Members Workshop: Path from Poverty - Empowering Women

Did You Know?

Every day in rural Kenya, millions of people suffer from a lack of access to clean, safe water. For women and girls, who are primarily responsible for household chores, lack of water creates an extraordinary burden. Women spend hours walking for water, risking attacks from wild animals and men along the way. The water they collect is dirty and disease infested, often causing diarrhea, typhoid, and other illnesses. 

 

This need to walk for water prevents women from having enough time to work. Many girls who walk for water have to drop out of school. Waterborne illnesses in children and the elderly require frequent and costly medical treatment. As a result, families face insurmountable challenges to breaking the cycle of poverty.

 
Path From Poverty has created a sustainable empowerment model that gives women the opportunity and support to lift themselves out of poverty. Empowered women improve the lives of their own family members as well as others in their communities.
 
Equipping & Empowering Women
Alone, women survive; but in a group, they thrive. Path From Poverty women’s groups provide support, accountability, sharing of best practices, and fellowship. Path From Poverty’s women leaders in Kenya provide training in leadership development, group governance, implementation of income-generating projects, and microsavings.
Women’s Group projects in Kenya include:

• Business & leadership training 
• Clean, safe water, in the form of 10,000L rainwater catchment water tanks
• Solar power, including panels, charges, and utility pack 
• Education scholarships