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OLMUSEREJI YEAR-1 PROGRESS REPORT

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

Community members served:
2,100
Students:
550
Implementing Partner:
WE Charity
pillar-educationEducation Update

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

AFTER Sponsor A Village:
  • 1 schoolhouse completed; 2nd schoolhouse under construction
  • Renovations on existing infrastructure underway
  • Classroom outfitted with furnishings & textbooks
  • School library under construction – to be completed by June 2018
pillar-clean-waterWater & Sanitation Update

BEFORE Sponsor A Village:
  • 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:
  • 1 latrine completed; 2nd latrine under construction to be completed by June 2018
  • Clean water & health/hygiene workshops have reduced water-borne diseases
pillar-nutritionFood & Nutrition Update

BEFORE Sponsor A Village:
  • 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
  • School Board of Management received maize and beans farming training
  • Beans planted on the school campus with a June 2018 harvest will be used for the school nutrition program
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 access to mobile health clinics
  • All students are undergoing de-worming
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
  • Unsustainable animal husbandry & farming practices exacerbate lack of income opportunities

AFTER Sponsor A Village:
  • 1 women’s group formed, Olmusereji Women Group, with focus on animal husbandry; 2 sheep purchased
  • 1 youth group formed, Pakiron Oloirien Elite Youth Group, with focus on animal husbandry; 5 sheep purchased
  • Both groups received Group Leadership and Livestock Farming training
  • Weekly merry-go-rounds initiated in which every member contributes a small amount of money and money pooled is given to one member each week
    to purchase basic necessities

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