AID KENYA FOUNDATION

AID Kenya Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to mobilize voluntary humanitarian aid and development assistance to orphaned and vulnerable children, teenage mothers and disenfranchised populations in rural-urban Kenya. On humanitarian grounds, the Foundation implements: Humanitarian Aid & Development Assistance Project (HADAP). This project has seen birth of many programs and initiatives. This are all aimed at socio-economic transformation of the citizens’ lives at scale.

AID KENYA FOUNDATION'S MISSION

AID Kenya Foundation is a nonprofit nation-wide organization with a mission of ‘Changing Lives, Impacting Humanity.’ It mobilizes voluntary humanitarian aid for support, quality care and empowerment to and development assistance for orphans, vulnerable children (OVC, women and disadvantaged populations in rural-urban Kenya. Its activities focus on providing essential services to orphans and vulnerable children; we provide support in nutrition, medical access, education and vocational training, psychological support. Clothing, beddings and access to drinking water is also provided to families. Founded in 2007, AID Kenya has a devoted team of volunteers aggressively pursuing the love, compassion and self sustaining opportunities that all the young mother and children deserve only when the world cares. Children, young mothers and girls often bear the worst difficulties associated with living in poor neighborhoods. The burden of seeking for basic needs for their families makes their lives hopeless and miserable with little time for education or to make a better living. Who cares! The Foundation looks to help in whatever way possible through a variety of programs for the needy. We currently focus on five key programs; Foster – A – Child Program, Tunza Teenage Mothers Support, Stop FGM Now Campaign, Experiential Learning and Cultural Exchange Program; which affords willing volunteers the unique opportunity to positively impact people in need in a hands-on environment and Project innovation and Special Programs. Kenya suffers an 11 percent rate of orphan-hood, one of the highest infant and maternal mortality rates in the world, and widespread poverty, so it's no wonder that programs like the ones offered through the AID Kenya Foundation are so interested in getting more support. The foundation has a number of Tunza Children Centers, and started a number of community led participatory initiatives such as Fair Trade Kenya initiative; empowering young mothers and women on hand made items and product on how to market them, Maendeleo Mashinani Initiative (MaMI), Jawabu Foundation among others. ‘Tunza’ is a Swahili word for ‘Care’ while ‘Jawabu’ is Swahili Word for ‘Solution’ . Thanks, Armstrong O'Brian Ongera, Jnr. Executive Director Aid Kenya Foundation P. O. BOX 5956-00200 Kibiku Road, Off Eastern Bypass, Embakasi, Nairobi-KENYA. E-Mail: or Cell. +254 722 233 234

AID KENYA FOUNDATION APPEAL FOR KCDA COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER.avi

AID Kenya Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to mobilize voluntary humanitarian aid and development assistance to orphaned and vulnerable children, teenage mothers and disenfranchised populations in rural-urban Kenya.On humanitarian grounds, the Foundation implements, The Project HOPE Kenya ,in the following forms of support: EduAid Scholarships, school uniforms, feeding, health-care, sanitation, clothing, sanitary towels, vocational training, and psycho-social care.

THE PROJECT HOPE KENYA: KITUTU COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER

AID KENYA FOUNDATION, together with its strategic collaborative partners, the and Kitutu Community Development Association (KCDA) is building and equipping the Kitutu Community Resource Center, to benefit the at risk youth, teenage mothers and the disadvantaged populations of Kitutu Community, Kisii County, in the Republic of Kenya, East Africa.

The Project HOPE Kenya :KITUTU COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER

AID Kenya Foundation works with local communities, and collaborative partners to empower rural-urban teenage girls and mothers in the areas of education, health-care, talent development and vocational training.

Together with Strategic Collaborative Partners, The Foundation supports hundreds of orphaned and vulnerable children to access educational opportunities, shelter, health-care and psychosocial support; It further supports many teenage girls to get regular supply of sanitary towels just keep them in school and increase their self esteem; Kenya is currently experiencing a societal breakdown, where in every household, there is a teen mum some at the age of 12 with a baby or two. As a matter of urgency, under the Foundation’s Project HOPE Kenya Program, the Foundation is building in a Kitutu Community Resource Center/Teenage Mothers Center with the following objectives:

1. Teaching teenage mothers on motherhood, nutrition, parenting and reproductive health;

2. Rehabilitate teenage mothers involved in alcoholism, drug and substance abuse;

3. Offer vocational trainings like tailoring, hairdressing, computers and ICT, arts, and Embroidery;

4. Create awareness on dangers and risks of teenage motherhood, HIV/AIDS and STIs;

5. Provide quality health-care to both the mother and child and conduct regular medical camps in the surrounding community;

6. Distribute sanitary towels and pampers;

7. Offer a back-to-school reintegration program to embrace formal education by providing scholarships;

8. Provide guiding and counseling and psychotherapy;

9. Build self-esteem, confidence and courage; and

10. Host a Day Care Center for the kids of teen mums.


RESOURCE MOBILIZATION AND FUND-RAISING:

A Call to Action: Effectively, AID Kenya Foundation is seeking for collaborative partners to help realize the objectives of the Resource Center. We are also inviting volunteers under the Foundation’s Experiential Learning & Cultural Exchange Program from around to join hands with us.

