The project aims at giving a chance to vulnerable girls and teen age mothers by offering them skills training opportunities in the areas of Cookery and Housekeeping, Clothing and Textiles, Hair and Beauty and Kitchen Gardening. This would enable them create self reliance for themselves and their families and lead to lives of dignity among themselves.
Homabay county, where Imbeke Trust is situated, has a national issue of having the highest number of girls aged between 14 to 19 years who are out of school and are either mothers, forced sex workers, experiencing forced child labour, undergoing gender violence or have effects of Hiv among other vices.Ref:2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census: Volume 1. and Adolescent Sexual And Reproductive Health in Homa Bay County by: AFIDEP.
1.By training the girls in vocational skills to enable them compete favorably in the job market. 2. By giving them a second chance in a school establishment to learn - chances they missed before. 3. Training them in self esteem and confidence and teaching them how to make informed choices 4. Training them in their rights as citizens and their health rights.
1. The project will contribute to the promotion of an enabling environment for young women to prosper. 2. It will increase the number of competent young women venturing into small-scale enterprises. 3. Sustain and improve the already existing women and youth enterprises. 4. Observable impact on the quality of household lives due to increased skills and therefore the income of the young women, health, nutrition and education of the children at household level improved. 5. Jobs created.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
