The following is a list of Impact Programs in: KENYA
Microloans:
The Self-Empowered Women of Korogocho (also known as KOCH) has thirteen women. All but two now have their loans. (The two who don’t just had babies, and the women will decide together when it is best for them to take on a loan for their business, so they are successful. In the meantime, the other women are helping these two women and are still keeping them as part of the group!)
The women and their businesses are:
Monicah – She bought baking equipment and supplies with her loan and is making and selling bun-cakes.
Jane – She bought large quantities of groundnuts and sells some raw in smaller sizes, and roasts some and sells them in cones.
Margaret – She bought a sewing machine with her loan, and is finding empty cement bags, cleaning them, sewing them into market/grocery bags, and selling them
Grace – She buys greens/ vegetables and resells them
Rispha – She buys shoes and resells them
Alice – She buys cosmetics and resells, and also does hair styling and has a beauty shop
Annah – She is a shopkeeper
Karimi – She buys and sells water
Schola – She creates tie and dye
Amina – She is buying and reselling charcoal
Teresida (Muemi) – She buys greens/vegetables and resells them
All of these women are also being trained by our field agent Rachel Njeri, working with local experts, to create products like beading bracelets and beading sandals, for sale in the Global Marketplace. They have already made and sold several hundreds of dollars worth of product, which is what provided the funds for them to buy school uniforms and enroll their children in school and begin living with less stress and more hope as they were waiting for their first microloans.
The Bank of HOPE Self Empowered Women has fourteen (14) women from the rural town of Rui.
Names and businesses to come….
These women have had many difficulties in coming together in trust as they come from different tribes. Before they could receive their loans, they had to go through several months of conflict resolution, team training and financial literacy through the help of Equity Bank and our HUB field representative, Rachel Njeri. They are all receiving their loans in April, and are working together as a family unit. They have however, already earned hundreds of dollars through the sale of Obama bracelets in our HUB Global Marketplace, and will continue to be trained to make other products for sale.
Food and Education:
Jubilee Children’s Center (run by Child of Destiny, Joe and Alyce Symmons) now has 175 children who were orphaned as a result of parents dying from Aids. Through HUB’s consistent and sustainable funding in 2008 that supported the food and education budget, Jubilee has been able to utilize additional funding from other sources to bring its high school and the girls and boys dormatories to near completion (as of April 2009), as well as complete its kitchen facilities, its childrens library and its computer center.
Olympic Primary School:
In the heart of the largest slum in Kenya, Kibera, the Olympic Primary School provides two meals a day to nearly 3000 students thanks to the sustained support of HUB through Feed The Children.
Feed the Children has converged with World Food Program and Humanity Unites Brilliance to expand current FTC feeding in the Kenya School System from 120,000 to 500,000 children
Future Projects:
Expansion of Microloan Groups – we have already identified two additional groups of women whom we would love to get started. Through our excellent relationship with Equity Bank (microloan lender) the cost per group of 15 women to start a microloan program is $1800 (this includes all aspects of financial literacy training, group dynamics, relationship conflict, and group management). After 6 months (to a year, depending on repayment) that money can be used to start more groups.
Nakuru – Tumaini Childrens Home, a Rural Orphanage – home to currently 110 children and a private school outreach program of an additional 110 children to integrate the orphans with community children, this is a 13 acre sustainable farm that has its own water business and buildings currently being constructed to school up to 800 children.
Blessing – a Nairobi Slum Orphanage – home to 62 children whose parents have died of Aids, this home and school is run by Pastor Regina (former Accountant in a private school) and Pastor George (former teacher in a private school) who have used their own money (from their rental properties throughout Nairobi) to fund this project.
Raincatchers – at Blessing Orphanage – this will allow the orphanage to save the money they spend buying water, and also provide a sustainable Income to the orphanage allowing them to sell the water to the local community; and at The Frances Jones Abandoned Baby Center, (ABC) – this will help reduce their electricity and operating costs greatly allowing for better allocation of funds to other areas of need.
Wells in Nakuru and the Massai Mara, and the funding of eco- sustainable projects on the Massai Mara through Tana Holbert of Kenya Water Wells Trust
Craft Store in Nairobi – There are two types of craft outlets – the very high end retail spaces, and the very low end street-markets. We have through the help of an import/export and fair trade commerce expert in Africa, identified a niche market that will allow us to sell craft product from not only our trained microloan groups, but others as well to help them sell their products locally, and continue to grow respectable and profitabitable businesses.
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