Youth-Led Aquaculture for Food Justice & Youth Enterprise
Transforming rural households into high-yield fish enterprises — supported with AI monitoring and cooperative ownership across the Lake Victoria Basin.
Climate-Smart Aquaculture
Sustainable, low-impact pond systems built for the Lake Victoria Basin.
Youth & Women Enterprise
Households become owners — not aid recipients — of productive businesses.
Revolving Community Capital
Every harvest funds the next household. Impact that compounds, not expires.
“Dala” means Home in the local Luo Community language
Each Dala represents an extended family system averaging between 15 and 25 people.
One Home. One Pond. 15–25 Lives Impacted.
A Youth Crisis. A Social Crisis. A Climate Crisis.
One Community-Built Solution
Executive Summary
The Dala Fish Project is a registered scalable youth-led climate-smart aquaculture and food systems initiative designed to address food insecurity, unemployment, economic exclusion, climate vulnerability, and declining fish stocks across the Lake Victoria Basin.
Through decentralized household fish farming and cooperative enterprise systems, revolving community capital, and productive household ownership, the project transforms households into sustainable aquaculture enterprises capable of producing adequate food, creating jobs, strengthening resilience, and rebuilding local economies.
Kenya continues importing thousands of tonnes of fish annually, while local youth and women around Lake Victoria Basin remain economically excluded from meaningful participation in the fisheries economy.
Fish demand across Kenya continues to rise rapidly. Kenya's annual fish demand exceeds 500,000 metric tonnes, yet total national production remains far below demand at less than 200,000 metric tonnes.
With over 75% of Kenya's population below 35 years, this gap presents a major opportunity for youth-led climate-smart aquaculture.