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Communities. Resources.

Prosperity

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So when you contribute just Kshs. 250 to keep a child in day care for a week, or Kshs. 1,250 to help one person achieve food security or Kshs. 4,400 a month to keep a girl in school, Ford Foundation will contribute 3 times that.

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destiny. In this issue for example, you will have a chance to meet young people who are making a difference by demonstrating leadership and social accountability and who are mentoring their peers to do the same.

You will also meet MCDA, an example of a community organisation that has consistently built a firm foundation for prosperity over the last thirteen years and that is now a shining example of how Kenyans can achieve food security despite the weather.

In this magazine you will meet the young men and women who have been supported through the KCDF scholarship programme and who are going on to shine in university both in and outside this country. You may forgive the hint of pride in these pages as we speak of Caroline, Khadija and Mary, who are now global representatives of the Global Give Back Circle, just one of the initiatives in our extensive scholarship programme.

All of these stories, show one thing: that the support you continue to accord to KCDF and our communities goes towards improving the lives of people right across Kenya. There is so much more that we would like to show you – far more than these pages could allow us to. This is why we have developed our new website www.kcdf.or.ke, to enable you to follow developments from the communities in real time. From July 2010, you will be able to track the support that you give and see the impact that your contribution however small goes into making a big difference.

At the end of it all, through this issue, you will meet the people who work hard to make it all happen. In the who is who section, you get to meet every member of the KCDF team – from our highest organ, the Trust to every last member of staff.

With this issue, all of us at KCDF are saying, “come, let’s give and work together towards a prosperous nation.”

— The KCDF EDITORIAL TEAM

elcome to the inaugural MyCommunity magazine; the magazine that we hope will keep all of us connected with what communities around Kenya are doing to make life better. This magazine is the bumper issue that incorporates the Annual Report for the KCDF fiscal year October, 2008- September, 2009.

This magazine is another step in KCDF’s movement to become more accessible to more people in more diverse fields. It is another milestone in strengthening the connection that we all have with our communities by telling stories of the amazing work that they do to overcome difficult circumstances they are forced to contend with everyday.

It is true that many people around the country are plagued by poverty, disease, hunger and lack of education and opportunity. Thankfully, that is not the whole story. In the other part of our people’s story, communities are organising themselves to improve their lives incrementally one aspect at a time.

Over the last 13 years, we have learnt that rapid and enduring change is achieved when our people have the knowledge, confidence and capacity to take control of the issues affecting them and drive the solutions to their problems. As a public foundation, KCDF comes in to build on that energy in many ways and through this partnership, we are able to see prosperity.

Through MyCommunity, we shall regularly tell stories that illustrate the ways in which Kenyan communities are taking control of their

“Be the change you want to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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Golfing for Good 8

The Benefeciaries 11

We are Shabaa 12

A Shining Example: MCDA 16

News 18

Nurturing Global Citizens 22

Catching them Early 26

Artists Profiles 28

Who is Who? 31

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On 16th October 2009, KCDF organised The Community Open, a fundraising golf tournament towards our food security initiative (ustawi) at the prestigious Muthaiga Golf Club.

Despite the early morning showers, the game couldn’t have been any better: the sunny atmosphere that followed and the challenging layout of the course thanks to the large undulating greens certainly made a good ingredient for a day well spent.

It was a day that saw the assembly of captains from all industries: corporate heads, nonprofits executives and government officials among other golf aficionados. Leading companies, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), were also well represented and their banners, placed at vantage points in the course, proved as much. These included: Safaricom Foundation, KCB Foundation, Lion of Kenya, Old Mutual, Commercial Bank of Africa, Mumias Sugar Ltd, General Accident Insurance, Octagon Services, Pinnacle Projects, Amiran Kenya, Kickstart, Serena Hotels, Zucchini Grocers and Safarilink Ltd.

After hours of enjoying the game, the golfers assembled at the Muthaiga Golf Club House for the evening cocktail. They were joined by representatives of the various sponsors, our communities, staff and friends of KCDF. True to the

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The Community Open is the main opportunity for golfers and corporates to show solidality with communities and change lives. Dr. Evans KideroManaging Director, Mumias Sugar

1. Mehul Devani of Kulgraphics 2.The Womens four ball team - Cheryl Pedersen, Archana Patel, Madhyi Kapila, Espy D’souza 3.The CBA Team (L-R) Joel Karuhiu, Timothy Kuria, James Abiero.

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Mzee Ikumi has taught many business leaders how to golf. On October 15th 2010, at Muthaiga Golf Club, they will play to give back to communities.

The Community Open is a premier golf tournament that raises funds for food security in Kenya. Join us as we golf for good. Register your 4-ball team with Simon at 0722 168480/ 0736 449217. www.kcdf.or.ke

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HANdING ovEr oF tHE GrEENHoUSE to UCAHAIn the morning of February 13th 2010, the winning team, represented by Muthaiga Golf Club Chairman Mr. Philip Kungu and Mr. Dan Owino, travelled to Sega Market, Ugenya to handover the greenhouse to Ugenya Community Against HIV Aids( UCAHA). They were joined by a team from KCDF and jubilant members of the community. The day, however, belonged to the very beneficiaries of the project: orphans (some living with HIV/Aids) and malnourished children.

At noon, Philip and Dan officially handed over of the greenhouse to the elated group. “I was just hitting a ball. I didn’t know that by playing a game l love would mean so much to a community, more so to these children,”Philip said.

Inside the warm greenhouse, in rows of tomatoes and spinach, Dan stood next to Maurice Ochieng, an orphan living with HIV/Aids and a beneficiary of the project. “Nothing gave me more satisfaction today than seeing the happy kids who will benefit from this project. This is my motivation to participate in the Community Open, 2010, “Dan said.

UCAHA plans to have 10 greenhouse installed by 2010, a feat that will enable them support orphans in the entire division. While this might seem like an incredible target, all indications are that the group is on course to achieve this. It has so far received an extra greenhouse from an American based organisation; a milestone that shows initiative from young people.

Like one wise person said:” the essence of life is to help others win, even if it means slowing down or changing your own pace.” Every participant in the Community open is a winner; he or she carries the unspoken hopes of communities, far and beyond.

CoMMUNIty opEN FACtSThe Community Open tagline is: golfing for good. Good has two meanings: first, it signifies that the event is a noble activity and second, all activities are geared towards addressing an identified community need (food shortage) for good.

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very objective of the Community Open, the evening function provided an opportunity for our communities to reap hugely.

To start with, the winning four ball team that had, Mumias Sugar CEO, Dr. Evans Kidero, Deloitte CEO Sam Onyango, Muthaiga Club Chairman Philip Kungu and businessman Dan Owino, donated a greenhouse that they won to Ugenya Community Against HIV/Aids (UCAHA). The greenhouse was sponsored by Amiran Kenya, a leading player in the agriculture industry. On the other hand, the overall individual winner, Mr. Mehul Devani, donated a MoneyMaker hip pump that he won to Tembea Youth Centre for Sustainable Development, a group from Kakamega district. The pump was sponsored by Kickstart, a leading local social enterprise that promotes small scale farmers, through affordable technology.

Addressing the function, KCDF CEO, Janet Mawiyoo, called on corporates to support efforts geared at making Kenya a food secure country. She added that through Ustawi, KCDF was working with partners to support Kenyan communities to grow food innovatively, through modern technologies like greenhouse farming, drip irrigation, among others. One of the key note speakers, Safaricom Foundation Trustee Nzioka Waita, hailed KCDF’s Ustawi programme terming it as the surest way of cushioning farmers from the vagaries of weather.

Businessman Dan Owino of the winning four ball team stands next to Maurice, one of the target beneficiaries, inside the community greenhouse that his team donated to UCAHA

Proceeds from this greenhouse will be used to support Maurice and many other orphans and vulnerable children like him

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WE ArE SHABAA

THE CHANGEMAKERS

Martin oloo is a soft spoken lanky young man from Kisumu town. Calm, collected and diplomatic, Martin cuts a poise that easily envelopes his active role in the post election unrest in Kenya. Like so many other young people from the town who were angered by the outcome of year 2007 election, Martin didn’t just riot; he was at the centre of the destruction that the youth carried out in the town. Two years later, he is a different man, who is focused and working to reconcile communities in

the region. Looking back, he says: “I was a very bad man. I was violent and inpatient. I am a changed man now, working to change young people in my neighbourhood.”

Martin’s case epitomizes a story narrated by many young people in Kenya after the infamous post election violence. During that ugly chapter young people bore the brunt of the violence,

either as perpetrators or victims. This was a difficult moment for a generation that was used to tranquility.

After deeply interrogating the role and the factors that led the youth to participate in the violence, KCDF’s youth programme, came up with a leadership initiative to equip the youth with skills and a set of values that would make them more focused and actively involved in development. Quest Leadership Centre (QLC), an authority in leadership, contributed in the design of the initiative. In May 2008, KCDF mobilised young people from different corners of the country to attend the first leadership training. This group formed what came to be known as “Core Group One. During this time, the participants were as tense as the country was. This tension, however, thawed after the participants were taken through rigorous self-examination exercises and venting sessions The youth also agreed that to be responsible citizens and good neighbours, they would observe the following seven values: intergrity, responsibilty, humility, truth, drive, dynamism and initiative. Seeing how the training had enabled them to look at each other as brothers and sisters, the youth decided to spearhead a reconciliation exercise within their localities. They agreed that each of them would transform and recruit

at least 10 young people to participate in the reconciliation campaign. This initiative proved successful when KCDF started receiving inspiring stories of how the young people under our programme were showing leadership in their communities and influencing several of their peers.

Working with KCDF, the youth agreed to come up with an inspiring identity that captures their spirit of dynamism and vibrancy in the communities. To this end Shabaa was born. Shabaa stands for One Leader, who observes and instills seven values to at least 10 people who will then reach out to an infinite number of people.

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was officially unveiled on 2nd November 2009, at a Leadership Convention held in Nakuru. During the convention over 200 Wanashabaa

Shabaa is a youth leadership initiative that involves one

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impacts an infinite number of people. These are some of

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KCdF youth development programme

The Youth Development Programme aims to strengthen

inclusion, participation and empowerment of young

people in community-level and national development

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freely shared inspirational experiences of their works as change makers in their communities.

Milania Wanjiku, a 24 year old young woman from Murang’a told the participants how she was able to inspire the youth in her district to start income generating projects. “I was able to apply the conflict resolution strategies that I learnt from the leadership forums, to mobilise the youth from my area to engage in income generating activities. Many of them are now eking a living from their efforts,” Milania said. Through her, young people who previously found solace in criminal gangs have since dished their underworld past and are –making a living by rearing poultry and rabbits, making wine and growing mushrooms.

“Through the Shabaa initiative, hundreds of young people are making a difference in the society and proving indeed that they have a stake in the national agenda. When we held our first training, the youth looked disillusioned by the system and concerned that Kenya had sunk into the post election turmoil. I am happy to see them playing their part in rebuilding our country,” Sonia, the Youth Programme Coordinator says.

diphus Kiprop, a 24-year-old man from Eldoret, the epicentre of post election violence and a holder of a Business Management degree from Catholic University is a perfect example of the Shabaa experience. He has since transformed from a bitter young man to an

ambassador promoting peaceful coexistence of communities. Looking back, he says: “ I became an angry man when I saw my friends dying in Eldoret during the election violence. I cursed my country.

After the training, I decided to forget the past and play my part in healing. I have since conducted training sessions in Eldoret, Lugari and Mt. Elgon, areas that were affected by the violence.”

For Joyce loko, who works with Young Professional for Development (YPD), a non g o v e r n m e n t a l organisation in Machakos Town, the leadership training gave her confidence to communicate clearly to the community. I was a very shy person. “After the training, I have become a confident communicator and a community mobiliser,” she says. Like a mustard plant, Shabaa has grown from a group of 170 young people to be a movement of the youth giving the youth the opportunity to show leadership in their areas. Wanashabaa have since formed regional (provincial) chapters that are harmonising their activities. With an active presence in social media platforms like facebook and twitter, they share their success stories on a daily basis.

Through the Shabaa initiative, hundreds of young people are making a difference in the society and proving indeed that they have a stake in the national agenda. I am happy to see them playing their part in rebuilding our country.

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... a beacon of hope, in an area where 12 years ago, development seemed like a pie in the sky.

Ikombe Division, like many other dry parts of Yatta District, has been vast, rocky and known for all the wrong reasons: poverty, yawning illiteracy rates and biting hunger.

Determined not to live in this desperate situation, in early 1997, the inhabitants of the area agreed to start an organisation that would bring the people together, inspire self-belief and enable them to address their challenges. They settled on Makutano Community Development Association (MCDA), under the leadership of Raphael Masika – who was actively involved in mobilising communities during his stint as an agricultural officer working with Action Aid, a leading international non profit organisation.

That year, MCDA received funding from KCDF to conduct a self discovery exercise that would enable the members of the community to understand their role in community development as well as conduct a survey on its needs. The self discovery process enabled them to acknowledge and appreciate the resources within our locality, define our priorities and device strategies to address them. They identified education, food security, health and youth unemployment as their priority areas.

Thirteen years later, MCDA has scripted a story of accomplishment and hope. It has taken visionary leadership, community participation and building partnerships with organisations that buy into MCDA’s agenda.

The organisation’s structure and roles are clearly defined. It has a board of directors and secretariat.

13 yEArS lAtEr: ACHIEvEMENtS EducationIn its roll of achievements, the organisation boasts of a secondary school, Father Makewa Secondary School that caters for children from poor backgrounds. The school reserve admission places for over 50 orphaned students. MCDA is one of the partners in KCDF’s scholarships programme, through which students that have been awarded high school scholarships.

Health and sanitation Through volunteer health officer, MCDA has been training community members on sanitation and basic hygiene measures like washing hands, boiling water among others. All community members have dug pit latrines in their homes – a step that has raised the standards of hygiene in the area.

Food Security MCDA is a success story on water harvesting. The organisation has a total of 10 dams, 7 shallow wells and one borehole. It has trained thousands

of Yatta community members on techniques of harvesting water, for instance, roof top harvesting and digging water pans.

To combat hunger, the organisation has been working with communities to grow drought resistant crops like sorghum and millet. MCDA has ventured into value addition technologies like extracting sunflower oil. The organisation is a good case study on how communities can address the challenge of cereals glut in Kenya with its community store that can store 5000 bags of cereals.

Through Ustawi, MCDA has been growing food innovatively in two greenhouses donated by KCDF. The organisation has become a shining example of development in an area where locals could only depend on relief food.

Example to othersIn the last five years, Masika has been receiving delegations of individuals and organisations interested in learning from MCDA. Some of these include Members of Parliament who are keen to see organisations like MCDA spearheading development in their constituencies. ”I am happy whenever I receive people interested to learn from us. This shows that we are making progress,” Masika says.

MCDA has since spread its footprints to Katangi Division as well and is currently serving at least 85,000 people.

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KCDF food security initiative, Ustawi, got a boost when Safaricom Foundation announced a Kshs. 10M support towards the programme on 2nd December 2009.

This will enable at least 50 communities to grow food innovatively through an integrated programme incorporating water harvesting, greenhouse farming, drip irrigation technology, conservation and value addition of the produced food.

The announcement followed the success of earlier food security programmes implemented by communities supported by KCDF, through Safaricom Foundation.

Announcing the support, Safaricom Foundation Chairman Mr. Les Baillie said that his Foundation would continue to support initiatives that will address the challenge of food production in Kenya in a sustainable way. He termed KCDF’s

experience with the communities as a case study that should be emulated in the region. “We are proud to work with KCDF to ensure that Kenya becomes a food secure country. A well fed nation (Kenya) will drive prosperity in the region,” Mr. Baillie noted.

