Our Team

Our success in creating business solutions to poverty is due in large part to our talented and highly committed team. Our staff combines business expertise with local knowledge, relationships and context to help hardworking men and women generate income, jobs and wealth for their families and communities. Current numbers of staff are 14 in various disciplines of management, financial, business, social and natural resource management expertise.

Our Structure and Governance

HSHC has a management board which sets the strategic policy direction of the organization. The board is involved in strategic planning, authorization of budget and appointment of the director. Our work against poverty is coordinated by a national secretariat, based in Nairobi, headed by a director. We lay organizational priorities: to transform our leadership, improve our systems, diversify our income and harness the remarkable people-power of our staff, our committed Board, our volunteers and supporters.

HELP SELF HELP SELF “Strengthening capacity for self-help” About Us Help Self Help Centre (HSHC) is a national development agency, registered in Kenya (1993), working with thousands of communities to end poverty and environmental degradation. We take a rights-based approach and market-led conservation approach to ensure an all-inclusive, equal, benefit sharing and conservation of the natural resources. We believe people living in poverty can lead the fight to end poverty therefore we look into local knowledge on indigenous resources, what people are doing and then help them to sustainably manage and bring business solutions. Through technology we enable underprivileged communities to build on their skills and knowledge to produce sustainable and practical solutions - transforming their lives and protecting the environment. Our work seeks to create and sustain better livelihoods through capacity development, access to technology, financial and business development services, linkage to the markets and holding the government accountable to the needs of the disadvantaged. Though a non- profit, we are dedicated to ending extreme poverty by following a social enterprise approach to development, working in partnership with other like-minded organizations and individuals to bring real change to the poor. We help grow strong business cases that create income, jobs and wealth in poor communities. Our Vision: A society without poverty and where every person enjoys their right to unrestricted access to productive resources. Our Mission: To work with poor and excluded people to eradicate poverty and environmental concerns through sustainable management of natural resources. Our Goal: To facilitate the local community living around forests to effectively and viably manage existing opportunities in agricultural and nature based unique resources to support sustainable livelihoods. Our Values • We respect and acknowledge the contributions of others • We promote social justice and equity • We believe in the power of collective participation in setting and achieving goals. • We strive to learn continuously from our successes and failures • We promote transparency and accountability in dealing with our partners OUR APPROACH We work on just fighting against poverty – but working for long lasting solutions to poverty and environmental degradation. We take a rights-based approach and market-led conservation approach to ensure all-inclusiveness, equality, fair benefit sharing and conservation of the natural resources. We believe people living in poverty can lead the fight to end poverty. We help people use their own knowledge and resources to fight poverty and bring transformation in household, families and communities. We use simple innovations and business solutions to challenge poverty and environmental degradation. We find out about local knowledge on indigenous resources, what people are doing and help them to sustainably manage and bring business solutions. Through technology we enable poor communities to build on their skills and knowledge to produce sustainable and practical solutions - transforming their lives and protecting the environment. Though a non- profit, we are dedicated to ending the extreme poverty by following a social enterprise approach to development, working in partnership with other like-minded organizations and individuals to bring real change to the poor. We help grow strong business cases that create income, jobs and wealth in poor communities. We particularly help women and youth. Where we work We work with forest adjacent communities in Mount Kenya region specifically Nyeri and Laikipia. The Nature Based Enterprise Program also works in Meru, and Tharaka-nithi counties. We have offices in Mount Kenya region (Nyeri, Laikipia) with responsibility for coordinating programs, finances, management, and knowledge sharing and fundraising. Our Structure and Governance HSHC has a management board which sets the strategic policy direction of the organization. The board is involved in strategic planning, authorization of budget and appointment of the director. Our work against poverty is coordinated by a national secretariat, based in Nairobi, headed by a director. We lay organizational priorities: to transform our leadership, improve our systems, diversify our income and harness the remarkable people-power of our staff, our committed Board, our volunteers and supporters. Our Team Our success in creating business solutions to poverty is due in large part to our talented and highly committed team. Our staff combines business expertise with local knowledge, relationships and context to help hardworking men and women generate income, jobs and wealth for their families and communities. Current numbers of staff are 14 in various disciplines of management, financial, business, social and natural resource management expertise. Program Work The organization works in four program areas: 1. Agribusiness program that focuses on development of strawberry and tree tomato value chain and targets mainly small holder farmers. This program has evolved into a business that has qualified as a public-private partnership- ECOAGRIBUSINES LTD. The business ECOAGRIBUSINES LTD, is a partnership between Help Self Help Centre and Fair and sustainable B. V Netherlands, but managed autonomously. The main products include natural fruit jam and pulp for the milk industry. 