The need
What the numbers say, and what they leave out
We publish figures because funders and partners need them to assess us. We hold them carefully, because every one of them is a person who did not consent to becoming a statistic.
Kenya
The national picture
Mombasa
The picture on the coast
National averages hide what is specific about this city. Mombasa's economy runs on a port and on tourism, and both shape how economic need turns into exposure to violence for young women here.
That last finding is the hinge. If the violence is concentrated where economic need pushes girls into transactional sex, then a crisis service that waits for harm and then responds will always arrive after the fact. The intervention has to reach the economics — which is why Maua Duniani's first programme is an income programme that takes violence seriously, rather than a violence programme that mentions income.
Who we serve
Adolescent girls and young women in one Mombasa community
Specifically: girls and young women who are economically vulnerable to — or already navigating — transactional and survival sex. Not because they are the only people harmed by gender-based violence on this coast, but because they are the group where an economic intervention has the clearest chance of preventing harm before it happens, and because the evidence for reaching them this way is strongest.
Year One works in one defined ward or community, chosen in the first month with input from existing coastal organisations. Narrow enough to be credible. Specific enough that funders, partners and the community itself can see exactly what we do.
We will not publish photographs of participants. We will not publish survivor stories, even anonymised ones, to raise money. We will not describe girls as helpless in order to make a funding case, and we will not use the language of rescue.
The reason is not squeamishness. Poverty imagery works on donors precisely because it strips people of authorship over their own story, and an organisation whose first value is human dignity cannot fundraise by contradicting it. Where we need to show the work, we will show the work — the group, the ledger, the workshop, the trade — with consent, and without faces.
Every figure on this page is traceable to a named, published source.
See the full evidence base