Keep Girls Dreaming is USCRI Kenya’s flagship child protection and menstrual justice program in Kakuma Refugee Camp
In northwest Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp, over half of the hundreds of thousands of refugees are children. Cuts to humanitarian assistance have created widespread malnutrition and ended delivery of basic supplies — including food. Unaccompanied girls, those without a parent or guardian, are most at risk: vulnerable to child marriage, sexual assault, forced labor, and left to cope alone with the trauma that drove them from home.
Keep Girls Dreaming provides unaccompanied girls and their foster families with case management, food assistance, menstrual hygiene products, and school supplies — the essentials that let a girl stay in school, stay safe, and stay a child.
Our impact: In two years, Keep Girls Dreaming has delivered over 1.4 million sanitary pads to refugees in Kenya — a full year’s supply for more than 12,000 girls. In early 2026, we partnered with the Girl Power Action Initiative (GPAI), a women-led organization in Kakuma, to train female heads of households to produce reusable pads — strengthening menstrual health and building livelihoods at the same time.
“Even during struggle, I see potential shining through in a girl who wants still walks to the safe space every morning, in one who dreams of becoming a nurse, in the way they help each other laugh together and find joy in the smallest things. These girls carry bigger futures than their circumstances. What they need is support, safety and a chance to simple dignity that allows them to dream beyond survival.”
-Sylvia Maru, Keep Girls Dreaming Program Manager
Become a Dream Keeper
Help sustain our long-term work as a Dream Keeper! Giving monthly guarantees that these girls have their basic needs met. It allows us to continue supporting them with monthly food packages, hygiene kits, and consistent accompaniment from a community mentor.
If you give a monthly gift, we will consider you a Dream Keeper, someone supports these girls in receiving their essential needs.
Dream Keepers receive updates on the meaningful impacts of your contributions. You will learn about our activities, program developments, and hear stories straight from Kakuma.
