Gift a Goat or a Grant to a Widow! GIVNG TUESDAY DONATIONS MATCHED UP TO $5,000!
Help us donate 45 goats and 15 grants on Giving Tuesday! Our Hope for Widows Program empowers Kenyan widows with confidence and entrepreneurship skills that turn their lives around.
Help us donate 45 goats and 15 grants on Giving Tuesday! Our Hope for Widows Program empowers Kenyan widows with confidence and entrepreneurship skills that turn their lives around.
Help us sponsor 30 widows with 90 goats and 30 grants by Midnight on Giving Tuesday! Each gift receives a commemorative postcard designed by WILK Volunteer, KaiLi.
ALL GIVING TUESDAY DONATIONS WILL BE MATCHED UP TO $5,000!
Fundraising Goals
- 45 Goats = 90 Goats MATCHED
- 15 Grants = 30 Grants MATCHED
Where the Money Goes
$70 - buy a goat for a widow (receive the blue-shuka postcard)
$150 - buy a small business grant for a widow (receive the orange-shuka postcard)
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Postcards designed by WILK Volunteer Artist, KaiLi.
We're empowering Maasai widows with Goats, Grants, and Business Skills Trainings.
Goats & Grants
Since 2022, we’ve selected a new group of women each year to participate in our Hope for Widows Program. These women are heads of household who are solely responsible for supporting their families. We provide them with comprehensive trainings in confidence building, leadership, business skills, marketing, and other entrepreneurial strategies. After these trainings, we hold our Goats & Grants Ceremony where each participant receives a $150 grant as well as three goats.
To support the fourth year of our transformational Hope for Widows Program, we're raising $5,400 to support 15 of the 30 widows who will participate in next summer's trainings. Our goal is to secure enough funds to purchase 45 goats and sponsor 15 grants by midnight on Giving Tuesday. In dong so, we'll be well on our way to another year of Helping Women Bloom in Kenya.
The goats (two females and one male) are long-term investments that help widows build capital which compounds over time. The grants are short-term cash infusions to help jumpstart the widows’ small business ventures with stock or raw materials needed for production.
The Hope for Widows Program
The Hope for Widows pilot program began in the summer of 2022. It follows the same teaching pedagogy as our Livestock as a Business (LAB) program but differs in that it works with individuals. Training sessions involve elements of group education, but the goal is to teach individuals real-life skills that help their small business ventures.
Widows from the pilot graduated in a special ceremony on August 6, 2024. They worked together to plan the ceremony, which 800-900 people attended. They've also become examples to other Maasai women by pooling the money they've earned to uplift others who are struggling. We expect future graduates of the program to follow in their footsteps.
You Can Help
We're training a new group of widows this summer. You can support them by donating to our Goats & Grants Campaign today. Please click the "Donate" button to improve widows' lives in Kenya!