Kenya
Fealty CDI is working with the local community of Mibasi (Nyanza Province) and surrounding villages to build a locally staffed health clinic designed to deliver a wide range of health services and training.
Kenya’s population is estimated to reach more than 40 million people in 2010. The World Health Organisation (WHO, 2003) identified healthy life expectancy at birth for a male 44 years and 45 years for a female. This reduced life expectancy is attributed to a combination of inadequate health services, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, malaria, poor maternal and child health issues, and other preventable diseases.
Fealty CDI objectives are:
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To reduce negative health outcomes and improve access to healthcare by building a health clinic, in conjunction with community education and training
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To engage in sustainability activities to support the clinic operations and wider community beneficiaries.
Kivuli Project is an organisation committed to providing for the physical, spiritual and emotional needs for orphaned and abandoned children in the central highlands of Kenya. We have the capacity to provide for 40 children, most of who are orphaned to AIDS. The current ages of the children range from 7 to 16 and all attend primary school. All children live at the project with staff and attend a local Government school as day scholars. They are tutored during the evenings by our staff to consolidate what has been taught at school. In addition to caring for the children, the project has the aim to initiate and grow strong, lasting relationships with the extended families of the children in our care, the local community and surrounding schools.
The Namanjalala region of Kitale in north-western Kenya is home to 24,950 people. Only 9,000 of these people are over 20 years of age. 40% are illiterate and only 20% are educated to primary school level. HIV/AIDS and inter-tribal fighting has killed many of the people of working age.
Kitale House of Hope is home to 38 AIDS orphans. When stage one is complete it will house 67 children. There are currently 230 on our waiting list. We have a kindergarten and year one class with plans to purchase more land to develop a primary school. Two tailoring schools are in operation and provide training for young unemployed and single mothers. They are then employed in a factory run by one of the leader’s wives. Each year a team from Australia conducts seminars for teachers, leaders and community medical workers.
Chase is a community based project working in the Nyanza Province in the west of Kenya.
The individual programs of nursery schools, a primary school, a community centre and a
widow’s agriculture program are working to relieve the impact of a lack of necessities
including regular diet, fresh water, education, housing / shelter, basic medical treatment, love
and care, and to better the life of orphans and the whole community.
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Identify and support Kenyan youth through High School Scholarships and relevant tertiary training, thus building capacity in Youth so they are able to return skills to their local communities.
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Support East African based leadership training of Kenyan Youth so they become skilled community leaders in Kenya.
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Challenge young Kenyans to take up just and strategic leadership in their country and to exercise this leadership in their local communities and in their Nation.