KCDF CEO Mrs. Janet Mawiyoo thanked Safaricom Foundation for boosting Ustawi, noting that more Kenyan communities would benefit from the initiative. She also appealed to other corporate organisations to support this approach, as it enables needy communities to keep their dignity as they see the fruits of their labour. The announcement was followed by a successful field visit by Safaricom Foundation and KCDF staff to food security projects implemented by Makutano Community Development Association (MCDA) – one of the beneficiaries of the Ustawi initiative.

SAFArICoM FoUNdAtIoN ANNoUNCES KSHS. 10M SUpport toWArdS Ustawi

AFRICAN GRANTMAKERS TO ASSEMBlE IN NAIROBIThe African Grantmakers Network, of which KCDF is a founder member has announced that it will hold the first Panafrican Grantmakers Assembly in Nairobi from November 3rd to 5th 2010. KCDF Programmes Director, Tom

Were, a member of the organising team said that the assembly was meant to set the agenda and consolidate the voice for African Philanthropy. “More than 250 participants are expected to converge in Nairobi and this

will be the first step towards more coordinated philanthropy across the continent,” said Mr. Were. He encouraged all interested to visit www.africangrantmakers.org for more information.

A loNG JoUrNEy toGEtHErThe Safaricom Foundation is one of the earliest supporters of the Ustawi initiative.

In 2006, as KCDF opted to investigate the most effective techniques for more sustainable practices for food production, the Safaricom Foundation gave a grant of Kshs 5 Million that was used to support communities in Arid and Semi-arid areas in Kenya.

These included: Nomadic Integrated Development Re-search Agency (NIDRA) is a commu-nity based organisation from Kajiado district. It bought Sahiwal cows to women, in area where only men own cows – an initiative that gave them a voice in the community. Genesis Community Development Assistance purchased 28 high yielding goats that were distributed to farmers, in Mwingi district. Mordern Farmers Nguumo supported 30 households to grow drought resistant food crops like cassava and sweet potatoes in Yatta district. Pastoralist Development Organisation supported 40 farmers to grow drought resistant variety of sorghum and millet in GarissaWomen and Youth Against Aids and Poverty (WAYAAP), is a community based organisation. Grew food in community gardens. This supported 13 schools and more than 300 orphans and vulnerable children from 60 households in Isiolo.

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On November 4th and 5th in Nairobi, Kenya, the African Grantmakers Network will host the 1st Pan African Assembly of African grantmaking organizations, bringing together at least 250 participants from across Africa. The AGN Assembly will set the agenda and consolidate the voices for African philanthropy.

For more information, please email the Assembly Organising Committee on assembly@africangrantmakers.org

Online registratiOn frOm July 1, 2010

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FFor Carolyne Gathuru, the Marketing Manager of Nairobi Hospital, seeing a 5kg pumpkin in the heart of Yatta district, an area that has for long depended on food relief, was an eye opener. It changed her perceptions about the region. The Yatta that she had for long known, was a region plagued by hunger and an area where locals had been deprived hope of living productive lives due to the vagaries of the weather. Spending seven hours in the region made all the difference.

Carolyne was part of a team from Nairobi Hospital who, on 21st April

2010, paid a visit to Makutano Community Development Association (MCDA), a community organisation supported by KCDF. The Nairobi Hospital team wanted to interact and learn from a successful community (supported by KCDF) that is implementing sustainable projects, so that it can work with KCDF to replicate such a model through its corporate social responsibility (CSR) Programmes.

Mr. Daniel Mbatha, an official of the organisation, welcomed the visitors and took them through the history, mission and vision of MCDA. From the presentation, it was obvious that MCDA, like all successful communities, has been keen to have a vision that is bought by all its members – a key tenet in community development. Dr. Mary Kisingu, the Chief Pharmacist at Nairobi Hospital was particularly impressed by the fact that MCDA governance is an organisation driven by ordinary people in the community. “When I look at this team (MCDA), I see

ordinary community members who genuinely feel they have something to offer to the society,” she said.

After the eye-opening presentation, the team was taken to the field. This became a practical session where they were able to connect the projects on the ground. Among the projects that they visited were the water dams, boreholes, water pans and Father Makewa High School.

As part of our agenda of sharing our learnings, KCDF has been organising field visits targeting key players in community development. We expect that through these insightful visits, organisations will learn from our model and promote sustainable development.

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“When I look at this team (MCDA), I see ordinary community members who genuinely feel they have something to offer to the society”

OCHANDARIA COMMITS KSHS. 6.6M FOR SCHOlARSHIPS 300 CHIldrEN HAvE A rEASoN to SMIlEOn 30th April announced Chandaria Foundation’s new education grants of Ksh. 6.6 million that will go towards supporting needy students across Kenya to access secondary education. The grant will be administered by KCDF and support a total of 300 needy students over three years.

While announcing the sponsorship commitment, Dr. Manu Chandaria, the chairman of the Chandaria Foundation, called on more well wishers to support bright students from humble backgrounds. “Education is the most priceless gift that we can be-queath to our children. Unfortunately, it remains a luxury to children from needy backgrounds,” he said.

KCDF CEO Mrs. Janet Mawiyoo thanked the Foundation for the support, noting that thousands of children haven’t been able to proceed to high schools, despite posting good marks in KCPE exams, due to lack of fees. “With support from organisations like Chandaria Foundation, KCDF has been supporting over 200 bright children every year,” Mrs. Mawiyoo said.

Mrs. Mawiyoo further called on more companies to work with KCDF to support more needy students to access education, add-ing that most of them are wasting away in homes due to lack of fees. “We are particularly interested to support the education of girls since they encounter countless hurdles in the society,” she noted.

Through partnership with Chandaria Foundation and other like minded organisations, KCDF has in the last five years awarded scholarships to over 1000 students from needy backgrounds.

Dr. Manu Chandaria, Chandaria Foundation Chairman (Second Left) presents a dummy cheque to KCDF CEO, Mrs. Janet Mawiyoo (third right). On the far left is Hirji Shah and Sunil Chandaria (third left) from Chandaria Foundation. Also there were Catherine Kiganjo (second right and Simon Wachira (far right) from KCDF.

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tHE CoNvErSAtIoNBy Mary Mwende Alex

Listen, Watch and Listen…

And now we are going to tell you our story…..

We are honoured to converse with you today in our shoes,Which came with our high school sponsorship,

Shoes that we chose to walk in,And to choose the best in them.

So our hopes were ignited,And we could walk with pride and dignity.

Four years on,

And my shoes got worn out,Although I had been mentored to have dreams,

I could not make them happen,So I had to stop walking.

Then From heaven came a haven of great hearts,

And made me walk and dream again,And in my shoes I choose to bow for,ATE Bank, Equity Bank and Microsoft.

For I have learnt to give,

Even though I have no money,I have a secret…

That I learnt from the book ‘GIVING’

President Bill Clinton made it clear,That you can give your time and talent,So we have a commitment to undertake,

And in our shoes we will do it!

Now I keep on walking,From being a girl to being a mentor of other girls,

From accepting aid, to giving trade for aid,With skills to follow my dreams.

But in my shoes I still worry,

Will I walk alone? Am I freed alone?Thousands of girls are poverty stricken,

But where do they get the shoes?

As for us, we choose to GIVE BACK,For we are Global Citizens.

tEllING tHEIr oWN StorIES, lIvING tHEIr drEAMS The aim of our education programme is to help young people on towards a better future through access to uninterrupted education. In addition to the Global Give back Circle, we continue to collaborate with The Chandaria Foundation to provide scholarships and bursaries to over 200 students in various institutions all over Kenya.

Looking at the impact that these scholarships are making in the lives of girls, one gets convinced that given equal opportunities, girls can realise their drives. Esther Nyambura‘s story articulately capture this. Esther comes from a humble background. She always wanted to be in Investment banker. After graduating from Starehe Girls Centre, she decided to pursue a career in finance. She has since qualified for a Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) loan and will pursue a Bachelors of Commerce degree at Kenyatta University and will graduate in 2015.

A very similar experience to Esther’s is Rosemary Kimengele’s. She loves working with children and has always wanted to be a teacher. She qualified for a three-year Diploma programme at a Kenyan teacher’s college after finishing her high school studies in 2009. She will graduate in 2013. Rosemary and Esther are not very different from Josephine. Raised on a farm in Central province, Josephine loves putting her green thumb to good use. She has always dreamt of pursuing a profession in agriculture. She will be starting a Diploma Program in Agricultural purchasing at Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and technology. She graduates in 2012.

These girls are a shining example of the unquantifiable benefits of a structured scholarship and mentorship programme for girls from disadvantaged backgrounds. When Caroline Macharia, Mary Mwende and Khadija Said joined Starehe Girls Centre, they had no idea what the future held in store for them. They were selected to be a part of the Global Give Back Circle’s scholarship programme, which in addition to providing full scholarship support for the girls, provides mentorship and offers life skills training opportunities for all its beneficiaries.

Caroline, Mary and Khadija, all from poor backgrounds, are now the programme’s global representatives, shuttling from international meetings such as the Clinton Global Initiative in 2009, where GGBC secured funding support from the ATE bank of Greece, and their University studies in the American University in Dubai. Caroline is pursuing a Bachelors of Business Information Technology; Mary is pursing a Bachelors of Commerce degree while Khadija is pursuing a Bachelors degree in Business Administration.

Poem presented by Khadijah Said, Mary Mwende Alex and Carolyne Macharia at the 5th C linton Global Initiative in New York, USA

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GGBC and KCdF: Fast FactsSince 2009, The Global Give Back Circle (GGBC), through KCDF has supported 77 students from Starehe Girls Centre, St. Martins Centre and Blessed Generation School. So far 26 of these girls have gone to pursue university degrees while 9 are pursuing diplomas.

Guided by the Five Dimensions of Mentoring, all mentors go thorough a selective recruitment and preparation procedure before being paired with one of the girls. The girls and their mentors are in constant communication through letters. The appointed social worker follows up the Mentorship relationship.

Microsoft (EA) sponsored the set up a computer lab at the Starehe Girls centre to enable the girls to take computer courses and sit for online exams more conveniently and without having to relocate outside their school compound.

The girls are learning to be financially responsible for themselves by preparing and holding themselves accountable for their personal allowance expenditure, under the supervision of their mentors and social workers.

In 2008, ATE Bank of Greece gave a commitment of US$ 300,000 towards the GGBC initiative

All the girls have identified and are currently carrying out their give back commitment in various institutions in Nairobi with the help of the appointed social worker.

There is constant communication amongst the girls, the school administration, the social workers and KCDF’s implementing officer to ensure that the girls’ needs are sufficiently met.

The girls are empowered to realize their goals through a mentoring model based on remembering Gratitude, Articulating Goals, and actualizing successes while also Giving back.

My Story: My dream and beyond My name is Rogers Walubengo. I was born 17years ago at Kaimosi village, Vihiga district. My parents separated when I was just two years old. The task of bringing me up was therefore left to my unemployed mother.

I grew up with so many unanswered questions wondering what happened to my father and where he was. My mother did all sorts of menial jobs to cater for our needs. It was challenging.

Despite the challenges, my mother believed in a higher purpose for me. She wanted me to excel in school and pull the family out of poverty. This made me work very hard in school. Though my mother struggled to raise school fees for my education, I was always the best in my class.”

I sat for my KCPE exams in the year 2006 and as expected, I emerged the best student in my class - getting 411 marks out of the possible 500. There was celebration in my family. I was, however, aware how hard life would be: raising school fees and catering for my needs. This fact wore me down. I felt helpless, despite having a flowery result slip and an admission letter. It was just another piece of paper with good grades that didn’t mean much if I couldn’t continue with my education. I didn’t know that good performance could leave me with such mental torment. The future was so near yet so far.

As I was struggling to find a solution, strange enough, my father - a man I hadn’t seen for many years resurfaced. He was frail and suffering from a life threatening heart complication. This only added to my worries and pain in my heart. I had to take care of him, which meant forgetting my education, as you know, blood is thicker than water. All this time, I saw my mother defeated.

Fortunately, a family friend known as Rose who lived in Nairobi came at the eleventh hour. She had heard of Edumed Trust, an organisation that to gives partial scholarships to needy high school students. She encouraged me to apply, which I did. I was overjoyed when I was later called for an interview by the organisation. I passed the interview – this meant

that I would be considered for scholarship! I have never been that happy.

What then started was a journey of hope, a schooling career that initially seemed too far now became a reality. I joined Chavakali High School and continued with my outstanding credentials. In 2009, when I was a candidate, at a function that Edumed Trust had organised, I was lost for words when I met officials from KCDF, the organisation that funded my education, through Edumed Trust.

I sat for my KCSE exams in the year 2009. When the results for year 2009 were announced I was overjoyed when I learnt that I got grade A-. I am hoping to be

an actuarial scientist and help many other needy children. I know mine was a chance

of a lifetime; I will never let KCDF down.

Thank you KCDF.Rogers Walubengo

Image courtsey of CGI & GGBC

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CATCHING THEM

EArlyReducing school drop out rates

Malindi Education and development Association (MEdA) is one of the local organizations supporting the implementation of quality education and Early Childhood Development programmes in Malindi district. MEDA is an active member of Star of Hope network of organisations in the district.

In 1987, Al-Islam society took the initiative of establishing the first integrated ECD centre known as Al-Islam in Malindi town. MEDA, just like most organizations and institutions in Kenya, was supporting the ordinary nursery and pre-school programmes for children 4-years where emphasis was on increasing enrolment and promoting the physical and cognitive aspects of development but also ignored other key areas of child development. Children continued attending Madrassa classes where they learnt Islamic religious practices and learnt to recite the Koran before joining the ECD programme.

After a visit to the Madrassa Resource Centre in Mombasa and other organizations implementing integration of ECD and Madrassa, MEDA realised that children who were spending their early years in Madrassa system, tended to join ECD and primary schools at a later age in life, which contributed to high school dropout rates.

Where the two systems were allowed, they usually took place in different venues at different times. This was a burden to most children. Some community members had also realised that Muslim parents were straining to provide resources and related support to maintain

the two programmes. There was a need to combine the two systems for effectiveness, improved performance, discipline which would then lead to the reduction of age at which children joined primary schools.

When MEDA through the support of KCDF started intensive community sensitisation campaigns focussing on the importance of integrating ECD Programme and Madrassa system, they faced strong resistance from the Muslim community who felt that the secular nature of the ECD Programme would interfere with the positive development of children and water down the Islamic community values. Through meetings with Islamic religious leaders and conducting other awareness campaigns to support the idea, MEDA managed to increase their understanding of the effort and soon gained support for the initiative. Exchange learning visits to promote learning and experience through sharing with organisations that were already implementing similar projects were also conducted.

The system worked so well that within a few months, the increase in demand for space led to MEDA coming in to support the integration process. The integration strategy is a combination of secular and religious teachings. Integration is encouraged in the early years of life because it is the most critical period for child’s holistic development and when growth in all ways takes place first.

Currently, there are 30 integrated ECD centres, which are feeder centres to various primary schools in Malindi district and Tahdhib Muslim

Academies. 8 out of 30 centres have outdoor play equipment such as slides, see-saws, swings and climbing frames. This was born out of MEDA’s collaboration with other ECD partners.

There is attitudinal change in Madrassa Maalims (Madrassa male teachers) and Maalimas (Madrassa female teachers) evidenced by the speed at which they have embraced the integration system of education and are actively advocating for its implementation in all Madrassas. ECD teachers have come together and formed the integration ECD teachers Association where they meet once a week to share ideas and resources.

An integrated ECD teachers college started in Malindi this year 2009, and it has started offering its services first to Madrassa Maalims and Maalimas. Many parents are now enrolling their children in the integrated Programme and are willingly supporting the integration initiatives.

The first lot of 25 pupils from the first integrated primary school sat for KCPE examination in November, 2008. The performance was good with the highest pupil scoring 423 marks while the lowest had 278. The Malindi community is now actively contributing towards the initiative and has already contributed Kshs.4.1 Million towards the construction of an integrated secondary school.

