Our Response: Coaching, Capital, Workspace, and Climate Resilience
Civicom Aid responds with business coaching, better workspaces, productive tools, raw materials, ongoing social support, and skills to withstand climate shocks. Stronger enterprises create jobs, raise household income, return children to school, and open the door to college for young people.
Level 1 — Coaching We coach entrepreneurs through five stages of business growth: starting, growing, expanding, strengthening, and financing — plus climate resilience. Training happens in person, supported by an AI app.
Level 2 — Productive Capital We provide better workspaces, the tools needed to produce goods and services, and essential raw materials.
Level 3 — Social Support Entrepreneurs get ongoing support from our team, fellow business members, and the AI app — so no one grows alone.
Where We Work: Three Slum Regions of Mombasa
Each settlement faces its own barriers. We work in all three.
01 — Likoni 203 A crowded coastal settlement with few economic opportunities and high rates of school dropout and youth unemployment.
02 — Moroto An informal community where women and youth face extra barriers to income and resources.
03 — Bangladesh A deeply marginalized settlement where persons with disabilities are among the most excluded from economic life.
From Coaching to Jobs, Income, and School Return
Our Goal Grow decent jobs for people in slum communities from 182 to 2,000 by 2030.
How Change Happens We start with coaching. We add tools, support, and the skills to withstand hard times, like floods and drought. This help goes to entrepreneurs in Likoni, Moroto, and Bangladesh — three slum areas of Mombasa, Kenya.
Some of these entrepreneurs are struggling. Some are just starting out. All of them carry real potential. With the right support, their small businesses grow strong again. Strong businesses create jobs. Jobs bring income back into homes. And when income returns, children go back to school.
This is the chain we believe in: coaching leads to jobs, jobs lead to income, and income leads to school return. One step opens the next.
Why This Goal Matters We started with 182 jobs. That was proof our approach works. Now we aim higher: 2,000 decent jobs by 2030.
Behind every number is a person — a mother who can pay rent, a father who can send his child to class, a young entrepreneur who can hire a neighbor. Multiply that by 2,000, and you see a community transformed.
What Decent Work Means A decent job pays fair wages. It offers safe conditions. It treats every worker with respect. We don't chase just any job — we build jobs that last and lift people up.
Our Commitment This goal takes real work: coaching that meets people where they are, tools that help businesses grow, support that helps families through hard seasons, and belief in what these communities can build, given the chance.
From 182 to 2,000 by 2030. That is our promise.
Business: Pure Green Grocery
Tamu Tamu Dishes — Before support, the owner couldn't pay workers' salaries. After coaching and capital, the business is growing and staff are paid on time.