This Project will provide 6000 women living under extreme poverty with funds to start micro and small scale social enterprises; provide school uniforms to 2,000 orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs), supply sanitary towels to 3,000 teenage girl-children; provide meals to OVCs who normally do without breakfast and lunch; provide fertilizers and seeds to those whose farms were washed away by floods; rehabilitate houses damaged by floods. These activities will improve education of OVCs.
Of the eight Sub-Counties of Homa Bay County, Ndhiwa has the highest number of school dropouts at both the primary and high school levels. It also has the highest number of orphans caused by HIV/AIDS. The poor educational levels coupled with lack of industries has made life of most constituents very miserable, especially to orphans and vulnerable children. The girl-child is the most affected leading to teenage pregnancies and child marriages. The orphans usually do without breakfast and lunch.
The Project economically empowers 6000 women households' heads by training them on business startups and management of small scale businesses. This improves their incomes thus lifting them out of extreme poverty. They will be able to provide nutritious foodstuffs and therefore become food secure. Also by supporting educational requirements of these needy children, there will be improvements in school enrollment and completion rate at both primary and high school levels.
Involving 6000 women households' heads in business activities will provide them with improved sustainable regular incomes. They will then be able to provide their children with education required for industry-focused skills training. The zero-rate school dropout will enable many orphans and vulnerable children to secure gainful employment thus reducing unemployment now devastating many families in the Project area. The net result will be remarkable economic development of the community.
