Closing the Opportunity gap for Women in Kenya
We reduce unpaid care burdens and unlock skills, financial, and market access for women in rural and low income communities —so families thrive, and local economies grow.
Women Action Foundation Kenya (WAF-Kenya)
The invisible tax on human potential
Millions of women are time bankrupt, unskilled and unaccounted for in the economy .
70% of the agricultural and domestic labour is performed by women, yet they spend 5.3 hours daily on unpaid care work. The ultimate injustice? A woman can have the greatest business idea, but if she is anchored by fuel-wood trekking, passive childcare, and health-time shocks, her education or business cannot grow or thrive.
the sound solution
Women Action Foundation Kenya is making Care resilience the norm for women. We are building the social infrastructure that reclaims a woman's time to unlock their economic agency. We transform the double burden of unpaid care and domestic work into economic agency, equipping women with market-driven skills, childcare solutions, and financial agency to enable them build dignified, meaningful, and sustainable livelihoods.
Evidence confirms that unpaid care work is a hidden engine of the economy. Investing in Time wealth generates a permanent return on investment: Reclaiming stolen hours daily can save a family from a lifetime of poverty.
THE REASON
BECAUSE TIME IS CAPITAL
WAF-Kenya is a non profit organisation founded in 2021. Our work includes women, and communities across rural and urban Kenya .We exist because sustained economic empowerment is impossible without solving the dual burden of unpaid care work and domestic burden . Collective time , Collective future.
WHAT WE DO
OUR BOLD VISION