The Olive oil ’ program is an initiative geared towards identifying and supporting young women’s economic empowerment through the creation of income-generating activities using their skills, talents, and innovations. The project will focus on vulnerable young women living in high-growth rural informal settlements in Kenya. The aim of the project goals is:-
Targeting the most vulnerable, increasing basic resources and services, and supporting communities affected. Empowering young women to economic growth and development. – Promoting sustained economic growth, higher level of productivity and innovations. Encouraging entrepreneurship and job creation.
Expected Outcomes
- To Empower vulnerable young women, and create opportunities that will enable them to use their skills, talent, and innovations as activities that can generate income.
- Reduce poverty rate
- Engage more young women and reduce idleness, prostitution, crime, drug abuse, and prevalence of HIV/Aids.
- Increase the percentage of young women in social-economical activities within the community.
- Promote employment and small businesses that will bring benefits to young women and the local community through development and infrastructure.
- Promote and upgrade the living standard and better livelihood.
- Increased awareness, skills, and knowledge management of these girls/women.
- To assess national legislative and policy frameworks for vulnerable women’s social and economic rights protection, to design and implement tools to promote policy change in safeguarding their rights.
