Location: Kakamega, Kenya Setting: Rural Established: 1950 Staff: 18
Subject Areas:
Youth: Personal and Professional Development, Cognitive Development, Child and Adolescent Development Education: Formal education that will empower the child to intellectual skills and values of integrity for the sustainable development in the society. Life skills are also taught. Women's Empowerment: Gender Equity Strategies for the girl child.
Organization Objectives:
Shikokho primary school, mission is to provide quality education to the community and the surrounding areas so that the necessary skills are obtained to benefit both themselves and also to empower the physically and spiritually marginalized communities in shikokho area. The school is based on the motto that says hope for the best and whose vision is that we leave Shikokho better than we found it. The school has a population of more than 800 kids and they teach 35 minutes per lesson. The subjects taught include English, Kiswahili, Mathematics, business education, Physical education, science, Geography, History and political science.
Human Rights: Legal Issues, Social Justice, Immigration, Poverty
Organization
Objectives
Kituo Cha Sheria is a human
rights organization that advocates for the people of Kenya through legal aid and
representation. It provides services through various means, which include litigation
and community mobilization. Its goals are to:
Respect, promote, and demand
human rights in pursuit of a just and equitable society
Empower individuals and
communities for self-governance and defense of their rights and
obligations
Provide legal assistance
in the battle for land and labor rights
Human
Rights: Social
Justice, Equality, Legal Issues
Organization
Objectives
MUHURI’s seeks to promote and advocate for human
rights among marginalized communities. The organization works to contribute
towards the national and international struggle to promote and protect human
rights and civil liberties for all. Its goals are to:
Enhance the capacity of coastal communities to hold government
and non-government entities accountable for human rights violations by
2010
Increase the level of participation of coastal
communities in political, social, and economic development issues
Mainstream gender equity into policies, behavior, and
attitudes within communities, institutions, and individuals all over the
coast
Significantly strengthen the institutional and
financial capacity of MUHURI by 2010
Youth and Education: Personal
and Professional Development, Cognitive Development, Child and Adolescent
Development
Women’s Empowerment: Gender
Equity Strategies
Health: HIV/AIDS
Microfinance: Small Business
Training, Microcredit
Organization Objectives
The African Canadian Continuing
Education Society’s (ACCES) mission is to increase local youth’s access to the
education and skills necessary to enhance their lives and communities. Its
goals are to:
Empower individuals through scholarships for higher
education
Offer literacy programs to aid in the cognitive
development of children
Implement gender sensitivity programs to promote
gender equity as well as HIV/AIDS awareness
Provide professional development through
microenterprise skills training
Support microfinance initiatives that benefit
students and their communities
Youth and Education:
Personal and Professional Development
Microfinance:
Savings, Microcredit, Small Business Management
Organization Objectives
The Western Education Advocacy and
Empowerment Program (WEAEP) facilitates a
participatory approach in the implementation of proposed development solutions
to include the marginalized groups of society, especially women, girls, and
vulnerable children. Its goals are to:
Empower women by improving their socioeconomic status
and rights-based advocacy
Promote and protect the rights of orphans and
vulnerable children
Reintegrate street children into society
Provide and support vocational training and skills acquisition
Youth and Education: Personal and Professional
Development
Organization Objectives
Solidarity with Women in Distress
(SOLWODI) provides support to commercial sex workers and at-risk girls in the
Kenyan coastal towns of Mombasa, Kwale,
Kilifi, and Malindi. Its
goals are to:
Identify and provide support and rehabilitation for
women in the commercial sex industry
Empower female sex workers to improve their own lives
through peer education, health services, counseling, and alternative
livelihood support
Educate communities about the dangers of commercial
sex work
Lobby for support from the government and hotel
industry with the aim of implementing laws against child sex abuse
Organization Objectives:
The Kakamega Forest Dispensary’s main objective is to provide accessible, reliable health care for persons living in and around the rural area of Isecheno and the surrounding communities. In addition the Dispensary is involved in the following:
• Provide home-based care for those living with HIV/AIDS in and around Isecheno
• Provide and encourage community members to know their HIV status through a government-sponsored Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) center.
• Educate community mothers on the importance of vaccination for infants and children and provide once-weekly vaccination days in which they are able to benefit from the administering of free vaccines.
• Promote prevention through outreach programs and the distribution of verbal and printed information regarding pressing health threats like HIV/AIDS, malaria, and malnutrition.
Microenterprise: Fundraising, New Enterprises,
Community Financial Institutions, Managing Financial Resources, Marketing,
Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management, Strategic Business Development
Community
Development: Community Empowerment, Construction, Building
Organization Objectives
K-Rep Development Agency seeks to
empower low-income people and promote their participation in the development
process through offering financial services to individuals and
communities who have traditionally been excluded by formal financial
institutions. Its goals are to:
Alleviate poverty by expanding access to appropriate
financial services for low-income people
Generate employment and increase income earning
opportunities among low-income communities
Support grassroots organizations involved in
microfinance development
Enhance the understanding of microfinance development
by conducting action research on pilot projects
Identify, collect, organize, and disseminate
information on microfinance and small enterprise development
Micocredit: KES is eager to expand the microcredit program to tap into new membership and expand its reach in the community.
Mission:
Kakamega Entrepreneurs Savings and Credit Co-operative Society (KES SACCO) was formed in Kakamega, Kenya in 2002 by members of the community wishing to have the ability to save for the future and access credit for entrepreneurial and personal activities in the present. KES has expanded into active micro-finance organization