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In Cut off my tongue, Sitawa Namwalie has injected freshness and creativity into the way we experience poetry, verse, and the spoken word in the Nairobi urban arts scene. A holder of a degree in Botany and zoology from the University of Nairobi, and a Masters degree in Environmental Studies from Clark University in Massachusetts USA, Sitawa is not your typical run-of-the-mill poet.

She writes with a playfulness and from a perspective that those of her generation and younger have described as breathtaking and mind blowing in its simplicity. Her hugely popular book “Cut Off My Tongue,” is a collection of poetry and choral verse that explores who we are and why we do the things we do as Africans.

Story Moja Africa, a leading publisher, developed it into a stage performance with support from the Changamoto Arts Fund. The result was simply amazing. Cut off My Tongue was made into a dramatised poetry performance with song and dance. The performances would have you breaking into song and dance,

Artist: Sitawa Namwalie project: Cut off my tongue

Artist: Wanuri Kahiu project: pumzi

Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Wanuri is an acclaimed film director with extensive experience in the film industry both locally and internationally. While attaining her Masters of Fine Arts degree in directing at the School of Film and Television, University of California, Los Angeles, she received the Motion Pictures of America Associates Award and the Hollywood Foreign Press Award for distinguished director.

Wanuri has evolved into a visionary director, whose impressive film roll is a testament of her powerful skill in the use of film as a tool for the expression of societal issues. While studying in the in the United States, Wanuri had the opportunity to work as a Production intern in Pinewood Studios, London and later as a Producer’s assistant in Alexandria Productions, Virginia. Her experience in the Motion Picture Industry was gained while working as a Director’s Intern in Paramount Studios during the “Italian Job.”

Wanuri directed a behind-the-scenes documentary “The Spark that Unites” for the film “Catch-A-Fire” directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Derek Luke and Tim Robbins. She is the talent behind “Ras Star,” a short film for M-Net, released in June 2007.

Pumzi is futuristic; science fiction 21 minute film set in East Africa 35 years after World War III when water is on the verge of extinction and going outside is banned because it’s too toxic. The story is told through the eyes of, Asha, (portrayed by South African actor Kudzani Moswela) who is living in an enclosed space in a community that relies on urine purification as the sole source of water.

A curator at the natural virtual museum of the Maitu Community, Asha receives a package containing a non toxic soil sample, in which she plants a seed. The germinating seedling proves to her that life does exist outside. She escapes to the outside world to prove that life exists outside the sanitary utopia like world of the inside.

Pumzi is indeed a ground breaking short film; not only because it is the first science fiction film directed by a Kenyan, but also because of the cinematography employed in its production. Its was shot using old but rarely used film techniques such as matt painting technique, which allowed for the exploration of creative story telling techniques on a small budget. Shot in South Africa, its story line tackles the consequences of destroying nature, to the point where we are forced to recycle our own water.

Pumzi has since won worldwide recognition since its launch in October 2009 at the Kenya International Film festival. In 2010, where it was , for instance, selected for the Sundance Film Festival 2010.

Pumzi was produced with finding from Focus features, The Goethe Institute and the Changamoto Arts Fund.

Additional info from www.focusfeatures.com www.wired.com

My first concern is making films for and about Africans; films that are a celebration of people, traditions and the land that are the life-source of art and culture.— Wanuri Kahiuwww.dadaproduction.net

laughing at the colourful and satirical portrayals of the state of corruption and politicising characteristic of leaders in our society.

Sitawa Namwalie is famous for writings that explore how we define ourselves as Africans in our current modern society. Her work was ignited by the ethnic violence and political turmoil that followed 2007 general elections. The book focuses on the highly ethnicised political and social situation in Kenya. First performed at the RAMOMA arts gallery in June of 2008, In Cut Off My Tongue she tackles various themes, most notably politics, tradition, the individual identity and love. The dramatised performance continues to be showcased to audiences locally and abroad.

FASt FACtS The KCDF Arts Programme supports exciting and innovative creative projects that find new ways to amplify the voices of Kenyan artists, reach new local audiences, and expand the role and value of the arts in Kenya so that they become better rooted as an important part of modern life. The hope is that, seeds of innovation,

new directions, new insights, borne from the projects, will steadily germinate in the mainstream and

contribute to a dynamic, regenerating, exciting arts and culture sector.

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WHO’S WHO

Graffiti art is among the most popular urban modes of expres-sion. It is a form of expression used by young people to cel-ebrate hope and triumph over struggles.

Trained in a variety of arts oriented disciplines, such as graphic design and interior design, a group of twenty young people passionate about graffiti art from Kibera recently gave their neighbourhood a facelift. Their intention was to make the slum much more beautiful and in the process lift the cheer of the resi-dents, and make them think more positively about life.

The Intensecities group is a coming together of various graffiti artist crews in Nairobi’s urban informal settlement localities. The crews range from three to six members, and artistic competition amongst them is stiff, bringing out more vibrant and new designs and concepts from the graffiti artists.

With funding support from KCDF, Intensecities group took the arts to the people of Makina in Kibera, showing them that beau-tiful artwork is accessible and easy to apply.

Such was the success of the project that many residents of the area wanted the artists to go and beautify their premises as well. Local children also tend to hang around the artists, eager to learn a trick or two. According to Esen, a graffiti artist in the group and graphic designer by profession, by the time they had completed the project, quite a number of children had tried their hand on the spray cans. This was just a sign of how much artistic talent and interest there is in the new generation.

The process was challenging a revelation for the team. It also allowed them a unique opportunity to interact with the commu-nity, who helped them prepare the walls for the art by washing of dirt and painting of the base coat for the artwork. They had to interview various proprietors, consult on the message the re-sulting artwork would take on before starting the process. The four-day project was also a test of skill for the artists, who are accustomed to one day projects, on a much smaller scale with teams that usually do not range beyond six members.

Artist: Intensecities Group project: Urban Concrete Beauty

In this inaugural issue of MyCommunity magazine, we are happy to introduce you to everyone at KCDF from the Trustees and the Directors to Management and staff. All of these motivated and passionate individuals spend their days and considerable energy for the betterment of our communities lives.

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Eng. Isaac Wanjohi Chairman of the KCDF TrustHe is the founder of Wanjohi Consulting, the first indigenous civil engineering consulting firm in Kenya and a chartered arbitrator. He is the Chairman of Gateway Insurance Ltd. In the early 70s, Eng. Wanjohi was the Director of Housing Development in Nairobi City Council where he influenced the construction of low cost housing which benefited people with low incomes. Eng. Wanjohi currently serves on several boards of a number of secondary schools and has particularly been involved in advancing and advocating for education opportunities amongst rural communities.

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dr. vijoo rattansi, oGWTrusteeDr. Rattansi heads the Rattansi Educational Trust, an organisation that awards scholarships to needy students in universities. She also serves in the Board of Governors of Highway Secondary School, Slums Information and Development Resource Centre (SIDAREC), Michael Blundell Trust, Daisy Eye Cancer Fund (DECF) Centre for Africa Families Studies (CAFS), Northern Kenya Education Fund (NKEF), Flying Doctors’ Society of Africa and Allavida. She is also the Vice-Chair of East Africa Association of Grantmakers (EAAG). She received an honorary doctorate from Moi University in 2006 and Order of Golden Warrior (OGW) in 2005 from the President of Kenya for her philanthropic initiatives.

Mr. donald Kaniaru TrusteeHe is an advocate and the managing partner of Kaniaru & Kaniaru Advocates, a leading law firm in Nairobi. He is a specialist in International and Environmental Law. Mr. Kaniaru has worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and and Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources in Kenya and the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) – where he served for close to 30 years. In 2009, he was the laureate of the prestigious Elizabeth Haub Prize for Environmental Law. Mr. Kaniaru is a past Chair of the Board of Alliance High School and an active member of several philanthropic organisations.

Mr. Kibuga Kariithi TrusteeMr. Kibuga Kariithi, a banker by profession), is the immediate former CEO of City Finance Bank Ltd and a founder of Baraka Africa Fund. He is also a Director of Afrika Investment Bank, a member of the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE. Up to April 2005 he was the Chief Executive Officer of the Nairobi Stock Exchange. He is the Chair of Church Army East Africa (the missionary arm of the Anglican Church in Kenya) and Life Ministry, Board member and Treasurer of Action Aid International Kenya, Mathare Youth Sports Association (a slum youth programme),Jamii Bora Trust (a micro finance organisation), and Christians For Just Society (a regional social justice grouping).

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Mr. Edmund MudiboBoard member Mr. Edmund Mudibo is the Chief Executive of Forward Vision Communications, an advertising/PR agency founded. He has also been a freelance news anchor with the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) since 1989. Mr. Mudibo has been a member of the Rotary Club of Nairobi North where he served as the Club’s Secretary in 2006 and a Trustee of the Palmhouse Foundation, a trust that offers scholarships to needy secondary school students.

Ms Atia yahyaBoard member, TrusteeShe has worked in senior positions at Aon Minet Insurance Brokers and APA Insurance and has vast experience in the insurance industry. She was a member of the advisory committee of Association of Kenya Insurers (AKI) – Health insurance. She is currently engaged by General Accident Insurance as Management Consultant to develop its Health Division as a profit centre. Atia has been a very active Rotarian since 1998 and even served as Vice President in the year 2005/06 and is also a Trustee for Friends of Spinal Injury Hospital in Nairobi.

prof. Mohammed Said Abdullah Chairman, Board of Directors, Trustee He is a Faculty professor of Medicine and a specialist physician at Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi and is a past chairman of a number of government boards including Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), National AIDS Control Council, National Health Research and Development Centre, and National Council for Science and Technology. Prof. Abdullah is a member of the Board of Trust of the Ummah Foundation (a community development organisation), a trustee at Malindi Education and Development Association (MEDA), founder member of NUSRA Technical Institute (a vocational training institution) and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of KAMMP (a community healthcare and education organisation).

Mrs. Eunice MathuTrusteeMrs. Mathu is the Editor-in-Chief of Parents magazine, the Chief Executive Officer of Stellan Consult Limited and the director of Bodywise Health Club Limited. A recipient of Order of the Grand Warrior of Kenya (OGW), Mrs. Mathu is also a founder member of Media Owners Association, Association of Media Women in Kenya, Kenya Women’s Finance Trust, Public Relations Society of Kenya amongst others.Mrs. Mathu serves as a Trustee and a founder member of Starehe Girls Centre. At KCDF, she chairs the Resource Mobilisation and Communication Committee.

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Mr. Arthur Namu Board member Mr. Namu holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and Masters in Public Administration from University of Nairobi and Harvard University respectively. He is a retired banker and securities and corporate finance expert and has served in various high profile roles in the corporate sector. Mr. Namu has a strong passion for volunteerism and philanthropy. He is the Vice Chairman and Trustee of Wanjiru Kunyiha Asthma Trust Fund, Secretary of GCA Savings and Credit Cooperative Society and founder member of Embu Development Forum.

Ms. Nuriya FarahBoard member Currently a businesswoman, Ms. Farah has vast experience in the education sector, having served as a Senior Assistant Director of Education, head of Admissions Section, Secondary Education division at Ministry of Education headquarters, Nairobi. She has played a key role in the promotion and development of Girls Education in North Eastern Province. At KCDF, she chairs the Programme Committee.

Mrs Janet Mawiyoo CEO and Ex Official Board member Having worked in the development sector for over 20 years, Janet is an expert on community development- knowledge that comes handy when she is mentoring staff members and providing strategic direction at the organisation. When she is not in the office, Janet likes to spend at her farm.

tom WereProgrammes Director Tom heads the programmes docket and is the sort of person who takes programmes like a duck takes to water. He articulates strategies, outputs, targets with gusto that the Programme team direly needs. In his docket, coordinates all the programmes, develops fundraising concepts and proposals and also coordinate the implementation and monitoring aspects of the programmes. He has also been driving the Ustawi programme. His consuming desire and dream is to see Kenyan communities growing food enough to feed this country and therefore end dependence on relief.

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Al KAGSHead, Marketing and Partnerships

His belt has every notch of creativity: a poet, actor, writer and marketer. Kags is armed with a galaxy of skills that he needs to drive KCDF’s marketing and partnerships agenda. He is the Author of the Book - Living Memories (http://living.alkags.com), a collection of true stories narrated to him by ordinary people who lived in the extraordinary times of the 1950s. Kags has published the Quarterly Colour Series of Poetry, a series of ebooks since 2009. He has over 10 years experience in marketing. When he is not with his pen, you will find him at theatres or meet ups of the creatives.

dENNIS GItArI Accounts AssistantHis work involves ensuring that finance procedures are followed, facilitating payments by scrutinising every document against the laid procedures. When he is not working with the figures, Dennis plays badminton and has won many awards for his prowess in the court.

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CAtHErINE KIGANJoProgramme officer, Institutional Development and Governance

Aunty Cathy, as she is fondly called by the girls supported by KCDF’s girl child programme, is a caring person, with an infectious warm personality. She is also an ardent football fan, who will not miss a vantage seat during national football tournaments at Kasarani or Nyayo Stadium. At KCDF, she drives the agenda of scholarships and girl child – causes that she is very passionate about. She also coordinates Governance activities of the Board of Directors in addition to Human Resources and the overall administration function at the Secretariat. Having been at KCDF since its inception, Cathy is the person who literally shows the way and orients other staff members to the organisation procedures and history.

Gladys MiritiProgramme Officer, Early Childhood Development Gladys is known for her passion in serving children and fighting for the rights of vulnerable children. She is a recognisable face in children’s advocacy circles. Gladys loves travelling and reading current affairs magazines.

Judith Mulinge Communication InternJudith is a budding poet. She is a creative writer and debater. She is a meticulous event organiser. Judith is the key plank that links the Marketing and Partnerships team( MARK Team) with the communities. She loves travelling and reading thought provoking books.

lynnette Gacheri Programmes InternLynnette, a psychology graduate, is keen in demystifying what drives people to think and act the way they do. She prefers to sit at her desk and research on a wide array of topics. Through this, she is able to bolster the programmes team with a repository of information. Lynnette also mentors young girls during weekends.

Mercy Maneno Executive Assistant Mercy is known for her warm personality and the smile that she always wears while welcoming guests to KCDF offices. She is also known for her culinary prowess, especially African cuisines.

Francis Kamau Finance and Investment Manager

His office looks like a finance library – a resource with anything from books, newspaper cuttings, magazines to journals. He oversees all the financial matters at KCDF and also carries out administration duties. Francis is also the link between the endowment funds service providers (fund managers, custodians and administrators. When he is not battling figures at KCDF, he likes to spend time at his farm.

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Simon Wachira Communication Officer Known for his sense of humour and creative one liners, Simon is the sort of person who tames the pressure in the office. At KCDF he drives the communication docket, ensuring that KCDF is well profiled in the media, publications and online platforms. He is an avid debater with keen interest in international affairs. He is a gifted writer and a cartoonist. A passionate supporter of what he calls “the cause of the ordinary people, Simon has been a consistent advocate of the rights of the vulnerable – especially persons with disabilities and children with autism. He is also a road safety campaigner.

Mutheu Mbondo Programme Officer, Arts and Culture Nothing captures Mutheu than the array of talents under her sleeve. She is a musician, guitarist and a writer; perhaps this explains her versatility in dealing with artists from different genres. Mutheu attended Berklee College of Music in Boston—USA.

oliver Konya Logistics OfficerOliver is the sort of person who will drop everything when any staff member is stuck. He ensures that we are supported to work smoothly. He is also a good debater with a warm smile. When he is not at KCDF, Oliver likes to participate in community projects in his church.

Sarah Munyua Grants Management AccountantSarah is known for her ability to go through complex figures with a toothcomb. At KCDF, she oversees and participates in the budgeting process of all the grantees, builds the capacity of grantees on financial matters and also prepares all finance journals. She is a soft spoken person, who loves travelling and reading fashion magazines.

peter Wechuli Programme Assistant, Youth Programme Peter is an amiable person, known for his determination to get things done. His work involves supporting the Youth Programme by providing linkages with the community organisations and individual young people. When he is not traversing the country, Peter plays rugby and also sings in his church choir.

