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Economic Empowerment

Business skills, crafts and micro-enterprise so families can earn a living and support themselves.

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What we do

From skills to income

We help families move out of poverty through grassroots economic empowerment: practical skills, income-generating enterprises and access to micro-credit.

Past trainings have covered business and farming skills, embroidery, beekeeping and crafts, alongside accounting and management for cooperatives and SACCOs.

  • Business and financial skills
  • Crafts, beekeeping and farming enterprises
  • Support for self-help groups and savings groups

Our track record

2007
Business & farming skills, embroidery and beekeeping for self-help groups
2009
Accounting and management skills for 250 cooperative and SACCO managers
Focus
Women, youth and self-help groups
Approach
Skills + micro-enterprise + access to credit

Fundraiser

Start-up support for self-help groups

Help women and youth self-help groups start small businesses with training and starter kits.

$[raised] raised of $[goal] goal · [deadline]

$[50] · business training for one person$[150] · a starter kit for one micro-enterprise$[600] · support for a whole self-help group

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