Kenya
Loss of eye sight has a tremendous economic and social impact on low-income families, eliminating the ability of at least one person to earn an income and often requiring substantial assistance from at least one other family member. Upper Hill Eye and Laser Centre (UHEAL) will provide specialized eye care services previously unavailable in Kenya and East Africa. UHEAL mobile eye units will operate 15 camps a year across Kenya to diagnose and treat diabetic retinopathy, a major cause of preventable blindness. UHEAL will offer eye examinations, follow-up care, and laser treatment at an affordable rate.
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.
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.
Mully Children's Family Homes in Kenya have been operating since 1989 by providing homeless, impoverished street kids a permanent home and offering them security, education, skills training, emotional healing and the unconditional love of a family. The founder (Charles Mulli) is a former street kid who well knows the dangers that children without a home are exposed to and his goal is to rescue as many as possible.
This is a very large overall project and was voted the best project in the world in 1999 by World Vision.
Over the past decade, the proportion of Kenya’s population living in poverty has escalated. A significant contributing factor to this escalation is the widespread effects of HIV/AIDS. As a consequence, the children are left orphaned and often end up on the street having to fend for themselves. To survive, children work as beggars, sex workers, thieves, and partake in petty trade and drug trafficking.
The Mully Children’s Home aims to address the plight of orphaned and vulnerable children under 17 years of age. A lack of literacy skills and vocational training renders then unemployable. Therefore MCF aims to rehabilitate and train them in various skills so that they are able to earn a living in a dignified way. MCH also addresses their health status. This is done by providing the right nutrition, health care and education. Those suffering from HIV/AIDS or with family members that have the disease are given specific training on how to care for themselves and their family. Currently the homes five branches cater for 827 children with another 650 having been successfully reintegrated back into the community
J121 was completed 30 June 2008 and was replaced by project J425
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.
This project has bought land and built a centre in Kisumu Kenya. We have 37 children at this time and work with the local government children’s department in Kisumu. We have a sponsorship program running to meet the every day need of food etc. and a building fund for future development.
Project Manager: MCCMII – Lindsay Lockwood
- Support local communities become independent of ‘handouts’ and in the development of sustainable micro-projects.
- To give widows access to income-generating skills, including a kick start with grants or products they can use in sustainable enterprise..
- To enable local leaders become more proficient and confident in exercising programming, planning and budgeting skills.
- 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.
- Support East African based leadership training of Kenyan Youth so they become skilled community leaders in Kenya.
- 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.
