CURRENT TARGET PROGRAM 2022-2025 - ENVIRONMENT
The Target Program Environment aims to bring awareness to Environmental Issues that affect us all. "Our Natural Environment: Empowering Women and Girls to Ensure a Sustainable Future" was selected as the theme for Project submissions. After the project application and selection period concluded, the announcement of the next FAWCO Target Project Environment was made in Bratislava during the Biennial Conference in March 2023. Read more about the chosen project Awesome Blossoms here.
Funds raised over the course of the next three years will support the FAWCO Target Environment 2022-2025 Project, Awesome Blossoms. Working together we can surpass our goal of $140,000!
The Project
Awesome Blossoms is the latest evolution of a community-based organization, Safe Spaces, created by Mrs. Peninah Nthenya Musyimi.
This project features organic, water-efficient urban farms with 500 gardens in each farm to support girls’ education and empowerment programs and with 75 women in partnership with three primary schools located in the Mathare slum area of Nairobi
Background:
Founder/Director Peninah Nthenya Musyimi was the first woman from the Eastland slums to attend university and become an attorney and the only one to become a Kenyan basketball star. Peninah never forgot her roots, returning to the slums in 2008 to start Safe Spaces with a mission: to create a safe space there for girls and young women to learn, develop and grow into strong qualified women who can escape poverty, violence and systematic exclusion and go on to become confident leaders, problem-solvers in their communities and now stewards of the environment.