Sonia rasugu Coordinator, Youth Development ProgrammeSonia is a bundle of joy. She greets every person with a smile and a bout of optimism that fuels her passion to serve young people. She has traversed every corner of the country, inspiring young people and challenging them to be focussed.

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oUr vISIoN All Kenyan communities giving and working together in a prosperous nation.

oUr MISSIoN KCDF promotes sustainable development of communities through social investment, resource mobilisation, endowment building and grant making.

oUr BElIEFS As a Foundation and in tackling the questions of poverty eradication and development, we believe that:

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oUr vAlUESdignity and rights of every human being: We attach great value to the dignity and rights of every human being regardless of ethnicity/race, religion, gender, age, physical or mental disposition. Working with others: We value and are committed to quality and broad participation and collabo-ration with other like minded individuals or organisations. Commitment to Social Justice philanthropy: We are committed to philanthropy that promotes social justice, integrity and respect for others in order to uphold the public trust and secure the rights of poor people Honesty and transparency: We value and promote transparency, honesty and efficiency in our dealings with others irrespective of their social standing. learning and Innovation: We value reflection, learning and innovation and strive to evolve, pro-mote and share best practices with othersEquity: We strive to promote and address equity in all our endeavours in pursuing the goals and objec-tives of the Foundation.

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Al Kags Head, Marketing and Partnerships

Catherine KiganjoProgramme officer, Institutional Development and Governance

Dennis Gitari Accounts Assistant

Francis Kamau Finance and Investment Manager

Gladys MiritiProgramme Officer, Early Childhood Development

Janet Mawiyoo Chief Executive Officer

Judith MulingeCommunications Intern

Lynnette MicheniProgrammes Intern

Mercy Maneno Executive Assistant

Mutheu MbondoProgramme Officer, Arts and Culture

Oliver KonyaLogistics Officer

Peter WechuliProgramme Assistant, Youth Development Programme

Rosalid Ndoro Grants Management Accountant

Simon Wachira Communications Officer

Sonia RasuguCo-ordinator, Youth Development Programme

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tegrate with a mentor to realize their full potential, develops the girls to be-come a mentor and benefactor for the next generation of girls and provides an opportunity to develop valuable skills necessary in meeting the various challenges in their future career. The beneficiaries are from two institutions namely Starehe Girls Centre and St Martins Girls Secondary School in Kibagare Slums. The commitment for the support of this work is U$ 300,000 donated by ATE Bank of Greece as a Clinton Global Initiative commitment.

Starehe Girls CentreStarehe Girls has 24 beneficiaries in the programme. 22 of the beneficia-ries have received additions to the public nuiversities to study various pro-grams. 2 students are pursuing college education. During the period under review the institution received funding to support the Gap period i.e., the pe-riod before admissions to the university to train on ICT skills, accounting, busi-ness skills and life skills. In addition the funding provided accommodation facilities and a renovated a laboratory which was equipped with computers to provide a first class facility for training at the institution. Grant Amount: Kshs. 4,875,947•••••St Martins Girls Secondary School St Martin’s has 6 beneficiaries in the programme, who were admitted to various colleges to undertake diploma courses in Hotel Management, Com-munity Development and Accounting. These courses take a period of 2 to 3 years to complete. During the period under review the institution received

funding to support IT skills training, tuition and examination fees to the various colleges, hostel accommoda-tion, transport and clothing allowance, stationery and pocket allowances.

Grant Amount: Kshs. 1,805,549

EdUCAtIoN SCHolArSHIpSPurpose: The grant provides an chance for needy boys and girls in Kenya who are orphans or destitute to attend sec-ondary school and therefore have an equal opportunity.

KCDF partners with local community-based organizations, NGOs and schools that offer mentorship to stu-dents who meet the set criteria through-out Kenya.

KCdF Scholarship Support

Actina Initiative Self Help GroupBoys (0), Girls (3)Grant Amount: Kshs. 100,134•••••Edumed Trust Boys (5), Girls (4)Grant Amount: Kshs. 234,010•••••Genesis Community develop-ment Association Boys (2), Girls (2)Grant Amount: Kshs. 96,791•••••Kenya orphans rural develop-ment programmeBoys (4), Girls (0)Grant Amount: Kshs. 155,263•••••Kenya professional Association of Women in Agriculture and

Environment (KEpAWAE)Boys (0), Girls (7)Grant Amount: Kshs. 260,811•••••Makutano Community develop-ment Association (MCdA)Boys (1), Girls (2)Grant Amount: Kshs. 71,700

Malindi Education development Association (MEdA)Boys (4), Girls (3)Grant Amount: Kshs. 235,731•••••Masaai Aids Awareness pro-gramme (MAAp)Boys (1), Girls (8)Grant Amount: Kshs. 231,643•••••omega Child Shelter Boys (4), Girls (3)Grant Amount: Kshs. 235,731•••••Soin Integrated development project – Bomet. Boys (0), Girls (3) Grant Amount: Kshs. 94,801•••••rabour Sinaga Area develop-ment trustBoys (1), Girls (2)Grant Amount: Kshs 36,827•••••Starehe Girls Centre Boys (0), Girls (1)Grant Amount: Kshs. 65,000•••••Support Activities in poverty Eradication and Health (SAIPEH)Boys (4), Girls (3)Grant Amount: Kshs. 108,501•••••

Total Funds Disbursed: Kshs. 1,855,865. Total Number of Boys: 26Total Number of Girls: 41Total Number of students: 67•••••

Chandaria Foundation Support The following is a summary of benefi-ciaries students funded directly each student received a partial grant of Kshs. 12,000 per annum as a contribu-tion to the secondary school fees;

Form 1: Girls: 2 Boys: 3Form 2: Girls: 2 Boys: 3Form 3 Girls: 2 Boys: 3Form 4: Girls: 9 Boys: 16•••••The following organizations each re-ceived partial scholarships to disburse to student. Each student received Kshs. 12,000 per annum.

Kenya Network of Women with AIdS (KENWA)Boys (0), Girls (4)Grant Amount: Kshs. 48,000•••••Kenya professional Association of Women in Agriculture and Environment (KEpAWAE)Boys (0), Girls (4)Grant Amount: Kshs. 48,000•••••Edumed trust Boys (2), Girls (2)Grant Amount: Kshs. 48,000•••••pastrolist Integrated Support program (pISp)Boys (3), Girls (1)Grant Amount: Kshs. 48,000

•••••Genesis Community develop-ment AssistanceBoys (2), Girls (2)Grant Amount: Kshs. 48,000•••••Good Samaritan Children’s HomeBoys (3), Girls (1)Grant Amount: Kshs. 48,000•••••Support Activities in poverty Eradication and Health (SAIpEH)Boys (2), Girls (2)Grant Amount: Kshs. 48,000•••••St Martins Girls Secondary School Boys (0), Girls (4)Grant Amount: Kshs. 48,000•••••Makutano Community develop-ment Association (MCdA)Boys (2), Girls (2)Grant Amount: Kshs. 48,000•••••lake region Community devel-opment programmeBoys (2), Girls (2)Grant Amount: Kshs. 48,000•••••turkana Basin Institute limitedBoys (2), Girls (2)Grant Amount: Kshs. 48,000•••••rattansi Education trust Boys (2), Girls (2)Grant Amount: Kshs. 48,000•••••Streetnizers Ministry transfor-mation Centre

Boys (4), Girls (0)Grant Amount: Kshs. 48,000•••••Malindi Education development Association (MEdA)Boys (2), Girls (2)Grant Amount: Kshs. 48,000•••••Edumed trust Boys (4), Girls (2)Grant Amount: Kshs. 48,000•••••

total Funds disbursed: Kshs. 1,111,500. Total Number of Boys: 46Total Number of Girls: 41Total Number of students: 87

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programmatic focuses and undertaking an Arts & Leadership camp. This proj-ect aims to reach at least 40 youth and 10 teachers directly and about 2000 others indirectly. It is expected that rel-evant organizational systems and pro-cedures shall be set up set up inclusive of the strategic plan, Human resource and Financial Manual as well as office equipment.

Grant Amount: Ksh 938,250 (USD 12,853)•••••trans Nzoia Sports Association (tySA) TYSA was established in 2001 and is registered as a Community Based Organization (CBO). TYSA mission is to inspire and empower youth through sports. TYSA is implementing a 12 month project dubbed ‘Tunaweza Girls Project’ that aimed to enhance girls’ active participation in their growth and development through sports and equipping them with rel-evant skills, knowledge and informa-tion so as to make informed choices. Key interventions include provision of mentorship and follow ups for girls, training in child, youth and women’s rights, reproductive health, peer edu-cation, business development skills and career counseling. They will also conduct an exchange visit to Moving The Goal Post (MTG) in Kilifi with an aim of broadening perspectives and networks of young girls and women. Key expected outcomes include rein-tegration of teen mothers into forms of discipline and learning processes, intergenerational community based support for vulnerable young women, confident and empowered girls/young women to face the future and make

informed choices and broadened per-spectives and networks of girls/young women so they don’t feel alone with their problems. The project targets to reach 200 young women directly, 6 primary schools youth and 3 second-ary schools.

Grant Amount: Ksh 1,366,800 (USD 18,723)•••••youth Agenda Consortium (now youth Consortium Kenya), Uasin Gishu district Youth Consortium Kenya is a youth-led organization registered as a CBO in 2006. The Consortium’s mission is to bring youth together by tapping their talents and skills and involving them in the development activities in and out of the community. They achieve this include through sports and provision of capacity building training, undertak-ing research, lobbying and advocacy on issues affecting young people. Youth Consortium Kenya received a top-up grant to enable it implement its activities following successful applica-tion to HP-UNIDO application GET IT programme in which it 22 laptops and laptop stands, computer software and wireless connectivity accessories worth approximately Ksh. 3.5 million. This was to enable it equip its training centre to promote entrepreneurship and IT skills development among youth in Eldoret and its environs. This project targeted 160 young people in its initial phase. Grant Amount: Ksh 200,000 (USD 2,740)•••••dhamira Moja youth Group Dhamira Moja Youth Group is a

youth group established in 2003 in Busia District. The group works with an aim of empowering members both socially and economically. The group is implementing a 12 month project dubbed ‘Kijana Poa Project’ that aim to improve the livelihoods and well being of young people in Busia district by building their capacity to respond to national development and cohesion needs. Key project activities include training programmes on entrepreneur-ship, leadership & governance, lobby-ing and advocacy and creative talent promotion, talent promotion festival and enterprise development. Through the project, it is expected that the ca-pacity of member youth groups and individual youth will be developed and that their interest in national develop-ment and participation will be bol-stered. They will also be able to apply principles of active non-violence to lob-by and settle conflicts as well respond effectively to accountability demands by local leaders. The youth will also be economically empowered as by apply-ing for credit facilities in their localities as well as expand their enterprises. The project targeted at least 4000 youth in Busia dstrict directly.

Grant Amount: Ksh. 967,500 USD (13, 253)•••••

GIrl CHIld FUNd FUNdEd By tHE FrIENdS oF KCdF - USAPurpose: This is a national initiative aimed at providing a permanent ap-proach to addressing the many chal-lenges encountered by the girl child in Kenya. This initiative born out of the recognition that the girl-child is in many

instances not able to exploit their full potential mainly due to inhibitive cultur-al practices and beliefs; among other factors. KCDF received a grant from the friends of KCDF USA amount to U$ 22,000, as their contribution to this initiative. This grant aims at supporting pilot, innovative and creative girl-child initiatives that have a high likelihood of being replicated or scaled up, in three selected marginal provinces in Kenya over a period of one year. The follow-ing are the grantees who received the funds;

yang’at Girl Child potential Sen-sitization Group – Kapenguria, West pokot The organization tackles the challenges of negative cultural practices that affect the girl child in Pokot areas. It utilised the funds to disseminate information on girl child rights through commu-nity mobilization and sensitization, established a rescue system to help young girls who fall victim of negative cultural practices, i.e, victims of FGM and early marriages and conducting workshops and trainings on the effects of negative cultural practices and HIV/AIDS. Through a grant from KCDF, Yang’at: mobilised and trained 12 leaders(chiefs, church elders, elders and women leaders), 784 school go-ing children, 297 community members on HIV/Aids, dangers of FGM, early marriage and the need to take care of the girl child.

Grant Amount: Kshs. 500,000 (USD 6,849)•••••Hope for the Girl Child – MalindiThe organization focuses on empower-ing the girl child to participate and en-

joy equal opportunities for their devel-opment in Watamu Location, Malindi division in Malindi District. The girl child faces challenges of early/forced marriages, child trafficking, Child par-enthood, child prostitution and missing school during the menstruation period due to lack of sanitary pads. Poverty and ignorance have played a signifi-cant role towards this destruction. The organization utilized the funds to train trainers on gender education and the importance of girl child, capacity build-ing of management/board member on management, financial and report writing skills, hold forums with girls in schools and those outside school and provide them with sanitary towels, sensitization meetings on gender edu-cation and the importance of girl child and programme support. Through this grant, Hope for Girl Child trained 20 Trainers of Trainers (TOT) on gender education and the need to protect the girl child, organised 7 dis-cussion forums on children’s rights in Gede, Dabaso and Watamu Primary Schools whereby 1838 school girls, 286 out of the school and 30 teachers were reached. The organisation also managed to distribute sanitary towels to 915 girls within the region. It also sensitised 826 community members on gender education in Watamu’s Chief’s camp, Timboni, Chembe and Jimba trading centres, Watamu, Dongokundu and Kanani villages.

Grant Amount: Kshs. 480,000 (USD 6,575)•••••Child Welfare Society – Mom-basaThe organization objective was to enhance protection of the girl-child

especially those that are vulnerable and likely to join commercial sex trade due to poverty in Kaa Chonjo area in Mombasa. It also aimed to empower the girls through skills development so as to be self reliant and empower the community through educational aware-ness on issues of health and environ-ment; counselling and project identifi-cation and sustainability. The organization utilized the funds to undertake capacity building of lo-cal community volunteers towards the elimination of commercial sex exploita-tion, the production of IEC materials campaigning against commercial sex exploitation of girls and withdraw, rehabilitate, reintegrate girls aged be-tween 6 – 18 years from venturing into commercial sex. Through this grant, the organisation: identified, enrolled and admitted 16 girls to Tudor and Mary Cliff Primary Schools (this also included school uniforms), equipped 17 girls with computer skills. 97 par-ticipants (girls, community leaders and parents) were equipped with knowl-edge on life skills, adolescence chal-lenges and children’s rights,

Grant Amount: Kshs. 488,000 (USD 6,685)•••••

FUNdEd By GloBAl GIvE BACK CIrClE Purpose: The program focuses on Tran-sition of Post-secondary school gradu-ates, to College or University through to societal launch. The grants supports identified destitute girls with a will be break out the circle of poverty so that they no longer return to a life of destitu-tion after high school graduation. It gives the girls an opportunity to in

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leviating poverty through job creation and environmental conservation. Its current activities include sericulture farming; trout fish farming, tree nursery establishment and training in sericul-ture. The group is implementing a 12 month project, ‘Sericulture Farmer Recruitment’, that aims to create em-ployment and generate income through silk worm rearing – “sericulture”. It will directly benefit 30 households and increase interest in young people in silk worm rearing as well as increasing the number of out-growers to 30. The youth participants will benefit from expert knowledge on sericulture processing, marketing, cooperative development, eco-tourism and business planning to boost their entrepreneurial skills.

