The project will provide 100 marginalized and poor women with practical and marketable skills training in Kenya, so that they can participate in the social and economic development of the community and bring about the change that is desperately needed to fight the prevailing extreme poverty.
Women and girls with disabilities are subjected to multiple layers of discrimination. Based on their gender and disability status they often face "double discrimination."Unemployment rates are highest among women with disabilities.The UN estimates that 75 percent of women with disabilities are unemployed and are living in extreme poverty-which have a negative impact on their livelihood, that of their families and community. There are 5,000 marginalized and disabled poor women living in Embu.
The Project ensures young women with disabilities in Embu county receive practical livelihood skills in hair dressing, cereals and grocery and baking . All of these have a ready market in the communities and nearby townships and can directly affect income production. Although the direct beneficiaries will be the young marginalized and disabled poor women, the ripple effect will include their own children-for those that are teenage mothers, their families and the community as a whole.
The project will provide livelihood-based training and capacity building to 100 marginalized and poor women in Embu Kenya to help these women to build marketable skills to create enhanced and alternative possibilities for income generation to increase their financial abilities to enable them to purchase good and nutritious food for their families, educate their children, afford better healthcare, clothing and shelter for their children and Reduce poverty and attain improved standards of living.
