Ayany Women Group
  

  
Moja Moja began its partnership with Ayany Women Group in Kibera in 2003, when we needed a new location for our Young Mothers Program. The Ayany Women Group opened their doors to us, loaning us the use of a room for several months.

Formed in 1986, the Ayany Women Group is a women's cooperative which does spinning, weaving, knitting and sewing, and other handcrafts as a way for its members to earn an income.

In the early 1990's, a Japanese donor group and the Kenyan government assisted them in acquiring a spacious building in which to perform their trades.
 

As the goals of Moja Moja's Young Mothers Program fit within one of the Ayany group's goals, to "provide vocational training for out-of-school girls to enable them to acquire relevant skills for self employment," they welcomed us in to use their facility. "They are our daughters," said one of their members on the day Moja Moja moved in.

Providing us with a room, rent free, was an overwhelming gesture of their support for the Young Mothers Program.  In return, our young mothers helped in keeping the facility clean.  Moja Moja's maintenance man was also assigned to their facility one day a week.  In 2004, Moja Moja developed and printed the Ayany Women Group's brochure and business cards.  Also, that year, we participated together in a common fundraising, awareness raising project, sponsored by the Rendezvous Restaurant on Ngong Road in the Kilimani District of Nairobi.

    
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