PROJECTS | Kenya

Mumias Child Protection and Community Centre
The aim of this project is to build a Child Protection and Community Centre in Mumias, Western Kenya to provide care and improve quality of life for orphans and vulnerable children suffering from extreme poverty, disease, abuse and neglect...

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Orphans and Vulnerable Children Rights Development Project
The Orphans and Vulnerable Children Rights Development Project aims to promote and protect the rights of 2,050 orphans and children most vulnerable to HIV/AIDS in Western Kenya; and to create a society in which orphans and vulnerable children’s rights are understood and respected, and in which they have opportunities to advance their livelihoods...

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Women's Education for Empowerment and Child Survival (WEECS)
The Women's Education for Empowerment and Child Survival (WEECS) project aims to increase functional literacy for 750 illiterate mothers and improve the quality of life of 3,700 children in Kakamega and Butere districts, Western Kenya by using the Regenerated Freire’s Literacy through Community Empowering Techniques (REFLECT) approach to literacy. WEECS will address the critical issues relating to the negative impact of poverty on women, exhibited through high rates of malnutrition, high rates of child and infant mortality, and low levels of literacy....

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The Wema Centre Trust - Empowerment of Sexually Abused and Exploited Girls Project
The Wema Centre Trust, a community rehabilitation programme for young street girls, is a registered local Kenyan non-governmental organization (NGO) that was started in response to the desperate plight of young street girls. The first centre was set up in a three-bedroom house in Likoni, south coast Mombasa in 1993. The Centre is now located along Bamburi-Utange road on a five acre-piece of land. The centre has a Board of Trustees, an Executive Director, a Management Committee and a team of 41 staff and volunteers who run the day-to-day affairs...

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