KENYA ($5,300)
Improvement of Existing Income-Generating Program
Project Coordinator: Mrs. Milkah Nyaligu

Fifteen women from Chavakali Village Meeting will participate in this one-year project. The focus of the group is feeding, counseling, medical and spiritual services to elderly and orphans. They have established a rehabilitation center at the yearly meeting compound to address these concerns. The group leader is a retired banker who is now a farmer and manages the above center on a voluntary basis. Mr. Enonda is also a founding member of the group.

A local consultant in bee-keeping will train group members and supply them with hives. Honey can be harvested every three months with a yield of $30 per hive. Twenty hives will be purchased for three women with a total loan of $1,150 for bee-keeping. The group also intends to buy three cows valued at $515 each. The cows will be given to two women with one woman having one cow and the other having two cows. Two women will receive $75 each for a pottery project. The remaining eight women will receive loans totaling $1,535 for various small businesses. Anticipated economics are:

 

ACTIVITY	INCOME	LOAN REPAYMENT	NET INCOME
Bees	$130 quarterly	$45 quarterly	$85 quarterly
Dairy	$40 per month	$22 per month	$18 per month
Pottery	$25 per month	$8 per month	$17 per month

 

From Africa Quaker Vision's site visit report, “The project is a different model whereby the group pulls resources together and invests in income-generating projects. The proceeds will partly be used toward the elderly people program while, at the same time, benefit individual members. The group constitutes 15 energetic and dedicated women. So far we have never dealt with a project having a physical office. But for this group, because of their noble services to the community, the church decided to give them an office within the Yearly Meeting compound. The project is well defined with activities known to the community. A well polished leadership includes a project coordinator with wide experience in financial management and proposal writing. They have bank account and well maintained, audited reports with $310 as a balance at the bank. Its successful implementation will definitely have a positive spiral effect to the targeted group within the community.”

 

Project Completed: June 30, 2009