Women Volunteers for Peace (WOVOP)

Women Volunteers for Peace (WOVOP) is a young women-led organization that seeks to support and promote the role of at-risk girls and young women in health, peace and security education through partnerships ,artvocacy and volunteerism within the Lake Region Economic Bloc in Kenya.

WOVOP started in August 2018 as a Students Talks Program hosted in local secondary schools and universities in Kisumu county with an aim of enhancing the understanding of peace, helping to identify threats and issues that undermine peace in learning Institutions (that causes strike and school fires) and the community at large, and most importantly, provide information on how to report and mitigate potential threats.

Overtime, through demand and pressure from the local communities, Students Talks grew to a registered community based organization in 2019 that presently targets both the students and at-risk community members and works with over 420 volunteers across Kenya with physical presence in Kisumu County.