Chemichemi Foundation

Chemichemi Foundation exists to build capacity on climate resilience and governance. Beneficiaries include youth, women, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and local communities and marginalized groups. #ResilientSocieties

Chemichemi Foundation works to build capacity and provide technical assistance to women and persons with disabilities (PWDs). The access to clean energy is a key pillar of prosperity within the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs), and SDG7 promises a global commitment to access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all. The universal energy access agenda has focused attention on the inclusion of vulnerable individuals in society: women, children, and the elderly.

Closer home, in Kenya, most clean energy policies and regulation make specific provisions for women to access clean energy resources. In realization of existing National legislation, Chemichemi Foundation distributed 60 solar lamps to two groups for women with disabilities: Nchiru Self Help Group for persons with disabilities, Meru County and East Kabras Women and Girls with Disabilities Grassroots Organization, Kakamega County. The goal of the initiative was to promote the uptake of solar lighting as well as reduce air pollution and climate change effects. The second phase of this project is the Upishi Safi Mashinani Initiative, whereby the Foundation envisions to popularize the uptake of clean cooking.