Projects

Our Projects

The business set ups are the most important thing that Mama Biashara does. They effect not just empowermrnt, but generational change in matters like FGM, early marriage and gender based violence, once the women are in charge.

 

However there are other issues to be addressed, health and community education being foremost amongst them. We are not overly equipped for either, but we do what we can …

Microfinance

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Since 2008 Mama Biashara has been setting the poorest and most marginalised of women up in small, sustainable businesses across Kenya. This means a woman who has been forced into commercial sex work can leave the streets and make a new, independent life with her children, a woman who is being beaten...

Community Education

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Alongside poverty, one of the biggest killers in Kenya is ignorance. We help with information on health (everything from the dangers of cooking without ventilation to our campaign on cholera prevention), nutrition, legal and constitutional rights and our Red Zone dolls...