As of July 2011 the artist donations from “Painting a Brighter Future for Women” to The Boma Project have impacted the lives of 400 women and approximately 2000 dependent children. REAP is a replicable and scalable microfinance program that offers a seed capital grant of 11,500 KES (about $145), job-skills training, and sustained mentoring program delivered by locally trained Boma Village Mentors to small business groups of three people. In two years, Boma has established 520 small businesses across northern Kenya, impacting the lives of 2,100 REAP participants who are now earning enough income to pay for food, school fees, and medical care for an estimated 10,500 children.

More than ninety percent of REAP participants are women, the poorest
of the poor. Boma’s trained Village Mentors are respected local residents with professional experience, such as shop owners or schoolteachers. The primary businesses are small village kiosks that provide basic essentials in the semi-nomadic villages. Rice, cooking oil, posho,
tea and sugar, previously available only in larger settled village regions (representing a walk of up to 50 km), are now available for purchase. 
In the settled villages businesses include bakeries, soup restaurants, construction supplies, dried fish (for those on Lake Turkana) and camel butcheries.