The Pangea Network - Empowering Women, Transforming Lives

Kenya: March 2012

Every year, The Pangea Network celebrates International Women's Day in Kenya by providing a day of training and celebration in one of the communities we work in.

The Jordan Valley
Project Celebration

This past March, the women's groups in Zbeidat and Fasayal villages in the Jordan Valley celebrated all that has been accomplished over eight months of training provided by Pangea and our local partner START.

Nancy

Nancy lives and works in Kibera, where she participates in our Kibera Cooperative. Kibera is the largest slum in Sub-Saharan Africa, where roughly one million people live on less than one square mile of land, an area without running water, sanitation, or roads.

Sa'da

Sa'da lives in the West Bank, in the village of Qusra, where she participates in our Livestock for Livelihoods cooperative. The participants of this program attend training sessions that bring them out of their traditional home-based roles, encouraging them to become breadwinners.

Catherine

Catherine Omondi is the leader of the Huruma Women’s Group. She has run a successful business as a tailor and dressmaker for years. She is a mother, a church leader and an inspiration to the women in her group.

Agnes

Agnes lost her husband last year to an AIDS-related illness. Shortly after that, Agnes fell ill. The women in her cooperative group grew increasingly concerned. As she grew sicker, her children had no one to care for them.