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Welcome
to Kuap-Pandipieri
Brief History • Kisumu is comparatively recent in origin
having developed at the beginning of the 20th century. It is the 3rd largest city in Kenya after Nairobi and Mombasa respectively. Approximately 350,000 people live in the informal settlements (slums) where the standards of living are poor. The Luo tribe is the majority in Kisumu City. There is widespread poverty among the people and people do not earn enough to live in wellness.
The Community is gifted and varied and is
known for their hospitality and friendliness.
Kisumu informal settlements lack basic
environmental health infrastructure such as
clean and safe water, sewers, drainage,
acceptable standards of housing, and other
public health infrastructure and utilities.
These have been strongly associated with
states of ill health and higher prevalence of
diseases such as malaria and typhoid.
The community is the biggest resource that
KUAP Pandipieri has and since the
inception invested in training Community
Health Volunteers (CHV) and they are multi
skilled and work in Children’s Services,
Health & Education.
KUAP PANDIPIERI FOUNDER • In 1979 the Bishop of Kisumu asked Mill
Hill Missionaries to work in the informal settlements (slums)of Kisumu. Fr. Hans Burgman a Mill Hill Missionary from the Netherland was chosen to start this mission as a means to reach the community who were not reached by the traditional Church.
• He came to live with the people, worked with them learnt from them, respected their opinions which was the stepping stone to the development of Small Christian Communities in the informal settlements (slums).
KUAP Pandipieri continued
Fr. Hans began his ministry by gathering a team which he likened to the Early Christian Community where the team lived and worked together and shared everything in common. The team members were African and European lay and religious who learnt from each other and proclaimed the Gospel message touching the lives of people positively. The team was an inspiration to the community in shanty areas.
Today KUAP is mission focused, performance based
and productivity oriented with strong participation from the community because of the seeds sown by Fr. Hans and the founding members.
KUAP’ vision:
‘A Gospel driven community living a life of dignity and hope’
KUAP’ Mission KUAP’ mission is ‘to provide activities in
Community Health and Children & Youth Services for vulnerable groups of people living in the Urban and Peri-Urban areas of Kisumu East & West Districts so that their quality of life is nurtured; ensuring freedom of choice is respected. This will be done through an integrated approach of community empowerment, advocacy and capacity building’.
Areas where KUAP-Pandipieri Works
The areas mandated to KUAP Pandipieri are in the informal settlements (slums)of Kisumu; they are overpopulated, lack infrastructures such as clean safe water and sanitation, houses, roads and affordable health care services. There is lack of gainful employment and the poverty level gives rise to concern for the care of children .
Projects Summary
KUAP-Pandipieri has three Programmes
Children’ Services, Education and Community Health. Under the Programmes there are 11
Projects in total and under these projects there are specific activities that enable the projects to
reach the aims and objectives of the Programmes. Projects are linked to each other
to bring comprehensive services to the community that KUAP-Pandipieri is mandated to
give services to.
Children’ Services Programme The Rehabilitation Project
prepares children to be rehabilitated with their families. These are children who lived on the streets of Kisumu and some of them being very young. All children are rehabilitated within 4 months of coming to the project to ensure they do not linger in an institution. Day and Night street work is undertaken by the project to reach the children living in the streets to protect them.
NON-FORMAL EDUCATION (NFE)
Children from the Rehabilitation Project and children from the community whose family experiences domestic problems attend the non-formal education and are then placed in mainstream education. Currently KUAP is implementing inclusive education in NFE so that children are taught in smaller groups for more individual attention.
Child Rights & Advocacy (CRA)
The child rights and advocacy project is concerned with all issues of physical, sexual, emotional and social abuse . A group of pro-bono lawyers represents children and families in court. Currently there is a lot of work to be done in the community to protect children.
Education Programme
The Education Programme has projects in ECDE (kindergarten) in Pandipieri & Magadi Centres to meet the needs of children from the community living in the informal settlements. Children on completing 3 years ECDE school undertake an examination and they achieve very well and have over the past years excelled to reach number 1 position in the examination results enabling the children to have a choice of Primary School
Vocational Training Schools There are 2 Vocational Training Schools in the
informal settlements with;
• Food & Beverage
• Garment making
• Hairdressing & Beauty
• Masonry
The youth have
Excelled in
Examination results where all passed.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Information
Technology is very
important to the youth
living in the informal
settlements and
Pandigraphics is
providing services to
meet the needs of the
youth. The IT teacher
is a former student of
Pandigraphics. Students undertake certificate level,
International Certificate Driving
License, and in 2014, 5 students went
on to do degree courses.
