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Who We Are

Khat Community Sacco is a Sacco that is vehemently dedicated to promote impeccable development in all miraa growing areas of Meru County through innovative, vibrant and elite leadership.
Khat Community Sacco’s cutting edge products provide capital and local technical expertise to Miraa farmers and grassroot enterprises that empower the underserved to hinge onto Kenya’s growth story

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Challenges

Over the past one decade, Miraa trade has been prohibited or experienced a myriad of challenges in European Countries and Somalia which comprised its biggest markets globally.

This has subjected the residents of miraa growing areas to abject poverty and financial crisis.

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Solutions

Khat Community products produce results that address the root causes of skyrocketing abject poverty and instability in the Miraa growing areas through:

  1. 1. Improving food security

  2. 2. Increasing youth and women’s access to and control of resources

  3. 3. Creating job opportunities for the youths

  4. 4. Midwifing the transition from traditional ways of carrying out Miraa trade to a modern world, formal and professional global business practices

  5. 5. Retaining current Miraa markets, recouping lost markets and penetrating new world markets through Miraa marketing Cooperatives

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About Us

The Elite Khat SACCO amalgamates into the Kenyan government’s efforts to empower, alleviate poverty and ameliorate living standards for its vulnerable and disenfranchised citizens in hard-to-reach regions in miraa growing regions.

The Sacco initiates and spearheads critical development initiatives like food security, youth empowerment and women empowerment to counter the adversely detrimental economic effects of miraa market’s closure in European countries and Somalia.



The Sacco operates in the Miraa growing zones of Meru County using an innovative, locally-led and managed development model that “right sizes” efforts, directing affordable credit products to vulnerable Miraa growing areas with the greatest need and potential for positive impact.





Mission

To ensure quality standards in the production and handling of miraa, maintain decent pricing, ensure maximal consumer satisfaction and ameliorate the living standards of miraa farmers and the community.

Vision

To be a leading miraa Sacco that will spearhead efforts to win global miraa acceptance through inter- governmental lobbying.

Values

1. Transparency

2. Integrity

3. Inclusivity

4. Quality

Board Members

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Mr Murithi Kimencu

Chairman

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Mr Linus Katheera

Vice Chairman

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Dr. Samwel Kaumbuthu

Treasurer

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Md. Edith Kawira

Secretary

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Mr Charles Kibore

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Mr John Stanley Meeme

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Mr Evans Mwenda

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Mr Jenaro Kaliunga

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Mr Jesse Mwongera

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