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Donations for The Desk Project
We realized through sports, we can reach a lot of people in the area and use the sports avenue as a major hub for communicating and spread good citizenry.
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Donations for Dago Resource Center
We realized through sports, we can reach a lot of people in the area and use the sports avenue as a major hub for communicating and spread good citizenry.
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$10 of $10,000 raised
Friends of Dago, bridges the gap between the community and all supporters, friends, donors, and partners. We try to bring and rally together all friends to help organize events, volunteer, support and partner with our community.
Friends of Dago is working to help Dago Community be self-sustainable by advocating for all the projects they are trying to undertake to achieve this goal.
Continuing Support Needs:
Daily feeding program for all the 150 children supported by the program.
Supporting and providing resources for girls across the board.
Support for the dairy program that is at the center.
Support the greenhouse technology installed at the center.
Support the security and the caretaker fees for the center.
Achievements:
We have managed to house now 20 girls at the center. Most of them got sponsorship to private boarding school. Thanks to our partners who have not only sent the young girls, but have sent 27 students along with the girls.
We have constantly provided adequate security for the center. We have one security guard always ensuring everything is safe.
We have 4 dairy cows at the center that provide milk for the center. Some used at the center and the extra is sold to support other needs at the center. We have provided a caretaker that makes all this happen.
We have the greenhouse now under the care of the center. We are still exploring the best way to use it. Thanks to our partners.
We have solved the water problems at the center. Through gracious friends, we installed a water pump that is able to provide enough for the center.
We have acquired 3.4 acres of land, that we are using now to produce corn and beans, but we are exploring the best way to utilize the new farming technology to make it our main source of sustainability for the center.
Challenges:
Always faced with changes in climate, making it difficult to rely on Agriculture as the main source sustainability.
Medical expenses for the center.
Feeding program needs of the center.
Funds for security and caretaker needs for the center.
Opportunities:
With the 3.4 acres in our bucket, we can build a successful farming system that will not only support the program, but also create surplus that will in turn support other initiatives for the center.
With many volunteers and supporters interested in different projects, we are branching more to work with the community, especially empowering the women, youths and men.
With the children center, being located in the public school compound, we have great partnership with the school and the community. Working to improve the education performance of the local school.
Working as a liaison office for USAID, we are reaching far more with the health program supporting over 5000 children and serving more than 500 homes.
There are always opportunities to partner with other organizations, universities, volunteers and well-wishers to help us reach more community needs.
We have lots of volunteer opportunities at Dago Children Center year round. Groups, family and individuals are welcomed
$10 of $10,000 raised
Donations for Sports
We realized through sports, we can reach a lot of people in the area and use the sports avenue as a major hub for communicating and spread good citizenry.
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$10 of $10,000 raised
We realized through sports, we can reach a lot of people in the area and use the sports avenue as a major hub for communicating and spread good citizenry as we create awareness on issues affecting our communities. We have successfully used this avenue to raise awareness on Hiv/Aids, counseling, family life, talent development and opportunities for the community to congregate and share ideas. So far we hold two events annually for the juniors and clubs.
Kenyan Goal – Club Sports Camp:
Kenyan goal sports camp is an annual camp where communities get together and compete in sports. This includes and not limited to Soccer; Netball and Volleyball. This camp has attracted well over 60 teams and over 1000 participants from over 14 communities annually. This amazing event is held every August. The main aim of this event is to attract and in turn use the avenue to teach youths on the dangers of HIV/Aid; Importance of knowing your health status and also general education on health, family life and team work. We have had some of our local participants also benefit by securing scholarships to high school and also joining local sports clubs.
Kenyan Goal – junior Sports Camp:
Kenyan goal junior sports camp is also annual camp that attracts juniors from the age of 10 to 16 years. This includes and not limited to Soccer; Netball and Volleyball. This camp has attracted well over 16 teams and over 300 children participants from over 14 communities annually. This amazing event is held every April/May. The main aim of this event is to attract and in turn use the avenue to teach young youths on the dangers of HIV/Aid; importance of knowing your health status and also general education on health, family life and team work. We have had some of our local participants also benefit by securing scholarships to high school.
Achievements:
We have been able to secure scholarships for the students to join high school via their sports talents.
We have been able to reach over 3,000 annually during our events, providing various services.
We have also been able to empower teams by providing sports uniforms and equipment’s to enable clubs succeed.
We have been able to offer first aid training to the teams, so they can take care of each other in cases of injuries.
We have been able to offer a lot of education regarding the dangers of HIV/Aid; Importance of knowing your health status and also general education on health, family life and team work.
Opportunities:
There are always opportunities to partner with other organizations, universities, volunteers and well-wishers to help us reach more community needs.
Always looking for resources to provide to the sports teams to empower their efforts and make them successful.
Looking for guidance and counseling resources for families and people that attend our camps during the long week event.
Looking for fresh talents and activities to add to our wonderful initiative that will boost the program.
$10 of $10,000 raised
Donations for Health
Working with USAID, as a liaison partner, Friends of Dago have made it possible for the community to have various medical camps throughout the year.
