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