Most people in Kenya live on less than a dollar a day. The Kilifi district, where the Vutakaka Center is located, is the second poorest district in Kenya. With guidance from the local community, the EAC has devised several programs aimed at generating income and working toward poverty eradication.

The Vutakaka Sewing Club is one exciting project where local men and women learn how to use beautiful local fabrics to make bags, aprons, and quilts that are marketed to tourists in Kenya and exported to more developed countries (Click on the link to learn more).

The EAC has partnered with the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on a Farmer Field School (FFS), pictured above. For this program, an FAO-trained facilitator comes to the Center twice per week to teach local farmers about new techniques and inputs that can vastly improve their crop yields. One day each week is spent in a classroom setting and one day is spent in a demonstration plot adjacent to the Center. On this plot, the FFS students prepare, plant, cultivate, and harvest a variety of crops through one season and then apply what they've learned to their own farms.

The EAC also offers at Vutakaka Community Center a class in basic business skills. In this class, potential entrepreneurs learn about supply and demand, costing, saving, financing, record-keeping, and marketing, among other things.