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$10 of $10,000 raised
Friends of Dago have made it possible for the community to have various medical camps throughout the year.
Working with USAID, as a liaison partner, all our children are provided with medical care. These the children are able to get treatment for free or at a reduced cost at specific medical facilities.
Kenyan Goal – Medical Camp:
We also have our big annual sports and medical camp every year for over 14 villages called “Kenyan Goal” This event is held every year in August. This event attracts and we usually see over 3000 people who otherwise would have not had any medical checks. We have supported this program since 2009.
Aldersgate UMC Eye Clinic:
Friends of Dago in partnership with friends have established an annual eye clinic for the community. This wonderful camp happens usually in July. The team from the church provides eye check to over 200 people during this time. This program is one that is offering a wonderful service to all ages.
Sawa Sawa Foundation Medical Camp:
Friends of Dago in partnership with friends have established an annual general medical camp for the community. This wonderful camp happens usually in February/April. The team from Berkshire provides general medical and medicine to over 200 people during the time. This program is one that is offering a wonderful service to all ages.
Annual Deworming Campaign:
Friends of Dago for the past 7 years have engaged in providing annual deworming exercise for all the students at Dago local primary school. This activity is done at the beginning of the year in collaboration with the local hospital. This is aimed at controlling scabies amongst the students over the school year.
Achievements:
We have had a lot of success with all our partners who have provided and offered their expertise to help make the clinics successful.
We have also developed great relationship with the local district hospital that have always provided local staff to work along with our teams.
We have been able to help so many people with not only guidance, but also medical services that they would have not had.
We have successfully been able to provide 4 different camps annually to the Dago communities and surrounding.
Challenges:
It is not always easy to get volunteers, especially with the security situations across the world.
We have not been successful in building a medical resource center that can serve the needs of the people whole year round.
Opportunities:
There are turns of volunteer opportunities for the medical professionals to help in various ways towards this wonderful projects.
The community is always inclined to support and donate a piece of land where a medical facility can be built.
There are always opportunities to partner with other organizations, universities, volunteers and well-wishers to help us reach more community needs.
We have been blessed with wonderful project organizers for this programs, they have always returned to Kenyan annually to help give support to the programs.
Volunteers love to spend time in Dago, we have lots of volunteer opportunities with our educational initiative. Groups, family and individuals are welcomed.
$10 of $10,000 raised
Donations for Housing
The widow’s housing project was initiated in 2008. We have helped build many new homes, repair and revamp homes that are in bad shape.
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$10 of $10,000 raised
Widow’s housing project was initiated in 2008. We have helped build new homes, repair and revamp homes that are in bad shape.
Working with partner organizations, individual supporters and friends of Dago, we have managed to build and revamp over 30 homes in Dago community.
Along with building homes, we ensure the families also have a sustainable means of survival, so we also build and provide chicken coops for this family, so they can have a small business and source of food. The group provides 2 chickens and a rooster as a startup for the families.
We are now working with families with the concepts of kitchen gardening. We are on the pilot stage now and we are working this with about 5 homes in the community.
Challenges with the chicken coop/gardening project:
Basic Management Skills:
Most of our families have not carried out any form of business before and have always depended on small farm work.
Water problems: Most of the homes don’t have reliable sources of water and they depend on river water that they have to walk miles to fetch. Lately the drought patterns in the area have altered the flow because of the global weather changes.
Opportunities with the chicken coop/gardening project:
We have been working with good friends; university students to help with the basic business skills and training for the community members to be successful in not only maintaining, but scaling up this projects so they become self-sustainable.
There are always opportunities to partner with other organizations, universities, volunteers and well-wishers to help us reach more community needs.
Hopefully we can secure a major water source for the community, so they have reliable sources to maintain their gardens.
Build water catchment gutters for the families so they can tap the rain water and can use them for future purposes.
Volunteers love to spend time in Dago, we have lots of volunteer opportunities with our housing initiative. Groups, family and individuals are welcomed.
Other Long term goal provisions:
– Water catchment projects for families
– Latrine projects for families
– Dairy project for families (Goats, Sheep and Cows)
– Horticulture initiatives for the community.
– Give every family a tool that they need to support themselves and also later produce surplus to help support the children center.
Agricultural Initiatives:
Agriculture forms the major backbone of the economy of Dago village. Being in the sugar belt of Sony Sugar, most of the people depend on Agriculture. We are working with the community to develop other agricultural initiatives, to help them provide for family and not only depend on the sugarcane that takes over 2 years to be harvested.
With support from our friends, we have developed some initiatives including:
Bee Keeping:
In partnership with our university teams, we have set up a bee keeping business for the community. Bee keepers association has 9 members that have established 24 beehives in the area. The university students have been amazing in continuing to do major research and solving all the problems the farmers are facing, while also teaching them better business skills and management.
