Small Business Enterprise - Before their husbands' deaths, these widows were engaged in subsistence farming and household tasks like child care, cleaning, cooking, and washing clothes, all without electricity or running water.
Now, they also need to earn cash to stay alive.
With the assistance of people like you, CLOUT Cares has helped the widows start small businesses - generally selling foodstuffs and sundries from "kiosks" in or near their homes or at stalls in local market places. One also started a successful business buying, refurbishing, and selling used clothing. She has been doing this for more than five years.
Thanks to CLOUT Cares and people just like you, most widows now also raise sheep, goats, or pigs, with the goal of earning and saving enough money to buy a cow. Many have done just this.
The widows also collectively cultivate napier grass to sell as cattle fodder in a program initiated with starter funds from CLOUT Cares. With income from this business and a small portion of the income from their individual businesses, the widows started a project collectively growing maize, which they give to the neediest among their group so they can provide lunch for their children in primary school. One small step toward self-sufficiency!
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