We are a self help group who are determined to creating the much needed change in Nyakach Kenya. We are currently doing some projects in the area and we are determined to solving some of the problems that Nyakach is facing currently.

 

Here is a list of our projects:

1. Peace Kids Nursery and Day Care Centre

This was an initiative of Kindu Self Help Group. (KISHEG.) Members who saw the real need to start a Nursery School cum Day Care Centre in the village which would offer the much needed Early Childhood Development (E.C.D) to these vulnerable children for free, the project targeted mostly the orphans in the area who are unable to afford school fees to attain this basic education. The school has enrolled more than seventy children who are now attending classes at the centre. There are two volunteer teachers teaching at the centre and are helping these needy children to acquire the quality basic education.

These needy children attending the school are being taught at no cost as they are paying absolutely nothing to the services they are getting. We are planning to have a feeding program introduced to the peace kids’ centre as soon as possible and we have a maize farm which would produce some maize this year to kick off the program. It’s very worrying to find that most of these children lack enough food and would go without food for a day or two at their various homes since they come from very poor back ground and their guardians are unable to provide consecutive meals, they just have to skip some meals just because they would not afford it. It’s hardly possible to find them get all the three meals a day at their various homes and therefore its high time to start this much needed feeding program for these needy children at the centre, this would go along way to ensure that they would be able to have at least be assured of lunch meal everyday and hence reduce the suffering a bit.


2. Agricultural projects

  • Maize Farming:
We have embarked to maize farming from late last year and it will be ready soon for harvesting in the next few months, this maize would be used for feeding the needy children at Peace Kids Centre, though Its not at large scale but we hope to expand the project so that we can have enough food supply for these kids at the centre for a whole year. This was an initiative started by the members of Kindu Self Help Group so that we may join hands in ensuring that these kids get something to eat when at school. Last year we tried to do the same off season and the yield did not materialize since the drought made them to wither before harvesting.
  • Tomatoes Farming:
We also grow tomatoes on small scale and this we do sell at the local market and we use the money to sustain our projects, the only problem with this project is lack of adequate rainfall in Nyakach but we do try as much as possible to water the farm using water drawn from the nearby river Sondu Miriu using donkey to transport it from the river to our farm which is not quite far away fro m this river. We also plan to have a water pump that would enable us water our tomatoes everyday and this would enable us grow in large scale for the local market and to feed the villagers too. By embarking to this intensive farming and we would be able grow even vegetable to supplement the food used for feeding the children at peace kids centre. This would really help in keeping good diet for these needy children at the centre.
  • Embroidery and Tailoring courses:
This has been started by one of our group member who has opened a stall in Nairobi, Kenya to train youths from Nyakach who are unable to find jobs after school or school drop outs. They are trained top be self employed, there are currently five trainees at the stall which is located in Nairobi Eastland’s, at the completion of this course the youths trained here are able to start their own embroidery and tailoring shops/stalls and be self employed. This project would really go along way to solve the increasing number of the orphans in Nyakach who are unable to continue with their education due to lack of school fees, it’s serving as a bridge to success in life for the needy children in Nyakach. The payments are usually very friendly as what the trainer needs is to get a calf from the parent or the guardian of the child being trained in exchange to the full course. He has volunteered to help them in this way after he was convinced that this way he too would be contributing to this needed change that Kindu Self Help Group has initiated because it has to start from us members of the group and grow like that to the outside world.

We intend to start selling these clothes online and to the outside markets as soon as may be able to establish that by doing this we shall be able to offer employment to many of the trainees in the course, also intend to use some percentage accrued from these sales to support the lunch program at the peace kids centre. If you would like to buy some please go to the samples page here and select or email us at kinduyouth@yahoo.com

  • Embroidery Products for sale:
We now have some readily made African attires (Embroidered African clothes for both men and women for all occasions) which are now available for sale at our stall in Nairobi Kenya and you can order for one or two from the products page below you just click on the photos and it would bring you a page to order from then we shall be able to ship it right away to your door steps. By buying these products of ours you are making a difference in orphaned kids’ lives because there is a percentage from these sakes that would go directly to support our orphaned brothers and sister at Nyakach Kenya.

What you may do with these products:

  1. Order and buy one or some for yourself or family.
  2. Help us locate market for these products in your country.
  3. Invite other friends to buy from us.
  4. Help us promote these products at your website or blogs.
    By doing any of the above you will be contributing in making a difference in the lives of these desperate kids in Nyakach and you will be so happy to be touching the lives of these children. These children are in daring need of your kind support so that they may be able to live a prosperous future.

Please order for one or more products today and help the needy child in Nyakach? Also you can help us market/sell these products in your country.

Available are men’s and women clothes and one can just chose and order for any number of the available products, we shall be able to process your order, once this is done we shall deliver it via the possible means to your place, For those who may order from abroad we shall be able to send the package via post office/DHL or via any other reliable means of sending parcels to your country and it would reach you in just a matter of days.

By buying these products you would be really contributing towards sending another orphaned kid to the training course or feeding the orphans at school in Nyakach Kenya. For the orphaned kid sent for training she/he would be able to earn a living by being a self employed parson when he/she completes the course. So in this way you too will be touching the lives of these desperate and vulnerable children in Nyakach Kenya.


3. HIV/Aids Campaigns

We at Kindu Self Help Group do carry out some HIV/Aids camping’s in Nyakach Kenya, this is mainly done to inform the community on the dangers of HIV/Aids and how to be safe from it, We do carry out some various events at the community level such as sports help bring people together and educate them on HIV/Aids issues for free. We also intend to involve the constituency and district aids committees in this project so that some of our members may be able to get some vital training to enable them carry out these activity with some professionalism. So far we do visit HIV/Aids patients in their homes and offer advice to them on how they can prolong their lives by living positively. We do make them to be aware that they can start taking ARV's which are now available at the divisional and district hospitals in Kenya at no cost. The government of Kenya has made these drugs available for free but due to ignorance at the village level you find that some patients are yet unaware of this.

We do take these awareness campaigns to the local level possible to inform these patients that there are drugs which can make them live longer life than they expect. Some whom have started using the ARV's are really doing so well health wise and its good that they actually do appreciate that fact that they can still live positively despite the fact that they have the HIV virus. This if continued can really create a big change to the whole community towards the attitude and hence reduce the stigma among HIV/aids patients. you find that in Luo community most of the Aids patients are still trying to find excuses on which disease they are suffering from due to the rooted cultural beliefs that enables them to find one excuse to another about what is making them ill. This makes them not to accept the real issue about HIV/Aids and there is still need to do lots of campaigns in this regard to reduce the prevalence rate. There are some traditional practices in Luo community that have really accelerated the HIV/Aids prevalence rate in the area and there is need to address them through intensive campaigns in the area.

Kindu Self Help Group plans to collaborate with both district and constituency aids control committees to start on a thorough program to curb the situation. These would involve very serious HIV/Aids campaigns in Nyakach and the main aim would be to reach the most remotes places that are Unreachable because they are the most hit by the scourge. These places cannot be reached by road hence they are left behind in most national campaigns involving HIV/aids awareness in the region. We are planning to go to the grassroots level to carry out these much needed awareness campaigns.

  

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