PROJECTS

Reproductive Health 

Reproductive Health education for youth and women is an ongoing activity at Hesed that needs to be strengthened. The current project targets in-school youth and their teachers. The schools are encouraged to form RH clubs with one teacher seconded as the patron. The club members train to be future per educators.

HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS prevention activities especially among adolescents which is currently being offered within life skills project; youth and women and projects on Orphans and Vulnerable Children; there is nutrition support and support for the income activities for persons living with HIV/AIDS. Hesed Africa is working with community groups of persons living with HIV/AIDS in Ugenya District, Sihay to build their capacity and set up a local VCT Facility.

Social Justice through Gender Equality and Human Rights
 
Hesed Africa has a commitment to gender equality through strategies that include: women's economic empowerment, girl child education and promotion of leadership sharing between women and men.

Micro-Finance programming as a tool of household poverty reduction and wealth creation

Hesed Africa is committed to “household poverty reduction and wealth creation” as a priority theme in its development programming.  Hesed Africa works with target communities in partnership and establishes “small village credit scheme” that develops into a village bank. The bank in turn should be able to lend to other needy households.

Women Empowerment Project

The women’ project is ongoing. The group has 35 members who meet every Monday afternoon. The group has elected its leadership that steers its agenda. Each member of the group saves Kshs. 50 per week./ 0.7 USD. All transactions recorded by treasurer and reflected on individual passbooks. There are trainings organized for every Monday: - topics range from women’s health, small business, nutrition, entrepreneurship, leadership skills, decision making and governance skills.
Some of the women are involved in small trade such as selling green groceries, selling charcoal and kerosene. Others engage in casual jobs in the neighboring mid class estates.
The women group’s major objective is to improve their current socio-economic status.

The loans schemes project has taken on the first phase whereby the women have grouped themselves into sub- groups of three, the three will co guarantee one another. The second phase included the Loan approvals and the Disbursements of funds. The project is seeking for grants to upscale its micro credit scheme.

Kasalengo women group

Young Mothers Project

Hesed Africa is also targeting Young mothers. These are girls/women who do not have any form of means to gain a livelihood. They dropped out of formal school due to various reasons:-  early pregnancy, poverty or others. The projects will engage them in several activities to empower them both socially and economically. We plan to equip them with vocational and life skills to enable them gain formal employment or self employed.

Youth empowerment project

The out of school youth meet every Monday and Friday at the center. During the meetings the life skills are taught.  The youths have formed clubs and are used as entry points to educate youth on reproductive health services; family planning, drug abuse, nutrition, gender and HIV/AIDS issues. We are working in collaboration with a local Voluntary and Counseling Centre (VCT) to conduct reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS training and testing sessions. They are also engaged in projects like soap making, running of small business and making of charcoal using sawdust and newspaper cuttings. The youths are in the process of organizing Outreach Programmes that will target other youth groups for better integration and mobilization. Hesed Africa is appealing for partners to sponsor the project so that more youths can be empowered.

Life skills in school and out of school

Life skills are not part of school curriculum in Kenya. Hesed Africa has joined partnership with local community schools in Dagoretti Division to teach the pupils in classes 5 – 8 lessons in life skills. The project is currently implemented by volunteers of the organization. There are opportunities to work with other partners in promoting life skills in schools. Hesed Africa is seeking for partners to sponsor the project so that the volunteers can reach out to more schools. The project will use drama, music and other theatrical methods to impart various skills to the youth.

Resource/ Hope Centre

This centre is open to all the children in and out of school. We have recently received book donations from one local publisher- Longhorn Kenya. The books will go along way in improving reading culture giving local examples. The donations include biographies of famous persons such as the current USA President Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela and other Kenyan personalities.

Feeding programme

The centre has introduced self financed feeding programme for the under fives studying in community schools in parts of Dagoretti Division. Hesed Africa will work with a number of community schools to provide for a meal for the children in pre schools. Most of these community schools host children from poor families, some are orphans. The cost feeding program, which is about USD 10 per day at a school with 30 children if far much out of reach for many of these community schools.  The organization therefore is seeking for funds to sponsor school feeding projects. With more funding and partnerships the organization will seek to work with schools in rural parts of Kenya.

Medical Camps, Mobile Clinics 

The Organization conducts mobile medical clinics to the under privileged communities. The exercise involves provision of free essential medicines to the low income and underprivileged in the community such as flood victims, internally Displaced Persons, and persons living in arid and semi arid regions. Hesed Africa is seeks for funds and partners to be able to conduct the  mobile clinics.     

Vulnerable Children and the Girl Child

Hesed Africa is currently developing its Child Support Programme (CSP) to provide support to orphaned and vulnerable children to enable them to access basic rights/needs, including education and psychosocial support, and to help them build their future. The strategies in the project would be;

(i) Linking the children, through their care providers, to asset building projects started in the community. The micro projects include dairy cow, dairy goat, local or cross bred small stocks rearing; 

(ii) Provision for capacity building for orphaned girls and boys by enrolling them into vocational centres 

(iii) Provision of sponsorship into colleges and universities in Kenya and abroad.

Water and Sanitation

Hesed Africa is conducting a “water issues survey” in collaboration with a partner from USA to  provide clean portable water to a rural community in semi arid parts of Bondo District, Nyanza Province. The project will clean water will be available to all community users. It will be managed by village water committee.

Relief Projects

With support from our donors we provided preventive community health and basic clinical care for Internally Displaced persons living in transit camps in Naivasha District. The camps were held in Vumilia- Kikopey, Nawamu and Vumilia Eldoret IDP transit camps during the year 2009.
The IDP population also received food and non food items.
 
Collaboration efforts were received from the Naivasha District Hospital, Gilgil Sub District Hospital, local administration and IDP camp management committees. 

In Budalangi two medical camps were held; at Budalangi Dispensary grounds and another at Mukhobola Health Centre Grounds.

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