Greenhouse Technology:the
Through our partnership with USAID, we benefitted by receiving a greenhouse at the children center. This was initially awarded to a community group for management, but now it’s under the care of the children center. We are working with other partners to figure out some of the environmental and agricultural challenges that we have faced.
Dairy project:
Over the years, Dago benefited from support of other organization and established a very great plan of sustainability via dairy project, but this was not successful because the scope was not shared and proper training was not given to the community. We are trying to revive the same project, but change the strategy. Currently the center has 2 dairy cows and a calf, but also benefit from 2 other community members who are providing a percentage of their produce to the center.
Poultry project:
With our partners and friends we are exploring many of the new poultry techniques that would benefit the center. We believe by empowering community to raise chickens, then providing proceeds to the center. This is something we are exploring and might be implementing by the end of the year.
Sustainable farming technology:
With all the new simple and complex farming techniques, we are partnering with various organizations, to help us advance and improve the kitchen garden techniques and improve the food supply in the area for families. The technique is being tested currently in 3 different families to determine the effectiveness of the project, before scaling up.
Oxen project:
For a long time, Dago has enjoyed the benefits of the ox project. Dago was provided with 32 oxen’s and all the equipment’s to go with it. We gave this out to community members who would use the animals to provide for their families, but also help take care of the children center properties. They were also obligated to provide a percentage of their produce to support the center. This is a project we hold dearly and will continue to pursue and support.
Achievements:
We have been able to rally the community to take a leading role to ensure the area become self-sustainable.
Majority of the homes are giving a try to either one or a couple of the agricultural initiatives named above.
We have had success partnering and receiving guidance from lots of Agricultural experts on how we can utilize our resources and scale up.
A lot of our initial projects have been successful with the help of experts and groups working together.
Challenges:
Climate change: We have had some bad luck with weather patterns in our area.
Stable water sources: Most of our beneficiaries don’t have a stable water source that would enable them achieve at their best.
Adequate training: Most of the training provided are classic, but because of lack of follow-up, sometimes we have failed to get the best performance.
Opportunities:
We are still exploring all the agricultural tactics that we can utilize to make our program successful.
There are always opportunities to partner with other organizations, universities, volunteers and well-wishers to help us reach more community needs.
We are looking to sink boles/water sources that will provide water for the 5 sections of the village.
Volunteers love to spend time in Dago, we have lots of volunteer opportunities with our educational initiative. Groups, family and individuals are welcomed.
$10 of $10,000 raised
Donations for Community Resource and Outreach Center
Dago children has always provided and acted as a resource center for the community. We hope to continue and expand our efforts to help Dago.
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$10 of $10,000 raised
Dago children has always provided and acted as a resource center for the community. We hope to continue and expand our efforts to help give these opportunities to Dago.
Currently we have partnered with good friends and universities to create startups and entrepreneurship opportunities for Dago.
Computer Center:
We have a small computer center in Ranen that is acting as a resource center for the people of Ranen center. This is privately owned project with intent to provide all the computer needs and classes for the region.
Community Library:
Dago children center has always provided a small room that can be used as a library for the girls. We hope to provide more relevant materials and resources that would help the community and youths scale up their ideas and literacy needs. In the long run, we can build a resource center for the community.
USAID liaison office:
With great organization like USAID, Dago has offered an office for Aphia Plus program that is providing WASH services to over 5000 children from over 14 communities and also helping more than 500 homes. This has offered so many job opportunities and mentorship training for our local women. Currently this program is employing 67 women from different communities. They all converge at Dago children center once a week, for training, reporting, mentorship and empowerment.
Adult Education:
Dago has initiated an adult education program. This is aimed at providing education for our elders. This is very necessary to help with all our educational needs in the area. We hope to scale up this initiative and cover contents in human rights, family needs, civic education and basic financial literacy classes.
Financial literacy:
Dago in partnership with one of the universities has developed a financial literacy program for a group of 70 women who have also benefitted from the micro finance initiative we currently run. Since 2009, we have enjoyed this wonderful partnership and we are scaling up to other basic simple business skills for the community.
Challenges:
The computer center lacks enough resources to meet all the community needs. We hope to stock it with large printer, more updated computers, latest programs, scanners, reliable Internet service, and digital camera equipment’s as well as updated teaching materials.
We have a small resource library at the center. We hope to stock it with relevant materials that will better meet the needs of the community. These materials should address what the community needs in terms of their daily lives and business and developmental needs.
We hope to get more materials that will benefit the adult education initiatives.
Translation needs for the content of the materials that we are providing for the adults participating in our programs.
Opportunities:
We have enough space to build the resource center in the community.
We have a rising group of community members who are working hard and always looking for opportunities to expand or start business.
We have a large group of youths and women always interested in studying computers and get certified.
There are always opportunities to partner with other organizations, universities, volunteers and well wishers to help us reach more community needs.
Volunteers love to spend time in Dago, we have lots of volunteer opportunities with our community resource center initiative. Groups, family and individuals are welcomed
Other Long term goal provisions:
– Building a boys dormitory
– Building a resource center
– Building a community library
– Building more classrooms in school.