2. Nature Based Enterprises program that focuses on Research and & Development (R&D) and commercialization of unique and innovative natural products. We use a market–led conservation approach and a 3Bs model that balance concertino. Profit and rural income. This program has evolved into a business HORIZON BUSINESS VENTURES LTD that specifically deals with forest based essential oils such as baobab, cape chestnut, marula, Leleswa, wild basil and lippia. 3. Natural Resource Management Program supports communities and grassroots institutions living adjacent to the forest in sustainable forest management and in the implementation of the Forest Act, 2005 and the forest policy, 2015. The program has managed to support 14 CFAs to develop forest management plans in Mount Kenya and Aberdares. The program builds the organizational, technical, management and financial capacity of the CFA to enable them participate effectively in joint forest management with the government. 4. Climate Change program that focuses on climate adaptation and mitigation strategies including climate smart agriculture and nature based solutions that conserve the natural resource base and provide alternative livelihoods. We also promote the domestication of economic trees on-farm through agro-forestry, which has significantly increased the local forest cover. We also promote the use of alternative renewable household energy and solar in water pumping. 5. Local capacity Development that deals with improving employability of TVET youth graduates by training them in soft skills and connecting them with both job and financial support opportunities. SOME PAST AND CURRENT PROJECTS 1. Optimising pumpkin production and value-addition for food security and climate adaptation in Laikipia County. (2024-2025) Stay Alliance Foundation 2. Improving employability of TVET graduates (2021-2024) funded by Finnish Embassy. 3. Community driven regeneration of native forest (2022-204) funded by GIZ : https://iki-small-grants.de/k1project/community-driven-regeneration-of-native-forests-at-mount-kenya/ (here you will find all the infor about this project. Or you can share this link in the pics tab, the last picture with the ambassador to Germany, have it somewhere very visible.) 4. Commercialization of non-wood forest products (2018-2021) funded by Genesis Charitable Trust Fund 5. Further Strengthening Governance and Forest Rights through Piloting of Inclusive Benefit Sharing Business Model among CFAs (2015-2016) funded by Finnish Embassy. 6. Up-Scaling for Commercialization of Bio DIESEL and organic by-products (2015) funded by Inter-Church Organization for Development Cooperation (ICCO), Netherlands. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://erepo.usiu.ac.ke/bitstream/handle/11732/817/Chania%2520Feeds%2520-%2520You%2520Can%25E2%2580%2599t%2520Cheat%2520Chicken.pdf%3Fsequence%3D4%26isAllowed%3Dy&ved=2ahUKEwjzyYmEq9uIAxXrTKQEHT9gHPEQFnoECCYQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3TB6AVgwdpdNNOxKsUyg5K 7. Light Up My Future (2014-2015) funded by Inter-Church Organization for Development Cooperation (ICCO), Netherlands. 8. Development of Tamarillo and strawberry value chain (2012 – 2014) funded by Inter-Church Organization for Development Cooperation (ICCO), Netherlands 9. Mount Kenya West Climatic Change Program (2011 – 2014) funded by Act Change Transform (ACT!), Kenya. 10. Commercialization by Installation of Efficient Processing Equipment and Expansion of the Feedstock Supply Base (2013-2015) funded by Energy and Environment Partnership Programme with Southern and East Africa (EEP-S&EA). 11. Energy Saving Options for Rural Households in Nyeri (2012 – 2014) funded by Inter Church Organization for Development Cooperation (ICCO), Netherlands. 12. Recognition and Affirmation of Women’s & Community Rights in Community Forest Associations (CFAs) and CFA constituent companies (2014-2015) funded by Finnish Embassy. 13. Integrating ICT in Kenya FED Value Chains (2012-2015) funded by International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD). 14. Up- scaling rural biodiesel in Kenya (2012) funded by World Bank – BEIA. 15. Mount Kenya Forest Management Project (2011-2012) funded by Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT - FAO). 16. Economic Empowerment of Women and Youth through Sustainable Management of Cape Chestnut, Baobab and Marula Essential Oil Value Chain (2017-2018) funded by the Finnish Embassy funded by LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF (2016-2018). 17. Economic Empowerment of Women and Youth through Sustainable Management of Cape Chestnut, Baobab and Marula Essential Oil Value Chain-pilot funded by Finnish Embassy (2015) 18. Commercialization of Non-Wood Forest Products Project funded by GENESIS CHARITABLE TRUST (2018-2021) use this logo not the HSHC one in the website. Can you also please link our social media handles? https://www.facebook.com/Help-Self-Help-Centre-472234300075 https://www.instagram.com/help_self_help_centre/ Help Self Help Centre, P.O. Box 40603 – 00100, Nairobi, Kenya. Tel: +254 720005717 / +254731906859 Email: hshcentre@gmail.com Website: www.hshc-kenya.or.ke
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