By Victoria Kamau | General Manager
OVERVIEW
In September 2018, Kickstart Kids International embarked on fundraising for the Family Empowerment programme which is set to be implemented in February 2019.
The primary project of Kickstart is Olturoto Children’s Village (OCV), serving one of the poorest communities in rural Kenya since 2014. OCV provides transitional, family-based, quality, alternative care to orphaned and vulnerable children in need of rescue from sexual and physical abuse, neglect, abandonment, early marriage and female genital mutilation. At the heart of our work is the belief that all children belong in a family and as such do not institutionalise children but rather support them effectively in the short term (1 – 3 years) until we can place them back into a safe, stable and sustainable home environment.
OCV works to ensure the child and family are empowered and a sustainable environment has been established prior to the reintegration. It has become clear that one of the biggest impediments to successful reintegration of a child is the lack of financial empowerment of local families.
Kickstart will be partnering with Wessex Social Ventures (WSV), a UK based social enterprise which provides development organisations with pre-designed micro social-enterprise business models, that have shown their ability to create widespread impact in communities and create a livelihood for entrepreneurs and their families.
This partnership will be ongoing with the two organisations working hand in hand in the implementation of the project. We will be combining Kickstart’s local knowledge and experience working with vulnerable families, with WSV experience in setting up micro-social enterprises. This partnership is about going beyond simply creating a sustainable livelihood for the families, to also providing a vital supply of products and services to help keep students in school and communities healthy.
PROJECT KICK-OFF
The pilot phase of this project was scheduled to kick-off in February 2019. However, Wessex Social Ventures is still in the process of setting up offices in Kenya to support our project amongst others. We expect to kickoff in May. This would save us any air travel costs between Kenya and the UK.
All funds donated towards this project have been set aside and reserved for this work specifically and shall not be used for any other project.
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