Adopt to Empower: Transforming Kenyan Communities

Thanks to your support, our newest Community Health & Empowerment Clubs (CHECs) have finished financial literacy and are lining up their first income projects. Here’s where things stand:

• Maugo – Community rice cultivation to begin soon. Table-banking groups have saved Ksh 40,000, targeting Ksh 60,000 to support small input loans.

• Nyamokenye – Preparing to construct an apiary and start a beekeeping/honey venture. 15 members selected for training; 2 apiary sites identified. Table-banking capital at Ksh 82,550.

• Kimuka – Infrastructure underway: watersheds complete and water pumped to tanks; toilets finished; new east–west coop under construction sized for 500 chicks; storage room renovation ongoing.

• Soklo (Mfangano Island) – Diversified crops to begin soon (groundnuts, kale, maize). Teams have set roles for bed prep, planting, and shared maintenance.

Across the wider network, table banking is powering real momentum:

• Nyamecheo sold Ksh 4,000 in vegetables/seedlings and leased an extra plot (2-year lease Ksh 8,000).

• Nyamagesa harvested 79 tins of beans from maize intercropping (planted with Ksh 12,000).

• Kanyamfwa (Cereal A) completed a second share-out: Ksh 178,970 in savings and Ksh 63,225 in interest; cereal profits of Ksh 55,200 being reinvested.

Every shilling saved and every beam raised is another step from learning to livelihood. Thank you for fueling community-led progress.

Just a few months ago, we shared our dream of bringing our proven Community Health and Empowerment Club (CHEC) model to a new village in western Kenya. Thanks to you—our GlobalGiving community—that vision is getting closer to reality.

Since our last update, we’ve been hard at work behind the scenes and on the ground:

Community selection is underway. Our field team has been evaluating potential partner villages based on need, readiness, and leadership potential. We expect to finalize the location for our next CHEC site by early fall.

CHEC momentum continues to grow. Our current CHEC villages are thriving—and they’re inspiring others. In Soklo Village, CHEC members recently held a community planning session to brainstorm their next group project. Ideas included goat keeping, poultry, groundnut farming, and beekeeping. Each group was tasked with creating a short executive summary, and they’ll soon come together to choose the most promising idea. This type of collaborative planning is a key part of our model—and a testament to the leadership and vision being cultivated at the village level.

New CHEC facilitators are being trained. We’re building capacity not only in our target communities, but within our organization. Three new local facilitators—each of them women—have joined the team and are currently being trained in health promotion, financial literacy, and participatory leadership. They’ll play a central role in leading our next village CHEC.

While we still have work to do to meet our full fundraising goal, your support is laying the groundwork for real, lasting transformation. Every gift brings us closer to launching health trainings, growing kitchen gardens, creating jobs, and forming strong leadership committees in a new village.

We believe deeply in this work—and we’re grateful that you do too.

Please enjoy the new photos we’ve shared, giving a glimpse of what your generosity is making possible. And thank you for standing with us as we continue to build health, hope, and resilience—one village at a time.