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To celebrate International Women's Day on March 8, the Kibera Town Centre offered Zumba classes; free showers, water, and cyber cafe time; and free tours of the centre complete with raffles of 50+ prizes. It was a great opportunity to celebrate the women of Kibera.
On September 26th, HNP partnered with the local Procter and Gamble (P&G) Finance Department to put on a business planning seminar for its Savings and Credit Cooperative Organization (SACCO) members.
HNP’s training rooms have been busy this fall. Another HNP collaborator, the Somo Project, is also offering entrepreneurial training to Kiberans at the Town Centre, but this training is very intense and targeted. First Somo identified community members with the vision, skills, self-belief, and focus to build meaningful social enterprise in important focus areas: health, education and the environment.
Capacity building is essential to any project success story – anywhere!
Many water projects have been built without providing solutions to the inherent and complicated problems regarding long-term sustainability – it is shortsighted simply introducing water and sanitation facilities without providing the means for repairs and maintenance, both financially and technically.