Empowering Communities Abroad

With the Homabay women for whom we wrote the Women's Empowerment project

I serve on the board of an international non-governmental organization (NGO) called the Center for Partnership and Civic Engagement. CEPACET is headquartered in Nairobi. It is currently working on projects in many different regions across Kenya, but hopes to expand to other countries as well.

Together we secured a grant for 20,000 Euros to help the women of Homabay, Kenya, become self-sufficient farmer. These women are mostly widows and as a result are cast out from their communities. They have come together to support each other and create a new community of their own.

The grant purchased oxen, plows, shovels, seeds, etc. They told me the grant changed their lives. A good feeling.