PROJECTS | Kenya

Opportunities for Children in Western Kenya
ICT and Western Education Advocacy and Empowerment Programme (WEAEP) have been working in partnership since June 2006 and, together, have developed a number of important projects. One such project is Opportunities for Children in Western Kenya. This project provides care and protection to exploited and abused children living and working on the streets and children at risk of migrating to the streets of Kenya’s Western Province.

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Orphans and Vulnerable Children Rights Development
WEAEP ’s Orphans and Vulnerable Children Rights Development project aims to promote and protect the rights of orphans and vulnerable children in Kenya’s Western Province and create a society in which their rights are understood and respected. It also aims to provide them with practical and vocational skills for self-reliance.

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Women's Education for Empowerment and Child Survival
WEAEP’s Women's Education for Empowerment and Child Survival (WEECS) project aims to increase functional literacy of young mothers and improve the quality of life of children under five years old in the Kakamega and Butere districts of Kenya’s Western Province. This project, which began in 2006, addresses the negative impacts of poverty on women, exhibited through high rates of malnutrition, child and infant mortality, and illiteracy.

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Empowerment of Sexually Abused and Exploited Girls
ICT began working with Wema Centre Trust (Wema) in 2007. Wema is a locally based NGO that runs a community rehabilitation programme for street girls in Mombasa, Kenya. There are hundreds of girls who live and work on the streets of Mombasa, many of whom have migrated from other parts of the country. These children, who often grow up living in slum communities or on street pavements, are extremely vulnerable to sexual abuse and exploitation. In 2007 Wema established Empowerment of Sexually Abused and Exploited Girls, a project that supports some of the most vulnerable children in Mombasa who face violence, exploitation and abuse on a daily basis.

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