Grant Amount: Ksh 956,600 (USD 13,104)••••• House of talent (Hot) HOT is a community based organiza-tion formed in 2004. It is led by young people from Mnarani in Kilifi District and works to explore and nurture tal-ents through performances. The group’s mission is to empower youth in Kilifi District economically through school out-reach programmes, organizes fam-ily shows, educating the community on HIV&AIDS, drug abuse, consequences of early marriages, unplanned preg-nancies, and importance of education; and road shows for promoting com-modities for a fee. HOT is implement-ing a 12 month project whose main ac-tivities include: group dynamics, train-ing on leadership and governance, financial management, resource mo-bilization & documentation, business plan development, communication, procurement of equipment, produc-

tion of organizational IEC materials & manuals, etc. It is anticipated the HOT would emerge a stronger community based youth group that can positively and effectively impact on the lives of over 3000 youth in Kilifi District.

Grant Amount: Ksh 613,000 (USD 8,397) ••••• Moving the Goal post (MtG)MTG is a community based organiza-tion formed in 2001 in Kilifi District to provide an opportunity for young girls to fulfill their potential through sports. Its current activities include promoting football for girls, developing leader-ship through football, training coaches and training girls in First Aid, provision of reproductive health and HIV/Aids information and services to adolescent girls and provision of access to educa-tion to girls through leadership award schemes. MTG is implementing a 12 month project ‘Tumanyane’ that aims to increase the level of parental finan-cial and moral support to their girls who are involved in MTG activities in Kilifi and Kaloleni Districts by building partnerships and providing information about MTG Goals and activities. The project targets to reach at least 300 parents, 59 heads of schools and 200 MTG girls household. It is expected that there shall be increased support by parents, guardians and teachers in the greater Kilifi District to girls and encourage their participation in sports and other self empowering initiatives.

Grant Amount: Ksh. 1,269,800 (USD 17,394)•••••Eco Ethics InternationalECI is an NGO registered in 2002,

working investigate, demonstrate, promote and enhance harmonious relationships between human communi-ties with their natural environmental re-sources building on the principle of sus-tainability. The group is implementing a 12 months project “Youth Enterprise Development and Skills Building(YED) in Peri Urban and Informal Settlements of Mombasa ” that aims to build skills and capacity of youth in Peri-urban and informal settlements in Mombasa in order to initiate, develop and sustain socio economic development interven-tions at the individual, local and na-tional level. The project targets to reach at least 10 youth groups and over 400 individual youth in Mombasa. It is anticipated that there shall be an in-creased appreciation of young people of environment friendly enterprises and linkages of youth and youth organiza-tion to financial agencies to fund eco-enterprises and ultimately funding for youth led eco-enterprises for improved economic livelihood. Grant Amount: Ksh. 1,165,700 (USD 15,968)•••••Malindi Education and develop-ment Association (MEdA) MEDA is community-based organiza-tion whose mission is to promote the recognition and appreciation of the importance and the role of education in development by working together as residents of Malindi to ensure access to education at all levels. MEDA is imple-menting a 12 month project “Building our Nation, shaping our communi-ties, youth in development in Malindi District.” This project targeted at least 5000 young people (3000 women and 2000 men).Specific project activi-

ties included public motivational talks by successful youthful young women in the society, inter generational dialogue forums, mapping and zoning of youth (serving )organizations in Malindi and publication of the same and documen-tation of MEDA’s work over years with young people Grant Amount: Ksh. 962,000 (USD 13,178)•••••pastoralist Girls Initiative (pGI) PGI is an NGO registered in 2008. It works with marginalized pastoralists in North Eastern Province in an effort to promote sustainable development by enhancing pastoralist capacities through integrated development ap-proaches. The organizations focal areas include; education, health, campaigns and advocacy. PGI is implementing a 12 month “Pastoral-ist Youth Empowerment” project that aims at maximising the full potential of the youth through participatory engagement that serves their needs, aspirations and above all ensuring sustainability of their programmes and building a better future. Key interven-tions include leadership and life skills training, training on entrepreneurship and promoting and harnessing ethnic diversity to enhance cohesion among the youth. This project targets to reach to at least 200 youth directly by the end of project period.

Grant Amount: Ksh. 945,250 (USD 12,949)•••••Gem youth Network GYN is a newly registered network of youth groups from the wider Gem Dis-trict. Established in 2009, it currently

has a membership of 13 youth groups. Its mission is to enhance cooperation and networking among Gem Youth Groups to foster integrated service delivery and to ensure a common ap-proach towards development and gov-ernance issues in the district.GYN is implementing a 12 month “Youth Empowerment and Leader-ship” project will improve leadership skills and to encourage better, efficient and result oriented service provision by the respective member youth groups. The Network will facilitate a Training of Trainers(TOT) training sessions to build skills in facilitations, team Build-ing, leadership, conflict resolution, report writing; strategic planning, monitoring & evaluation;, proposal writing training, communication and lobbying skills. The grant will enable the member youth groups improve their institutional structures as membership organizations. It is anticipated that through the groups, the project will reach 4,000 youth in Gem District.

Grant Amount: Ksh 809,370 (USD 10,377)•••••tears Group Kenya Tears Group Kenya is a youth-led, youth-serving organization registered in 2003 in Nakuru District as a cultural group. The organization’s mission is to ‘create awareness and involvement of the youth in creation of sustainable solutions through socio economic em-powerment’. Tears Group uses creative arts and drama as its main means of intervention. The Group provides training in creative arts, youth groups’ capacity development, mentorship and life skills; conducts community outreaches, peer education and focus

group discussions on reproductive health and civic education. Tears Group is implementing a 6 month insti-tutional strengthening project dubbed ‘Pambazuko’ that aims to strengthen its institutional systems and structures. Core project activities include: strategic plan development, business plan devel-opment and development of operation-al manuals (financial, human resource, procurement, volunteer policy as well as monitoring and evaluation tools). It is expected that the organization shall be more strengthened and serve young people more efficiently with all systems in place.

Grant amount: Kshs 786, 700 (USD 10,777)•••••Genesis Arts Creations (G.A.C) GAC is an artistic driven initiative based in Nakuru town which address-es social, economic, health and gover-nance issues in the community through use of Art and Theatre in Participatory Interactive Forums Model (P.I.F.M).The organization was founded in 2006 and registered in June 2007 under the department of culture with the then ministry of Gender, sports culture and social services as a Community Based Organization (CBO). The or-ganisation is implementing a 12 month project dubbed ‘Zinduka’ that aims to strengthen organization’s institu-tional and programmatic development through putting in place and revising necessary Policies which affects day to day running and long term plans of the organization. Key interventions include revision/ formulation of poli-cies, strengthening of organizational systems, exchange visits with different organization with similar

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teachers, ECD and school manage-ment committees on successful transi-tion, supporting large “model” ECD centers to acquire child friendly chairs and desks, supporting supplementary feeding of children in identified large 6 ECD centres, training on resource mobilisation for community groups and ECD committees, supporting the process fo documentation and sharing ECD programme’s work through an-nual newsletter and a website and set up of demonstration plots to educate community on food security issues. The organisation has also been coordinat-ing ECD/Child rights network’s activi-ties in the larger Mwingi district and is also currently supporting 35 ECD cen-tres which are directly serving 2,104 children from 568 households.

Grant Amount: Kshs 1,633,540(USD 22,377) inclusive of Mwingi Net-work support grants.•••••Appropriate Sustainable pasto-ralist Empowerment for Com-munity transformation (ASpECt) project Garissa/lagderaGrants to ASPECT Project have sup-ported the enhancement of community and stakeholder’ capacities towards promotion of smooth and successful transition of children at all levels in Daadab, Jarajila and Liboi divisions in the larger Garissa district now referred to as Lagdera district. Some of the key activities supported by this grants include: capacity build-ing of ECD, lower primary school teachers, head teachers, ECD and school management committees on successful transition, training for ECD and primary school teachers on child centred methodologies and emerging

approaches in ECD, supplementary feeding in supported ECD centres, sup-port of “model” ECD centers to acquire child friendly chairs and desks and wa-ter tanks so that the children get safe drinking water, support ing ECD Cen-tres to develop learning and playing material ECD teachers, *duksi teachers and committees, There is intensive com-munity mobilisation to improve men’s participation in ECD programmes. AS-PECT is currently supporting 18 ECD centers where 1,080 children from 293 households are directly benefiting from various ECD programmes.

Grant Amount: Kshs 1,055,720 (USD 14,462)•••••Woman Kind Kenya (Wokike), GarissaThe grants received supported the promotion of smooth and successful transition of children at all levels in Ga-rissa Central division, Garissa district. Some of the key activities implemented include: Community mobilisation and capacity building of key programme implementers to promote smooth and successful transition of Children at all levels, training of ECD and primary school teachers on child centred meth-odologies and emerging approaches in ECD, supporting supplementary feeding of large ECD centres, support “model” ECD centres to acquire child friendly desks, chairs and water tank so that children can get clean drinking water, supporting ECD centres to de-velop learning and playing materials for ECD teachers and duksi teachers and committees, supporting the organ-isation to articipate in the Day of the African Child commemoration event and monitoring of programme’s activi-

ties. WOKIKE is currently supporting 12 ECD centres where 728 children from 186 households are directly ben-efiting from ECD services.

Grant Amount: Ksh 943,580 (USD 12, 926)•••••Forum for orphans- Malindi (FoM), GarissaGrants received supported the promo-tion of successful transition of children at all levels in Malindi rural, Marafa and Lango Mbaya divisions in the larger Malindi district. Some of the key activities undertaken include: community mobilisation and capacity building for ECD, lower primary school teachers, head teachers, ECD and school management committees on Successful transition, training the youth on life skills, child development and transition, training functional HIV/AIDS support groups on income generating activites management and support establishment of the same, supporting supplementary feeding programmes for children in identified ECD centres, supporting “model” ECD centers to acquire child friendly desks and chairs, supporting children health outreach campaigns on immunizsations, growth monitoring, prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV/Aids and supporting vitamin A administration, setting up demonstration plots to educate community on food security issues, resource mobilisation and monitoring of programme’s activities. FOM is currently supporting 28 ECD centers where 1869 children from 404 households are directly benefiting from various ECD services provided.

Grant Amount: Kshs 1, 258,830 ( USD 17,244)•••••Women Concern Kenya (WCK), GarissaThe organization’s utilised grants re-ceived to promote smooth and success-ful transition of children at all levels in Sankuri and Central divisions, Garissa district. Some of the key activities undertaken during the stated period include: community mobilisation sensi-tisation to support successful transition initiatives, supporting supplementary feeding for 7 ECD centres, supporting the development of play and learning materials, support equipment of model ECD centre, supporting integration of ECD Programme and Duksi system, enhancing child participation and resource mobilisation for endowment fund building with KCDF. Currently, WCK is supporting 15 ECD centres where 638 children from 183 house-holds are directly benefiting from ECD programme’s services.

Grant Amount: Kshs 1,092,480 (USD14,965) inclusive of Garissa ECD/Child Rights network grants.•••••Mission for Community Initia-tive and development (MICodE), MalindiECD grants for the period under review to MICODE supported com-munity initiatives towards promotion of successful transition of children at all levels in Magarini divisions in larger Malindi district. Some of the key activities undertaken include: com-munity mobilisation and sensitisation on successful transition issues and clarification of their roles, resource mobilisation trainings for ECD com-

mittees and Training of Trainers(TOT), supporting supplementary feeding programmes in selected 5 ECD cen-tres, supporting 2 large ECD centres to acquire water tanks and child friendly desks and chairs, Training of Trainers on documentation and reporting of ECD/child rights issues, supporting the process of documentation and sharing information on success stories and best practices in ECD programme. MICODE is currently supporting 37 ECD centres where 2669 children from 548 house-holds are directly benefiting from ECD services

Grant Amount: Ksh 1,064,400 (USD 14,581)•••••Muungano CBo, Kilifi district.Grants were utilized in supporting com-munity initiatives towards promotion of successful transition of children at all levels in Vitengeni division, Kilifi dis-trict. Some of the key activities under-taken include: Support 4 ECD teach-ers undergo Dicece course training, Capacity building for ECD teachers, TOTs, committees and lower primary school teachers on smooth and suc-cessful Transition, Intensify community health education campaigns, Support equipment and provision of safe water to selected large ECD centers, support feeding programmesin selected 7 ECD centres, supporting the documentation and dissemination process on the suc-cess stories and best practices in ECD programme through annual newsletter and streamlining and carrying out rou-tine monitoring and supportive follow up of ECD programme activities. Mu-ungano is currently supporting 18 ECD centres where 1275 children from 278 households are directly benefiting from ECD services.

Grant Amount: Ksh 866,600 (USD 11,871)

Duksi in the Northern Kenya is the same as Madrasa in Coast province, a programme in Islam where every child from Muslim family is supposed to learn and understand the Koran and the Islamic religion. This takes about 3 years meaning that without integration, children join formal ECD programme at the age when they are supposed to be in primary school.•••••

yoUtH dEvElopMENt pro-GrAMMEPurpose: The grants aim to strengthen inclusion, participation and empower-ment of young people at the commu-nity-level and national development processes in Kenya.

Kamuga youth GroupKamuga Youth Group, a registered self help group, works in Murang’a South district to create opportunities and jobs through value addition in agri-business, specifically poultry, mushrooms, fruit juice production and banana wine production and sale. KYG got a grant from KCDF that benefited 40 young people directly, providing them with work and income. It is anticipated that Kamuga will improve its governance structures (emerge a better managed organisation) with clear investment strategies and plans.

Grant Amount: Ksh 579,600 (USD 7,932) ••••• Kimahuri youth United Self Help Group Established in 2006 with an aim of al

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movement led by twelve self-pro-claimed “soldiers” who use hip-hop music as a tool to wage war against social injustice and inequality in Ke-nya. Kichaja (Kioo cha Jani) was a platform for showcasing upcoming artists and talent in the area through a two day music concert event flanked by the performing and visual arts

Grant Amount: Kshs 300,500 (USD 4,116)•••••

Wanuri Kahiu: pumziWanuri Kahiu is a Kenyan filmmaker who has directed various films includ-ing “Ras Star”. Her latest show “From a Whisper” is her first feature film. She has also done a behind-the-scenes documentary for “Catch a Fire”; an American feature film released last year by Universal Pictures Inc. Pumzi is a futuristic science-fiction short film about East Africa in the future. The script was work-shopped in both South Africa and New York and the film was selected as one in 10 from Africa by Focus Features, America. Pumzi pre-miered as part of the official selection at the Sundance Film Festival 2010.

Grant Amount: Kshs 350,000 (USD 4,795)•••••Michael Wambua Soi: dishing out Michael Wambua Soi is a well known Kenyan artist with 14 years experience with numerous solo and group exhibi-tions both locally and internationally. He is currently working on work that is political and satirical. Dishing out was a series of two exhibitions in which the artist gave away half of the work cre-

ated to the audience for free and the other half to local organizations

Grant Amount: Kshs 237,500 (USD 3,253)•••••teto tetuma – ormoti the Musi-calTeto Tetuma was a finalist musician at the Spotlight on Kenyan Music and best actor Nairobi Province colleges drama festival in 2006/the show as created in conjunction with Kevin Chagala, a percussionist and musician and Adam Chienjo, a dancer and cho-reographer. “Ormoti the Whole Story” is a story of a community’s journey told through music, dance and drama in poetry

Grant Amount: Kshs 274,000 9 (USD 3,753)•••••dance into Space: Contempo-rary dance film scenariosDance into space is a 10 year old con-temporary dance and theatre group with several choreographies that have been presented both locally and inter-nationally. Contemporary dance film scenarios are a collection of choreo-graphic pieces staged in unconvention-al spaces (CBD & estates) and filmed at same time. Films were edited into 5 minute pieces for TV and DVD.

