Paran Women Group

Paran Women Group is an Indigenous women group collective passionate about long-term solutions and ripple-effect project results. . The group implements project intervention programs to reduce poverty, strengthen women leadership and environmental governance through socio-economic empowerment initiatives, advocacy, capacity building and training. Comprising 3,000 women from 64 groups of indigenous Ogiek and Maasai communities, they have been recognized for planting indigenous trees in the Mau Forest and practicing climate-smart agriculture, targeting to plant more than 150,000 tree seedlings before 2030. The group addresses gender inequality issues and climate change, while their activities include planting native trees, establishing kitchen gardens, producing clean and affordable energy through organic briquettes, collecting medicinal herbs, and beekeeping.