Livelihoods

Stories and updates from partners using community-centred media to improve community livelihoods. You may also be interested in our page which lists posts addressing food security

Tuanze biashara – alleviating poverty in eastern Kenya

By Amplifying Voices / December 8, 2021

Amani FM project combining radio programmes, in-person training and micro loans. Aiming to alleviate poverty by promoting and encouraging entrepreneurship to create new, small business for communities in Tana Delta.

Let’s start a business, to end poverty

By Jon Hargreaves / January 17, 2019

“Tuanze Biashara” is Swahili for “Let’s Start a Business”, a poverty alleviation project integrating a community radio station, social media, training workshops and a savings and loan association. See how…

“Even I Can Start a Business!”

By Jon Hargreaves / December 18, 2018

I’d like to introduce you to Flora and Hadiya, two budding Kenyan entrepreneurs who really mean business. In the absence of finding jobs and struggling to make ends meet, these…

Getting down to business in Africa

By Jon Hargreaves / May 1, 2018

There is an old proverb that says, “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to fish, and you feed him for a…