Our aim is to empower 35 vulnerable HIV women living in Kiambiu slum, Nairobi. These women do odd jobs in order to sustain themselves that pay pennies. In order to improve their living standards and that of their families. We came up with a Petroleum Jelly project. Where the women make it from scratch and sell at an affordable price. However, there is need to scale up in order to have a greater impact to the women. With your help you can surely achieve this objective.
Kenya has highest unemployment rate in East Africa, 45% of the population live below the poverty line and HIV is rampant. Without access to financial services it is difficult for many poor and low income households to set up a business, save for the education of their children or insure against medical costs. This makes it difficult to break out of the viscous circle of poverty.
Our project is to work with 80 women in Kenya poor suburb to start and run their businesses with micro loans of 5$ to 3000$. We find it important to target vulnerable women and HIV positive to give them a chance to become independent. We also empower them by an individual follow up and business management training. For now our NGO is 100% run by volunteers. Any donation will help us a lot to run our annual activities and raise capital to launch our members project.
Running his own small business is the heart of the African culture, so micro-finance is one of the best tool we have at our scale to promote local and sustainable economy. Giving a chance to a woman is a breakthrough to her family's basic needs, her children's good education and a break out of the viscous circle of poverty.
This project has provided additional documentation in a XLSX file (projdoc.xlsx).
