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“IF YOU EDUCATE A MAN YOU EDUCATE AN INDIVIDUAL
As a social enterprise with the needs of women in our core agenda, Village Ventures International has the mission to empower women with skills and resources for agribusiness development, rural employment, gender equality, and alleviation of poverty. We aim to do this by:
Providing safe space for work:
We give women in agribusiness the possibility to lease land or market stalls that are owned by Village Ventures International on seasonal or year contracts.
Providing seed capital:
We give women start-up capital in the form of microloans in support of agribusiness ideas either to buy seeds and farm inputs for farming or business stock to sell.
Providing other consultative services:
They allow women to have equal representation and cooperative advantage. This includes agribusiness training & technical information, bargaining power,<br />
51% legal advice for contractual business, Baby care services for mothers with children under five etc.
Providing machinery for trade:
such as tractors for tilling of land, irrigation equipment, generators for alternative energy, bicycles, motorcycles or trucks to transport produce to markets as well as proper apparel for trade that aid increase of production and sales.
Village Farm Project
Our Previous Projects Include The Village Farm Project funded by The Pollination Project where we leased 10 acres of land and together with our women farmers planted watermelons, soya beans and sweet potatoes that earned three times the USD 1000 grant
Lady Mekanika Project
The Lady Mekanika Project trained 60 women as automobile mechanics who now are skilled with expertise in converting salvaged vehicles into mobile market sheds for women farmers.
Women’s Academy
The Women’s Academy offers vocational skills training to women with the use of refurbished equipment donated by our partners in Europe being used as training and entrepreneurial aid machinery.
Our Key Metrics
We aim to measure our success by evaluating :
1. Number of female headed households from our membership that can earn at least USD 500 per month as basic income.
2. Number of Registered Women self help groups (At least 10 members per group) that join our Village Agribusiness Project
(VAP)
3. Number of local Women Investors who choose to partner with us in VAP
4. Acrerage Leased or Owned by VVI per year
5. Tonnage of Farm Produce per season /per year
6. Revenue earned per season/per year
Rural Women
Women Group
Women Investors
Our Market opportunity
Nearly 63% of all economically active men are engaged in agriculture as compared to 78% of women who make the majority of the farm laborers and market vendors.
In agriculturally productive regions, farmers have problems getting their produce to relatively nearby markets, Most don’t own a truck, car, or even a bicycle. Female farmers, by custom, mainly walk or use public transportation when available.
As a result, brokers and hawkers with trucks, motorcycles and bicycles commonly transport produce to cooperatives and markets, reaping most of the trading benefits. But the brokers won’t travel on untarmarked roads that are washed out by rain, thus produce often get rotten in the fields leading to huge losses.
1. Land Ownership
2. Lease of Machinery
3. Microloans and seed capital
4. Pro bono Training and agricultural extension
Services
5. Marketing
6. Renewable Energy: biogas, solar, generator
1. Patriarchal Authority that gives Husbands and sons ownership to
family land
2. Famio Services Limited, Individual, farmers’ cooperatives
3. Banks and Micro Finance Institutions
4. Private Agricultural Extention officers offering services at a fee
5. Agricultural Cooperatives and Middle Men who buy farm produce at
lower prices for higher profits at markets
6. Environmental unfriendly and expensive alternatives
• Wood /charcoal,
• Electricity from Kenya Power and Lighting Company
No Poverty
Create sound policy frameworks based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions.
Zero Hunger
End hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round
Gender Equality
Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to achieve equality and promote the empowerment of all women and girls.
Decent Work and Economic Growth
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work targeting both men and women
Raised
$250.00
2.5%
Goal
$10,000.00
Cultural Exchange
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Raised
$500.00
5%
Goal
$10,000.00
Women Of Substance
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Raised
$35.00
0.7%
Goal
$5,000.00
Women Empowerment
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