“One Small Loan Makes a Big Difference”

WAN Foundation runs a micro-lending scheme where members collectively mobilize resources in a pool then borrow funds in a micro-finance concept for start-up capital and improving their micro enterprise.

The scheme builds its financial base from members contributions acquired from membership registration fees, subscriptions, income generating activities, donations from well-wishers, fund-raisings, crowd funding campaigns, grants from strategic partners, mission appeals and any other financial support avenues.

The main objective of this program is to promote members interest in enterprise development hence spurring economic stability at household level. Before one is given the loan, he/she first get trained on basic business planning and finance management/ discipline aspects. This coupled with our monitoring and evaluation mechanisms ensures that the fund disbursement is put to its intended use. Risk portfolio of the scheme is pegged on match funding approach whereby an applicant is considered based on agreed ratio among other parameters. The SEP Initiate is our innovative way of setting up a Community Seed Fund to propel Agriculture productivity at grassroots level.

As the late Professor Wangari Maathai candidly put it: “If you destroy the forests then the river will stop flowing, the rains will become irregular, the crops will fail and you will die of hunger and starvation.”

WAN Foundation undertakes integrated tree planting approach as our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) towards collective environment conservation and preservation by increasing forest cover to the United Nations recommended 10%. The Government of the Republic of Kenya aspires to increase the Country’s forest cover.

We offer voluntary training on tree nursery establishment and management. We take active part during the tree planting campaign occasions including the World Environment Day celebrations by mobilizing communities to plant trees and offer free tree seedlings to the neighboring institutions such as Schools, Churches, Health Centers and even individuals. All these we do in collaboration with relevant sector players and stakeholders. A clean and quality environment is the responsibility of everyone, we are of the view and strong feeling that there is urgent need to recommit ourselves to trees planting as our contribution towards attaining preservation and conservation of the environment.

WAN Foundation aspires championing realization of the Sustainable Development Goals at grassroots levels through Agro-ecological best practices to achieve food security hence acting as Hub for SDG 2 on Zero Hunger and SDG 12 on sustainable production and consumption patterns.

It has the potential to contribute to the achievement of the SDGs, which are highly interlinked by appreciating the relationship between agriculture and the environment while promoting rural development and sustaining livelihoods especially among smallholder farmers.