Who We Are
Our Vision
Our Vision is a transformed and empowered community of women who can individually and collectively challenge poverty and other barriers to development
Our Core Values
Our Core Values include:
Solidarity
We believe that an empowered and inclusive community that shares common interests and sympathies can heal itself and achieve its greatest desires.
Partnership
AWGN works respectfully in collaboration with local governments, communities, the private sector and donors, bringing together the unique resources of all to achieve common objectives.
Innovation
Through continuous learning and knowledge management, we endeavor to create innovative solutions to current and emerging challenges in a dynamic world.
Our Achievements at a glance
Our targets
Girls reached through SRHR awareness and education outreaches
Dec 2022
Girls supported with reusable sanitary towels, face masks and hand sanitisers
Dec 2022
Young mothers provided with practical and technical skills in income generation, business grants, and business incubation
Dec 2023
Intersectional and intergenerational VSLA groups formed and supported
Dec 2024
Children enrolled in ECD centres supprted through the School Feeding programmes
Dec 2025
About the founder
A4WGN was founded by Mercy Syombua Mulanga out of her passion for women empowerment and driven by her own childhood experiences as a young woman born and brought up in Kitui County. Growing up in extreme poverty, Mercy had to drop out of school at a young age and take up a job as an unpaid house girl in the city just to be able to access some basic needs.
When she could not continue working due to the cruelty of her employer, Mercy contemplated early marriage at fourteen and was promised to be married as a second wife to a famous witch doctor in her village. Fortunately, she was recued by the Christian Brothers in Kibera where she had sought refuge with her aunt, and through a sponsorship from Women for Women in Africa, Mercy was able to re-enroll into secondary school and successfully complete her education.
She now is a gender and program specialist and is deeply passionate about feminist mobilization, gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. She has great experience working with rural communities and partners to deliver on project interventions including women rights organizations, collectives, civils societies, INGOs, and other networks. She holds a professional master’s in development policy and practices from the Graduate Institute of Policy and Development Studies-Geneva, and a degree in early childhood and primary education from Moi University in Kenya.