Partnering for Prosperity: Skills Building and Financial Access For Rural Communities
August 2025
Changing Lives Together
At The Nasio Trust, we believe communities should have access to sustainable livelihoods and that children deserve the chance to grow up healthy, educated, and full of hope for the future. We are inviting your business to be part of this transformation by supporting our Sustainable Livelihoods programmes.
The Challenge
The Nasio Trust operates in an impoverished community in Mumias West, where most people live below the poverty line, earning less than $1 a day. Decreasing agricultural incomes in a region where agriculture is the main source of income are pushing people further into poverty. High unemployment within Kenya further exacerbates the problem rural communities are facing. It is crucial to empower people to become financially independent through hard skills as well as education in basic bookkeeping.
Our Solution – Building Skills and Increasing Access To Microfinance
The Nasio Trust’s Sustainable Livelihoods programme empowers several vulnerable groups including women, youth and People with Disabilities to earn their own income and gain essential skills to make a living to break the cycle of poverty.
Our Sustainable Livelihoods Programmes are:
- Supporting over women in running their own soap production enterprise
- Increasing access to microfinance through training in and establishment of table banking schemes for People with Disabilities and for those living with HIV
- Providing youth with training in agriculture through school-based Young Farmers Clubs
- Training youth in beekeeping, aquaculture (fishpond keeping) and tree nursery management
- Training community members in agribusiness through collaboration with expert partners
Our Impact – Highlights from 2024
- 142 women trained in financial literacy and agribusiness
- 49% of women have started their own small business
- 170 youth have been trained in agriculture through Young Farmers Clubs
How Your Business Can Make a Difference
To sustain this programme, we need £12,000 each year. This funding covers training, inputs, table banking seed funds and staff salaries.
There are many ways your business can help:
- Donate a farming starter pack – £45 can purchase a farming starter kit for a vulnerable woman to start her own kitchen garden and earn an income
- Fund a 3-day training session in agribusiness conducted by an experienced partner – £250/per session can train 20 people in agribusiness to empower them to make informed decisions about their own business.
- Fund a school Young Farmers Club – £300 can provide a school with essential training and kitchen garden equipment to help students start and maintain their own income by growing local vegetables
- Give In-Kind Support – We welcome donations of farming inputs and stationery to enable training for beneficiaries
- Engage Your Employees – payroll giving, matched funding, mentoring, or team volunteering in Kenya.
Why Partner with Us?
By partnering with The Nasio Trust, your business invests in the immediate and long-term healthcare needs of rural communities in Kenya.
Join us today. Together, let’s build futures that last. Contact us now for more information.
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