What We Do
The Foundation's Programs
The Foundation delivers its work through three programme pillars — Health, Education and Economic Empowerment — each tracing directly to a value Jane Adewa lived by.
I. Health
Saving Lives Through Preventative Cancer Care & Community Health Mobilisation
Cancer is the second leading cause of death among Kenyans. Breast and cervical cancers remain the most common cancers among women, while prostate cancer is the most prevalent cancer among Kenyan men, and colorectal cancer affects both sexes. The tragedy is that all of these are largely preventable or treatable when detected early. The majority of deaths occur not because treatment is unavailable, but because people are never screened. Poverty, distance from health facilities, cultural stigma, deeply ingrained masculinity norms, and a lack of awareness form a wall between a person and the care that could save their life. The Foundation exists to dismantle that wall for everyone.
Strategic Objective 1
To reduce preventable deaths from breast, cervical, prostate and colorectal cancers among women and men in Ugenya through inclusive, community-based mobilisation, counselling, education and referral pathways — delivered in coordination with qualified clinical partners.
II. Education
Opening Minds Through Reading and Exposure to the Global Village
Access to information is the most democratising force in any community. In rural Kenya, most children have never owned a book beyond a textbook, and internet-based learning remains largely out of reach. A child who reads widely, researches freely and is exposed to ideas beyond their immediate horizon carries that capacity into a more productive life, and ripples it through their family and community.
Strategic Objective 2
To foster a culture of reading, research, lifelong learning and safe digital engagement among children and youth in Ukwala and surrounding communities, anchored at the Kadewa Community Resource Centre at Sigweng Karuoth Primary and Secondary School.
III. Livelihood
Unlocking Self-Sufficiency and Wealth Creation for Men, Women and Youth
Poverty in Ugenya is not the result of a lack of intelligence, creativity or work ethic — it is the result of structural barriers: limited access to capital, markets, business knowledge, inputs and networks. These barriers constrain women, men, young women and young men alike. Equipping any rural person with micro-enterprise skills, seed capital and peer support changes not just one life, but a household, and often a generation.
The Foundation is intentional about inclusion: while women and girls face compounded barriers that demand targeted support, young men are equally vulnerable to unemployment and economic marginalisation in rural Kenya.
Strategic Objective 3
To promote sustainable livelihoods and household economic self-sufficiency in Ugenya, Siaya County by building a locally circulating economy, strengthening trade and enterprise skills, and reinforcing savings structures — with targeted outreach to ensure no demographic is left behind.
The JMAA Community Resource Centre Project
The Resource Centre, a physical venue- a stand-alone facility in Ukwala town, open to the community at large- that houses and hosts programmes from all three pillars, while generating its own operating revenue. Idle time- not idleness of character, but the simple absence of any safe, engaging option- is a significant, well-documented contributor to teenage pregnancy and other risks facing youth in Ugenya. The Centre exists to close that gap, and to give the Foundation a permanent, sustainable revenue-generating home base.
WE VALUE YOUR SUPPORT
Jane believed that the measure of a life is not its length, but its reach. Every dollar counts…