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Financial Literacy Training Report: Trinity Credit’s Training for Safe Spaces Organization’s Awesome Blossoms Project in Mathare
Introduction: Trinity Credit conducted a comprehensive financial literacy training program for the women participating in Safe Spaces Organization’s Awesome Blossoms Project. The training aimed to empower marginalized women from the Mathare community with essential financial skills and knowledge. The training was held over...
Information courtesy of Safe Spaces Organization, including Allan C'oredo, Awesome Blossoms Project Manager
Safe Spaces Organization, a community-based organization in Mathare, has undertaken a pioneering project with FAWCO called “Awesome Blossoms” to address food security and empower marginalized girls and women. Through the implementation of hydroponic food systems in urban areas, the organization aims to enhance nutrition uptake, entrepreneurship...
by Allan C'oredo, Awesome Blossoms Project Manager
Co-writer: Leslie Janoe, AWC Amsterdam
Background
Mathare, an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, with a population of over 500,000 residents, faces environmental and nutritional challenges due to its lack of basic amenities, including poor air and water quality, inadequate access to green spaces, and a lack of sustainable agriculture. To address these...
By Anne van Oorschot, AWC The Hague
Water: Changing the Flow – Tabitha: Wells for Clean Water
FAWCO’s Target Program was created as an opportunity to increase awareness about an important global issue and to fundraise together in support of a project. Let me start with a bit of background information on the first Target Program for those of you who...
Target Project 2023–2025
Target Project 5: Awesome Blossoms
Organization: Safe Spaces
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
The Project
Awesome Blossoms is the latest evolution of a community-based organization, Safe Spaces, created by Mrs. Peninah Nthenya Musyimi. This project features organic, water-efficient urban farms with 500 gardens in each farm to support girls’ education and empowerment programs and...
The three shortlisted projects are:
The shortlisted projects are (in alphabetical order):
- Awesome Blossoms: Edible Fresh Fields for Sustainable Life in the Slums, a project of Safe Spaces Organization, submitted by Leslie Janoe, AWC Amsterdam;
Link to the summary in PDF
- Love for the Sea: Empowering Indigenous Women through Coral Restoration, a project of the Caribbean Coral Restoration Center,