BUDGET:

Our initial budget to complete the infrastructural building and equipping is Kenya Shillings 15,550,000 Million, equivalent to USD 207,350 or EUROS 155,500. That budget will cater for the roofing, fencing, putting up furniture and office table, student desks, buying sewing machines, computers, finishing the toilet. The Center is already 60 per cent complete.

SKILLS AND COURSES:

In the 12 months of 2011, we aim to train the first 60 students (40 teenage mothers and 20 youth), on skills like tailoring, IT and computer courses, photography, hair dressing, driving, welding, cooking and embroidery, painting and printing.

DONATIONS:

We highly recommend that well wishers donate in kind, in the form of cement, sand, bricks, computers, sanitary pads, sewing machines, office tables, stationery, printers, paint, wire mesh, ceiling boards, doors, windows, books, training manuals modules, and cartridges, cameras.

FUNDARASING:

Besides, donations, we have put in place mechanism by the Foundation to raise funds through the Foundation’s Fair Trade Initiative (FTI-AID Kenya Program), a program of selling curios and products that are made by women and teenage mothers and youth like beads, carvings, paintings, soap stones, t-shirts, caps, pens. Also the teen mums will produce school uniforms for sale to the local market which is so potential. In the long run, the project will sustain its self, through the Fair Trade Initiative.

If you would like to volunteer, partner, support or donate , contact the undersigned:

Armstrong O'Brian Ongera, Jnr.
Executive Director
AID Kenya Foundation
P. O. BOX 5956-00200
Nairobi-Kenya.
Tel. +254 772 178 818 Cell: +254 722 233 234 Or + 254 722 649 965
E-Mail: info@aidkenya.org
Website: www.aidkenya.org
Mission: “Changing Lives, Impacting Humanity”


DONATIONS:

Voluntary Donations can be sent by check or wire transfer to the following Bank Account:-

A/C Name: AID KENYA FOUNDATION
A/C No. : 082-1430151
Swift Code: BARCKENX
Bank: BARCLAYS BANK OF KENYA
Branch: Haile Selassie Avenue,Nairobi,Kenya.

Our Postal Address for in-kind donations:
AID Kenya Foundation,
P. O. BOX 5956-00200, Nairobi-Kenya
Tel. +254 772 178 818

Adopt- A-Child Project: Wanalea Children Home and the EduAid Scholarship Program

AID Kenya Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to mobilize voluntary humanitarian aid and development assistance to orphaned and vulnerable children, teenage mothers and disenfranchised populations in rural-urban Kenya. On humanitarian grounds, the Foundation implements, The Project HOPE Kenya ,in the following forms of support: EduAid Scholarships, school uniforms, feeding, health-care, sanitation, clothing, sanitary towels, vocational training, and psycho-social care.

Armstrong, Executive Director, AID Kenya Foundation, with Wanalea Children' Home kids.

WANALEA CHILDREN'S HOME:

Wanalea Children’s Home, was co founded through a strategic collaborative partnership, between ADDHU, a Portuguese International Humanitarian Organization, based out of Lisbon, Portugal, and AID Kenya Foundation, a not-for-profit humanitarian aid and development assistance foundation headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.

DOCUMENTARIES:

The Center formally started in January 2007, following a research that was conducted by AID Kenya Foundation in the year 2004 and 2006 that found out that most orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC) are not well cared for and most live in absolute poverty in Kenya’s informal settlements(Slums or Ghetto) after their parents died of HIV/AIDS, or were abandoned by teenage mothers.

AID Kenya Foundation, explained the research findings in a book that was published in 2005 by Robert Neuwirth, a New York based investigative journalist, through his book, the Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New World.  Find more on the blog: http://squattercity.blogspot.com/. Later on in 2006, the findings were shared in a documentary that was covered by another investigative Journalist, Dr. Sheri Fink, a reporter of Public Radio International/BBC USA, based in Boston, Massachusetts. Documentary Link: http://media.theworld.org/wma.php?id=12186wf

Initial kids were selected from Kware Slums, and others from Nakuru, Kisii and in Meru. Later on after the post election violence, that happened in 2008, we selected more kids who were internally displaced. Now we have 26 kids in residence and several hundreds under the Foster Parents Program/Adopt-A-Child program, where we support kids while they live with guardians. Normally, the support we extend cover food, medical care, books, school fees (EduAid Scholarship Program).

