Stop FGM

We are a non-profit fighting to stop Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and fighting for inclusion for people with disability.

BET Foundation work involves a broad range of activities and projects that aim to promote human rights and end all forms of discrimination and violence based on disability and gender.

Established by Emily Korir and Bernard Korir Tanui who are based in South Australia, the Foundation has been working since 2015 on its aims to end Female Genital Mutilation, and support families of children with disability in Africa.

The Foundation works with local organisations on the ground in Kenya, running several specific projects to impact on the next generation of young people.

FGM Education & Awareness

We are working with local communities in Kenya to establish an open dialogue and change attitudes and behaviours. We are working in partnership with community leaders and with women’s rights networks and activists to help bring an end to this practice.

Hygiene Packs

We provide direct support to girls at risk through our mentoring programs and supplying hygiene packs for the year, aiming to empower each girl to feel comfortable in her body.

Disability Support

As sponsors, we work with families of children with Cerebral Palsy, and have committed to ensure that their basic needs of continence aid and diapers are available on a monthly basis.

Fighting to stop FGM

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, is the partial or full cutting of a girl’s clitoris and labia in a barbaric way.

FGM is often practised on girls from 11-15 years of age but can occur across the life course of girls and women – some girls being cut when they are born and some women experiencing it after marriage.

The procedure has severe physical, psychological, and social consequences for the rest of the girls’ lives – and can cause complications and pain during pregnancy and childbirth, pain during sex, difficulties urinating or menstruating, incontinence, psychological problems, and trauma.

FGM is often performed as a rite of passage for girls (marking the transition into becoming a woman), and after it has taken place many girls are forced to marry and taken out of school.

BET Foundation believes that we can end this practice within a generation. To do this, we are working with local communities in Kenya to establish an open dialogue and change attitudes and behaviours. We are working in partnership with community leaders and with women’s rights networks and activists to help bring an end to this practice.

BET Foundation provides hygiene packs for girls, allowing them to attend school more regularly and feel comfortable in their bodies.

Changing the narrative for people with disabilities

BET Foundation supports and advocates for women and girls living with disabilities across Kenya. We aim to improve the rights, safety and wellbeing of young people with disability in Africa.

We work with local organisations to support families of children with Cerebral Palsy, and have committed to ensure that their basic needs of continence aid and diapers are available on a monthly basis. We are working on this aim in Nairobi and Kitui, Kenya.

Our dream is to provide complementary therapies available to all, enabling the people who need support the most to access them as often as they need.

Contact Us

We welcome enquiry from interested potential project partners and donors looking to further our work.