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Causes: Economic Development
Mission: The mission of zawadisha is to provide small loans to rural kenyan women to finance their livelihoods. We provide the financing and distribution of solar lamps, rain water tanks, and clean cookstoves. We follow up with leadership and financial literacy training to maximize the impact of their loans.
Programs: In 2016, zawadisha doubled the number of loans for solar lamps, rainwater tanks, and clean cookstoves, for a total of 2,500 loans.
zawadisha launched a peer education program, providing more than 4,000 hours of training to 2,424 women who were members of 114 women's groups.
created 7 part-time jobs for rural, poor women.