A Funding Circle with 30+ indigenous women-led groups

This funding circle will support 30+ solidarity groups in Kenya 🇰🇪, both informal collectives and formally registered organizations.

Naapu Indigenous Women Fund is built on a simple truth: women understand their communities best. They protect culture, sustain livelihoods, and lead solutions rooted in lived experience and ancestral knowledge.

The launch of the Naapu indigenous women–led fund for justice is a historic milestone!  Why?

💥 It is a shift in power.
🏆 It is recognition.
🫶🏾 It is trust placed directly in the hands of women who have long led change with little support.

For years, grassroots leaders have protected nature, defended their rights, brought positive change in the community, while navigating severe resource gaps. If financial resources reached them, local leaders were expected to execute and implement, and were at best consulted. Female solidarity groups have held communities together—often without recognition or access to funding due to systemic barriers. This funding circle marks a shift to community empowerment and is coming with actual decision power.

Through Naapu, resources move closer to the grassroots community realities strengthening local leadership. Naapu pools resources and re-grants directly to grassroots Indigenous women’s groups—especially those excluded from formal systems. The connected women groups have grown into a movement grounded in dignity, self-determination, and collective care.

In the past years this network of communities have jointly kept girls in school, created safe spaces, strengthened food security and livelihoods and so on.

This is only the beginning.

Indigenous women are not waiting for change.
They are now (finally) directly funded to lead it.

Photo credits go to NAAPU