Peanut Butter Women's Project in Mukuru, Nairobi, Kenya            updated 5 Oct. 17

For some time now, the Imara Healthcare Centre has provided medical and moral support to a group of mothers who are HIV positive.  Because of their HIV status, these women find it extremely difficult to earn a living to provide for their families.
 
However, their economic circumstances are about to change as the Rotary Club of  Eganville has been awarded a grant of $4,967 to assist these women in developing a cooperative business selling peanut butter in Mukuru.  The grant has been provided by the Women’s Inter Church Council of Canada (WICC) under a grant program to assist and empower poor and marginalized women to improve their economic circumstances.  The Rotary Club of Eganville has also provided $1,000 to assist in the payment of rent and electricity, which are not covered under the WICC grant.
 
The grant will enable the Peanut Butter Women, as we now call them, to buy a peanut roaster and grinder and raw peanuts and containers.  Once production gets underway, the women will be out on the streets of Mukuru selling peanut butter.
 
We wish them success in their new endeavour!

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Peanut Butter is in Production!

Mukuru, Nairobi
October 5th 2017  

The good news out of Mukuru is that the roaster, grinder, containers and peanuts have been purchased and peanut butter is in production.  We wish every success to these women, who without this opportunity, would remain poor and marginalized. Eganville Rotary wishes to thank its funding partner, The Women's Inter-Church Council, for making this enterprise possible.

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