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Humanity Unites Brilliance project Kenya is responsible for the brilliant collaborations taking place in the areas of providing:
- micro-financing for small businesses and women in association with Equity Bank
- clean water
- food and education in the Kenyan slums
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| HUB recognizes that feeding school children in the slums of our world produces doctors, pilots and even presidents! In the heart of the largest slum in Kenya, Kibera, the Olympic Primary School provides two meals a day to nearly 3000 students thanks to the sustained support of HUB through Feed The Children. These children not have food for themselves and each one of them takes their leftovers home with them each day. The thousands of children who are fed through this program are actually helping to feed thousands more!
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| The Bank of HOPE Self Empowered Women has fourteen (14) women from the rural town of Rui.These women have had many difficulties in coming together in trust as they come from different tribes. Before they could receive their loans, they had to go through several months of conflict resolution, team training and financial literacy through the help of Equity Bank and our HUB field representative, Rachel Njeri.
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| The Self-Empowered Women of Korogocho (also known as KOCH) has thirteen women. All but two now have their loans. (The two who don’t just had babies, and the women will decide together when it is best for them to take on a loan for their business, so they are successful. In the meantime, the other women are helping these two women and are still keeping them as part of the group!) The women and their businesses are:
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| Our Microloan program is Kenya is facilitated by Equity Bank, called the Listening, Caring, Financial Partner, to over 34 million people in Africa! Their mission is to be the champion of the socio-economic prosperity of the people of Africa. Unlike many who may charge higher interest for Microloans, Equity Bank has been able to provide microloans to tens of millions of borrowers at just 1.5% interest!
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| 18 Raincatchers have been installed throughout Kenya through the HUB Impact Partner program, providing fresh drinking water to thousands of people and families. Two of these raincatchers were provided to women who attended the Women and Water Conference in 2009 sponsored by Women's Earth Alliance.
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