Organization
LivelyHoods
Mission
Our mission is to create livelihoods for youth in urban slums. To achieve this, we train and employ talented youth to market and sell green consumer goods like clean cookstoves and solar lamps in their communities.
Other Organization Type
Social Enterprise
Organizational Expertise
Capacity Building, Climate/Environment, Gender / Womens Empowerment, Livelihoods, Monitoring and Evaluation, Marketing
Technologies & Fuels
Biomass (Ag. Residue, Processed Biomass, etc.), Charcoal, Kerosene, Solar
Clean Cooking Activities
LivelyHoods markets and sells six different models of clean-burning cookstoves in the slums of Kawangware and Kangemi located in Nairobi, Kenya. We currently reach 500,000 slum residents and aim to reach every corner of every slum by in 2015.
Partnership
We are looking forward to networking with innovative, effective and ambitious organizations so that we can create livelihoods and increase access to affordable and life-saving green consumer technologies. Most important, we can offer our rapidly-growing distribution network as a solution to any company that has developed a technology relevant for slum communities. Second, we would like to share our learning with the community.®
Regions Operating In
Northern America, Sub-Saharan Africa
Country Based In
United States
Address
1313 Innes Place
Venice, CA 90291
Website
Primary Point of Contact
Name: Ms. Maria Springer
Title: Executive Director
Email: maria@livelyhoods.org
Phone: (323) 377-5238
Secondary Point of Contact
Name: Ms. Tania Laden
Title: COO
Email: tania@livelyhoods.org
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