AN APPLICATION GLOBAL GIVING
FROM KISUMU NETWORK AMBITIOUS YOUTH[C B O]
START DATE: JANUARY 2014
COMPLETION: JANUARY 2015
DURATION: 12 MONTHS
FUNDING CONTRIBUTION FROM KISUMU NETWORK AMBITIOUS AND ANGLICAN CHURCH-KISUMU BRANCH KSHS.$409770
GLOBAL GIVING FUND SEEKING KSHS.$93700/=
TOTAL COST FOR THE PROJECT:$409770
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Phones: 0705820344/0710197618
Postal Address: 101-40123-Megacity Kisumu
Physical Address: Manyata Bsublocation,KasagamKuoyo Village
PROJECT SUMMARY
The Kuoyo Vision Sports Club is a project ofKisumu Network Ambitious Youth group. The club was started in Year 2002 as a club for orphans and vulnerable children who could not afford formal education,basic needs such as shelter, clothes and food. The Vulnerable children include those whowere abandoned by their parents, whose parents are there but not capable and those who donot know their parents completely. This project is a follow up to many years of education andother basic services such as guiding and counseling, clothing, feeding and Sheltering which are by Kisumu Network Ambitious Youth Group. The project will focus on upgrading of the current club into a fully fledged Secondary School and equipping it with the necessaryfacilities. In the next three months the project will concentrate its activities on buildingdormitories and administration block, a block of class rooms, a dining hall, a science laboratory and a staffroom.
The education provided to local orphans and vulnerable children the new equipment andsupplies purchased through this project and the revenues raised from school fees willgenerate sufficient income to ensure sustainability of the project. The projects is targeting toprovide education and enhance sport by nurturing talent of the orphans , to provide education and sports service over ten thousand orphans and vulnerable children in Kisumucounty. An estimated 100 orphans in the school every year, young children who are thevulnerable and orphans benefiting from education will become productive memberoftheir community.
The project also seeks to access formal education to the majority orphans and vulnerablechildren in Kisumu County, western Kenya who does not have any access to quality formaleducation. It will also reduce the distance and the journey the children undertake in looking for health services since there are so many health units within the town of the county. The project will provide the desperately needed opportunity and hope for Kisumu county future" women and men leaders.
The proposed secondary school will be an investment in the future of the orphan and vulnerable children in KisumuCounty. It will be an investment in breaking vicious cycle of ignorance, diseases, robbery, petty thefts and poverty. It will also be an investment in strengthening the family, the society and bringing peace and prosperity in our county and indeed in our country as a whole. It will help the county of Kisumu to grow and mould - leadership from destitute children who will share their knowledge expertise with the rest of the world. The project will be continually monitored, evaluated and controlled by the group committee members in consultation with participating donors and project beneficiaries.
The ultimate goal of project is to provide shelter, feeding, nurturing sport talents and formal education to the destitute. Therefore the school will act as a rehabilitation centre for orphans and vulnerable children. As the group supporting a sport club, the school will enhance the children's capacity and nature their talent fully in any sport that the child would find interested in. This will make the children to benefit in two areas: of sport and formal education. Through contribution from our friends and well wishers like the YSDAK (Youths Sports Development Alliance of Kenya) we have been able to buy sport facilities necessary for their training and also we have been able to house some of them by providing them with daily basic needs. We therefore require additional funding to construct a fully fledged secondary school for these children so that they may be housed at school and also to increase the number of needy children in the county to be taken care of by the group members.
INTRODUCTION
Kisumu Network Ambitious Youth Group is an official religious organization within the
Anglican Church of Kenya, with members making a vowed committed to the loving and services of God and their sisters and brothers in need around the county.
The organization was established in 2002 by three members who are strong in Christianity.
The members were: - Samuel OmondiKungu, who is the head coach of the Kuoyo Vision
Sports Club, Joseph OnyangoOwuondo who is the head of guiding and counseling department and the late Elizabeth Achieng' the head of ladies department. The organization has its headquarters in Kisumu town, western Kenya. The organization borders Lake Victoria to west. To the east it borders Kajulu hill Northern part of the organization centre is international airport, southern it is situated Kano Plain scheme for rice. It is one of the best groups in Kisumu County at the moment. It has 25 members with a population of 100 orphans and vulnerable children being takencare by the members of the organization. The children are fully registered members of Kuoyo Vision Club. The Kuoyo Vision Sports Club is being sponsored by members of Kisumu Network Ambitious Youth Group who are the managers of the club.
