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Kawangware Vision Center (KVC)
Kawangware Slum, Nairobi, Kenya

GO Campaign's partner Kawangware Vision Center (KVC) works in the Kawangware slum and provides young children with their basic needs and empowers marginalized older-youth through economic activities. GO's previous grant to KVC empowered youth with the training and resources to build their own eco-friendly facility to meet the demand for their bustling recycled-paper product micro-business. Our goal is for KVC to become self-sustaining and provide services to more children with the profit.

With your support, GO's next grant will enable KVC to:
  • Purchase the equipment needed to more efficiently make the recycled-paper products and provide employment opportunities to more youth.
  • Provide entrepreneurship training for youth and seed funding for some of the youth's micro-businesses.
  • Build a day care center for the younger children which will also serve as a training center for older youth.
Together, we can help youth living in the Kawangware slum break the cycle of poverty and contribute to improving their community.

2 Ways to Give!


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Fundraising goal: $34,298

Your donations can provide the following:

$1,000 Mandatory landscaping
$2,770 Start-up infrastructure costs (furniture and equipment)
$3,330 Entrepreneurship skills training course for 50+ youth
$9,000 Building a day care center



FEATURED BIOS


My name is Millicent, I'm 21 years old and I have a 3.5 year old. I was bruised and I was having a lot of problems with my child but KVC solved all my problems and now my child is starting his education. It is hard being a single mom but I can encounter any problems and now I can budget thanks to KVC. I have food on my child's table.






My name is Everlyne and I struggle to care for my mother's needs and our family because I am the first born of two. I thank KVC for giving me work at least now I can support my family a little bit so that they can go to school like other children in society and am grateful to all people who are involved with this project.






WHY KENYA


Kawangware is a squatter settlement (aka a slum) and a bleak place to live and breathe on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. There are an estimated 300,000+ people living in the slum and diseases like HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria are very common due to the poor sanitation situation and overcrowding. Most residents live on less than $1 a day and the staggering unemployment rate results in rampant crime. There is nothing for the young ones to do -- schools are scarce, there are no soccer fields, no playgrounds, no safe place for children to play. And, there is a dangerous lack of opportunity for youth who can't afford the minimal school fees. But, KVC is working to improve Kawangware by giving economic opportunities to older youth and supporting children develop and mature to become contributing adults.