Brick-Making Social Enterprise, Oyani, Kenya

Innovations Housing partnered with low-income entrepreneurs to establish social enterprises in rural Kenya. Innovations Housing provided the business model, start-up capital and training. The entrepreneurs are now making and selling interlocking stabilized soil bricks - an appropriate and sustainable technology. The bricks are being used to build homes, businesses, schools, etc.

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Innovations Housing is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to:

  • Developing a variety of high-quality, green, affordable housing types for a wide range of low-income people around the world.
  • Promoting the use of innovative, appropriate and sustainable building materials and techniques.
  • Empowering low-income people to become economically self-sufficient by, among other things, lending to them at affordable terms and rates.