With growth in population, urbanization and mass rural-urban migration, resources are generally scarce. This has resulted to high unemployment rates and increased competition especially among youth and women. To intervene, we identify, select, train and link youth and women to growth opportunities. The LIST project engages youth and women through business support services such as hackathons, incubation and accelerations, financial access and linkages. The program focuses on renewable energy (briquettes, cook stoves biogas and solar lamps), waste management, food security (double digging kitchen gardening, cassava, sunflower, moringa, rozelle, sweet potato and banana value chains), WASH and nutrition, creative economy (handmade crafts and content creation), ecotourism, fashion (designed tailoring) and building technologies (welding, and making interlocks).
The organization was established in 2011 in Homa Bay County as an empowerment program themed “Supporting Primary Education among Kenyans- SPEAK” by five widows who were victims and survivors of gender based violence, teenage pregnancy and HIV.
The organization was established in 2011 as an empowerment program themed “Supporting Primary Education among Kenyans- SPEAK” by five widows who were victims and survivors of gender based violence, teenage pregnancy and HIV