In rural Meru County, 203 people\u201488% of them women living with disabilities\u2014found themselves pushed even further into poverty by the COVID-19 pandemic. Discriminated against, overlooked, and struggling to survive, they refused to give up.<\/p>\n
Through the Boresha Maisha ya Mama Mlemavu<\/strong> project, something remarkable happened.<\/p>\n The Kanana Disability Group received detergent-making supplies\u2014not as a handout, but as a seed of opportunity. What followed was powerful: they produced, packaged, and sold their own products, earning their first collective income. With their profits, they reinvested, paid it forward, and launched a sustainable group business.<\/p>\n From a single self-help group of 33 members, the impact now reaches over 200 women and men with disabilities<\/strong>\u2014empowering them with loans, savings, and dignity.<\/p>\n They are no longer just surviving. They are building better lives, stronger businesses, and united communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In rural Meru County, 203 people\u201488% of them women living with disabilities\u2014found themselves pushed even further into poverty by the COVID-19 pandemic. Discriminated against, overlooked, and struggling to survive, they refused to give up. Through the Boresha Maisha ya Mama Mlemavu project, something remarkable happened. The Kanana Disability Group received detergent-making supplies\u2014not as a handout, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,19,43,1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-empowering-women-for-employment","category-enterprise-development-and-value-chains","category-food-security-climate-actions-towards-resilient-communities","category-information-economy","category-skilling-youth-for-employment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitenet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitenet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitenet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitenet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitenet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sitenet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8423,"href":"https:\/\/sitenet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584\/revisions\/8423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitenet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitenet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitenet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitenet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}