04/08/2016
Current Projects requiring Partnership and Support
1. Healthy eating of traditional and nutritious foods
Lifestyle diseases has been on the rise in most parts of the world and such diseases are cause by the foods we eat. Africa and to narrow it down, Kenya is not an exception. Most people have neglected producing traditional indigenous crops at the expense of modern foods. This has resulted into the diminishing of traditional food crops, increase in lifestyle diseases and loss of income to small scale farmers.
We have taken a critical look in all this and think that if people can start producing traditional food crops and feed on them then we'll be able to reduce food shortage given that some of these food crops are drought resistant, improve healthy living, save money used to treat diet related diseases, increase income capacity of small scale farmers thereby resulting into improved standards of living.
2. Education
There exist a high number of pupils, students and youths who in one way or another are not able to go to school due to the fact that they are not able to pay for school fees given that they come from poor background meaning their parents have no source of income even though such pupils, students and or youths are very bright. We have some who passed very highly in their high school exams and are qualified to go to university but due to lack of funds, are not able to and have gone ahead to doing manual work but still interested in going back to school.
As a local organization, we need your support in this area to make members of our community go to school.
3. Peace Development through Youth and Women Empowerment
According to Wikipedia, peace is a period of harmony between different social groups that is characterized by lack of violence or conflict behaviors, and the freedom from fear of violence. Commonly understood as the absence of hostility and retribution, peace also suggests sincere attempts at reconciliation, the existence of healthy or newly healed interpersonal or international relationships, prosperity in matters of social or economic welfare, the establishment of equality, and a working political order that serves the true interests of all.
Peace can be realized in every part of this world if each and every person plays his or her role right in society. A major challenge to world peace is the ballooning youth population and ever increasing rates of unemployment coupled with corrupt governments in developing nations, portrays a bleak future for the youth who see their governments as ‘unresponsive’ to their needs. Most governments in developing nations have not come up with a serious policy to root out youth unemployment. In 2007, the World Development Report titled Development and the Next Generation, focused on investing in young people in developing countries. The report acknowledges that 12-24 year olds worldwide have reached 1.3 billion, the largest in history. Whereas there are unprecedented challenges when it comes to the question of young people, there are also great opportunities that should be seized before the aging society closes those opportunities. The report highlights pivotal phases/transitions of life that can help unleash the development of young people’s potential with the right government policies. These transitions include: learning, working, staying healthy, forming families, and exercising citizenship, which, if corresponding policy decisions are made well, will safeguard and properly deploy human capital. If made badly, the consequences will be very costly to correct because dropping out of school, prolonged periods of unemployment, or risky health behavior can leave permanent scars that affect the quality of life in the later years. While decisions about these transitions are made by the youth and their families, the report realizes that policies and institutions have implications on the risks, opportunities and outcomes of these transitions.
Peace Education and Sensitization is planned to be conducted through:
1) Peace concerts.
2) Sports for peace e.g. run, football, singing and dancing competitions etc.
3) Peace Barazas.
4) Training sessions on Dispute Resolution Mechanism.
5) Print and social media campaigns.
6) Ensure visibility of peace stickers on both Private and Public Service Vehicles.
7) Use a pool of local and international volunteers to promote peace.
8) Universities, colleges and schools will be incorporated to form their own peace groups and rewards given to the best group activity.
