The empowerment programme, which was established to help guardians who have responsibility of taking care of the orphaned children in their households, is now six months old. The programme is based in Kandara, central Kenya. The overall goal of the project is to provide food security among orphaned and vulnerable children and their guardians in order to sustain their livelihoods and thereby reduce poverty and dependency.
It’s through this programme that we have engaged the guardians in the process of increasing the capabilities as individuals and groups to make purposeful choices, and to transform these choices into desired actions and outcomes. Empowered people will have freedom of choice and action. This in return will improve the lives of the orphaned children in the Miale programmes.
For us to achieve our main objective, we are in the process of ensuring that our guardians have:-
• Access to information
• Inclusion and participation
• Strengthened social structures and accountability
Guardians have learnt how to compost manure using the locally available materials, how to cultivate their land and also how to conserve the soil. Rains are here with us and we are expecting an increase in yields.
This programme requires funding to make it a reality. It could be you who will assist these guardians and change their lives as well as those of their children.
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