• Sustainable agriculture/ Organic farming
• Food processing and value addition: Milk product e.g. yoghurt, butter, gee, mala, milkshake etc.
• Fruit products processing e.g. jam, marmalade, juice, chutney, ketchup, tomato sauce, tomato puri, pickles, banana crisps etc.
• Making cordial juices and tomatoes sauce.
• Making of Soya products e.g. Soya milk, Soya meat, Soya beverage, Soya cakes/biscuits etc
• Making confectionery
• Baking
•  Processing tuber products e.g. sweet potato, Irish potato, arrow roots, cassava – crisps, chips, flour etc 
• Vegetable drying, flour and juice making
• Chemical processing:
• Liquid detergent, shampoo, disinfectant and hand shampoo making
• Fabric decoration: tie and dye, screen printing 
• Apiculture and making of bee products
• Sericulture- silk production
• Mori culture- growing of mulberry 
• Mushroom growing
• Growing of herbs
• Fish keeping,
• Table banking
• Computer training etc.

With impressive levels of unemployment and poverty, crime is rampant in Kenya with a majority of prison population found guilty of petty and poverty related crimes like loitering, vagrancy, charcoal burning, hawking, prostitution, brewing, drinking or selling traditional brews. These in actual fact are survival and copping mechanisms for the poor.

The irony is that real criminals who pose the biggest threat to Kenyan’s socio-economic welfare are able to hire top notch lawyers, pay court fines or simply bribe their way out. The poor do not have money for legal representation or for paying court fines.  As a result they are incarcerated and become a burden to the taxpayer; they leave prison worse off only to return for one reason or another. As one prison officer once put it:

•         I really sympathize with many of these prisoners who fill our penal institutions; they are so poor that keeping them here will just harden them while the actual crooks never end up in prison.

•          Kenya has 97 prisons with a capacity of 16,000 inmates but now holding 50,000.