Mwangaza Art School Mwangaza is located in Nyalenda community
in Kisumu, Kenya. It is the only art school in Western Kenya and was founded in 1987. Students study art for 2 – 3 years and learn various art forms including visual art, performance art, dance, and music. It has a lot of potential for development of students.
Community Health Programme
The Health Programme is involved in preventative and curative services and has 2 outpatient clinics with clinical consultation laboratory and pharmacy services. Kisumu is known for the high incident of Malaria and waterborne diseases which are managed at the clinics. In 2013 a diabetic clinic was open to manage the increasing number of people at risk from developing diabetes.
Community Health Programme Continued
Under the Maternal & Child
Health Clinics pregnant
women are monitored
throughout their pregnancy.
There are 3 Outpatient
Therapeutic Projects for
severely and moderately
malnourished children and
this service prevents the
mortality of children from
6 month – 5 years who are
at risk. 4 prevention & Care
clinics take place weekly.
•There is a Therapeutic Outreach
Project for care of severely
Malnourished children in their home
HIV & AIDS Prevention & Care • The project has a comprehensive Care Centre for
people with HIV positive status with a registration of 5,300 patients 355 of these are children. Other services provided are;
• Pregnant women with HIV positive status get full care during pregnancy and referred for delivery
• Cervical cancer screening
• Home Based Care for bedridden patients
• Work in 28 schools in Kisumu giving HIV Prevention education, sexual health education
• Computerized Health Education
Child and Family Counselling The Child Counselling project
works in 34 schools and in the community and has links with the Child Right and Advocacy Project. The project has trained Teachers on Psychosocial Support to help them understand the needs of children. There is a Children’ Resource Centre for psychosocial support for children and families.
Clubs for children with HIV positive status take place weekly for psychosocial and social support for the children.
Children at risk are
supported through
counselling support
services
Environmental Health & Sanitation
The project trains Community Health Workers to manage the health of the community. Water is an integral component of health and the project works with the water company KIWASCO to bring water to the community. Spring protection is undertaken in communities and provides safe water. Children clubs are established in schools and children are trained in environmental health and sanitation are actively take part in creatively caring for the earth. Spring Protection
Human Resource & Administration
A team manages Human Resource & Administration. KUAP-Pandipieri has a Management Team and a Board of Governors. The community is an integral part of the organization and Board Members with the required skills and training are selected from the community to support the Programmes.
KUAP-Pandipieri works in partnership with various Ministries and with other NGOs and CBOs.
FUTURE
• The work undertaken by KUAP-Pandipieri is huge. However, the needs that are identified are many and we recognize that we cannot do everything. With the current programmes it is planned that we think strategically to incorporate new ideas to meet the identified needs as follows;
Link with Health Project to provide sexual health
Education in KUAP Vocational Training
Schools & Non-Formal Education
Use the talent of the students from the Art School to give opportunities to
Street Children and ECDE children to
develop skills in art and drama.
To address neglect of children and provide child protection for
children at risk ECDE will eventually
develop playschool for children age 3
years and seek funds for this venture
Vocational Training Schools to focus on what the needs of the youth are and develop courses
to meet these needs. Re-establish co-curriculum
activities to embrace the wishes of the students.
The Art School vision to have a studio to
show-case the work of the students to become a reality
Past students of KUAP Vocational
Training Schools, ART School and Information Technology be invited
to give talks to students on their achievements as
encouragement to students and
give them hope for their future
Scale up on child
protection training and awareness
Development of partnerships with
Friends, the various Ministries, local &
international volunteers and
NGO’
Implementation of Inclusive Education in KUAP-Pandipieri
Non-Formal education.
Opportunity for information
Technology for children from the
street and community
children
Development of strategies to
engage children and families in
building relationships
Child Counselling Scale up on child
protection & safeguarding training and awareness
Prevention of diabetes and high blood pressure in children through
education and screening of children
at risk in schools
Health education in schools covering
Water & Sanitation, nutrition and
physical exercise to counter diabetes
Develop Child & adolescent clubs for HIV Positive children
& youth and seek resources to meet
their needs
HIV Prevention awareness targeting adolescents involved
in commercial sex and at risk of
contracting HIV.
KUAP Pandipieri
We have given you a sketch of the activities of KUAP-Pandipieri and our hopes for the future. Thank you Fr. Philip Baptiste for sharing with Our Lady of the Holy Souls Parish. May your Lenten Project be successful. You are in our thoughts & Prayers
Sr. Bernadette & the Management Team