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Rona Foundation is a widow human rights organisation in Kenya

We are a grassroots organization advancing widow rights and improving access to justice, education, healthcare, and essential services. Our work enables widows to live free from violence, earn sustainable incomes, and re-enter life with dignity-transforming families and communities.

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Advance Inclusion

We promote sustainable environmentally friendly activities such as establishing tree nurseries, building and use of energy-saving stoves. We also educate learners through an intervention dubbed Plant & Play.
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Increase Agency

We create safe spaces to empower widows through a series of transformative workshops to increase agency - make better decisions.
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Strengthen Relations

Through social and economic empowerment programs, we educate and strengthen relations to protect widows from SGBV, increase social capital and provide micro business grants.
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Transform Structures

We transform structures by collective advocacy at community, county and national level by creating awareness around harmful gender norms, perceptions and attitudes towards widows that deny them their rights, dignity and body autonomy.
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Through the Rona Centre in Wagoma, Siaya County, we offer education support, agriculture and health services for the empowerment of rural widows and orphans.
Widows Wait — Economic Justice Is Overdue!

Widows Wait — Economic Justice Is Overdue!

Recently, we collaborated with African Uncensored on a documentary capturing the lived realities of widows at mining sites in Siaya ...
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From Silence to Power: Siaya’s Bold Step for Widow Rights!

From Silence to Power: Siaya’s Bold Step for Widow Rights!

I have walked the dusty paths of Siaya and the villages around Lake Victoria for years, listening to the whispered ...
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The Quiet Paradox of Partnership When the Grassroots Win

The Quiet Paradox of Partnership When the Grassroots Win

There is a paradox that many grassroots organizations like Rona Foundation quietly live through. We are often celebrated as the ...
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Trust Is the Soul of Brave Collaborations!

Trust Is the Soul of Brave Collaborations!

Recently, we hosted the Samata Collective Festival at the Rona Centre, our learning hub in rural Wagoma, Kenya. This global ...
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Latest Videos

Hon. Winnie Otieno, gender advisor to the governor, shows support of the Siaya Widows Protection Bill 2025 . She also appreciates Director Roseline Orwa of Rona Foundation for her passion and endless dedication to advocating for widow's rights and welfare in Siaya County.

Hon. Winnie Otieno, gender advisor to the governor, shows support of the Siaya Widows Protection Bill 2025 . She also appreciates Director Roseline Orwa of Rona Foundation for her passion and endless dedication to advocating for widow's rights and welfare in Siaya County.

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THE ENACTMENT OF SIAYA WIDOWS PROTECTION BILL 2025

After loosing her husband 'Rosemary', a widow from Alego was subjected to multiple traditional practices that exposed her to different men, all in the name of culture , her lived experiences, as a widow navigating deeply rooted cultural practices that striped her off choice, dignity and peace .A story that challenges us to re think tradition versus humanity.

After loosing her husband 'Rosemary', a widow from Alego was subjected to multiple traditional practices that exposed her to different men, all in the name of culture , her lived experiences, as a widow navigating deeply rooted cultural practices that striped her off choice, dignity and peace .A story that challenges us to re think tradition versus humanity.

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Widows painful journey through harmful cultural practices.

Being a role model means standing for the truth, even when you stand alone. Believe in something, live it, and inspire others to do the same.

Being a role model means standing for the truth, even when you stand alone. Believe in something, live it, and inspire others to do the same.

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standing for the truth

At just 32 Roseline Orwa, became a widow and was subjected to cruel cultural traditional practices. But she refused to accept silence and chose to speak through the stop widow abuse in Kenya page, her voice reached thousands. in partnership with the Lord lomba ,she led a grassroot movement with more than 6000 widows and 3 out of 4 elected at the assembly. The amazing thing is the strategy and creative tools that she uses, recently she wrote a book that has gone to Kenyan education system as a literature book that speaks to empathy and Kenyan context of women. The poetry book is a tool that is transforming widowhood into systemic change.

At just 32 Roseline Orwa, became a widow and was subjected to cruel cultural traditional practices. But she refused to accept silence and chose to speak through the stop widow abuse in Kenya page, her voice reached thousands. in partnership with the Lord lomba ,she led a grassroot movement with more than 6000 widows and 3 out of 4 elected at the assembly. The amazing thing is the strategy and creative tools that she uses, recently she wrote a book that has gone to Kenyan education system as a literature book that speaks to empathy and Kenyan context of women. The poetry book is a tool that is transforming widowhood into systemic change.

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From Silence to Legislation, The Widow Revolution in Kenya

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