Economic empowerment to 100 refugee women

Year in year out, Tushirikiane (TUSA)- Community-based Organization continue to accompany its members in different areas including education, livelihood, social-pastoral support and income-generating activities. The focus has been put on the last one area, namely income-generating activities as this is believed to be key to sustainability and self-reliance of both the organisation and the members. Even the project "Raising refugees'living standards falls in this category. This is the kind of projects aimed at making members self-reliant in the long run and helping them be able to be self-sufficient financially. In this regard, Tushirikiane is putting in place a mechanism of making members help one another through the establishment of self-help groups. Four pilot self-help groups have been established and will be soon funded to start their businesses and more will be established. These groups are embarking on long-term income-generating activities like chicken rearing.

As far as this particular project is concerned, Tushirikiane has been able to raise 1815 USD on GlobalGiving Platform and 1324.54 USD has been disbursed so far. With this disbursed amount, Tushirikiane has been able to funds 6 projects with Ksh 145,000 (Ksh 130,000 from GlobalGiving Donations, plus Ksh 15,000 from a third party). However, in the course of the last 4 months, no new project has been funded and we are trying to see the best way to approach our former members so that they can also be part of the funding team.