I am not sure whether the author( Okech) means that GROOTS Kenya should engage OR conform OR both to the ‘mainstream’ because by the mere fact that GROOTS Kenya has dedicated its work and energy to enhance the empowerment of grassroots women suggests that the organization challenges most feminist and development ideological foundations of most ‘mainstream’ women’s’ rights organizations (international, regionally and national), who more often do not respect the knowledge or power that grassroots women( and their communities) possess OR provide meaningful platforms for grassroots women to voice their priorities and demand. Thus it would seem strange to me why the author (Okech) would assert the need for the organization or its constituency to engage and/or conform to the ‘mainstream’. In my opinion the author misses the point that women’s movements do not necessary share the same ideologies and can never (just as women are not) be homogeneous thus the phrase the ‘engagement with the mainstream’ does not represent the diversity that is feminist movements.