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LAILA IMPACT REPORT - YEAR 4 PROGRESS

Below is a snapshot of the transformation that is occurring in the Laila community because of your support.

 

Our 5-pillar model of sustainability provides education, access to clean water, healthcare, daily nutritious food and training for parents to earn an income so they never need charity again.

 

It takes approximately 5 years to implement all 5 pillars.

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Community Profile
Location:
Ololunga Divison,
Narok South District, Kenya Maasai ethnic group
Community members served:
2,150 (After SAV)
Students:
650 (After SAV Program)
Implementing Partner:
WE Charity
pillar-educationEducation Update

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

AFTER Sponsor A Village:
  • 14 newly constructed and renovated classrooms, all fully outfitted with furnishings and textbooks
  • 1 library completed
  • Construction of a properly-ventilated kitchen complete
  • 2 additional houses added to teacher accommodation block, improving teaching capacity for staff who previously had to walk up to five miles to get to school
  • Community members have facilitated repair and upkeep of school facilities and successfully applied for government funding to support 7th and 8th grade boarding program
pillar-clean-waterWater & Sanitation Update

water-before

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

AFTER Sponsor A Village:
  • 6 latrine blocks completed; dedicated latrine blocks for boys, girls and teachers increase school attendance, particularly among girls
  • 3 new hand-washing stations on school campus support increased hygiene
  • Solar-powered spring in the center of the community provides easy access to clean, fresh water for all community members
  • Clean water kiosk at the school provides water for the entire community
  • Training held with 42 community women on clean water storage, to reduce contamination and disease transmission
pillar-nutritionFood & Nutrition Update

food-before

BEFORE Sponsor A Village:
  • No school lunches
  • Malnutrition from insufficient diet
  • Children don’t regularly attend school due to hunger and illness
  • Failing crops due to drought conditions and fungal disease impact food supplies and income

AFTER Sponsor A Village:
  • More than 150,00 cups of high-nutrition porridge served to 584 students each year
  • Harvests from 2-acre school farm sustainably support school nutrition program
  • Local farmers attended trainings on on agribusiness and armyworm infestation to improve their crop yields
  • Community garden will be planted in 2019 to provide additional food, supporting broader community nutrition and generating alternative income from surplus harvests
pillar-healthcareHealthcare Update

healthcare-before

BEFORE Sponsor A Village:
  • No access to healthcare
  • Plagued by preventable diseases such as malaria & typhoid
  • Health education non-existent
  • Highest childhood mortality rate in entire region

AFTER Sponsor A Village:
  • Students and community members receive monthly access to mobile health clinics
  • All students and children in surrounding communities receive regular de-worming treatment and health screenings
  • Community members have access to subsidized, low-cost care at Baraka Hospital
  • Medical staff conducted community trainings on ways to reduce household smoke from open fires, pit latrine construction, clean water access and diet supplementation
pillar-incomeIncome Training & Empowerment Update

income-before

BEFORE Sponsor A Village:
  • Insufficient income for parents to support their families resulting in extreme poverty
  • 80% of community holds debt for food purchases, school and health-related costs
  • Many community members live on less than $2 a day

AFTER Sponsor A Village:
  • Eight opportunity groups active in community: 4 women’s groups, 3 youth groups and 1 men’s group
  • Women’s group have purchased sheep and goats, and leased 2.5 acres of farmland
  • Bee-keeping successfully reintroduced following community training on best-practices; men’s group harvested 1.2 liters of honey from their apiary and have sourced a market for their honey
  • Men’s group sold 28 sheep and distributed the money to members in the form of loans; remaining profits were put into group savings
  • Established Village Savings and Loan Associations (VLSAs) continue to hold sessions and run funding projects throughout the year
  • 114 community members attended financial literacy trainings on asset management, budgeting and banking

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