Shikokho Primary School

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.

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Project Africa

Location: Kakamega, Kenya Setting: Urban Established: 2007 Staff: 8

Subject Areas:

Women’s Empowerment: Women and girls empowerment
Human Rights: Women and Children rights and protection
Education: Vocational training, literacy classes
Microfinance: Small business for women in rural areas

Organization Objectives:
Project Africa’s main objective is to empower women by giving them skills and resources for enterprise development in rural areas. It seeks to raise women who will understand that their gifts and talents can make room for their economic uplift more than they have been made to believe.
Its goals are to:
• Remove barriers that prevent women from gaining skills and participating in income generating projects
• Encourage education for girls and adult education for women in rural areas
• Increase micro-credit schemes for women and investing in the agriculture sector

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Kakamega Forest Dispensary

Location: Isecheno, Kakamega Setting: Rural Established: 1970's Staff: 5

Subject Areas:

Health and Community Outreach

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.

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FORWARD KENYA, Webuye, Kakamega Kenya

Location: Webuye Kakamega, Kenya Setting: Rural Established: 1995 Staff: 4

Subject Areas:

Youth and Education: Personal and Professional Development, Cognitive Development, Child and Adolescent Development
Women’s Empowerment: Gender Equity Strategies and women’s rights.
Health: Better Health Services to the HIV and AIDS
Microfinance: Small Business Training, Poverty reduction program among the vulnerable people.

Organization Objectives:
Forward Kenyans’ obligations is to help Webuye communities and its environs to access better health services for controlling HIV and AIDS and to initiate poverty reduction programs for the communities and to empower the marginalized communities in Western Kenya for better living standards through the promotions and trainings.

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Kakamega Entrepreneurs Savings and Credit Co-Operative Society (KES)

Location: Kakamega, Kenya Setting: Rural/Urban

Subject Areas:

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

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Friends Secondary School, Lusui

Location: Kakamega, Kenya Setting: Rural Established: 1993 Staff: 25

Subject Areas:

Youth: Personal and Professional Development, Cognitive Development, Child and Adolescent Development
Education: To be a center of Academic Excellence responsive to the societal values and needs. Child empower to intellectual skills and values of integrity for the sustainable development in the society.
Women's Empowerment: Gender Equity Strategies

Organization Objectives:
Friends Secondary School, mission is to help Lusui, Kakamega community and the surrounding areas obtain the education and skills necessary to benefit both themselves and also to empower the physically and spiritually marginalized communities in Lusui Kakamega Kenya to improve their lives through recognizing the need to anchor its operations on certain guiding principles and values.

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Empowerment of Disabled Development Organization (EDDO)

Location: Kakamega, Kenya Setting: Rural Established: 2005 Staff: 10

Subject Areas:

Youth and Education: Personal and Professional Development, Cognitive Development, Child and Adolescent Development, Sign Language training among the susceptible people.
Health: Better Health Services to the HIV and AIDS infected and affected.
Microenterprise: Small Business Training, Mushroom Farming, Poverty reduction program among the people with disabilities

Organization Objectives:
EDDO, mission is to help Kakamega community and the surrounding areas to have an improved health services and to control HIV and AIDS also to try and reduce the poverty reduction program to the surrounding community and also to empower the marginalized communities in Western Kenya to improve their lives through the promotion and Small Trainings that they get.

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Solar Cookers International

Location: Kakamega Setting: Rural Established: 1987 Staff: 4

Subject Areas:
Youth and Education: Personal and Professional Development, Cognitive Development, Child and Adolescent Development
Women’s Empowerment: Gender Equity Strategies, Women’s Rights
Health: Clean and Smoke-Free Cooking, Safe Water Projects
Microfinance: Small Business Training, Selling Clean Energy Technologies

Organization Objectives:
SCI’s mission is to help the Kakamega community and surrounding areas use clean energy technologies for cooking and water pasteurization to benefit themselves and the environment and to empower the marginalized communities in Western Kenya to improve their lives through the promotion and use of clean technologies in their community.

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Anglican Church Kenya Western Region Christian Civil Service (ACKWRCCS)

Location: Kakamega, Kenya Setting: Rural Established:1997 Staff:60

Subject Areas:

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:
ACKWRCCS’ mission is to help the Kakamega community and the surrounding areas obtain the education and skills necessary to better themselves and empower the physically and spiritually marginalized communities in Western Kenya to improve their lives through Participatory Learning and Action (P.L.A.) in their communities.

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Muslim for Human Rights (MUHURI)

Location: Mombasa Setting: Urban Established: 1997 Staff: 7

Location: Mombasa     Setting: Urban     Established: 1997     Staff: 7

 

Subject Areas

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
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