Source: The Star
The Nairobi Women's Hospital held its sixth annual anti-gender violence campaign dinner at the Arboretum Gardens in Nairobi on Friday night. A campaign to sign up one million fathers to join the fathers' movement against gender-based violence was launched at the event. 

Chief guest First Lady Margaret Kenyatta said sexual violence had become the second highest reported crime and the horror of injury and mental trauma to its victims is far-reaching and hurting.

"Gender based violence is no longer a woman's issue but a societal problem that needs both men and women to rise and stand to condemn the vice from the churches to the bars," she said.

The founder of the Gender Violence Centre at the Nairobi Women's Hospital Dr Sam Thenya said since the centre's inception in 2001, it has attended to more than 25, 000 people, majority of them survivors of sexual violence.

Danish Ambassador to Kenya Geert Andersen, Health principal secretary Fred Sigor and Nairobi Women's Hospital chair Eva Muraya were among the dignitaries present at the gala.

First lady Margaret Kenyatta

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