{"id":1543,"date":"2026-06-23T08:36:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:36:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:36:48","slug":"11-26-sexworksupport-kenya-nkoko-iju-africa-pushing-against-stigma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=1543","title":{"rendered":"#11-26 SexWorkSupport-Kenya\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Nkoko Iju Africa pushing against stigma\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marilyne Lainie is a founder and now executive director of Nkoko Iju Africa. She talks about the history, mission, successes, difficulties and alliances related to providing support &#8211; and&nbsp;potential exits &#8211; for young women who have turned to the sex&nbsp;industry for survival.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Includes discussion of the nonprofit app Tiko.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Primary interview by Diana Wanyonyi. Additional clips from&nbsp;the&nbsp;Nkoko Iju Africa Empower Her project documentary&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MeL5W-ghZ8c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MeL5W-ghZ8c<\/a>. WINGS series editor, Frieda Werden.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marilyne Lainie is a founder and now executive director of Nkoko Iju Africa. She talks about the history, mission, successes,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,475,3,441,221,392,260,301,445,207,395],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-internet","category-latest","category-networking","category-organizing","category-poverty","category-sex-work","category-stigma","category-training","category-work","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions\/1545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}