Citizen Participation Intervention-Soap Making By Kibera Widows
10.01.2022 to 10.12.2022
Local partner: National Empowerment Network of people living with HIV in Kenya (NEPHAK)
Challenge: Kibera is an informal settlement in Nairobi. As all slums, it is plagued by poverty, unemployment, and a myriad of other issues. Women, and especially widows, are disproportionately affected by these adverse conditions.
Solution: This project is a natural progression of the capacity building project. After educating widows on business management, this project implements a business initiative decided on by the widows themselves. By helping them start a business, we are changing the narrative of widows as aid beneficiaries, to active agents of change, in control of their livelihood.
Long term impact: By empowering selected widows, we are creating a long term solution to grinding poverty widows and their families face. In educating them on business, and then helping them in establishing a sound business practice, we are making sure widows are self-reliant and will be able to improve quality of life for them and their families, far beyond our involvement.
Funding DKK 363.549 by CISU
Capacity building for economic empowerment of widows
in Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya
15.07.2020 to 14.03.2021
Local partner: National Empowerment Network of people living with HIV in Kenya (NEPHAK)
Challenge: Residents of informal settlements are disadvantaged by limited access to education, high levels of unemployment, inadequate nutrition, etc. In addition, because of gender inequality women suffer disproportionately more.
Solution: The aim of this project was to empower a selected group of widows through capacity building in order to enable them to develop small scale businesses creating income for families and contributing to community development. Furthermore, widows were educated on different rights and options provided for them by governmental bodies.
Long term impact: Having a core group of widows trained in business creation and with knowledge about resources and rights available to them, means that the entire community prospers over the long term. Widows will cascade their knowledge to other community members thus ensuring exponential growth and development in the slum.
Funding DKK 94.647 by CISU
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Sustainable community
December 2020
Sustainable community can give people employment opportunities year round. Thanks to Sakami coffee farm, WAY widows were able to meet their families’ needs. The farmer needs an investor to help build a coffee lab and roasting factory. Sadly the community job opportunities are lost when the coffee is taken to another city for roasting, processing and packaging. The community would benefit more from this industrialization, especially vulnerable groups like widows, if this is achieved. WAY Empowerment NGO will continue to support the farm by raising awareness of its needs as we advocate for our widows.