Care economy activities and business model

About the organization:
Jazza Centre is a for-profit social enterprise that trains and places domestic workers in Kenya. The enterprise formalizes the employment process for domestic workers by ensuring that domestic workers and employers sign employment contracts. Jazza Centre increases recognition and reward for domestic workers by negotiating fair terms of employment and skill development. It reduces the burden of care work in households through provision of trained domestic workers.

Activities in the care economy: Provision of technology, services & policies/practice that improve conditions for domestic & care worker

Stage of growth: Mass roll-out/Expansion

Type of services: Infant-care (children younger than 1-year), Child-care (Ages 1 to 5), Child-care (Ages 6 and above), Elderly-care (Ages 60 and above), Care for persons with special needs (disabled / differently abled persons), Domestic services

Number of customers (2020): Less than 1,000

Number of customers (2019): Less than 1,000

Number of customers (2018): Less than 1,000

Financials

Profitability status:
Not profitable yet but planning to become profitable within 3 years

Revenue USD (2020): Between 100,000 to 250,000

Revenue USD (2019): Between 100,000 to 250,000

Revenue USD (2018): Between 100,000 to 250,000

Pathways to impact

Challenge addressed:
Lack of recognition and action with regards to unfair distribution of care and domestic work, Lack of affordable solutions to reduce amount of time spent on care and domestic work, Lack of / poor remuneration for care and domestic workers

Pathway to impact – 4 Rs: Recognize, Reward, Redistribute

Populations affected: Unpaid domestic workers, Paid domestic workers, Infants or children, Elderly people

Number of people served (2020): Less than 1,000

Number of people served (2019): Less than 1,000

Number of people served (2018): Less than 1,000