The religious and community of the organization share the love of God through a variety of ministries. They have a common call to mission, being ever ready to go wherever they are needed. They remain open to the spirit in themselves and in other cultures and peoples. They live in community where they share and support as well as challenges. Provision of education services is therefore one way of fulfilling our mission.
Since its establishment, the Kisumu Network Ambitious Youth Group has continued to collaborate with a number of local and international organization and donors to implement projects in various fields including health, education, and vocational training, relief services ,conservation ofenvironment by planting trees and cleaning surroundings and evangelization. For examples
The organization is running the following projects)1: poultry farming, nursery school, tree planting every year, football tournaments yearly, basic education to couples, management of HIV/AIDS within the county, conflict resolution, nutritional based education, food security through various type of planting and changing behavior of orphan and vulnerable children of the organization including health practitioners primaryand secondaryteachersandaccountants who will manage the proposed school. Besides, the organization has set aside a ten acre of land for the proposed school. While many organizations in Kisumu county haveshunned the development of orphans and vulnerable children. We as the organization appreciate the effort. It is because we appreciate thedifficulties that the orphans and vulnerable children are going through and we are eager tohelp.KisumuNetworkAmbitiousYouthGroupwas startedin 2002asKuoyoVisionSportsClub for orphans and vulnerable children. The club is situated in Nyamasaria village,Manyatta‘B’ sub location,Kisumu town east constituency, ,kisumu East District West Kolwa location within Kisumu County.
This is the site the organization has proposed to establish the proposed secondary school. Theschool will cater for orphans, vulnerable children and children fromwell to do families. Itwill offer the ordinary level curriculum which is approved by the ministry of education andwill instill Christian values and ethics among the children. The school will finance its ownoperations through minimal fees charged for services provided, orphans and vulnerablechildren will get the services free of charge. School fees will be paid by children from well to do families and moderately poor ones. The charges will be modest and will be reviewed regularly in response to the needs of the poor. This will help the school to sustain itself by paying staff replacement of equipment and meeting other needs.
The school sees to access quality education to the orphans and vulnerable children are an effective way of improving gender balance and equity in the society. Equity recognizes the rights of all children to education. The school will introduce the values of fairness and social justice allocated or shared. The school values lead to ensure elimination of all forms of discrimination based on gender social-economic status, geographical location, race or religion. The school will make education relevant to the environment and light the situation of Kenya and will produce students who will respond to the actual needs, interest and problems of this country. Relevance in education will enhance equality of gender as well as quality education itself. Quality of education refers to the development of independent, analytical, creating potential of the individual, including critical imagination, spiritual and ethical values. It will humanize young orphans and vulnerable children and liberate them from injustices. The school seeks to enhance basic education among orphans and vulnerable children. Basic education is the minimum education every child both poor and rich should have. Basic education includes communication skills functional literacy, and numeral relevant skills, motivation towards knowledge acquisition and self confidence in the utilization of knowledge.
PROBLEM STATEMENT
Lack of enough finance has been a great challenge to destitute children in KisumuCounty. Lack of school fees by orphans and vulnerable children has contributed to various problems in Kisumu County.
Majority of the children have engaging beeninto criminal acts and some unwanted activities in the society.Many girls who could become future ambitious leaders in our republic are currently married at the age of less than 18 years.
Majority of girls practicing commercial sexual work in the county are as young as 16years. Street boys in the county are below 18years.It is very true that majority commercial sex workers in the town are destitute girls who can be rehabilitated to regain their glory of integrity. Street boys and early married girls can be rehabilitated to get sharpened to accomplish their ambitious of becoming future professionals in this country.
Insecurity increases daily within the kisumu town due to the idle boys in the town. Residents in Kisumu County find it so hard to walk beyond 8:00pm due to the insecurity in the town. No single door can sleep locked for more than one day. All the insecurity events take effect in town because of the idle boys and girls in the county. The proposed school is believed to be the tool to help curb all the problems in the county rising from destitute children.
It is believed that the proposed school will help in sending destitute girls to school hence early marriage and commercial sexual work will be greatly reduced. We as Kisumu Network Ambitious are optimistic that the number of street boys and idle ones who are beefing insecurity in the region will be reduced greatly. We hope that we are going to greatly reduced insecurity in the county and even reduce the rate of early marriage in the county. The proposed school is meant to rehabilitate hopeless children to gain their hope and become responsible people in their communities and to the nation entirely.
PROJECT BENEFICIARIES
This proposal aims to assist the orphans and vulnerable children to acquire formal education.
