Quick information guide

Kenya Government’s leads by example in Gender Equality and Women Empowerment. It has established a Women Enterprise Fund

Aim:

to provide accessible and affordable credit to support women start and/or expand business for wealth and employment creation.

Loans provided by the Fund:

  • Constituency women enterprise scheme
  • LPO Financing
  • Bill bond Financing; and
  • Sacco lending

Other services:

  • Capacity building
  • Market support; and
  • Linkages

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Contacts.

Ministry of Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs.

Directorate of Youth Affairs.
 P.O. Box 34303-00100.
Nairobi-Kenya.
Harambee House,
Harambee Avenue

Empowernment Programmes for Women In Kenya

In Kenya, the population of people living below the poverty line has declined from 46.8% in 2005/06 to 36.1% in 2015/16, according to the 17th edition of the Kenya Economic Update.

Women in the Kenyan contribute significantly to the economy of the country both directly or indirectly and therefore stirring up the economy out of such a high poverty index would need measures put in place for economic empowerment of Kenyan women.

The government of Kenya has established funds and policies such as the 30% procurement allocation for all government tenders so that more women may have an entry chance in such a competitive space. Private Sector Organisations have also set up programmes to empower women.

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SHOFCO

SHOFCO provides critical services for all, community advocacy platforms, and education and leadership development for women and girls.

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Picture life without access to healthcare, affordable clean water, the platform to your voices rights, or the ability to provide for your children.

SHOFCO works to address these key issues by providing critical services, operating community advocacy platforms, and building female leadership to create lasting change.

List of Programmes

 

WASH

Clean water is essential to survival, but so many communities suffer from contaminated water that leads to sickness or is unable to afford clean water at all. We provide very low-cost water to the Kibera community (find out why in our FAQs section) as well as water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) education facilitated by community health workers. Through a multi-faceted approach, we not only provide accessible, affordable clean water and sanitary pit latrines, but we can keep communities healthy through hygiene education.

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Healthcare

Healthcare is key to SHOFCO’s holistic approach to help build empowered, healthy generations. We know that through reliable medical treatment, infants have a higher chance of normal neurocognitive development; children experience increased years of schooling; and adults decrease missed wages due to illness.

Our services include: primary health and preventative care, pre and postpartum care, child immunizations, comprehensive HIV care, family planning, cervical cancer screening, gender-based violence response, and a child nutrition program.

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Essential Services

SHOFCO is dedicated to providing slum communities with the tools to create bright futures for themselves. Our community programs provide resources to further economic opportunity and advance human rights, creating space for individuals to pave personal paths out of poverty. We empower the community through valuable public resources including gender-based violence safe houses, Early Childhood Development (ECD) Education centers, the SUN Magazine, adult literacy courses and community centers which serve as meeting places and house libraries and computer labs. A total of 78,667 individuals utilized these services in 2019.

 

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Sustainable Livelihood Programs

SUN (SHOFCO Urban Network) brings together individuals and households through social groups run independently using our services and organizes them to actively seek tangible change in their community and society at large. SUN seeks to build a strong urban network with the vision of giving the urban poor the voice.

 

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Girls Leadership and Education

Through our two leadership academies for girls, we are creating female leaders who have experienced slum-life and marginalization first-hand. They will become advocates for their communities and ultimately change the status-quo. Educating a girl in urban slums means she will earn more and invest 90% of earnings in her family, be three times less likely to contract HIV, and have fewer, healthier children who are more likely to reach adulthood.2

At our tuition-free leadership academies, located in Kibera and Mathare in Nairobi, 547 students are receiving a free high-quality education from pre-kindergarten through the 8th grade. Every student receives healthcare, meals, uniforms and school supplies so that they can stay focused on what matters most: their futures. Another 42 students are receiving free high-quality secondary education in top boarding schools in Kenya and the United States.

 

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Contacts

Kibera Drive
Gatwekera Village, Kibera

P. O. Box 8303 – 00200,Nairobi
 

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