The Government of Kenya’s Program for Rural Outreach of Financial Innovations and Technologies (PROFIT) was designed to make the transformative power of BOMA’s poverty graduation program available to 1,600 women in Samburu County in Northern Kenya. The women...
“I want all my children to go to school, especially my girls.” Paulina Adapal, BOMA Graduate, Northern Kenya The United Nations (UN) first celebrated March 8th as the International Women’s Day in 1975. In 1977, the UN declared March 8th as the official day for...
By Amanda Teppo, BOMA Project Intern Each moment is a chance to make history. At the BOMA Project, participants in our Rural Entrepreneur Access Project (REAP) are not only breaking the cycle of extreme poverty but driving social change as well. A new market, only 4...
We are very proud and pleased to share that BOMA Co-Founder and Kenya Program Director Kura Omar was selected as one of the 2018 class of the Aspen Institute’s New Voices Fellowship. The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in...
We are partnering with the International Centre of Social Franchising (ICSF) to help us work out the best way to scale our impact. Raili Marks and fellow ICSF team members recently visited the field to get a firsthand insight into how the BOMA Project works. Below is...
As world leaders gather in Copenhagen for women’s health, we’re highlighting the reality of access to health amongst one of the world’s most impoverished and isolated populations: pastoralist women in sub-Saharan Africa. BOMA participant, Adhi Goba, experienced chest...
