• Goal: $0.25M (Covering expanded data collection, integrated advocacy, community healing services, environmental restoration, and core institutional strengthening.)

• Critical Outcomes:

  • Generate robust, scientifically grounded health and environmental data from six oil-affected communities (480 women) to expose the long-term impacts of crude oil extraction

  • Strengthen the national and international advocacy campaign demanding environmental cleanup, compensation, and justice before oil companies divest.

  • Provide direct health support for women suffering from pollution-related illness.

  • Advance mangrove restoration and climate adaptation solutions led by frontline women.

  • Secure institutional resilience for Kebetkache: governance, MEL systems, digital presence, and independent office infrastructure.

• Aligned: Kebetkache is a rooted, woman-led movement grounded in community, place, and the intergenerational wisdom of the Niger Delta.

• The organization embodies protective, relational, justice-driven leadership — fully aligned with GrandMothering principles.

• Kebetkache is ready for catalytic investment to anchor a national and international movement defending the rights, bodies, and lands of oil-affected women.

• Ms. Emem Okon is a leading voice in environmental feminism and community-based resistance to ecological harm in the Niger Delta.
  Under her leadership, Kebetkache has grown into a sanctuary of solidarity, organizing thousands of women to confront oil companies, demand environmental cleanup, and assert their right to health and livelihood.

• Her groundbreaking 2024 study on women’s health in Otuabagi — revealing dangerous levels of PAHs in women’s blood and widespread soil and water contamination — created a national wake-up call and opened pathways for legal and policy intervention.

• Emem stewards Kebetkache as a KinHub of justice, healing, and collective action, merging scientific evidence, women’s lived experience, and local ecological wisdom.

• Kebetkache works to ensure that women in oil-producing communities live in dignity, safety, and environmental health, and that multinational companies are held fully accountable for decades of abuse. Their approach integrates:

1. Women’s Environmental Justice Leadership

2. Scientific Research on Health & Pollution

3. Community Mobilization and Legal Empowerment

4. Climate and Biodiversity Restoration

5. Holistic Support for Affected Women

• Kebetkache operates as a relational ecosystem of protection — centering women’s bodies, voices, and agency in the struggle for environmental and social repair.

• Evidence-Based Research for Justice

• National & International Advocacy

• Mangrove Restoration & Climate Resilience

• Healing & Holistic Support for Women

• Institutional Strengthening

• Nigeria is at a decisive moment.

• Shell’s attempted 2024 divestment from SPDC — without cleanup or compensation — threatened to leave communities without recourse.
  A wave of protests led by Kebetkache and partners successfully pushed the Nigerian government to reject the divestment deal.

• Right now, Shell is still clearly the legal owner of SPDC — and fully liable for decades of harm.

• This creates a narrow and powerful opportunity to:

  • Gather comprehensive multi-community evidence

  • Launch coordinated national/international pressure

  • Enable litigation

  • Demand immediate cleanup and health redress

• Key Funding Components

  • Data collection for 480 women in six communities

  • Health interventions and referrals

  • Advocacy and communications campaign

  • International coalition building

  • Climate and mangrove restoration

  • Institutional strengthening for Kebetkache

Women who speak out against oil companies face:

• Political intimidation

• Social ostracism

• Gender-based threats

• Suppression of community organizing

• Deep patriarchal resistance

Environmental contamination also erodes:

• Food systems

• Women’s livelihoods

• Health and reproductive wellbeing

• Community cohesion

Kebetkache meets these risks with:

• Collective women’s mobilization

• International solidarity networks

• Evidence-centered advocacy

• Visibility that protects frontline defenders

As women say in the Delta:
“If we do not speak, we perish with our land.”

• Kebetkache embodies the GrandMothering principles of:

  • Protection of life

  • Intergenerational stewardship

  • Truth-telling

  • Communal care

  • Rootedness in place

  • Feminist leadership as ecological leadership

  Their work reminds us that environmental justice is body justice — and that the healing of the Niger Delta begins with listening to the women who carry its pain in their blood.