OUR VISION

is to enable the very poor to build a pathway out of poverty through small business development.

We believe that with training and support, microcredit can unlock the personal and economic potential of the poorest communities, offering the opportunity to achieve a life free from poverty, with dignity and purpose.

As Christians, we are responding to Christ’s call to love and serve the poor. We serve all people regardless of race, faith, ethnicity and gender.

OUR FOCUS

Kenya has a rich resources in the energy, talents and aspirations of its population. The economy is growing, with improvements in average income and life expectancy. But despite a decline in the poverty rate to 36 per cent in 2015-2016, poverty and exclusion persist in many parts of the country.

Women are particularly disavantaged, suffering from unequal access to employment, land and credit.  This is made worse by a higher disease burden for women, particularly HIV/AIDS. In 2015, the Gender Inequality Index ranked Kenya 135 of 159 countries.

For these reasons, we focus on working mainly with women, many of whom suffer from HIV/AIDS.  Business training and micro credit enable our clients to use their talents to build sustainable livelihoods.

Bishop Terence Drainey, Bishop of Middlesbrough, is our Patron. Bishop Drainey spent six years working in Kisumu, Kenya, where our project is based, and fully understands the challenges faced by the people there. Here is his comment on Just Small Change:

'Here is an organisation which can help at grassroots level and which can turn one’s kind and good intentions into concrete and practical reality...I encourage you to support Just Small Change in whatever way you can, because with the help of this organisation, you can make such a difference.'

You can read the rest of his message here

As well as being a patron of Just Small Change, and Bishop of Middlesbrough, Bishop Drainey is the Chair of Caritas Social Action Network which develops the Catholic Church’s social action in England and Wales.