{"id":20250,"date":"2020-05-06T01:02:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T01:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caridad.vamtam.com\/?p=20250"},"modified":"2022-06-06T11:56:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T11:56:34","slug":"buildher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/2020\/05\/buildher\/","title":{"rendered":"BuildHer"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Buildher equips disadvantaged young women in Kenya with accredited construction skills, leading to greater financial prosperity, changing male attitudes and promoting gender equality within the construction industry. <\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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  • BuildHer equips vulnerable young women from low-income communities in Kenya with accredited construction skills in high-demand, low-supply trades, boosting livelihoods and enabling access through an Earn, Learn & Save model.<\/span><\/li>
  • BuildHer\u2019s Earn, Learn & Save model provides women with the opportunity to gain marketable and nationally accredited skills within a female-friendly and financially accessible environment which demonstrates tangible routes to secure employment and livelihoods, resulting in increased incomes.<\/span><\/li>
  • BuildHer provides training in carpentry, joinery and life skills to women between the ages of 18 -35. It targets young women, earning below Ksh 300 per day prior to enrolment from informal settlement communities in Nairobi County.<\/span><\/li>
  • BuildHer has two revenue streams:<\/span>
    • Student loan repayments plus 15-20% interest deducted from salaries<\/span><\/li>
    • Recruitment fees paid by employers<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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      • 530% increase in income for BuildHer women after 4 months of training.<\/span><\/li>
      • 194+ women trained in construction skills in Year One.<\/span><\/li>
      • 67% increase in Employer productivity attributed to BuildHer women<\/span><\/li>
      • $11,000 income earned by BuildHer women in Year One.<\/span><\/li>
      • 83% reduction in cost of training by Year Four to $500\/trainee.<\/span><\/li>
      • 83% employer policies changed to incorporate gender, sexual harassment & dignified pay.<\/span><\/li>
      • 95% increased confidence in women who attend the program.<\/span><\/li>
      • $588,000 target Income for BuildHer women by 2023<\/span><\/li><\/ul>
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        Buildher equips disadvantaged young women in Kenya with accredited construction skills, leading to greater financial prosperity, changing male attitudes and promoting gender equality within the construction industry. Innovation \u00a0 BuildHer equips vulnerable young women from low-income communities in Kenya with accredited construction skills in high-demand, low-supply trades, boosting livelihoods and enabling access through an Earn,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":988601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kcjf-cohort-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20250"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989870,"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20250\/revisions\/989870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/988601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyacatalyticjobsfund.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}