Blog: Our Sustainable Future

Information courtesy of Safe Spaces Organization, including Allan C'oredo, Awesome Blossoms Project Manager

Safe Spaces Organization, a community-based organization in Mathare, has undertaken a pioneering project with FAWCO called “Awesome Blossoms” to address food security and empower marginalized girls and women. Through the implementation of hydroponic food systems in urban areas, the organization aims to enhance nutrition uptake, entrepreneurship...

• Target Project
• Awesome Blossoms

by Allan C'oredo, Awesome Blossoms Project Manager

Co-writer: Leslie Janoe, AWC Amsterdam

Background

Mathare, an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, with a population of over 500,000 residents, faces environmental and nutritional challenges due to its lack of basic amenities, including poor air and water quality, inadequate access to green spaces, and a lack of sustainable agriculture. To address these...

By Anne van Oorschot, AWC The Hague

Water: Changing the Flow – Tabitha: Wells for Clean Water 

FAWCO’s Target Program was created as an opportunity to increase awareness about an important global issue and to fundraise together in support of a project. Let me start with a bit of background information on the first Target Program for those of you who...

Target Project 2023–2025

 Target Project 5: Awesome Blossoms 

  Organization: Safe Spaces 

  Location: Nairobi, Kenya 

The Project 

Awesome Blossoms is the latest evolution of a community-based organization, Safe Spaces, created by Mrs. Peninah Nthenya Musyimi. This project features organic, water-efficient urban farms with 500 gardens in each farm to support girls’ education and empowerment programs and...

• climate change
• Responsible consumption
• sustainable living
• conservation
• SDG13
• climate action
• Target Project
• Target Program

The three shortlisted projects are: 

The shortlisted projects are (in alphabetical order): 

• Awesome Blossoms: Edible Fresh Fields for Sustainable Life in the Slums, a project of Safe Spaces Organization, submitted by Leslie Janoe, AWC Amsterdam; 

Link to the summary in PDF

• Love for the Sea: Empowering Indigenous Women through Coral Restoration, a project of the Caribbean Coral Restoration Center,

• Environmental justice
• Target Project
• Target Program

Our Natural Environment: Empowering Women and Girls to Ensure a Sustainable Future

Do you know of a project that would be a good candidate to be the next Target Project? 

Are you involved with an organization that is working to improve the lives of women and girls, men and boys in an environment-related area? 

An information packet has been compiled...