Boxgirls Kenya is a community-based organisation established in 2007. During the post-election violence in 2008, girls and women were sexually abused and many people were left traumatised especially in poor communities. It was against this background that Boxgirls deepened and widened its activities by providing a safe place for girls to learn boxing, and use it as a defence mechanism as well as an entry point to talk about life in general. It exists to create a world where girls and young women who have been uprooted, marginalised and excluded are supported to lead dignified lives in secure communities. It wants to see ‘a society in which every girl has the power to take advantage of every opportunity or create opportunities for herself and for others.'

Boxgirls targets girls and young women aged 8-23yrs. It promotes girls' leadership using boxing as a sport and a toolbox for changing girls and young women’s lives positivity and in a variety of ways. Although its constituency is composed of girls and young women, it also works with a few young boys and men aged 9-15 yrs. We work in schools based in the urban slums of Nairobi; in Kariobangi, Korogocho, Kibera, Mathare, Kayole, Huruma and in two rural areas of western Kenya. Today the programme involves more than 600 girls and young women who meet weekly to enhance their boxing skills and in safe spaces, and talk about many other things that impact them.