KickStart  
     previously ApproTEC  



From Seedlings to Trees

Njenga and Mary Kimani have 3 young children and live on a small plot of land in central Kenya. Their future was bleak and they had to try starting a business just to survive. Then one day they saw an KickStart SuperMoneyMaker pump for sale at a local shop.

They saved money to buy the pump and with it they tripled the size of their nursery in less than 3 months.The KickStart pump has transformed their lives... full story

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JAMALI Cooking Oil

Jane Mathendu is a single mother who lives near Mt Kenya. In1998 she bought an KickStart oilseed press to start a new business. She now contracts 20 local farmers to grow sunflowers,employs 2 full time workers and sells the cooking oil in the local market.

The new business has changed her life. She became a local opinion leader and paid for the unversity education of her daughters- an impossible dream before buying her new press... full story

 

 


KickStart is a non-profit organization that develops and markets new technologies in Africa. These low-cost technologies are bought by local entrepreneurs and used to establish highly profitable new small businesses. They create new jobs and wealth, enabling the poor to climb out of their poverty forever.

KickStart's Impacts To Date


Over:

  • 64,000 new businesses started
  • 800 new businesses per month
  • $79 million a year in new profits and wages generated by the new businesses
  • New revenues equivalent to more than 0.6% of Kenya's GDP and 0.25% of Tanzania's GDP
Diagram of KickStart's approach



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