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TOP Kenya Founding Members:
YARD, RODI, SHOPHAR, ELIMU TV, SCOPE & KWENTOP Kenya Founding Members are 6 NGOs and companies that have gone through Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) training and wish to continue their efforts. They provide solutions to challenges such as hunger, water, violence, prisoners' reinsertion, microfinancing and more. Here is a very short sample of their activities and below more details.
- RODI (Resource Oriented Development Initiative): works with schools and prisons: prisoners grow their own food, and become permaculture specialists, They become leaders in their community when they leave prison,
- YARD: works with young girls at risk / prostitutes and teaches them to work in cosmetic salons/hairdressers.
- SHOPHAR: a former headmaster whose school and water purification system was visited by the President of Kenya. James Otieno presented ESD at the UN in 2016.
- ELIMU TV: broadcasts educational content to children who can't afford to go to school
- SCOPE: a network of 18 NGOs introducing permaculture in schools
- KWEN: a network of 6000 women entrepreneurs with table banking and micro financing.
The DRAGONFly NGO
Tourbes France
TOP Global Partner
Mission:
To organise events and artistic retreats around wellness, centered on the field of ecology in various countries, in order to educate people about the choice of a more responsible and united life.
Contact: Emma M
Email: thedragonflyngo@gmail.com
Elimu TV
Nairobi, Kenya
TOP Kenya Founding Member
Enabling Education for All Children and Youth through ICT/Media
Contact: Jane Muthiga
Email:elimudm@gmail.com
JOEL OMINO SECONDARY SCHOOL
KISUMU , KENYA
TOP Center
The challenge
Students were suffering from water born diseases caused by drinking unsafe water in the school and at home. This affected their learning in school and regular duties as well as faced with huge medical bills.
The Solutions
Students were trained on how to make and maintain Biosand Water Filter. They were able to pass this knowledge and skill to the community.
Results
Students and members of the community are now able to attend school and their regular duties with less or no disruption caused by water born diseases and at the same time access safe drinking water at a cheaper cost and less or zero medical bill.
Picture
The President of Kenya H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta listens to the students explaining how the Filter works.
Links:
http://www.biosandfilter.org/
Instructables: biosand filter: http://www.instructables.com/id/Biosand-Filter/Contact:James Aggrey Otieno
Email: ja1957otieno@gmail.com
RODI-Kenya
Resources Oriented Development InitiativesKiambu Kenya
TOP Kenya Founding Member
Resources Oriented Development Initiatives (RODI Kenya) is a kenyan development organization with a primary focus on restorative prisoner rehabilitation, crime prevention and administration of justice.
RODI Kenya has a mission of promoting human dignity among communities in Kenya and Eastern Africa countries through enhanced food security, health and crime prevention.
Contact:Eliud Ngunjiri
Email: eliud.ngunjiri @yahoo.com
YARD
YOUTH ACTION for RURAL DEVELOPMENTMuranga Kenya
TOP Kenya Founding Member
Existing solutions:
Water, Health, Education
Water:
The community should be encouraged to harvest rain water to cater for their daily use.
Health:
In terms of Health the community has been able to learn how to wash their hands after visiting the toilets and before eating.
Education:
Children should be taught on practical Skills at a tender age.
Contact: Sebastian Maina
Email: mainaseb@yahoo.com
SHOPHAR KENYA
Kisumu Kenya
TOP Kenya Founding Member
The word “Shophar” is Hebrew word meaning horn or trumpet (Britannica Encyclopedia) To the Hebrew mind horns were potent symbols (Bill Bratt) and horns were blown:
on joyful occasions
to confuse enemies
at the beginning of every month
to call sacred assembly
as the sound of war
Shophar Kenya, metaphorically shall make a breakthrough for ESD within the SDG’s remaining period for communities to embrace change for sustainable development as we “blow” the Shophar during implementation. The Shophar shall be “blown” to break “walls” that prevent sustainable social, economic, environmental and cultural development of our society like the walls of biblical Jericho that fell down when the Shophar was blown (Joshua 6:1ff) – and the enemies fled away.
Contact:
Kisumu City, Nyamasaria, opposite Nyamasaria Pr. School.
P.O. Box 2038 Kisumu 40100
Tel: +254 722 589003, +254 733 980229
E-mail: shophar@shophar.org,
shophar2015@gmail.com
SCOPE
Schools and Colleges Permaculture ProgrammeThika Kenya
TOP Kenya Founding Member
SCOPE Kenya, which is a network of 18 civil society organizations, work with schools and communities in 11 counties. We promote an integrated and holistic approach to land use for food production, income generation and environmental conservation, something that our school curriculum lack.
Contact : John Macharia – SCOPE
Email: scope@scopekenya.net or scopekenya7@gmail.com
Sahajanand special school
Mtwapa Kenya
TOP Center
Sahajanand special school is an ESD (Education for Sustainable Development) center of Excellence of children with special needs . The school is situated at Mtwapa, 20 kilometers south of Mombasa, Kenya.
The school has 3 main Departments as follows:
1. Special primary catering all categories of disabilities like children with hearing impaired, intellectual challenged, microcephaly etc.
2 .Vocational training: we offer in this department the following courses for children with disabilities weaving shoe making, beads making, agriculture and more
3 Inclusive technical secondary Department
we run in this department a one stream secondary school with an emphasis on technical subjects like electricity, power mechanic, wood work, metal work building and contraction, Kenya sign language, art and design .
Contact: Patrick MuzunguEmail: sahajanandsp@gmail.com
KWEN, Konyon Wenditai Empowerment Network
Bomet Kenya
TOP Kenya Founding Member
The leading National Women Network in Women Empowerment in Kenya
Mission:
To holistically empower the community
Our vision:
We envision an empowered and productive society
Contact: Angela Lesan, Lily Cronoh Koech
Email: alesan@kwen.org, lilyronoh@kwen.org
