Activities & Achievements

 

In order to meet its objectives, Nyisango is currently engaged in the following activities with reasonable level of success.

 

• Fund raising through various activities and collecting money from members on a regular basis to support its mission.

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• Providing educational resources, nutritional support and bursaries to orphans and vulnerable children to increase their access to primary and post primary school education respectively.

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• Providing Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) services, nutritional, medical and psychological support to children and women, mostly those living under especially difficult circumstances.

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• Conducting awareness and public education on issues relating to sexual, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS to reduce infection/re-infection, social stigma and discriminative practices.

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• Training and providing seed money for income generating activities to the caregivers and the community to strengthen their capacity for homecare and elevate their socio-economic status.

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• Preparing HIV/AIDS families for transition through will writing and/or memory book writing.

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• Networking with NGOs in the region to address issues related to orphans, vulnerable children and women living with HIV/AIDS.

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ACHIEVEMENTS

      1. Poverty reduction

 

a.       Women groups formed-The organization has helped women to form 27 women groups in the country, including Nairobi. All the work or any assistance occurs through these groups

 

b.      Women trained for business

 

                                                               i.      Table banking in Rongo, Rachuonyo and Kisumu, Siaya

 

                                                             ii.      Water catchment in Rachuonyo-Women were assisted to buy or build water storage tanks

 

                                                            iii.      Goat project in Rongo and Siaya

 

                                                           iv.       Poultry in Rongo and Migori districts

 

c.       Catering- the main group and five other groups trained for outside catering as a means of income generation.

 

d.      Bee keeping is done by two groups

 

      2. Education

 

a.       10  orphans and vulnerable children are currently being assisted in high school

 

b.      5 orphaned primary school children sponsored by buying for them uniforms, pens, books etc.

 

c.       1 boy  at university since 2007- bachelor of commerce

 

d.      Sanitary pad provision for 100 girls in 2 primary schools. Nyisango organization keeps a few girls in school by making sure they have the necessary requirements. Research done in Kenya recently showed that girls miss ¼ of their school days because of fear of being stained by menstrual blood when they do not have proper protection. This is a timely and important project requiring a lot of support

 

      3. Health                  

 

a.       HIV campaign- the organization sponsors and carries out campaigns to create awareness  in schools (both primary and secondary) about the real dangers facing young people engaged in casual sex.

 

b.      A second part of the campaign is in the villages around the lake region where culture and tradition (e.g. wife inheritance) are still hampering the efforts to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS.