—not just for a place to sleep, but for a chance to be children again.

💔 The Truth? Mwitha Is One of Many

Her story is real. Her pain is daily.
But she is just one of hundreds of children across Kenya living in extreme neglect and poverty.
Children who are raising themselves.
Children sleeping on the floor, cooking over open fires, skipping school, and shouldering debts that don’t belong to them.

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You Can Help Rewrite This Story

🛠️ We need funds to rebuild the rescue home.
🛏️ We need mattresses, bedding, and food.
📚 We need school supplies and dignity kits.
❤️ We need you.

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✅ How You Can Help Today:

• Donate – Every coin brings us closer to safety.

• Sponsor a child – Be the reason they stay in school.

• Share this story – Awareness saves lives too.

• Partner with us – Let’s build stronger communities together.

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🌱 Let’s not wait for another child to break. Let’s act now.

 

📢 Share Mwitha’s story – Be her voice

🤝 Partner with PGIO – Get involved

At just 10 years old, Evelyn Wambui had already endured more pain than most experience in a lifetime.

For three agonizing years, she suffered silently—her body growing weaker while the cause remained unknown. What started as general symptoms soon spiraled into a health crisis. Her parents, frantic and afraid, spent a full year going from one hospital to the next, searching desperately for answers.

But they were met with the same response everywhere: no diagnosis, no clarity, no relief.

Eventually, doctors gave a diagnosis. But tragically, it was wrong. Evelyn was placed on medication that treated the wrong illness. Her condition worsened. Time was lost. Her fragile body continued to decline, and her future slipped further out of reach.

Yet through all of this, her parents never gave up hope.

In desperation, they brought her to a local community church, seeking healing through prayer. That’s where we met Evelyn—during one of Protect a Girl’s Image Organization’s (PGIO) regular community outreach fellowships.

We listened to her story with heavy hearts. Her parents, worn down by worry, shared their journey through tears. Something about the story didn’t sit right. We knew—deeply—that something critical had been missed.

So we stepped in.

With their consent, PGIO took Evelyn to Kenyatta National Hospital—one of Kenya’s leading Level 6 referral hospitals and the apex of the national healthcare system. There, doctors finally uncovered the truth:

Evelyn was battling Hodgkin lymphoma — a serious cancer that affects the lymphatic system, part of the immune system.

For years, she had unknowingly been fighting a deadly disease—without proper treatment, without a name for her suffering.

Hope Restored: A Journey of Healing

With urgency and compassion, PGIO facilitated Evelyn’s full treatment—including several months of chemotherapy, followed by radiation therapy. The treatment lasted approximately 18 months.

It wasn’t easy. There were moments of fear and setbacks along the way. But Evelyn fought with everything she had, and we stood by her side every step of the way.

Today, Evelyn is thriving.
She’s back in school. She’s strong. She’s smiling. And most importantly—she’s dreaming again.

This Is the Power of Community, Compassion, and Action

Evelyn’s story is not just about survival. It’s a powerful reminder of what happens when we listen, when we act, and when we work together to uplift the most vulnerable among us.

At Protect a Girl’s Image Organization (PGIO), we don’t wait for systems to fix themselves. We act—with integrity, urgency, and faith. We stand in the gap for girls like Evelyn—girls who would otherwise be forgotten.

But Evelyn is not alone.
There are many more girls out there—silently suffering, misdiagnosed, or left behind by a broken system.

Let’s Stand Together.

Let’s turn compassion into action.
Let’s build a culture where no child suffers in silence and every girl has the right to health, hope, and a future.

When we come together with faith, empathy, and purpose, we don’t just change one life—we change the world.

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