evidence: Remba Island, on Lake Victoria in Kenya, is home to 20,000 people whose mainstay is fishing. It is a cosmopolitan commercial place with a high transient population from all over Africa. Fishing is a mix of business prosperity that generates over 5 KES per day, and a streak of exploitation. Most of the boats are owned by people who don’t live on the island but have agents to take care of their boat operations. The boat owners get 70- 80% of the profit made in a day’s fishing, and the rest is divided among the fishermen. [...] We have worked with a group of 15 widows and single mothers on education and sustainable livelihoods: business training and life skills, innovative vegetable farming, solarized poultry keeping, and a business savings scheme. This group has been formally registered in Kenya as the Remba Women’s Group. The Remba Women’s Group successfully doubled its flock size to 250 using the solar-powered incubator installed this year. The poultry business has had an overwhelmingly positive reception from the community with high demand for eggs and birds. Despite initial teething problems, in the first month alone their total revenue reached 15,000 KES and they have collectively saved over 30,000 KES through their savings and investments scheme.