Adopt-A-Child Project:

On this particular program, we seek out for families and individuals or corporations or Kenyan Diaspora that would like to support OVC kids in rural-urban Kenya. Education is critically important for the future of Kenya and we can realize the development of the national and address abject poverty by investing in children. 

Children under the EduAid Scholarship Program attending  rural public school in Kenya.

Sponsorship:

We have many thousands of children seeking for The EduAid Scholarship Program. To support a kid in a whole month, it takes at least KES. 5000.00 equivalent to USD. 65.00, that almost USD. 2 per day. Most children who have either been orphaned or abandoned never go to school neither do they get care and support from the extended families, and if they are girls, they become child laborers or house maids at between age 8-10 or become teenage mothers at the tender age of 13 year or join prostitution which is rampant in rural and urban slums.Just imagine!! For boys, they join other older youth who are idle and unemployed and start taking drugs or become petty thieves. Under the Foster Parent Program, we commit a guardian to ensure that the kids regularly goes to public school near their neighborhoods and are well fed, clothed, cared and monitored.

Program Monitoring and Reporting:

Our field officers and grass-root collaborators and the community corroborates the regular information we receive from the guardians in form of letters, pictures, and further requests for the sole protection of the kids.

Under the EduAid Scholarship Program, we distribute school uniforms, shoes, sanitary pads, writing materials, school supplies, backpacks, text books, story books, pencils, pens and crayons.

Armstrong, Volunteers, Staff and Kids visit the Nairobi National Park on Education Trip

Program Implementation:

Curently the program is implemented in Kisumu Ndogo,Kware Slums, Ongata Rongai, Kajiado County; Kitui Ndogo Slums, Nairobi County; Kitutu Community, Kisii County; Canaan/Pipeline IDP Camp, Nakuru County; Ole Maa Maasai Village, Embakasi, Nairobi County;Mitahatho Village, Kiambu County; Murungurune-Nkubu Community, Meru County; Mageta Island, Lake Victoria, Siaya County; Bahari Community, Kilifi County; Lake Turkana Community, Turkana County; and Kimilili Community, Bungoma. We will cover more regions in the months and years ahead under our Strategic Plan of Humanitarian Action 2010-2015, as we enlist more supporters.

Volunteer Program:

GoNomad Feature: AID Kenya Foundation's Experiential Learning & Cultural Exchange Program Feature Story at GoNomad, http://www.gonomad.com/helps/1011/kenya-volunteer.html

For feedback, contact:

Program Coordinator

Adopt-A-Child Project

AID Kenya Foundation

P. O. Box 5956-00200

Nairobi, Kenya.

Tel. + 254 772 178 818

Cell: + 254 722 649 965

E-mail: info@aidkenya.org

Website: http://www.aidkenya.org

Happy Christmas, Happy Holidays 2010.

Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas:ADDHU-AID Kenya Foundation's Wanalea Children's Home kids, staff, volunteers and collaborative partners are as excited as ever to share their HAPPINESS, COMPASSION and HOPE. May 2011 be prosperous you and your families, as we mark another milestone together.

Armstrong, with Wanalea Children's Home Kids

Project HOPE Kenya: Appeal For Humanitarian Aid

Project HOPE Kenya:As we Celebrate Christmas next weekend, I make a personal appeal to you for FOOD, SANITARY PADS, CLOTHES,TOYS and MOSQUITO NETS, on behalf of orphaned kids, teenage mothers, and widows of Kware Slums, Ongata Rongai; Canaan/Pipeline IDP Camp, Nakuru; and Kitutu Community, Kisii.

Send donation to: AID Kenya Foundation, P. O. Box 5956-00200, Nairobi,KENYA  

or Call:+254 772 178 818

A teenage mother who is a member of KCDA, being registered, by AID Kenya Foundation volunteer, Ms. Keziah Oseko

Carolina, a collaborative partner of AID Kenya Foundation, from ADDHU, donating a mosquito net to teenage mother, a member of KCDA.

A widow, a member of KCDA, receiving a donation of a dairy cow, under The Cow Giveaway Program.


Kitutu Community Development Association (KCDA), is a community based organization (CBO) with a mission of alleviating poverty and creating sustainable opportunities for the people of Kitutu Community, Kisii County. KCDA is mainly supported by ADDHU, A Portuguese International Humanitarian Organization, and AID Kenya Foundation, a Kenyan nonprofit foundation with a mission of Changing Lives, Impacting Humanity.