As a response to the ongoing pandemic, ALARM Kenya undertook a COVID-19 Recovery Project which ran from November 2020 and will end in April 2021. 60 women involved in small-scale businesses benefited from this project; 45 of them received a business capital injection boost which allowed them to revive their businesses to a sustainable level. The rest […]

During the COVID-19 lockdown, the ALARM Kenya staff was able to provide food for 74 of the vulnerable beneficiaries who are part of the Breaking Barriers for Young Single Mothers (BBYSM) group in the Kibera slum. COVID-19 has had an enormous impact on the individuals living within the slums because most of the residents are involved in small businesses that were disrupted by the lockdown.

The Promoting Sustainable Livelihoods for Women in Ganze project is continuing to promote sustainable livelihood for women in Kilifi county. This project not only trains the participants in animal husbandry, but it is also a project that operates as a pay-it-forward activity. After a woman is given 2 does and a buck, she is required to take the first kids from each

ALARM Kenya seeks to transform communities through the Poverty Reduction project in Malindi. This project started in February 2021 and exists as a partnership between ALARM and Excellence in Giving. The key objectives of this project are to provide psycho-social support through trauma healing for 50 widows and women living with physical disabilities and to equip

As a response to the economic hardship that COVID-19 has brought, ALARM in partnership with the Kenya Community Development Foundation (KCDF) has reached out to vulnerable women in Kilifi County to create alternative income-generating activities that will improve food security and strengthen agri-business. The aim of the Promoting Sustainable Livelihood for Women in Kilifi County

Despite the background in leadership training that some of the Maasai women have, there is a gap in culture and levels of education that hinders Maasai women from being confident leaders in ministry. The women of the Maasai community have expressed a need for knowledge and training in leadership and Christian ministry. In response to

Mathare is one of the oldest slums in Nairobi County and has more than 700,000 residents. Like any other informal settlement, the Mathare community battles with the challenges of congestion, obtaining the necessities of life, and facing crime, lawlessness, disease, and harassment. Vicious cycles of trauma and poverty continue to plague Mathare. ALARM has carried

ALARM Kenya, in partnership with Kenya Community Development Fund (KCDF), is working alongside vulnerable women by empowering them through capacity building in animal husbandry skills, kitchen gardening, group management training, and trauma awareness. These women are trained and then gifted 3 goats to use for income generation and wealth creation. The goal of this 1-year

ALARM Kenya, in partnership with Excellence in Giving, empowered 53 women in 2021 through the provision of dual-purpose goats and training in animal husbandry skills. These goats are valuable because they produce milk that offsets malnutrition, they reproduce which multiplies their impact, and they can be sold for income generation. These 53 women received 142

ALARM Kenya, in partnership with Rise Up Woman International, has implemented the Building Resilience Among Widow and Single Mothers Project in Mathare, Kenya. This project started in September and aims to reduce the vulnerability of 50 women who have been impacted by COVID-19 and violence. In January, 14 of these women participated in an Income