Greatlakes Feeds Ltd
Funding Stage: Early stage
Country: Kenya
Award: Participant
"Revolutionizing Fish Farming in Kenya"
Greatlakes Feeds Ltd is a social enterprise located in rural Kenya along the shores of Lake Victoria. Established in 2021, the company is promoting fish farming by manufacturing high-quality, affordable fish-feed using local raw materials, thereby keeping production costs low, enabling the company to sell fish-feed at less price compared to other feed manufacturers leading to increased accessibility and revitalized interest in cage-fish farming in Lake Victoria, drawing in many commercial farmers to pursue fish farming.
Greatlakes Feeds ltd is` transforming the lives of women in Kenya’s Lake Victoria region through fish-cage farming, empowering them to produce fish to end Lake pollution, food insecurity, malnutrition, unemployment, childhood pregnancies, sex-for-fish which has troubled the region for a long time. Greatlakes Feeds ltd is doing installations of solar energy for fish-Pond farming, crop irrigation and domestic lighting in the homes. The Company also makes Solar-feeders for cage-fish farmers to reduce water pollution.