Community Outreach
The Foundation supports women empowerment in slums by teaching them the word of God and livelihood skills, promoting self-sufficiency. They also use this opportunity to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ, holding devotions and encouraging each other. Currently, they run three groups in Kariobangi slums.
Have hope Women (established in 2015)
This is an artisan initiative that began as a Saturday Bible study group for children in 2010.
The children would religiously attend the Saturday program regardless of their rumbling stomachs due to lack of food. The children would raise prayer requests for their parents to have a job so that their families would have a means to care for their basic needs.
Rehema started this first group made up of the mothers of these children and adopted it as a pilot artisan project.
Women are taught skills for market-demand products such as leather goods, beadmaking, basket-weaving which in turn translated to a job opportunity with a monthly salary. Rehema provides product ideas based on market demand and trains the women to produce quality products. Currently, the group has 25 women in the program.
Miujiza(established in 2017)
Miujiza is the Swahili word for miracles. This special group is comprised of mothers of Rehema House teen moms. These are very poor families that do not have a stable means of livelihood making it extremely difficult to re-integrate the teen mom with them. To help in this process, Rehema established Miujiza to act as a channel where the women learn and eventually earn from the skills they are taught. They use their earnings to contribute to the family income, opening the opportunity for the daughters and babies to rejoin the family.
Currently, 18 women are participating in Miujiza, and being taught skills on loom weaving and ceramics.
They manufacture products such as blankets, rugs, shawls and ceramic
Streethope Women (established in 2018)
These young mothers were once homeless and living on the street. Most of them were addicted to hard drugs and/or alcohol. They engaged in begging on the streets, survival prostitution, peddling, and mugging to make a living for themselves and their children.
Rehema created this group to offer them an alternative means of livelihood with dignity.
The women are trained in simple skill sets which later translates to a job opportunity.
Over time, they work with felt, leather and fabric materials to create beautiful products which are sold.
As a result, the women have managed to pull themselves off of the streets to renting simple homes and able to take of their basic needs.
The project currently hosts 20 women.
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