Green Ventures
Green Ventures is a social enterprise supported by Homeless of Kisumu that provides training and employment to street-connected and vulnerable youth and women from the informal settlements. The project seeks to provide an opportunity to the vulnerable youth and women to secure skills and employment and empower them to a future away from drugs, crime, violence, and the streets.
Our Aim
Youth & Women Economic Empowerment
Green Ventures aims to recycle and reuse waste materials and create innovative concepts that are aimed at environmental sustainability. The goal is to create employment for vulnerable youth through social enterprise while working to conserve and improve our environment in the process.The journey began with financial literacy training, involving savings and budgeting. Since then,it has grown to entrepreneurial training that emerged into savings from the members. In the process grants and kits have been offered, to uplift some of the members,one aimed at green entrepreneurship provided a bold step on the journey towards independence.
We aim to make products while conserving the environment and sell to generate income to support the youth and also provide sustainability to the workshop. We currently support 25 street-connected youth and women organized in a self-help group with training and an opportunity to live away from the street.