Water, Hygiene & Sanitation
This program focuses on the improved health status of women of reproductive age, and children below 5 years.
YEDP
Youth Enterprise Development Program (YEDP) aims to empower young entrepreneurs to transform their communities through training, mentoring and funding enabling them to create business ventures for employment and wealth creation.
WIB
The Women In Businesss (WIB) project is aimed at empowering young women between 14 and 35 years in entrepreneurship and combines business, technical skills development and financial education
EYGL
Empowering Youth in Governance and Leadership – provides youth with important ingredients that builds effective leaders through meaningful skill development, identification of common issues, challenges, opportunities and values.
Agriculture & Climate Change
Focuses on ensuring food security, renewable energy and advocates for simple agricultural technologies that improve production.
Civil Society Strengthening
Focuses on areas of research, capacity building aimed at increasing competencies for the civil society organizations to facilitate constructive development.
Economic Empowerment
Focuses on enterprise development, market and financial linkages, Business Mentorship and growth support.
Let us introduce ourselves
A few words about us
The Africa Initiative for Rural Development (AiRD) is an integrated development program that embraces a market development approach to support rural livelihoods and improve the quality of life through increased rural income and civil society strengthening.
How it all came to be…
What Gave Us Purpose
We found purpose bigger than ourselves so we don’t serve self but serve humanity.
120,000 Children
Reached in W.A.S.H
8,575
Youths Trained in Entrepreneurship
7,134
Trained on Life Skills
726
Youth-Led Enterprises Created
Improving the lives of those we touch one at a time!
Africa Initiative for Rural Development
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm, but those who look at it without doing anything!
“Albert Einstein”
Saying it as it Is!
Listen to one of the beneficiaries after completion of the Learning for Life Programme.
AIRD’S PERSPECTIVE
A Trainer’s perspective on the Learning for Life Programme, as well as learnt lessons and beneficiary feedback.
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Caroline Mutuku2022-08-29 15:26:552022-08-29 15:36:52Outfits for Ambition – The story of John Odhiambo
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AIRD Admin2022-08-29 15:20:332022-08-29 15:33:28Outfits for Ambition – The Story of Isaac Otieno
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AIRD Admin2019-01-08 13:00:132019-01-08 13:00:13Sweet fruits of Success – Simon the Fruit Vendor
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AIRD Admin2019-01-08 12:40:062019-01-08 12:47:21Caroline Anyango – Sewing and Repairing her way to Success
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AIRD Admin2018-12-18 13:52:452018-12-18 14:16:14Mary’s Testimony – The story of ‘Mama Pima’
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AIRD Admin2017-03-22 11:06:382017-03-22 11:06:38Enhancing Rural Women and Youth Engagement in Entrepreneurship
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AIRD Admin2016-08-11 13:15:212016-08-11 13:15:21Clean Drinking Water and the Happy Pupils of Makueni County
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AIRD Admin2016-07-11 13:23:572017-02-02 07:02:45Lighting Homes with Africa Initiative for Rural Development
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AIRD Admin2016-06-21 10:18:032017-02-02 06:52:35Cooking Up a Storm at the Food Justice Festival