Our impact
BLF measures two things: the infrastructure and programs already completed, and the long-term capacity communities are building for themselves. Both matter, and we report them separately.
Area and community scale alongside completed infrastructure and current enrolment.
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Delivered through BLF's Women's Empowerment & Village Banking program, which also provides access to startup-capital loans.
In their own words
Participants in the Women's Empowerment & Village Banking program describe the difference financial literacy, group saving and access to startup capital have made for their households.
Program by program
Each figure below reflects work already delivered or currently underway in Zone 12.
15boreholes drilled
Fifteen boreholes have been drilled across BLF's Zone 12 development area. A nearby, reliable water point reduces the hours households spend collecting water, supports better hygiene and health, and frees time for school, farming and income-earning work. We report the boreholes completed, not estimated beneficiary counts we cannot verify.
80Academy students
Eighty students currently attend Blessed Land Academy, receiving foundational education, literacy, character development and a meal every school day. Expanding educational access across Zone 12 is a goal BLF is working toward, and we present it as a goal rather than a result.
60women trained
Sixty women have been trained in financial literacy and entrepreneurship, with startup-capital loans available through the program. The women in our village banking and micro loan program repaid 100% of the loans and saved in excess of k75,000 or $4000 in the first year of the program.
105acres
Malo Odala is a 105-acre development hub bringing multiple development functions together in one place: education, agriculture, skills training, women's empowerment, community development and economic enterprise. This means rural families do not have to travel far for every service and opportunity.
Zone 12
These figures describe the area and community scale BLF's long-term development model is designed to serve. They are not a claim that every resident has already received each service. As programs expand village by village, we will continue to report completed work separately from the population within the development area.
How we think about impact
Counting activities is easy. BLF is more interested in what remains once a project is finished.
Durable assets that remain in the community: boreholes, classrooms and productive land.
Knowledge and skills people can keep using, such as farming practice, trades, financial literacy and teaching.
Pathways to income, enterprise and education that continue to open after a project is complete.
BLF distinguishes completed impact from future goals. Figures on this page reflect work delivered or currently in progress; anything still ahead of us is described as a vision or goal, never as an achieved result.
The bigger picture
How water, education, agriculture, skills, women's empowerment and enterprise fit together across fifteen villages.
