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.
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.
Increase Agency
We create safe spaces to empower widows through a series of transformative workshops to increase agency - make better decisions.
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.
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.
Rona Centre
Through the Rona Centre in Wagoma, Siaya County, we offer education support, agriculture and health services for the empowerment of rural widows and orphans.
Beyond Recognition: Why Widowhood Requires a New Development Imagination
In the weeks following the #Skoll engagements and a visit to the British House of Commons, I have found myself ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
