Empowering Women Through Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Kilns is a women-led NGO that partners with rural, women-led community groups and small-scale farmers in western Kenya’s Kakamega Forest region to enable and scale sustainable economic enterprises that support forest conservation.
Kakamega Forest is a candidate for UNESCO’s World Heritage list and Birdlife International recognizes it as an Important Bird Area with over 450 recorded bird species and over 400 butterfly species.
In the last 10 years we have enabled 8 women-led community groups to scale their energy-efficient clay stove liner production with over 15 projects.
In 2025 we launched a Beekeeping project with small-scale farmers around Kakamega Forest to increase farmer incomes and to establish apiaries around the forest that will act as live “bee-fences”, deterring illegal loggers and poachers.
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Kilns Fund collects all donations for our work. 90% of all donations go directly towards the community projects. Our fiscal sponsor, Visions Made Viable, runs the donations site and provides documentation for charitable tax deduction purposes. Click 'Donate' to support the Kilns Fund through the Visions Made Viable site.