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Leadership, graduation, and county-wide gathering
The 2025 campaign page invited supporters to a June 23 gathering in Kisumu County for 3,300 widows from Kisumu and Siaya, centering widow leadership as a force for positive community change.
Why this year mattered
The 2025 campaign framed widows as role models of redemptive leadership, resilience, and social advocacy, and connected the day to a milestone graduation from Nyanam leadership circles.
Annual theme
Date
June 23, 2025
Venue
Kisumu County
Time
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Expected reach
3,300 widows from Kisumu and Siaya counties
3,300
Widows invited to the 2025 county-wide celebration.
521
Widows graduating from 20 leadership circles during the event.
20
Leadership circles referenced on the original campaign page.
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The 2025 campaign opens by describing widows as women who often take on significant responsibilities for their families and communities, turning challenges into opportunities and advocating for other widows.
Nyanam then carries that framing into the year's theme, presenting widows as catalysts for lasting change rather than as passive recipients of support.
That emphasis gives the 2025 page a different tone from the years before it: more overtly leadership-focused, more forward-looking, and more explicit about widows as community actors.
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The 2025 campaign notes that the event would celebrate the inaugural graduation of 521 widows from 20 leadership circles.
The page describes the graduation as both the beginning of the widows' journey in community transformation and a milestone in Nyanam's own service story.
That makes the event more than an annual commemoration. It becomes a public marker of formation, leadership development, and local organizing.
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The 2025 objectives included hosting a one-day celebration in Kisumu County, celebrating widows' leadership and contributions to their communities, and harnessing partnerships for widows' support and development.
The same list also committed to providing free eye clinic and legal aid services, keeping the campaign anchored in practical access to care and justice.
The page closes by looking back to 2024, noting that legal aid, mental health services, and partnerships helped demonstrate widows' capacity to overcome obstacles and uplift others.
Support the day
The campaign invited supporters to partner with Nyanam so widows from Kisumu and Siaya counties could gather, celebrate, and access practical services on the day.
Ways to give
M-PESA
Paybill 4044517
PayPal
Available through the campaign page
Zelle
info@nyanam.org
Bank
Equity Bank Kisumu Branch, Account name: Nyanam International, Account number: 0290279761496
Platinum
Ksh 80,000
For sponsors contributing Ksh 80,000 and above, or in-kind support of the same value.
Gold
Ksh 50,000
For sponsors contributing Ksh 50,000 or in-kind support of the same value.
Silver
Ksh 30,000
For sponsors contributing Ksh 30,000 or in-kind support of the same value.
Gallery
The imagery remains central to the page, so the gallery stays restrained and lets the event photographs do most of the work.
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