Gonda Nguono Self-Help Group

From Muungano Wa Wanavijiji Makika Network Kisumu

Chairman: Thomas Onyango
Pius Okello
George Omondi

Activities:
- Poultry Keeping
- Briquette Making
- Pig rearing
- Netball

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Katuk Heware Youth Group

Frederick Ogohdi

Activities:
- Bicycle Transport
- Solid Waste Management

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Meta Meta High Self-Help Group

Activities: Savings / Shares

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Arina Amani Self-Help Group

Chairperson: Wilfrida Atieno
Secretary: Amos Ochieng
Treasurer: Lorine Atieno

Activities:
- Savings / shares
- Merry-go-round
- Poultry keeping
- Selling vegetables

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Faster Faster Youth Group

Zachary Onyango
Moses Chogo Ambas

Activities:
- Poultry keeping
- Savings

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Upepo Self-help Group

Chairperson: Lucy Awuor
Secretary: Jenipher Achieng
Treasurer: Ruth Atieno Bala

Activities:
- Poultry Keeping
- Savings
- Groceries

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Highway Road Women's Group

Chairperson: John Owino
Secretary: Eunice Ajune
Treasurer: Mary Adhiambo

Activities:
- Poultry Keeping
- Charcoal Trade
- Urban Agriculture
- Savings

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Nyariwo Self-help Group

Chairlady: Florence Onyango
Secretary: Kenedy Odhiambo Odoyo
Treasurer: Mary Kore Abudho
Members:
Florence Aluoch
Eunice O Ouma
George Noto
Ayub Oguta
Maureen Akinyi Abudho

Activities:
- Selling cereals
- Selling charcoal and Makwangala (briquettes)
- Selling jaggery
- Printing
- Destitute

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Akech Shillingi Shillingi

Chairman: Joseph Abongo
Secretary: Margaret Ajwang
Treasurer: Patricia Juma
Members:
PamellaA Ondialo
Silviah Osano
Lona Auma

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Nyawita N. Project

From Muungano Wa Wanavijiji Makika Network Kisumu

Project Title: Chiga Community Development Project

Contact Person: Mildred Akoth Okuta

Nyawita Self-Help Group is situated and established within Chiga, Manyatta, Kisumu, Kenya. It was formed in the year 2005 with 20 members and is registered with the social services department, Kisumu.

The groups main objective is to provide the whole of Chiga Community and its surrounding neighbours with support through identifying the community's own resources and making use of such resources for the benefit of the locals. These would promote development plans that are geared towards positive transformation of common people.

Our Broad Objectives are:
- To improve the standard of living of people within our community and the surrounding
- Provide educational support to the vulnerable orphans
- Construction of a children's home within the community as some of them are left at a very tender age

The groups achievements have been realised in terms of:
- 171 vulnerable children (orphans have accessed education)
- Voluntarism support for the development of the project
- Six widows out of 56 have their houses reconstructed to semi-permanent through group donation
- Producing our own daily meal through small-scale farming

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Victory Support for the Needy

From Muungano Wa Wanavijiji Makika Network Kisumu

Organization: Faith Rehabilitation Center
Contact persons: Leonard Okello (pastor), Sarah Achieng Ogare (treasurer), George Onyango (secretary)

Victory Support for the Needy is a church led project established under the leadership of pastor as a way of combating dependance on Drugs, Crime, prostitution, street life, single motherhood e.t.c.

As part of the follow up strategy for the project, regional church networks were established across the town, led by pastors people within their respective regions. As part of sustainability approach the Victory Support for the Needy field office came in to give them support and technical assistance to help the setting up of networks within their regions.

In Kisumu the network operates through a secretariat of church members with assistance from university students as volunteers or interns. The members are driven from youth groups with an average 20 members each and churches including schools. Both in schools, churches and at the community the project operates through a church advisory council, led by the pastors of the various churches.It promotes indigenous leadership to analyze local conditions, define goals and formulate strategies that are sensitive to local needs,issues and concerns of young people.

In the past four years we have managed to develop partnership with government institutions and other organizations in designing,implementing and scaling up of projects and programs to achieve measurable increases in drug use,its related crime/violence and HIV and AIDS prevention among youth people, commercial sex work, street families, young aids widows e.t.c.The lessons learnt and findings from annual reports and the mid term reports are the back bone of the development of this project idea.

In Kisumu there was established a Kisumu Peace Forum,as a tool for peace and reconciliation programme for Nyanza Province during the aftermath of the post election violence. The forum created several subcommittees,to spear head it work on peace building. The sub committee on Youth and Education was among them with the mandate of promoting peace amongst youth in and of school, of which the Ministry of Education and Eastern Africa Regional Youth are members.

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