Xolani Women of Hope
Empowering disadvantaged girls and young women
Economic empowerment aimed at reducing extreme material poverty and cycle of dependence and despair
About Us
Xolani Women of Hope is a registered CBO that aims to increase productive participation of disadvantaged girls and young women in the economy to a chive Sustainable Development Goals on SDG 5. Gender equality, SDG 8. Decent work and economic growth, and SDG 10. Reduce inequality.
About us
What We Do
We provide technical training such as soap making, beadwork and crocheting among other trainings. We offer small business management and entrepreneurship training ,climate action and advocacy, SDG 13, provide continuous mentorship and seed funding to successful candidates.
Through this programs, the girls and young women will be empowered, reduce extreme material poverty and break the cycle of dependency that exposes them to sexual abuse, trafficking and gender based domestic violence.
OUR story
Xolani's Story
In Kenya, 3 out of 5 girls do not transition to the secondary school leading to 1 out of 2 girls being given out for marriage by the age of 19years. For this reason, extreme material poverty in Kenya especially in informal settlement is affecting women leading to their exposure and vulnerability to various kinds of exploitation such as child marriages, sexual abuse, trafficking for prostitution, teenage pregnancies and other kinds of victimization.
When there is poor education, there are poor entrepreneurial skills, poor production methods, increased cases of child labor, teenage pregnancies, and generally increase in poverty levels hence the need to have customized training that will allow women to participate in the economy productively. It is against this backdrop that we intend provide a flexi training model that is tailored to meet the unique needs of girls and young women especially those who are disadvantaged.
