Lady Mekanika Project

Greetings and a message of goodwill to you.  Thank you for connecting.

Kindly allow me to share more about Village Ventures International hopefully you would collaborate with us and assist us in fundraising.
Ours is a non profit/social enterprise that invests in the startup and growth of village enterprises by:

1. Providing basic education and vocational training to women, youth and people with disabilities,
2. Providing space for work, tools, and equipment for trade,
3. Provide Seed capital for raw materials and stock for business start-up.
4. Assist in the Management of village ventures to sustainability and to alleviation of poverty.

We are currently investing in Village Ventures In East Africa. We aim to train and empower at least 500 women, youth and people with disabilities to start up village enterprises every year to the tune of USD 250 000 capital.

Our beneficiaries also get a chance to learn by doing and earning through our Village enterprises, cottage industries and commercial villages where they also learn and work as apprentice trainees. We train and invest in SMEs mostly in trades such as Agribusiness, Education, Hospitality, Real Estate, Health, Sports, Beauty care, ICT, Energy and other industries.

We get training and trade equipment from our partners Project Africa in Sweden, Tools with a Mission in the UK and Tools2work from the Netherlands, who donate refurbished equipment from Europe and we pay for shipment, customs clearance and inland transport as well as maintenance. Other equipment that may not be provided for by our partners are bought locally through peer to peer entrepreneur arrangement or from local suppliers.

We believe that our approach of vocational skills training and investment in the tools for trade, raw materials and seed capital is a catalyst to self employment and sustainable village enterprise development.

Many village enterprises fail to take off because either the entrepreneur has no vocational or business skills, or has vocational skills but without the space, tools/equipment and financial capital to start work. Thus your collaboration with us will assist to promote gender equality, socio-economic empowerment of women, youth employment and rural development.

Kindly watch here my TEDx Presentation which I made when I visited the Bay Area and on the idea stage of our project when we trained Lady Mechanics in Kenya https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii7bfPpLVxs

This initial stage of our apprenticeship training for women was partly funded by Peery Foundation, Cordes Foundation and Global Philanthropy Alliance.

We are kindly requesting that you may invest in us and/or promote our work in the empowerment of women and youth in rural Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and the wider East Africa. Or if you could share with members of your network and other grant making organizations about our community work.

We will be happy to share with you a comprehensive project proposal upon your request. Kindly consider working in partnership with us and Feel free to share about us with your network.

Regards,

Lindy Wafula
CEO/Lead Consultant
Village Ventures International
www.villageventuresinternational.org