💰Income Generation & Food Security
Initiative
Implemented by: Maasai Volunteering Solutions
Project Duration: 6 Months
🌍1. Project Background
Maasai women face increasing economic challenges due to climate change, drought, limited income opportunities, and food insecurity. Many households depend mainly on livestock, which is vulnerable to environmental shocks.
This project introduces a community-based women finance fund (Village Savings and Lending Model) combined with a group poultry project to improve household income, strengthen food security, and build climate resilience.
🎯2. Project Goal
To improve income, savings capacity, and food security among Maasai women through a sustainable community finance and poultry production model.
📌3. Specific Objectives
- Establish 6 women savings and lending groups
- Improve women’s access to small business capital
- Increase household income and financial independence
- Improve nutrition through egg and poultry consumption
- Promote climate change adaptation through income diversificatio
👩🏽🌾4. Target Beneficiaries
- 6 Women Groups
- 25 women per group (average)
- Total Direct Beneficiaries: 150 Maasai Women
- Indirect Beneficiaries: Approx. 750 family members
⚙️5. Project Approach
💵Seed Capital
Support Each group will receive USD 700 seed fund from Maasai Volunteering Solutions.
The fund will be used for:
- Small business loans
- Emergency family needs
- Poultry investment
💰Weekly Savings
Women will contribute small weekly savings to grow the fund.
🔄Lending System
- Loans issued with small agreed interest
- Interest becomes group profit
🐔Poultry Investment Model
- Part of profit used to buy chickens
- Chickens managed collectively
🐔Eggs and poultry sales generate additional income
📅6. Implementation Timeline (6 Months) Month Activity
✅ Month 1 Form Group 1, training, seed fund distribution
✅ Month 2 Form Group 2, training, seed fund distribution
✅ Month 3 Form Group 3, training, seed fund distribution
✅ Month 4 Form Group 4, training, seed fund distribution
✅ Month 5 Form Group 5, training, seed fund distribution
✅ Month 6 Form Group 6, training, seed fund distribution + project evaluation
💸7. Budget (USD)
Seed Capital
$700 × 6 groups = $4,200
Training & Capacity Building
Financial literacy training = $600
Poultry management training = $450
Poultry Starter Support
Initial chickens & feed support = $900
Monitoring & Field Transport
Field visits & supervision = $600
Administration & Materials
Record books, savings boxes, stationery = $250
Project Coordination
Local facilitator support = $500
Total Project Budget: $7,500
🌟8. Expected Results
- 6 active women savings and lending groups
- Women access small loans for businesses
- Increased household income
- 6 community poultry units established
- Improved egg consumption and nutrition
- Strengthened climate resilience
🌱9. Sustainability Strategy
- Weekly savings will continue after project period
- Poultry reproduction increases group assets
- Interest profit grows the revolving fund
- Women gain financial skills for long-term independence
- Groups can register as formal community cooperatives
📊 10. Monitoring & Evaluation
Indicators:
- Amount saved monthly
- Number of loans issued
- Loan repayment rate
- Number of chickens owned by group
- Income increase among members
- Household food consumption improvement
Methods:
- Monthly group reports
- Field monitoring visits
- Final evaluation meeting