Kenya West Pokot
$37,201 needed of $80,000
Implementing Organization
Covenant World Relief & Development
Program Summary
This program seeks to empower 600 vulnerable women, to improve their holistic wellbeing (spiritual, emotional, intellectual, social, economic, and environmental wellbeing) and consequentially improve the wellbeing of their respective families and communities and their resilience to the impacts of climate change.
This is done by identifying vulnerable women in the community, recruiting them into the program, training and supporting them to engage in sustainable livelihood activities such as tailoring, hairdressing, organic farming, tree planting, beekeeping, self-help group savings and credit management activities, as well as in cluster level associations that bring together self-help groups to address social and environmental needs of the community beyond the group members. The women are also encouraged to engage in activities that support their spiritual and mental wellbeing.
Flomena's Story - Kenya West Pokot
Success Stories
Self-Help Group Helps Themselves and Their Community
The Jitokeze Center empowers girls and women by providing vocational training and agricultural skills. When vulnerable young women come to the center to learn tailoring or hairdressing, they are also provided with a kitchen garden plot that gives them hands-on training and helps them meet their food needs while staying on campus.
The main goal of the program is to help women become financially independent by starting their own small businesses, while using the farming knowledge they gain as a way to supplement their income and feed their families. The program also utilizes Self-Help Groups to build community resilience and provide peer support and economic opportunities for both students and women in the surrounding communities.
One such group is the Ngoleyo Women’s Group, which consists of 19 women and one man. The group has started a nursery where they grow and sell vegetables, fruit and trees. They are now growing 300 species of trees and they have plans to grow 50 varieties of fruit on each farm.
The group leader, Jennifer, has successfully put her training into practice at her own home as well and has a beautiful kitchen garden, which enables her to provide for her family’s nutritional needs.
One of the main challenges the local community faces is access to water. The Ngoleyo Women’s Group decided to help not only themselves, but their entire community by donating a water tank to the local school, making it possible for the next generation to continue learning.
Kenya West Pokot is implemented by Covenant World Relief and Development and local partner Jitokeze Wamama Wafrika