07 — Disclosure

What we cannot yet show

We publish our gaps because an enterprise arguing that records create value cannot ask to be taken on trust.

The marks

Verified Verified: a document is held.: a document is held.
To be evidenced To be evidenced: asserted in good faith, record not yet assembled.: asserted in good faith, record not yet assembled.
Not yet cleared Not yet cleared: a stated gap.: a stated gap.

Items Nyamira Young Women Miners Enterprises cannot currently evidence, with status and the work scheduled to close each one.
Item	Status	The position	Work that would close it
Legal form and separate personality	Not yet cleared Not yet cleared: a stated gap.	The enterprise is a business name registered under the Registration of Business Names Act (Cap 499). A business name so registered has no legal personality separate from its proprietor. It is not a company.	Work that would close it Incorporation would create a separate legal person. No application has been made.
Continuous operating history	Not yet cleared Not yet cleared: a stated gap.	The enterprise was registered in 2019. That is a registration date and not an operating record. We cannot produce a continuous documented history of activity from then to now, and we do not describe ourselves as having operated continuously since registration.	Work that would close it Lot-level capture from the current period forward. An operating history accumulates from records kept at the time; it cannot be assembled retrospectively, and we will not attempt to.
Verified active workforce count	To be evidenced To be evidenced: asserted in good faith, record not yet assembled.	Approximately thirty women are associated with the enterprise. The active count is not verified from records. We do not know, to a standard we would be willing to defend, how many were active in any given month.	Work that would close it A membership register recording identity, association and activity by period, maintained from the point of recovery rather than compiled from recollection.
Audited financial statements	Not yet cleared Not yet cleared: a stated gap.	There are no audited financial statements. No audit has been performed, and no set of accounts has been prepared to a standard that an auditor could opine on.	Work that would close it Bookkeeping sufficient to produce a first set of accounts, followed by audit if and when the enterprise reaches a scale and legal form that warrant it.
Signed offtake contract	Not yet cleared Not yet cleared: a stated gap.	There is no signed offtake contract. No party has committed to purchase our material. Our reference route for graded material is cement manufacture, which describes what the material is suited to. It does not describe a customer, and we do not name a manufacturer.	Work that would close it Specification, trial consignment and acceptance by a prospective industrial user, in that order. A contract is the last step in that sequence, not the first.
Documented lawful basis for access, recovery and dealing	To be evidenced To be evidenced: asserted in good faith, record not yet assembled.	Recovery takes place by arrangement with the parties controlling the sites. The documentation establishing that basis has not been assembled into a form a buyer could review, and the classification of the material under Kenyan environmental and mining regulation has not been formally determined.	Work that would close it Written access agreements for each site, and a determination of the material’s classification from the appropriate authority.

Why this page exists

A website is the cheapest place in the world to overclaim. Most of what an enterprise of this size would ordinarily put on one — a workforce figure, a client, a tonnage, a founding year presented as an operating record — is unverifiable by the reader and costless to assert.

We are asking industrial buyers, assessors and partners to accept a specific argument: that a documented operation is worth more than an undocumented one doing identical work. That argument fails immediately if the site making it cannot itself be checked. So the gaps are published, in the same language and with the same marks as the brief submitted to assessors, and they are linked from the main navigation rather than buried.

If you find a claim anywhere on this site that is not supported by a document we hold, we would like to know. It is a defect, and we would rather correct it than defend it.

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Ask us for what is missing

If you are assessing this enterprise and need something on this list, ask. Where the document does not exist we will say so rather than send a substitute.