Grant Amount: Kshs 252,600 (USD 3,460)•••••Intensecities Group (ICG) : Graf-fiti project – Concrete BeautyIGG is a graffiti movement which has been running for 2 years now and has a total of 30 members around East Af-

rica. The Concrete Beauty project was for the beautification of a slum (Kibera) by creating graffiti and other art works on the exteriors of 25 houses

Grant Amount: Kshs 223,500(USD 3,062)Sitawa Namwalie – Cut off my tongueBetty Wamalwa Muragori is a former worker in development for the last 15 years, who 2 years ago, allowed herself to explore her dream and has become an excellent writer and poet. Sitawa Namwalie, ‘Cut off my tongue’ is a show of dramatized poetry that incorporates spoken poetry, music, dance and movement distilling the es-sence of life in Kenya.

Grant Amount: Kshs 348,000(USD 4,767)•••••the Imagine Company – next levelThe Imagine Company is a coalition of writers, artists and professions work-ing to transform society using modern technology. They run www.kenyaimag-ine.com, a site on art, opinion, analy-sis and debate. The Next Level project was to host quarterly artistic event that exhibits either works in progress or finished progress- showing artistic experiments that people are making.

Total Grant Amount: Kshs 199,500 (USD 2,733)•••••Kenneth Mwingi – Junk Arts trash BinsKenneth works with junk metal to cre-ate furniture and sculptures. Junk art

trash bins is a collection of 5 trash bins suspended on life size junk art sculptures themed around issues of nationalism and the Kenyan littering culture.

Grant Amount: Kshs 334,600 (USD 4,584)•••••Undone theatre projects: Gen-eration FirimbiUndone theatre projects is a group of experienced artistes who stage only local and African work in a bid to build audiences and cultural appreciation for the arts sector. Generation Firimbi was devised from the books: “It’s Our Turn to Eat” (Mi-chela Wong) and “Africa Kills Her Sun” (Ken Saro-Wiwa).

Grant Amount: Kshs 349,700 (USD 4,790)•••••Stereotypes three: (John Ka-micha, peterson Kamwathi, Michael Soi, Anthony okello, thom ongonga, Sam Hopkins)A group of 6 well-known visual artists came together to work on a series of exhibitions that they titled “Stereotypes”. They have since suc-cessfully completed Stereotypes I and Stereotypes II which both gener-ated great interest in the arts scene and were attended by about 300 people. Stereotypes III is the third part of a visual arts interrogation of stereotypes and the roles they play.

Grant Amount: Kshs 349,750(USD 4,791)•••••

Story Moja Africa – Matatu from Watamu that drove into the Sea – stage adaptationStorymoja Africa was formed by a collective of five writers committed to publishing contemporary East Afri-can writing of world-class standard. Their mission is to grow Kenya’s reading culture. Matatu from Wata-mu is a stage production based on Muthoni Garland’s children’s book by the same title. The book aims to raise the awareness amongst our children on the environment within the sea. The stage production is an interactive show that incorporates art, dance, music, and stage perfor-mance performed by children within ages of 5 and 10.

Grant Amount: Kshs 350,000 (USD 4,795)•••••

EArly CHIldHood dEvElop-MENt proGrAMME (ECd)Purpose: The 2008/2009 grants were aimed at supporting commu-nity initiatives towards promotion of smooth and successful transition of children from home to ECD centres/pre-schools and to primary schools. This is in efforts to contribute to the improvement of the situation of young children in Kenya through ensuring their high enrollments, re-tention and completion of both ECD and primary school educational pro-grammes.

Malindi Education development Association (MEdA), MalindiMEDA utilised grants received from KCDF to support smooth and

successful transition of children at all levels in Malindi urban and Magarini divisions ,Malindi district. Some of the key activities imple-mented include: Capacity building for head teachers, Madrasa and ECD teachers, committees and lower primary school teachers on smooth and successful transition, support large, model ECD centres to acquire child friendly facilities like chairs and desks,. Other activities included: support the development of teach-ing, learning and play materials, training ECD and primary teachers on child centred methodologies, sup-porting the process of documenta-tion and sharing information on the impact of ECD, success stories and best practices in ECD Programme im-plementation, coordination of ECD/Child Rights network’s activities in Malindi district and monitoring and supervision of ECD work. MEDA is reaching out to 124 ECD Centres where 7,440 children from1,498 households are directly benefiting fom ECD services.

Grants Amount: Ksh 1,579,910 (USD 21,643) inclusive of Malindi district ECD/Child right’s network’s support grants.•••••omega Child Shelter (oCS), MwingiOmega Child Shelter used the grants received from KCDF to sup-port smooth and successful transition of children at all levels in Migwani and Mwingi Central divisions of the larger Mwingi district. Some of the key activities implemented include: capacity building of ECD, lower pri-mary school teachers, head

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Food SECUrIty proGrAMMEThese grants are given to communities demonstrating innovative food produc-tion initiatives that can be replicated in other parts of the country. These include: greenhouse farming, drip irri-gation, water harvesting, conservation and value addition.

Makutano Community develop-ment Association (MCdA)Makutano Community Development Association is a community organisa-tion based in Yatta District. Formed in 1997, its current focus areas include education, health, food security. With a grant from KCDF, MCDA was able to construct 10 earth dams and 5 shallow wells. The organisation also purchased and distributed 10 ox-ploughs, make and distribute 50 bee hives. Under the Ustawi initiative, MCDA grew water melons, tomatoes, spinach and kales in two greenhouses.

Grant amount Kshs. 731,000(USD 10,014) •••••omega Child ShelterOmega Child Shelter is a commu-nity organisation based in Nzeluni, Mwingi. It was founded to address the needs of children, especially those under the age of 8 years. The group received a grant from KCDF to grow tomatoes, spinach and kales. The food will support 210 care givers and about 2,500 orphans and vulnerable children. Grant amount Kshs. 543,000(USD 7,438)

•••••Women and youth Against HIv/Aids (WAyAAp)This is a community based organisa-tion based in Isiolo, Northern Kenya. It undertakes awareness creation initiatives on HIV/Aids targeting women and youth in the district. It also implements food security programmes including growing food in community gardens, water harvesting, dairy cattle farming, turkey rearing, dairy goats keeping and fish farming. WAYAAP received a grant from KCDF to grow tomatoes, spinach and kales through modern technologies that would en-able it to support 13 schools and more than 300 orphans and vulnerable chil-dren from 60 households in Isiolo.

Grant amount Kshs. 525,540(USD 7,200)•••••Genesis Community develop-ment Assistance (GCdA)Genesis is an NGO based in Mwingi and supports development activities in Migwani division. Apart from it long term engagement in Early Childhood Development (ECD) and related areas, the group has undertaken an improved goat farming project aimed at cross-ing of local goat breeds to improved breeds with the aim of increasing milk production both for domestic consump-tion and sale of surplus. The group obtained bucks which are multiplied by selected households and passed to the next group, with a final aim of as-sisting the whole community to improve their animals. 28 high yielding goats

we distributed to 28 farmers. Under the Ustawi initiative, GCDA grew tomatoes and kales through modern technology.

Grant amount Kshs. 618,688(USD 8,475).•••••Sustainable Health Education for the disadvantaged (SHEd)A Kajiado based NGO registered in 2001 with the purpose through income generating programmes, education and health programmes. It works with women, youth and mixed groups with a focus on the arid and semi arid ar-eas. The organisation received a grant from KCDF to implement dairy goats’ projects, grow food and fruits. It pur-chased and distributed more than 300 dairy goats to orphans and vulnerable children and women, especially those affected by the HIV/Aids scourge.

Grant amount Kshs. 385,600 ( USD 5,282)

pastoralist development orga-nization (pdo)

Based in Garissa, PDO is a CBO that works in 3 divisions with a focus on promoting Education and Agriculture. The group advocates for adoption of crop farming as an alternative liveli-hood option to the traditional pastoral-ist way of life of the residents, which has failed to address their food needs. Through support from KCDF, PDO ven-tured into rain fed farming of drought resistant sorghum variety among target

KCDF Grantees October 1st 2008 to September 30th 2009NB: Exchange rate: Kshs.73 to 1 US $

households in Dagwardei location of Bura division – a programme that reached 40 farmers directly.

Grants amount Kshs. 352,500(USD 4,829)•••••

ArtS ANd CUltUrE CHANGAMoto ArtS FUNdPurpose: The grant supports the development of innovative ideas by upcoming artists that target new audi-ences for Kenya art and improving the livelihoods of artists and their com-munities.

Abila Creative Centre: Cultural renaissance Street FestivalAbila Creative Centre is a Kisumu based community based organisa-tion whose objective is to create an interactive and participatory commu-nity learning environment especially for youth and women. The Cultural Renaissance was a one day street fes-tival to celebrate the arts showcasing various art forms.

Grant Amount: Kshs 274,000 (USD 3,753)•••••Hot Sun Foundation: Stories from KiberaHot Sun Foundation works with youth for social transformation through media and art in Kibera. Stories from Kibera project invited storytellers from Kibera entered their stories into this competition and shared these with residents in Kibera in an innovative participatory way.

Grant Amount: Kshs 182,000 (USD 2,493)

•••••lakareber Atokena Abe: prison Sex II video InstallationLakareber Atokena Abe, popularly known as Ato Malinda is a visual artist who works to amplify voice of African female through the mediums of painting and conceptual perfor-mance. Prison Sex II was a 3 video performance installation at Fort Jesus. The installations featured a perfor-mance done by the artist in June of this year on the plight of a woman imprisoned at the Fort during the 19th century to obtain freedom from her marriage vows.

Grant Amount: Kshs 241,483 (USD 3,308)•••••Kistretch theatre International, Kayole: Umoja drama Fest.Kistretch Theatre International sup-ports and coordinates theatre arts in Kenyan communities by providing art groups with information, knowledge and skills in creative and performing art. The Umoja Drama fest provided drama and creative skills to slum the-atre grassroots organisations and sup-porting them to stage quality produc-tions that will attract new and large audience.

Grant Amount: Kshs 228,300 (USD 3,127)•••••Maryanne Muthoni; Beautifica-tion of City Council dust binsMuthoni is a full time professional visual artist doing own studio work, community arts projects I addition to having exhibited in various art gal-leries. The project added artistic in-volvement into the Nairobi City Coun-

cil beautification efforts by painting council dustbins with environmental messages that beautify the bins and educate the public.

Grant Amount: Kshs 308,292 (USD 4,223)•••••patrick Mukabi; the Blank Can-vas ShowPatrick is a fine artist working mostly as a painter who also does a lot of teaching of art. The Blank Canvas Show was an art project where artists created their work out in public space – in the City Centre – Aga Khan Walk. It was aimed at helping the audience to understand the creative process, enable interaction between artists and art consumers, audience to understand use and application of art materials.

Grant Amount: Kshs 249, 750 (USD 3,421)•••••Kevin oduor: tuko WorksKevin Oduor is an excellent sculptor with experience in various community arts projects. He is famous for his Dedan Kimathi sculpture in Nairobi’s central business district. Tuko Works project was for the creation of a giant size plasticine mosquito and flip flop in the centre of town with talented youth.

Grant Amount: Kshs 258, 080 (USD 3,535)•••••Ukooflani: KichajaUkooflani (Upendo Kote Olewenu Ombeni Funzo La Alietuumba Njia Iwepo) is a revolutionary hip-hop

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Income StatementFor tHE yEAr ENdEd 30tH SEptEMBEr 2009

2009 2008INCoME NotE KSHS KSHS

Grant income 3 70,365,911 77,915,937

Endowment Income 3A 2,504,124 —

Donation income 4 134,122 1,344,592

Other income 5 71,844,625 78,994,418

total 103,865,093 71,844,625

ExpENdItUrE – (AppENdIx 1 )

Administrative expenses 13,474,677 11,566,308

Donor funds disbursed to partner organisations 37,168,401 34,824,146

Capacity building 38,773,551 33,460,621

Fund-raising and communication 4,487,230 1,841,806

Transfers to the Endowment 3A 2,490,637 —

Total 96,394,496 81,692,881

Operating Surplus/Deficit 6 7,470,597 9,848,256

Finance Income – net 8 2,985,623 2,939,332

SUrplUS/dEFICIt For tHE yEAr 10,456,229 6,908,924

1. Accounting policiesThe principal accounting policies adopted in the prepara-tion of these financial statements have been consistently ap-plied to all years presented, unless otherwise stated.

2. Basis of preparationThe financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the international financial reporting standards under the historical cost convention.

3. revenue recognitionGrants received by the Kenya Community Development Foundation for specific (donor funds) projects and non-spe-cific (general project costs)

a) Specific grants: Grants received for specific purposes are treated as unexpected grants payable and credited to the income and expenditure statement when the activities for which they were provided for have been under-taken.

Specific grants supported by signed funding agree-ments which have not been received, but costs have been incurred are recognised as grants receivable. The excess of expenditure over receipts are recogn-ised as revenue and included in the financial state-ments as grants receivable.

b) General GrantsNon-specific grants are recognised as income when received

4. Interest IncomeInterest income is recognised for all interest bearing instru-ments on an accrual basis taking into account the effective yield on the asset.

5. Investments in Unit trustsInvestments in Unit trusts are held for trading and stated at a fair value

6. Endowment FundsEndowment Funds Comprise amounts set aside for perma-nent restricted community development activities. These are transferred to the KCDF Trust established for this purpose, and invested in interest earning assets. The distribution of re-turns on investment is done on the principal amount invested and is done after the endowment is audited.

7. translation of Foreign CurrenciesTransactions in foreign currencies during the period are translated into Kenya Shillings at the rates ruling at the transaction dates. Assets and Liabilities at the balance sheet date, which are expressed in foreign currencies, are trans-lated into Kenya Shillings at the rates ruling at that date. The resulting differences are dealt with in the income statement in the year in which they arise

8. deferred IncomeAssets donated as donations in kind are deferred and rec-ognised as income over the expected lives of the respective assets

9. property and equipmentProperty and equipment is stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and accumulated impairment losses where ap-plicable

10. leasehold landPayments to acquire leasehold interests inland are treated as prepaid operating lease rentals and amortised over the period of the lease.

11. taxationThe company is exempt from tax

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 2009

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Community Fund Developers upto September 2009 Hope Trust FundACK Eldoret region CCSGood SamaritanSouth Imenti Development Association (SIDA)Othaya Bursary FundStarehe Girls Centre FundMakutano Community Development TrustOmega Child Shelter FundGenesis development FundKenya Professional Association of Women in Agriculture and Environment (KIPEWAE)Women ConcernEducation and Medical Trust FundKirima Education Support ProjectNgolonya Community Aid ProgrammeMaasai Girls Education FundOthaya Bursary FundLake Region Development AssociationSupport Activities in Poverty Eradication and Health (SAIPEH)Malindi Education Development AssociationWomen ConcernYahya Family FundDr. Julia Gitobu Education FundKirima Education Support Project

COMMUNITY FUNDS 69,366,301KCDF FUNDS 160,192,997

totAl 229,559,298

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118,399,868

258,975,982

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229, 559,298

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30thSept2006

30thSept2007

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GRANT INCOME GROWTH

78,994,418

71,844,625

103,865,093

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30thSept2008

30thSept2009

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he events preceding 2007 general elections did set a depressed mood in the economy, which was worsened by external factors: persistent drought and high energy costs. The global financial melt-down exacerbated the already challenged local environment.

Kenya Community Development Foundation (KCDF) is mainly supported by grants sourced locally and globally. The grant income is meant to supplement community resources through small grants and capacity building. During the year under review the grant income increased by 40% from $0.938million to $1.314

Other than the increased funding from the traditional development partners, i.e, Ford Foundation, Japanese Social Development Fund through the World Bank, Bernard van Leer Foundation and Chandaria Foundations, KCDF received new funds from Safaricom Foundation, Global Give Back

Circle and the KCDF Friends in the US. This enabled us to support more communities all over the country.

During the same period, the expenditure increased by 18% of which 79% was direct grants to communities and capacity building. The audited accounts also allude that we were able to improve our bottom line from a previous year’s deficit of $92,119 to a surplus of $139,416. This is commendable.

INvEStMENtAs the Foundation experienced a revamped impetus, the Trust which receives the Fund builders’ contributions and invests them in an endowment fund, experienced a further down turn through fewer injections of new capital and the fall in book value of the asset. However, since the Trust policy on investment is long term, the short term change in value was temporary.

