Jitokeze Wamama Wafrika

For six harvests, Sharing the Harvest supported Jitokeze in its work to empower marginalized and vulnerable girls and women in West Pokot, Kenya — to overcome poverty, build resilience to climate change, and grow sustainable communities where they live.

What is Jitokeze?

Jitokeze Wamama Wafrika is a community-based organization in West Pokot County, in the north-western region of Kenya. It empowers marginalized women and girls through training and support — building livelihoods, and communities where women's rights and capacities are honored and celebrated.

Through them, families, villages, and nations are transformed.

Woman sitting on a log outdoors with a small child on either side of her, smiling towards the camera.

Who Jitokeze serves

Jitokeze serves girls who have endured harmful practices — female genital mutilation, early marriage, and denial of education simply for being born girls. These realities lock girls and their children into cycles of poverty and food insecurity. Jitokeze offers another way.

  • Women and children crouched along a rocky riverbank, washing clothes where the water meets the stones.
  • Woman kneeling in a garden, lifting a handful of soil towards the camera.
  • Woman laughing as she holds a baby wrapped in a blanket, with tall crops in the field behind them.
  • Young boy smiling behind a cupped handful of speckled beans held up to the camera.

The work of Jitokeze

  • Group of women standing around a large black water tank with their hands raised.

    Self-Help Groups

    Small, sustainable investment groups — mostly women and girls — pool their own resources to lend to one another and start farms and small businesses. Jitokeze provides the training and support.
  • Young woman guiding green fabric through a treadle sewing machine, with a second student working behind her.

    Tailoring Programs

    Residential programs train young women in tailoring and small business — plus literacy, life skills, and entrepreneurship — so they can return home with a valuable trade.
  • Large group of men and women standing together under thorn trees on a hillside.

    Peacebuilding

    Built on relationship, the self-help groups create space for peacebuilding between individuals, families, and tribes working toward a common goal.
  • Visitors watching a flock of hens through the wire of a large chicken run while a man photographs them.

    Creation Care

    Every program emphasizes climate resilience — education at home and abroad, and tree-planting in the communities where they work.

The harvest kept going

Beginning in 2026, proceeds from Sharing the Harvest will go to COCEPRADIL — the Central Committee for Water and Integral Development of Lempira in Honduras.

The COCEPRADIL Story