Naserian
Girls Rising in Narok
What happens when girls, families, teachers, and communities move together to remove the barriers that hold girls back? In Narok County, we're finding out.
Naserian is a two-year pilot built on the simple belief that girls already have strength, ideas, and ambition. They need communities that stand with them, opening the path to staying in school, shaping their future, and leading.
10,000+ Stakeholders Reached · 2,000 In-School Adolescents · 6,500 Out-of-School Girls · 15 Community-Based Organisation Partners
20 Government schools where the RISE education program will be delivered
स्वास्थ्य सेवाओं से लेकर शैक्षिक और सांस्कृतिक कार्यक्रम ों तक हम मदद कर सकते हैं।
Naserian is the first programme to bring together Girl Rising’s RISE and the Girls First Institute, following our recent merger with She's the First.
This two-year pilot tests what's possible when we work with families, schools and communities to address the barriers to girls’ education and opportunities. In Narok, girls don't live in silos — and neither does Naserian. We work across classrooms, homes, and community spaces at the same time, with the same shared goal: creating the conditions for every girl to learn, lead, and define her own future.
Girls in Narok— Strength Amidst Barriers
Narok County sits in Kenya's Rift Valley, home to predominantly Maasai pastoralist communities. Girls here face some of the steepest challenges to education and wellbeing in the country — not because of who they are, but because of systems that haven't yet caught up with their potential.
These challenges intersect: social norms that prioritise forced marriage over schooling, under-resourced schools, limited health services, and community organisations working in isolation without coordination or funding. Naserian responds to all of it — at once.
43.3% Teenage pregnancy rate in Narok — one of the highest in Kenya, and a primary driver of school dropout
87.8% FGM prevalence in some parts of the region — a practice rooted in systems that have long constrained girls' choices and futures
Narok is also a place full of committed people. Community leaders who want better for their daughters. Teachers who stay after hours. Mothers who've been waiting for a program like this. Local organisations are doing extraordinary work with almost nothing.
Girls thrive when the people around them are part of the change. That's what Naserian is designed to support — the ecosystem that already exists, strengthened and connected.
Four Program Areas. One Shared Direction
स्वास्थ्य सेवाओं से लेकर शैक्षिक और सांस्कृतिक कार्यक्रमों तक हम मदद कर सकते हैं।
Four Goals. Two Years. One Community Moving Together.
स्वास्थ्य सेवाओं से लेकर शैक्षिक और सांस्कृतिक कार्यक्रमों तक हम मदद कर सकते हैं।
Proof It Works
स्वास्थ्य सेवाओं से लेकर शैक्षिक और सांस्कृतिक कार्यक्रमों तक हम मदद कर सकते हैं।
February 2025 Kickoff, Narok
Built With Community, Not Just For It
स्वास्थ्य सेवाओं से लेकर शैक्षिक और सांस्कृतिक कार्यक्रमों तक हम मदद कर सकते हैं।
Every Girl Deserves a Community Behind Her. Be Part of This One.
स्वास्थ्य सेवाओं से लेकर शैक्षिक और सांस्कृतिक कार्यक्रमों तक हम मदद कर सकते हैं।
स्वास्थ्य सेवाओं से लेकर शैक्षिक और सांस्कृतिक कार्यक्रमों तक हम मदद कर सकते हैं।
"From the Girl Rising program, I learned that we girls can do anything boys can do. We can do work equal to them."
Kaveri, 17
With the RISE curriculum, we are reaching 2 million students through in-person and on-line programming to try to change that.
43.3% Teenage pregnancy rate in Narok
87.8% FGM prevalence
Program Implementing Partners