Looking forward in 2010, we expect that the first half of the financial year 2010, will see an improved investors’ confidence that will reverse the loss in the endowment value. The government investment in infrastructure and absorption of the economic stimulus programme funds is expected to renew optimism and improve the economy.

From the Trust angle, the future of investment is bright and promising. The Foundation looks forward to sustaining the momentum generated in the last year, both in supporting communities and mobilising resources to realise this goal. We remain positive that the country will smoothly go through the referendum process and that the political climate will remain calm and ideal for investments.

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s an organisation that champions self sustainability, KCDF’s greatest aspiration is to be a resource that permanently supports grassroots organisations in facilitating their local community development in ways that demonstrate a longer view. To achieve this and with support from its funding partners, KCDF has

in the last 13 years, continued to invest and steadily grow a portfolio of funds whose yields are used to address various community challenges such as access to quality and safe drinking water, better food production methods, education scholarships for orphaned and vulnerable children and other issues prioritised by communities i.e. endowment funds building.

Over the last five years, KCDF has shared its learnings from the endowment building strategies and encouraged more than 20 community organisations, originally beneficiaries of its capacity funding support to identify their priority areas of development and establish their own funds to address those challenges in the long term. Several individuals, families and companies have also bought this

concept and have established legacy funds for community support on issues that they are passionate about.

This arrangement does not take away the uniqueness and individual nature of the challenges, as they are owned by the communities or families. Every year, we all have our expectations of earnings from the funds that guides the way we invest and plan. .

To minimise resource constraints and risks attributed to the external factors in the financial market place, like the recent global credit crunch, KCDF with guidance from leading investment experts has prudently diversified the portfolio therefore minimising the shocks of such eventualities. The risks to our fund builders are therefore minimised through pooling and diversification of investments. A

CoMMUNIty ASSEt BUIldING: WEATHERING THE CHALLENGES OF MARKET DOWNTURNS

To minimise resource constraints and risks attributed to the external factors in the financial market place, like the recent global credit crunch, KCDF with guidance from leading investment experts has prudently diversified the portfolio therefore minimising the shocks of such eventualities

During the period 2007-2008, Kenya experienced a vibrant financial market place that saw significant growth in value and yields of our investments. However, the post election violence that followed, the prolonged drought and overlap with the global financial melt down, negatively impacted on our investments both in the local market and abroad. The net effect was that our yields reduced by 25%. This eventuality called for adaptation of various survival mechanisms – local solutions.

As part of capacity building of our communities in the past three years, KCDF has embedded local resource mobilisation as the primary means of encouraging ‘community give back’ in addressing challenges that they experience. Such challenges include: lack of school fees for orphaned and vulnerable children and quality learning materials and facilities for children under 8 years, among others. This came in handy, during the period 2008-2009, where community fund builders were able to look beyond their expected earnings to meet their regular financial requirements.

We saw communities take early initiatives and negotiate with the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) committees and other local bursary programmes to fill anticipated gaps. Others benefited from government programmes such as “Njaa Marufuku Kenya,” a programme of Ministry of Agriculture to address funding deficit in addressing food security issues. Some also received support from the private sector to fill gaps in their scholarship programmes while others benefited from shared arrangements with local NGOs in addressing their children’s and girl child programme requirements.

A case in point was South Imenti Development Association (SIDA) that successfully negotiated for bursaries to support more than 800 orphaned and vulnerable children to pursue secondary school education. With support from KCDF, Omega Child Shelter, a community based organisation from

Migwani district (Mwingi North), implemented a food security project that supported a feeding programme targeting 30 ECD centres in that region.

Without the continuous persuasion by KCDF and the need for attention to long term planning, proactive responses by communities would not have been realised. By depending on their anticipated incomes and not the yield from their endowment funds enabled the community organisations to only seek support to meet their funding gaps. Leveraging on local resources, therefore, enabled all of us to meet our regular development obligations to our communities without which we would have experienced set backs.

looking forward, KCDF and its collaborating community fund builders are hopeful that the markets will respond positively to the investments now that the government and other global actors are putting in place, as corrective measures for recovery.Over the years, we have learnt that planning ahead and recognising local opportunities must be is the way to go. That way, we take advantage of the available opportunities to help us pursue long term sustainability, fully aware of the risks.

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All our partners reinforced their governance and accountability structures. This made some of them to attract additional funding from various organisations. These included: Omega Child Shelter’s, an organisation from Mwingi, that received support from Safaricom Foundation, Ngolanya Community Aids Programme’s that was supported by the Government to intensify food security initiatives, Malindi Education and Development Association (MEDA) continued to receive support from the local Muslim community and Coastal APHIAII project as well as other partners.

We also documented our work and also trained our partners to do so. We now have a rich repository of reports, materials, photographs, case studies and emerging models of best practices. As we look forward to 2010- 2011, we shall ensure that this knowledge is shared widely. We shall also scale up the transition of project’s activities currently going on, and prepare partners adequately for the phase out of the programme, so that they can run it on their own.

Our partners also built structures aimed at helping them address their challenges in a sustainable way. Two of our partners have already established their own endowment funds with KCDF while Omega Child Shelter is now addressing the challenge of nutrition by growing food in a greenhouse donated by KCDF.

We are glad that five years later, we can look back and see communities that appreciate that ECD programmes are integral and strong foundations that defines holistic children’s development.

Elderly and middle aged women grow 80% of the food that is produced in Africa. This means that the youth, who have the energy that can be harnessed to address food insecurity, are generally apathetic to farming. Through Ustawi, KCDF supported the youth to participate in this technology driven farming. A case in point is a group from Sega, Ugenya district known as Ugenya Community Against HIV Aids(UCAHA). Through the Community Open(our fundraising golf tournament) KCDF liaised with the winners of the tournament to donate a Farmer’s Kit to this youth group. UCAHA started growing food that fed children orphaned by HIV/ Aids.

We shall be reaching giving out 100 more farmers kits to communities early next year. What is encouraging is to see more people replicating the technology in areas that we have helped communities to install Farmer’s Kits. We believe that Kenyans are very hardworking people who if supported, can drive the country from food relief to food security.

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ILDopportUNItIES For tHE GIrl CHIld Girls in Kenya face many challenges that hinder the realisation of their full potential. These include: female genital mutilation (FGM), discrimination, early marriages, sexual harassment, among others. The KCDF’s Girl Child Programme works with various actors promoting the agenda of the girl child in Kenya.

The programme’s approach is two pronged: first, through the Girl Child Fund established in the year 2006, KCDF has been growing funds that will address the girl child challenges in perpetuity. Second, through grant making, the organisation supports initiatives that are effectively addressing these challenges.

In 2008/2009, with support from KCDF Friends in the USA, KCDF funded innovative girl child initiatives in West Pokot, Malindi and Mombasa districts. The partner organisations addressed a wide range of challenges including: early marriages, female genital mutilations, child prostitution and poverty. A case in point is Yang’at Girl Child Potential Sensitisation Group, a community based organisation from West Pokot that mobilised leaders, school going children and parents to seek a permanent solution to the challenges of early marriages and FGM as well as work together to rehabilitated girls rescued from these vices. Hope for the Girl Child (Malindi) and Child Welfare Society (Mombasa), on the other hand, tackled child prostitution and also provided sanitary towels to girls in the two districts. These initiatives directly reached at least 3,000 girls.

Working with The Global Give Back Circle (GGBC), KCDF through grass root partners facilitated scholarships for girls and also supported mentoring and transition programmes for post secondary school graduates. This was intended at supporting the girls to break out of circle of poverty and to cushion them from returning to a life of destitution after graduating from high schools. Our partner organisations included: Starehe Girls Centre (Nairobi), St. Martins Girls Secondary School (Kibarage Slum, Nairobi) and Blessed Generation Schools (Ruiru). GGBC in partnership with ATE Bank of Greece, provided US $ 300,000 to support a five year transition process of

identified beneficiaries through post secondary phase i.e gap period training(period before admission to universities). This was intended at enabling the girls to attain professional qualifications that will adequately prepare them for labour market or self employment, build their leadership qualities (Give Back Ethos) and become responsible citizens.

In 2010, KCDF will seek partnership with donors to grow the Girl Child fund to ensure a long term source of funds to tackle the girl child challenges. We shall also be looking for more partners to reach more girls through our grant making component as well as strengthen the capacity of partner organisations to improve their responsiveness on girl child challenges.

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This was intended at supporting the girls to break out of circle of poverty and to cushion them from returning to a life of destitution after graduating from high schools.

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tHE MoSt CrItICAl pErIod oF HUMAN dEvElopMENt is in the first 8 years of life. During this time, the brain undergoes its most dramatic growth and development. Children acquire the ability to think, speak, learn and reason. For this to happen, they need to grow in a supportive environment.

Apart from improving children’s health and nutritional status, Early Childhood Development (ECD) programmes, give the children a head start in subsequent education levels. The programmes also promote their smooth and successful transition to primary school and other advanced levels of education.

rationale behind KCdF investment in ECd programmesIn the year 2004 KCDF entered into a partnership with Bernard Van Leer Foundation, to support communities in Malindi, Kilifi, Mwingi and Garissa to implement community based ECD programmes targeting children from the age of 0-8 years. For many years, children from these areas, faced challenges growing up due to poverty and age old traditions as well as ignorance among the inhabitants of these regions. These factors hindered the holistic development of children.

KCdF ECd interventions in 2008-2009Having supported the 9 partners for five plus years, KCDF made deliberate efforts to help them implement their sustainability strategies to ensure that all targeted children continue to receive ECD services without external support. This will also make room for other needy children in other areas to be supported.

Year 2009, was the critical period that our programme with BVL came to a close. This,

therefore, made our efforts to be geared towards supporting

our partners to transition to dependency and to be

strong, well grounded organizations that

would continue to implement ECD programmes in a

sustainable manner. This, we did, by training them on various strategies of resource mobilisation to support their initiatives, building partnerships with other stakeholders in the country, documentation, strengthening their governance structures, just but a few.

KCDF also continued to support the scaling up of the initiatives implemented by 9 community based organisations in the aforementioned districts. Through these interventions, at least 80,000 children from the age of 0-8 are directly and indirectly benefiting from the programme. This represents a 20,000 rise in the number of beneficiaries. As a result of this, 25 more ECD centres were established raising the total number to 328. Enrolment of children also grew from 12,283 in the previous year to 14,627 in 2009.

Milestones of the year In the year 2009, we saw increased development and usage of local materials for teaching, learning and playing in many ECD. The model of our communities was recognised in the year 2009, at an ECD partner’s conference in Senegal.

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IN rECENt yEArS, the Ministry of Education has been allocating some funds to subsidize tuition in high school education. While this has been hailed as a step in the right direction, parents are still feeling the burden of covering the other costs like accommodation, meals, uniforms, construction and many others. For students from poor backgrounds, high school education is still a pie in the sky.

Working with various partners, KCDF has been awarding scholarships to bright needy students through secondary education every year. The scholarships are given through credible organisations that can transparently and ably manage bursary schemes.

In the year 2008-2009, a total of 171 needy students benefited from the scholarships. Out of these, 100 were supported by Chandaria Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Comcraft group companies while 71 were supported by KCDF. The two organisations committed Kshs. 1.2m and 1.86 Million respectively. The number of girls and boys that were sponsored was 89 and 82 respectively.

In the last two years, concerns have been raised about the frequency of riots, unrests and reports of indiscipline in secondary schools. This has been attributed to general indiscipline, lack of mentorship programmes targeting

students, among other factors. Our partners demonstrated a degree of responsiveness when they organised mentorship and life skills camps for our

students. We commend them for that. We are proud to report that none of our

students was caught in the web of unrests and indiscipline.

As we look forward to 2010, we will increase the number of female students benefiting and achieve our desired balance in ration of girls to boys to 60:40. This target is informed by

our concern that education of girls among many communities in Kenya remains low due to the tendency to give preference to boys over girls where a choice has to be made, particularly in relation to education opportunities. More prohibitive cultures like early marriages and female genital mutilation (FGM) continue to make education among a dream too far.

We shall also put more emphasis on identifying students from marginalised communities in the country especially from the Northern frontier. Our corporate outreach will be intensified, aimed at to invite more partners to bolster this programme.

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experiencing cyclical food shortages, jeopardizing livelihoods and slowing economic growth. The response has been predictable: frantic appeals by organisations and individuals at the local and international level, which is but a short term measure.

As a response to this, in early 2007 through Safaricom Foundation support, KCDF supported communities in the dry parts of the country to implement pilot projects aimed at shifting the response of food shortages in Kenya from relief to food security. The pilot programmes, implemented in Mwingi, Kajiado, Yatta and Garissa were very successful. Buoyed by this success, KCDF started the Ustawi initiative, which aims at supporting Kenyan communities to grow food innovatively despite the vagaries of weather.

Through Ustawi, communities adopt modern technologies like greenhouse farming, drip irrigation and water harvesting and conservation, to grow food for subsistence and commercial. The greenhouse that has the drip irrigation system, a 600 litre storage tank, seed and fertilizer.

Our communities are providing valuable lessons and inspiration that Kenya can grow its own food despite the vagaries of weather. A case in point is Makutano Community Development Association, an organisation from the dry Yatta plateau. The prolonged dry spell that the country experienced in 2009 decimated livestock

and left the farms bare. Through Ustawi, KCDF donated a Farmer’s Kit

(greenhouse, fertilizers, seeds, drips irrigation system, 600 litres tank) to the group.

Within two months of its installation, members of the community, who were used to buying food from Matuu town (located 50 Km from the area), got a relief when they started buying vegetables and tomatoes at their door steps. The nearest town, Kithimani, once sleepy town, became a busy market, with a good number of young people selling tomatoes.

In Nzeluni, Mwingi, Omega Child Shelter is now growing food and supporting children through a wholesome nutrition process thanks to Ustawi. Further South in the district, Genesis Community Development Assistance is supporting women self help group to venture into this smart farming and therefore cement their contribution to the society.

Women and Youth Against Aids and Poverty (WAYAAP) –an organisation based in Isiolo, is growing food through the Ustawi initiative and serving hundreds of orphans and elderly women. WAYAAP’s story epitomise a case of a community changing its culture to be food secure, since Isiolo is a region inhabited by Cushitic communities who are pastoralists.

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Working with various partners, KCDF has been awarding scholarships to bright needy students through secondary education every year.

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yoUtH SHoW lEAdErSHIp IN tHEIr CoMMUNItIES The year 2008- 2009, was the year that Kenya was rising from the ashes of post election violence. This was the period when the country was rebuilding and putting up structures to foster cohesion. All these attempts were made with the candid realisation that the youth were at the centre of the violence that rocked the country, either as perpetrators or victims. The rebuilding efforts were therefore aimed at fostering integration among young people as well as addressing the predisposing factors that made them take such a frontline role in the violence.

KCDF’s Youth Development Programme focus for year 2008-2009, was largely informed by the need to have focused, inspired and responsible young people who would be change agents who would be willing to lead and build cohesive communities. To accomplish this, the Youth Programme launched a leadership training programme targeting the whole country. A total of 170 young people were trained on leadership, responsible citizenship, peace building and conflict resolution. This programme led to the birth of an inspirational initiative known as “Shabaa”. Coined out of Swahili words Saba and Shabaha, meaning seven and focus respectively, Shabaa reminded the graduates of the programme on the need to be focused and to be guided by 7 leadership values that they learnt.

Through this initiative, the inspired Wanashabaa, as they came to be known, traversed the country, preaching hope and

rallying their fellow young people to join the movement. They also shared valuable case studies of their success with the communities. Working with respected national figures, the Youth Programme continued to inspire and mentor them, even after they had demonstrated they were putting the training into practice. There is no doubt that Wanashabaa will continue to play a pivotal role in building their communities.

