Economic empowerment to 100 refugee women

Tushirikiane )YUSA)- Community-based Organization is still going on with its activities of helping refugees from the Great Lakes region (Burundi, DR Congo and Rwanda living in Nairobi) settle in the host community and cope with life, through its main activities of education, socio-pastoral and peacebuilding activities and income-generating activities. It was in the context of income-generating activities which aim at helping refugees become self-reliant that the  project "Raising Refugees' Living Standards" was developed and launched in collaboration with GlobalGiving which helped raise the funds. 

Under the project ,Tushirikiane has managed to fund three projects as mentioned in previous reports and the three projects are still running, despite the setbacks due to Covid-19 but they have all survived the pandemic.

As a reminder, the three funded projects are involved in the following businesses: bakery, tailoring and selling clothes. These were funded with a total of USD1,034 (Ksh 115,000) out of USD 1324.54 disbursed. Tushirikiane is still keeping USD 290 (Ksh 32.280). This enough for funding another project but we are still waiting for the environment to be safe enough to fund it.

Our project is still receiving donations and those received so far amount now to USD 1,741. It is also worth noting that this is a long-term project which will keep on being funded as funds are available. Income-generating activity projects are also being encouraged because they are the ones which help people become autonomous and self-reliant. Tushirikiane is also encouraging its members to focus on this kind of projects which help them not depend on donors for the satisfaction of their basic needs.

We, once again, thank each and everyone who has contributed to this project and call upon many other wellwishers to support this project by donating through GlobalGiving.

For more information about Tushirikiane and what it does, please visit our website of which the link is given below.

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• Tushirikiane Website for more info about us

After some months without carrying some of its activities (in particular activities related to education and income-generating activities) due to Covid-19 pandemic, Tushirikiane is now starting to implement some of the suspended activities. Schools have resumed and children are benefitting from assistance and Tushirikiane is again trying to see how to resume income-generating activities on a larger scale.

As previously reported, Tushirikiane had managed to get 3 projects started and these are still going on, though sometimes facing the impact of Covid-19. However, all the three projects, like many other financed under other programmes, have managed to go on with their businesses. Just as a reminder, out of $ 1324 disbursed, Tushirikiane had spent Ksh 115,000 ( equivalent to about $ 1066) o those 3 projects before funding was suspended following the outbreak of Covid-19.

Tushirikiane is now in the process of helping members establish Self-help Groups and is considering another project to finance under this initiative with the remaining amount of about around Ksh 30,000.

In particular, the project of making doughnuts is doing well and is expanding and some pictures are attached in this report.

Links:

• Tushirikiane Website for more info about Tushirikiane