“The older mzungu has fallen.”

The report came down the line on a Kenyan mountainside.

Darrin Crow, 55, a man young at heart but fully aware of his age, took a stumble.

“I wiped out going down a hill in the mountains,” Darrin, the “older mzungu,” said with a laugh.

Darrin is fond of this story as he relates it some time later back in Grand Junction. He’s a board member of She Has A Name, a Grand Junction-based nonprofit that changes the lives of young women in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya.

Women there are forced between two unimaginable realities: sell their bodies or face starvation. She Has A Name offers an alternative from this poverty-based prostitution for the select few they can support.

Sadly, they cannot help them all. Darrin said there are about 30,000 women facing this issue in just the one slum they work in, so the help they provide to the few is made worthwhile.

While Darrin did not found the organization himself, he has a unique connection. His daughter, Blythe, started She Has A Name about six years ago.

“Before she went to college, she became interested in the human trafficking issue,” Darrin said.

Blythe, now 23, was just 18 when the groundwork was being laid for the nonprofit. Now the program helps about nine girls at a time, providing them the means for a better life.

“She pays for their school, insurance, food, housing, and she pays people to watch out for them,” Darrin said.

When he visits Kenya, usually a few times a year, he’ll assist with case management and organizational necessities. Some of the real work, however, involves going to areas in these slums where prostitution is prevalent and trying to help girls when they’re most vulnerable.

“The last time she was ever paid as a prostitute was when my son paid her not to work that night,” Darrin said of one the first girls to join the program. “He gave her enough money that she would just sit and visit with him.”

According to the organization’s advocate packet, one year’s worth of support for one girl is $3,500.

“Most of the time, they don’t even know really what it is that we’re trying to offer them,” Darrin said. “But, the team knows and they know that this girl is going to win the lottery and her life is going to be different and she’s going to get out of the slums.”

She Has a Name is able to continue its mission because of generous monetary donations. They’re also looking for people to join them on trips to Africa to witness change first-hand.

Donations can be made on their website, www.shehasaname.info or by mailing a check to She Has A Name, 755 N. Fourth St., Grand Junction, CO 81501.