It aims at responding to increased needs and numerous problems facing orphans and
Vulnerable children. The educations of the destitute have tragically been ignored in Western
Kenya. For centuries orphans and vulnerable children have struggled against opposition fromtheir own relatives, besides facing blind prejudice from the society and always enduring public scenemany destitute continue to face discriminationin education and some school havebeen overtaken and overshadowed by their rich counterparts.
The orphans and vulnerable children are used as domestic workers and their time for education is actually limited .Domesticwork is full time job for the destitute children in Kisumu, Kenyawestern part. The destitute children work 17 hours per day which results in physicalconstraints and fatigue. 75% of all domestic workers in Kisumu County are destitute childrenaged below 18 years. Harassments and other abuses of domestic workers are commonpractices. The destitute children migration in search of domesticated jobs in urban areas has resulted in increased prostitution and robbery from destitute girls, boys, respectively for economic reason. Thishas in turn increased incidents of HIV/AIDS and fear among the residents of the Kisumu urban centre due to increased number of street children. They fear the street urchins becauseof robbery and grabbing of their belonging for their survival purposes. The destitute childlabor is a rampant practice that continues to keep children out of school. This happen mostlyto orphans who are staying by their relatives who do not to send them to school due tohigh cost of school fees.
The orphans and vulnerable children suffer the physical ill-being of hunger, sickness, painand stress leading to physical weakness and dependence, ignorance due to lack of education,leads to lack of reclusion of the destitute child. These results to rejection, isolation, loneliness, insecurity, vulnerability, worry; hunger, fear and unwanted pregnancy among thedestitute girls. Early and forced marriage and sexual exploitation are the order of the day. Theplace of the girl destitute child in society has been reduced to practice for raising resourcesthrough marriages.
Again and again, powerlessness seems to be at the care of the destitute child's life. The stigmaof illiteracy continues to round children. A considerable number of destitute children haveturned to taking alcohol in order to manage and alleviate stress. The proposedschool seeks torescue the orphans and vulnerable children and help redeem their respect, dignity, confidence and lost glory.
The obstacles that stand on the way of the orphans and vulnerable children are greater thanever before. The obstacles to the advancement of the children mean that theireducation is constantly interrupted and it is virtuallyimpossible further to learn as dayscholars. They therefore need a boarding school.
Talking to orphans and vulnerable children one can see their desperate need foreducation, their despair, frustration, anguish, humiliation, shame and stigma. For each child denied education, is an opportunity tragically lost.
KUOYO VISON SPORTS CLUB
Kisumu Network Ambitious Youth Group members are the managers ofKuoyoVisionSports Club,home of orphans and vulnerable children.Currently the home is supporting 100 orphans and vulnerable children. 50 are hosted by the club managers. The club have60 boys and 40 girls. Out of the orphans and vulnerable children, 20 ofthem are in nursery school 40 ofthem are in primary school, 10 of them are in secondary school, 10of them are in technical school and 2 are in universityand 18 of them did not join secondary schooldue to lack of school fees. Those did not join secondary school are all married and boys amongst them are bodaboda riders. The organization would manage to host only 50 of them and remaining 50 arewith their different relatives. The children posses the biggest challenge in terms ofcare and upbringing. Only four of group members are capable of taking care of 100 orphansand vulnerable and this is a strain on the ability of the coordinators to provide effectiveservices to the children. The goal of the organization is to improve the lives of disadvantaged andvulnerable children like street children, children orphaned through HIV/AIDS and any otherdestitute child. Currently the organization members provide shelter, food, clothing, healthcare and other needs to the children hosted by four co-coordinators of the club who arethe executive members of Kisumu Network Ambitious Youth Group. The club by help of theexecutive officials of the group acts as real home to these homeless children. Apart fromproviding home services, the club together with the youth group supports education. The Kisumu Network Ambitious Youth[C B O] is a registered charitable institution recognizedby the government of Kenya and working under Anglican Church the diocese ofMaseno South.
The Kisumu Network Ambitious youth Group's intervention in taking care of the said orphans areand vulnerable are the following:-
- Provision of all basic needs to the children such as food, clothing, shelter and healthneeds.
- Provision of education including the basic primary, pre-primary and post primaryeducation.
- Guidance and counseling to the children parents and the guardians
- Pastoral work to the children, parents and guardians. Community based health careand hygiene in collaboration with the Christian community who assist with the littlethey can.
- Technical training such as carpentry, electric mechanic, driving, embroidery,agriculture and others.
- The surrounding of the club has been badly affected by poverty and HIV/AIDS and this makes it very difficult for the community to support the club. That is why theorganization seeks for your assistance.
NEED ANALYSIS