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:

Monicah – bought baking equipment and supplies with her loan and is making and selling bun-cakes.

Jane – bought large quantities of groundnuts and sells some raw in smaller sizes, and roasts some and sells them in cones.

Margaret – bought a sewing machine with her loan, and is finding empty cement bags, cleaning them, sewing them into market/grocery bags, and selling them

Grace – buys greens/ vegetables and resells them

Rispha – buys shoes and resells them

Alice – buys cosmetics and resells, and also does hair styling and has a beauty shop

Annah – is a shopkeeper

Karimi – buys and sells water

Schola – creates tie and dye

Amina – is buying and reselling charcoal

Teresida (Muemi) – buys greens/vegetables and resells them

All of these women are also being trained by our field agent Rachel Njeri, and working with local experts, to create products like beading bracelets and beading sandals, for sale in the Global Marketplace. They have already made and sold several hundreds of dollars worth of product, which is what provided the funds for them to buy school uniforms and enroll their children in school and begin living with less stress and more hope as they were waiting for their first microloans! All of the women are on track with repayment of their loans and are experiencing a better quality of life. These women are also supported as part of a larger food program through Feed The Children, who  because of learning of these women through HUB, have been providing a month's worth of staple food items to 300 people in Korogocho! Another example of how Humanity continues to UNITE Brilliance!