Long term Impacts & Goals
Rafippahs is social enterprise that employs and empowers Kenyan women. The women hand-bead raffiiki bracelets around kippot. This makes a life changing impact for the villages:
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
The employment opportunity of beading Rafippahs is breaking cyclical poverty in Kenya. Women use their income to feed their families, pay for their children's education and more. Our goal is to give a 'hand up' instead of a 'hand out', promoting sustainability and long term independence. Self sufficiency also gives families dignity.
Ending Child Labour and Marriage
Forced from necessity, many Kenyan parents mournfully sell their children into child labour and marriage. Beading Rafippahs provides families with a source of income, eliminating this necessity and practice.
Breaking Gender Roles
Traditionally in Kenya, men have earned the families' income while women have been responsible for collecting water, doing laundry, cooking, etc. This often results in the women having no voice in the how their families' income is spent. Earning an income gives the women social empowerment and input into the distribution of their families income.
Building Women's empowerment Center
In addition to paying the women's wages, proceeds from Rafippah sales fund the building of a Women's Empowerment Center in Melelo Kenya- a developing village.
This new group of women will bead Rafippahs in the centre. It will provide this group of women with a sanitary place to bead, the place where their financial literacy training and micro financing system will take place and a community.
Financial Literacy Training & Micro Financing System
Inside the women's empowerment center, WE charity employees will educate the women about financial literacy skills. This includes learning to budget their spending, understand payment transactions, prioritize saving income, etc. WE charity employees will also implement a micro crediting system, where women will be able to loan money to each other and use a savings account.
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
The employment opportunity of beading Rafippahs is breaking cyclical poverty in Kenya. Women use their income to feed their families, pay for their children's education and more. Our goal is to give a 'hand up' instead of a 'hand out', promoting sustainability and long term independence. Self sufficiency also gives families dignity.
Ending Child Labour and Marriage
Forced from necessity, many Kenyan parents mournfully sell their children into child labour and marriage. Beading Rafippahs provides families with a source of income, eliminating this necessity and practice.
Breaking Gender Roles
Traditionally in Kenya, men have earned the families' income while women have been responsible for collecting water, doing laundry, cooking, etc. This often results in the women having no voice in the how their families' income is spent. Earning an income gives the women social empowerment and input into the distribution of their families income.
Building Women's empowerment Center
In addition to paying the women's wages, proceeds from Rafippah sales fund the building of a Women's Empowerment Center in Melelo Kenya- a developing village.
This new group of women will bead Rafippahs in the centre. It will provide this group of women with a sanitary place to bead, the place where their financial literacy training and micro financing system will take place and a community.
Financial Literacy Training & Micro Financing System
Inside the women's empowerment center, WE charity employees will educate the women about financial literacy skills. This includes learning to budget their spending, understand payment transactions, prioritize saving income, etc. WE charity employees will also implement a micro crediting system, where women will be able to loan money to each other and use a savings account.