ZanaAfrica (ZanaA) seeks to identify and scale-up African-led solutions to poverty alleviation in the fields of education, environment, and health.
Such solutions must be sustainable and replicable. ZanaA further seeks to advocate for better policies in its target fields.

...
[ view more ]

ZanaAfrica (ZanaA) seeks to identify and scale-up African-led solutions to poverty alleviation in the fields of education, environment, and health.
Such solutions must be sustainable and replicable. ZanaA further seeks to advocate for better policies in its target fields.

Our vision is to see the West engaging in better ways with Africa for development, and to see more holistic solutions for poverty alleviation emerge from genuine cross-continental partnerships.
[ view less ]

We are working to solve the following problem: The lack of information, access, and deliberately organized delivery of affordable, practical, local, and environmentally sustainable sanitary pads to poor urban and rural women and school girls, leading to short- and longer-term economic and social...
[ view more ]

We are working to solve the following problem: The lack of information, access, and deliberately organized delivery of affordable, practical, local, and environmentally sustainable sanitary pads to poor urban and rural women and school girls, leading to short- and longer-term economic and social losses that perpetuate a cycle of gender inequality.

To do this, we are:
1) Producing and distributing locally-made, environmentally-friendly sanitary pads for school girls
2) Leveraging women's groups as our distribution channel to help penetrate the informal market while offering transitional employment for low-income women.
3) Lobbying government and KEBS for better educational and environmental policies
4) Offering a Gap Year programme (see "Opportunities for Youth"
5) Working in Kibera and Kawangware (32 schools as of March 2009) with Empowerment Clubs for girls and boys ages 6-12 and 13-18 to educate youth on issues relating to health and hygiene, sexuality and reproductive health, self-esteem and decision-making, peer pressure and drug abuse, etc.
6) Creating an on-line map of Kenya for the purpose of coordinating sanitary pad distribution and collecting school statistics each term and enable real-time data to influence policy-making
7) Continuing to look for African innovations to help address poverty in creative ways
[ view less ]

We have several opportunities for youth. The first is those who would qualify for our Gap Year programme as Junior Field Officers: talented Form Four Finishers from Kibera and Kawangware, who will mentor . We have volunteer opportunities for young professionals ages 24-32.