The Youth Development Programme also made tangible milestones in building youth serving and youth organisations. As a matter of fact, the number of partners

grew from 31, in the previous year, to 42 in the year 2008 – 2009. The programme reached at least 200,000 young people across the country, out of which 60,000 benefited directly from training and grants. Our challenge remains the

lower participation of young women in community initiatives.

In June, the Youth Development Programme’s partners and grantees reflected on the impact of the Programme, looking at both grant administration and outcomes since 2007. The general view was that KCDF was a good partner, providing mentorship and capacity

building support that resulted in stronger youth organisations and empowered youth. Partners urged KCDF to increase the support for institutional and core costs.

In 2010-2011 we will focus on training youth people to enable them participate in the audit of funds and projects within constituencies and local authorities, in their areas of residence. The Youth Programme will also support youth programme aimed at increasing the participation of girls and women in community development. This, we shall do, by supporting community organisations working with women and women led organisations, especially from the marginalised regions of the country.

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CultureKCdF plACES GrEAt vAlUE oN tHE ArtS and the many roles they play in our lives: as an expression of our identity as a people; a career; a way through which we can grow Kenyan audiences to be consumers of our country’s rich and multicultural heritage. As part of our Arts and Culture programme, we partner with the GoDown Arts Centre to implement the Changamoto Arts Fund.

In year 2008- 2009, we have had the great opportunity to support very interesting art projects under the Changamoto Arts Fund. The work supported was groundbreaking in introducing new art into the Kenyan arts scene. The futuristic film Pumzi, Prison Sex II, Contemporary Dance Film Scenarios; potentially controversial exhibitions such as Michael Soi’s Dishing Out and the deeply community rooted Kayole-Umoja Drama Festivals, Kichaja and Ormoti the full story are examples of the new and refreshing works supported.

All projects were aligned to the objectives: new; authentic; experimental; public and engaging. In the year 2008-2009 we received the most quality applications in five years, out of which we made 19 grants and impacted approximately 250 artists in the year.

We also increased the capacity building aspect of the programme. To add to that, we supported our grantees to improve on their organisational development capacity by linking them with professionals who supported them in this process. We also facilitated business planning sessions with artists and began challenging the way that the arts community looked at itself in the past by introducing the concept that artists should be entrepreneurs, who ekes a living out of their works.

We also managed to bring artists and the media together to begin making links between these two sectors in a bid

to make the artists more visible. The programme also took a more business minded approach. This was informed by the need to make arts valuable and significance in various sectors of the economy.

The year was not without challenges. We received the largest number of applications in our history in the four calls for applications that we made. This increase meant that we could not fund all the worthy projects presented due to the limited funding. This experience justified the need to find ways to grow our local resources for the future in order to be able to support more projects.

The focus for the coming year will, therefore, be to increase our resources for the fund so that we can have a larger kitty from which to make grants and run other programme aspects. We shall also be keen to broaden the programme’s focus areas. Whereas in the past year we have worked almost exclusively with bringing new and innovative art and projects to the Kenyan public, we would now like to introduce support for projects that have more of a community-focused slant. 2010 will be a year focused on growth for the Arts and Culture programme.

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Mutheu MbondoProgramme Officer,Arts and Culture

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9 8he year 2008-2009 was arguably the most challenging period for KCDF in its programming and capacity building support to communities in Kenya. During this period, the country experienced a prolonged drought that saw many communities depend on relief food as well as decimation of their livestock. This was also the period when the country was gradually recovering from the effects of the 2007 post election unrests. Due to this, our programmes had to be adjusted accordingly to respond to those new challenges. Through this, we demonstrated internal organisational flexibility to respond to emerging urgent issues of national interest.

At the start of the programme year 2008-2009, KCDF had the following programmes: Youth Development Programme in partnership with World Bank, Changamoto Arts Fund in partnership with Ford Foundation (East Africa Regional Programme Office), Early Childhood Development Programme, in partnership with Bernard van Leer Foundation (Netherlands), Scholarships

Programme in partnership with the Chandaria Foundation (Kenya),Girl Child Support Programme in partnership with Global Give Back Circle(GGBC, USA) and funding from the AteBank(Greece) and Food Security Programme Support to Communities in partnership with the Safaricom Foundation (Kenya). In total KCDF had more than US$1.025 Million to provide as scholarships and grants to children and community organizations across the country respectively.

targets for 2009-2010 Our programmes targeted to reach at least 350,000 youth (direct and indirect), over 60,000 children aged below 8 years, at least 200 education scholarships to orphans and children from poor families and education and gap period (18 months

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from completion of secondary education and reporting to college or university) support to at least 100 girls from poor families. In the same year KCDF supported at least 1,500 households across the country to adopt new food production technologies that embrace water harvesting, conservation and drip irrigation in response to the vagaries of global warming and weather changes.

Achievements and targets for 2009-2010 – Despite the difficulties associated with this period, KCDF was able to achieve its set targets. As part of our contribution to peacebuilding and reconciliation initiatives, the organization identified strategic partners in the most affected regions (mainly Rift Valley, Western and Nyanza) and provided grants support to the tune of US$270,000 dollars to support peace building and local economic recovery. In addition, more than US$60,000 was given to communities to address food security challenges in the most affected regions of Eastern Province and Southern Rift Valley. Overall, KCDF made a total of 123 grants to communities across Kenya and provided 235 scholarships.

KCDF continuously carries out research and documents learning from its work with communities. As a result, our programmes continue to adapt to emerging demands and effectively respond to the need to achieve the highest levels of results and impact. This period witnessed the birth two very innovative programme initiatives i.e. the USTAWI Initiative, which is the new brand name for KCDF’s Food Security Programme, now embedded with modern agricultural technologies and water and environmental conservation concepts; and Shabaa Youth Initiative, a new and creative way to mobilize and stimulate mentorship and leadership development among young people..

KCDF also broke ground into new regions in the Northern frontier. These included West Pokot, Marsabit and Turkana among other remote and marginalized districts in the country.

As we start the New Year 2009-2010, KCDF is optimistic that the opportunities and support to community development projects can only grow in leaps and bounds despite receiving new information at the start of the period from some of its donors indicating strategic changes to their funding policies and sectors in the coming years.

The programme team will continue to mobilize new partnerships and prepare communities for possible separation in ways that address their resource mobilisation diversification and income generating activities. The target is to reach at least 3,000 food insecure households, 450,000 youth, 70,000 children below 8 years, 400 scholarships and 100 girls. To accomplish this, the programme team is currently in discussion with at least 5 possible funding partners across its programmes with the aim of raising an additional US$500,000 annually towards capacity building and grant making for community initiatives.

Congratulations to the programme team and to the rest of the KCDF staff for all the support.

Programmes Directortom Were

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US$270,000In support of Peace building

123Total Grants given

235Scholarships given

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The year 2008-2009 was the year when our focus was to nurture the structures of prosperity, despite the economic challenges that the world had to face and the extreme challenges that many of our communities were faced with due to a prolonged drought. Thankfully, we were able to achieve our targets.

juiciness of the succulent tomatoes, the richness of the sukuma wiki, how hot the red chillies were, the onions, the dark green maize... and they go on.

I can clearly say, that the Ustawi programme has been a raving success. Our challenge is to ensure that this work is sustained and expanded, rather than lost with the onset of heavy rainfall in many parts of the country. Through this, Kenyans will say kwaheri to famine and to food relief.

At the same time, we celebrated with the orphaned children that we have been supporting through secondary school in the last 4- 5 years as they graduated to join various colleges and universities. Their success proved that the investment has been worthwhile. Going forward, We plan to continue to encourage the formation of alumnae associations of students in each of the schools or groups we work with who are supporting students, to provide an opportunity for them to support other needy children benefit in future.

This year we were also able to take our new brand to another level, by articulating in a more coherent manner about how we present ourselves across the board, in all our functions, and in ALL our communication. We also raised our profile through closer interaction with a larger number of companies who are interested in pursuing different ways of working with us through their CSR departments, to support needy communities in a more sustainable manner.

We are very much aware that increased awareness by the public about our work in transforming the lives of vulnerable people in our country, will also lead to a greater demand for more accountability, as more people become engaged in not just hearing about what is happening, but in supporting these

efforts financially. In 2009/2010, we shall take this effort a notch higher by increasing opportunities for all types of

beneficiaries to show the impact of our work.

I trust you will enjoy going through these pages as they take you deeper into the life of the communities that we work with.

Thank you so much for all your support and encouragement.

This year, I witnessed more than ever before, the joy in the faces of our board members, my team and our partners celebrating and marvelling at the impact that we are delivering to our communities.

This year, I witnessed more than ever before, the joy in the faces of our board members, my team and our partners (such as the ones above from Nairobi Hospital and Safaricom), celebrating and marvelling at the impact that we are delivering to our communities. Together, we celebrated with our communities who saw bumper harvest, after a long time because of having adopted modern technologies to grow food. There are many stories in our office about the size of those pumpkins, the

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ecently, while reflecting on the achievements and challenges of the last year, I came across this quote that vexed me:

“We philanthropy professionals are probably working in the only industry that

is essentially accountable to NO ONE other than our Boards of Trustees”

This statement could not be further from the truth in my experience. For instance, over the past year, my team and I have fully engaged with the demands of being responsive and accountable to an increasingly large group of ‘invisible’ stakeholders, who despite their relative ‘silence’, are ever present in our lives, thoughts and conversations.

With the financial down turn especially in the North in 2007-2009, many funders have had to review their strategic areas of work as they grapple with fewer resources for their ever growing funding portfolios. KCDF has not been spared of this challenge. In such a situation, our accountability is to the communities that we support to progressively better their lives and we have been consumed with one major question: when shall we have our own money, as Kenyans, so that we can decide our priorities and fund them?

It has been a common experience for us to sit in various meetings with donors (an increasing number of whom are Kenyan companies), justifying what we must do and how we must support our communities and then turn them to grantees and work with them to rationalise their grants – sometimes working with them to increase their confidence to handle more resources and do more.

To one group we have to explain what communities need and how they should be empowered to fulfill their needs. To the other group, we have to balance expectations and increase their confidence to deliver more and better. All along, we must constantly be aware of the of the large number of requests that we are forced to regret.

My team and I, (who you will meet in the who is who section) are ever so conscious of the humongous ‘cloud of witnesses’ whose faces are real and known to us, the communities we work with, whose struggles are our struggles and whose success we share.

While working hard to be accountable to our communities, we are also accountable to these international organisations, private companies and individuals who stand with us to support communities at their point of need. To these, we endeavour to show that we have been prudent in ensuring that we stretch every cent to cover more and achieve greater impact. With this group, we go to the communities and work with them and when they succeed, we all celebrate together.

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elcome to MyCommunity, the bumper publication for 2010. This is a publication that we are committing ourselves to publish at least twice a year for the express purpose of ensuring that we keep you closely appraised on the progress that we

are making and the impact that we are delivering every year.

I have worked in the non-profit sector in various capacities and some of the key issues that have dogged the sector for a long time are accountability and transparency. The lack of these two values has over time reduced the interest and trust of many of our people in volunteering and contributing to good causes.

In an effort to bolster KCDF’s commitment to good governance and accountability, the Board of Directors and Trustees saw the need to increase efficiency and effectiveness by reorganising the two entities which were established in an effort to ensure a check and balance system is reinforced in this first Kenya’s Community public foundation.

The reoganisation has, among other things, resulted in full maximisation of the skills and talents that exist among the individuals in both. This reorganisation has also been extended to the Board and Trust Committees to ensure that we

increase their individual knowledge about the work of the Foundation, therefore enabling them to be better placed to sell the organisation to all stakeholders that they encounter in their daily assignments.

The process has reduced duplication of the two entities’ functions and increased their strategic engagement in the affairs of the Foundation. Both will now be better placed to increase their connections to the major role that KCDF is playing in transforming Kenyan communities and enabling them to take charge of their lives.

From a governance and accountability perspective, the KCDF Board will henceforth be responsible for ensuring the strategic direction of the operations of the Foundation by overseeing the work of the Management

in supporting Kenyan communities to push their own development agenda.

The Board will structurally be able to be more articulate and accountable to the KCDF Trust who will, among other roles, focus in ensuring that the resources raised and invested for the work of the Foundation are used in an accountable and credible manner in perpetuity.

The reorganisation has therefore served to increase efficiency in KCDF’s ability to ensure the mission and visions are better realised with more diligence and accountability.

In the coming months, we have committed to take our accountability to the next level by institutionalising an inbuilt mechanism which will ensure we are more accurately and promptly able to show you the impact we are making with the resources bestowed to us by our donors and especially the Kenyan public.

Thank you once again for walking with us in this journey and for your support and encouragement especially to our team on the ground.

WChairman, KCDF Board

dr. M.S. Abdullah

Our reorganisation has increased efficiency... diligence...accountability in realising our vision and mission.

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SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES IN pErpEtUIty

This is the first time that the Chairman of the KCDF Trust is writing to you in the annual report. The KCDF Trust was created in year 2004 as the custodian for the Foundation’s properties and funds to specifically ensure that the resources available to KCDF continue to grow and are managed in the most prudent manner, in trust for Kenyan Communities. It

was an effort to ensure that a credible check and balance framework is instituted for Kenya’s first public foundation.

However, the organisation is not a stranger to you, I dare say. 2010 is the 13th year since KCDF was formed by visionary people who worked in the both development world and the private sector, and whose interest was one: to see Kenyan communities take control of their fate in an organised and sustainable way.

We have grown over the years, and currently have reached more than 300 communities around the country. Together with these communities, we have in particular been able to touch the lives of more than 200,000 needy children under the age of 8 years, more than 60,000 young people and we have seen more than 1000 students through high school and beyond. Such impact is very rewarding for us and for our community partners who have proven that, if we work together as Kenyans, and exploit fully the resources within our grasp, we can be able to make great progress. In addition, we shall be able to attract other partners who will seek to support our work.

In a country categorised as poor, KCDF is a pioneer organisation in demonstrating that an endowment is also possible in Africa! After six years since the registration of the Trust, KCDF through collaboration with communities, friends and willing donors, has been able to grow its endowment from about US $ 1 million to close to US $ 4 million. Even with the downturn of the global economy, we have been fortunate to maintain a reasonable return on the investments that we continue to make towards the sustainability of our communities through good business practice and prudent investment. Our Trustees meet with our professional investors (Old Mutual Asset Managers) on quarterly basis to monitor and advise on the growth of the fund. We have also engaged

a Custodian (Barclays Securities) and an Administrator (Octagon Pension Services) to ensure efficiency in fund management. The Ford Foundation, an organisation that has been close to KCDF since the beginning, in support of our commitment to vulnerable

Kenyan communities agreed to provide a Challenge fund in 2006. They committed US$ 3 Million on condition that we came together with Kenyans of all walks of life to raise US$ 1 Million (which is about Kshs. 75 Million). This means that for every shilling that you and I raise, Ford Foundation will commit three. So far, we have made good progress by raising about a half of the required amount and are left with the task of raising the difference.

As Chairman of the KCDF Trust, the organ that is working hard to grow the endowment for Kenyan communities, I appeal to you as an individual, as a friend of KCDF and especially as a fellow Kenyan who loves this country, to join hands with us to raise these funds and ensure that our disadvantaged communities have the funding they need in perpetuity to uplift their lives from poverty and other social injustices.

Thank you to all those who are already part of this effort. God bless you.

For every shilling that you and I raise, Ford Foundation will commit three.

Eng. Isaac Wanjohi

Chairman, KCDF Trust

contents Supporting Communities in Perpetuity 3

Revamping Governance 4

Accountabilility for Prosperity 5

Nurturing Prosperity 7

KCDF Programmes Overview: 2008-2009 8

Youth Development Programme 10

Arts and Culture 11

Food Security 12

Education Scholarship Programme 13

Girl Chid Programme 14

Early Childhood Development Programme 15

The Numbers 17

KCDF Grantees 24

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