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KIPASAN YEAR-1 PROGRESS REPORT

Kipasan Sponsor A Village Community

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Community Profile
Location:
Ololunga Divison,
Narok South District, Kipsigis ethnic group

Community members served:
2,000
Students:
400 (After SAV Program)
Implementing Partner:
WE Charity
pillar-educationEducation Update

BEFORE Sponsor A Village:
  • Dilapidated, overcrowded and unsafe classrooms
  • High illiteracy rate
  • Irregular attendance due to sickness & poverty
  • Children must work as laborers
  • Girls as young as 10 years old forced into early marriage

AFTER Sponsor A Village:
  • 1 schoolhouse completed
  • Classroom outfitted with furnishings & textbooks
  • New School Management Committee elected to ensure community member participation
  • School Management Committee held exchange forums with counterparts from other communities to share best practices for success
pillar-clean-waterWater & Sanitation Update

BEFORE Sponsor A Village:
  • Households have no access to clean water
  • Sorely inadequate latrines & hand-washing stations
  • Women & girls spend 6-8 hours a day collecting water
  • Communicable diseases are rampant due to contaminated drinking water & poor hygiene

AFTER Sponsor A Village:
  • New student latrine constructed
  • Community households are harvesting rainwater
  • Clean water & health/hygiene workshops have reduced water-borne diseases
  • Rain gutters and water tanks installed to facilitate clean water collection
pillar-nutritionFood & Nutrition Update

BEFORE Sponsor A Village:
  • No school lunches
  • Malnutrition from insufficient diet
  • Failing crops due to drought conditions & deforestation
  • Children don’t regularly attend school due to hunger & illness

AFTER Sponsor A Village:
  • All students receive a daily nutritious school lunch resulting in increased health, attendance & retention rates
  • Agriculture Club provides theoretical & practical forum for student learning about agriculture & food production
  • Community members participate in agriculture training workshops
pillar-healthcareHealthcare Update

BEFORE Sponsor A Village:
  • No access to healthcare
  • High childhood mortality rate
  • Plagued by preventable diseases such as typhoid, dysentery & respiratory infections
  • Health education non-existent

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AFTER Sponsor A Village:
  • Students & community members receive monthly access to mobile health clinics
  • All students de-wormed
  • Women receive pre- and post-natal care through local clinic
  • Health education workshops have been initiated for all community members
pillar-incomeIncome Training & Empowerment Update

BEFORE Sponsor A Village:
  • Insufficient income for parents to support their families resulting in extreme poverty
  • Many community members live on less than $1 a day
  • Periods of severe drought impedes income earning potential

AFTER Sponsor A Village:
  • 3 youth groups formed to teach & share entrepreneurial skills & knowledge & budget management
  • Youth groups participate in weekly meetings & are learning how to develop their skill-sets
  • Adults are learning how to maximize their small-scale farming/husbandry & small business earnings & are mobilized to start savings initiatives (merry-go-rounds)
  • Financial literacy, leadership and budgeting workshops in progress

Click here to view the 5-year
Implementation Plan for Kipasan