Sarah Lelesiit and her family lived in a leaky-roofed hut, and hunger stalked them constantly. Those days are gone. In 2017, Sarah enrolled in the BOMA Project’s poverty graduation program and graduated in June 2019 as a proud owner of a bustling livestock business,...
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 started with nothing, and now we are businesswomen!” –PROFIT participant BOMA just successfully concluded its two-year pilot in Samburu County with the Government of Kenya’s Programme for Rural Outreach of Financial Innovations and Technologies (PROFIT). The...
Ending Extreme Poverty: A Gender Lens Economically empowering women is vital to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Globally, women disproportionately suffer the cascading effects of extreme poverty as they struggle to provide for their families. Gender...
The BOMA Project is very pleased to announce the election of Greg Coussa (@GregoryCoussa) as a member of the BOMA Project Board of Directors. Coussa is the U.S. founder of Spring Impact (formerly ICSF: International Centre for Social Franchising), which is dedicated...
