WORD OF FAITH CHURCH – NDHIWA

Project Application for Funding

 

PROJECT IDENTIFICATION:

Descriptive Project Name: Empowered, Educated, Safe and Healthy Orphans and Vulnerable children

Location of Proposed Project: Ndhiwa, Homa Bay County, Kenya

 

Name of applicant organization/group: Word of Faith Church Intl-NDHIWA (HOME OF HOPE)

Contact person: Snr Pastor Lawi Kinda Owino

Address: -40302, Ndhiwa Kenya.    

Phone: +254(0)798646754/717236375

E-mail:

 

Brief description of the applicant organization/group:

 

Word of Faith Church Intl-Ndhiwa is registered by the Kenya Government as a religious organization. It is a Pentecostal/charismatic Church that was started through God’s vision to Pastor Lawi Kinda Owino in the year 1998. It began as a fellowship at the pastor’s house and later in the year 2009 we established a church.

 

As a church, we intend to establish a home-based care center {HOME OF HOPE} with support from well-wishers and individuals to provide quality and affordable health, education, and feeding programs to orphans and other vulnerable children in our environs.

 

This care-based initiative will be used as part of the poverty alleviation strategy. We will work towards empowering community members, with a specific focus on quality and affordable education to orphans and vulnerable children through appropriate development initiatives. Our objectives are to improve the caregivers’ living standard through practical agricultural advancements, promotion of environmental sustainability, and creation of HIV/AIDS awareness and providing nutrition assistance to the infected persons, improve access to information technology, advocate for peaceful coexistence, protect human rights, and facilitate poverty alleviation.

 

Type of organization/group:

• Local not-for-profit making organization.

 

PROJECT NARRATIVE:

Explanation of the project:

Our long-term goal is for the orphans, vulnerable children and their caregivers in Ndhiwa and its environs to be allowed to contribute as the empowered equal members of the society in the poverty and rights abuses eradication.

In this project we will focus particularly on improving the education standards in the academy and unto caregivers. We will work with orphans, vulnerable children and their families to increase awareness of their right to education and access to information. We will focus on life skills, confidence-building and safeguarding strategies as well as providing support for victims of rights’ abuses with the support of community leaders.

Activities

• Monthly Training/forums/workshops on Gender Based Violence, Advocacy, teamwork, Communication and facilitation, leadership and community participation.
• Boy and Girl child leadership trainings on self-awareness and rights to health related issues held every week at the center including football session for boys and girls.
• Boy and Girl support groups on education and health sessions held every week.

In line with our goal, we expect to see orphans, vulnerable children and their caregivers taking more leadership and decision-making roles within their communities, the society around putting their children’s education as a top priority, the vulnerable and orphaned children’s caregivers involved in business and enterprise projects to increase their families’ income.

The specific aims of the project are:

• Increase recruitment, retention, and performance of orphans and vulnerable children in school.
• Improve the quality of primary education.
• Prevent and reduce School Related Gender Based Violence (SRGBV).
• Improve the community attitudes towards orphans and vulnerable children right to education.

Actions to be undertaken to achieve the aims are:

• Expanding our Boy and Girl Support Groups activities to reach over 50 orphans and vulnerable children.
• Integrating football and computer training to orphans and vulnerable children into a full programme of activities.
• Carrying out School Related Gender Based Violence (SRGBV) research to implement effective strategies to keep orphans and vulnerable children safe.
• Establishing a well-equipped Learning and Resource Centre (LRC) to provide access to quality and affordable education.
• Using the expertise of our team to share good practice across the County.
• Embedding the concept of Quality and affordable education with key local stakeholders in schools and the community via a network of local leaders.

Within the term of the project we will expect to see the following measurable impacts:

Measurable impact on Orphaned and vulnerable learners:

• Reduction in forced marriages, early pregnancies and School Related Gender Based Violence (SRGBV) incidences.
• Reduction in incidence of new HIV/AIDS cases among primary school children.
• Availability of access to counsel and healthcare to orphans and vulnerable children who are HIV positive (with a reduction in the stigma they experience, and improved ability to lead normal lives).
• Reduced School Related Gender Based Violence (SRGBV) cases (access to guidance and counseling for orphans and vulnerable children, support for victims, support for legal action against perpetrators)
• Improvement in orphans and vulnerable children’s school attendance, primary school completion and attainment rates, and progression to secondary school. Attached herewith is the budget for the said programs to be rolled in phases as the donor deems fit.

 

Budget Template

Project Name: Empowered, Educated, Safe and Healthy Orphaned and Vulnerable children

Total Project Amount Request (Local Currency): Kshs 15,288,000.00

USD 104,574.65

Recipient Organization Name:

Word of Faith Church Intl-Ndhiwa(HOME OF HOPE)

TOTAL Funds Received for Project

Direct Project Expenses

Activity/Program

Need/Support Plea

Quantity

Cost per unit

Activity Cost

Training/forums/ workshops on Gender  Based  Violence, Advocacy, Teamwork,  Communication and facilitation, leadership and community participation

Four (4) Facilitators

Four (4) sessions

20,000.00

80,000.00

Refreshment

100 Participants served (4) sessions

20,000.00

80,000.00

PA Sound system hire

Four sessions

7,000.00

28,000.00

Training materials

100 Participants  four (4) sessions

20,000.00

80,000.00

Boy and Girl child trainings on leadership, self-awareness and rights  health related issues,

Playing kits for six teams

6 dozens

15,000.00

90,000.00

Foot balls

Ten balls

3,000.00

30,000.00

Sport shoes

50 pairs

2,000.00

100,000.00

Boy and Girl-child football  training     logistics

20 sessions

20,000.00

400,000.00

Boy and Girl support group education and  health support

Education support

50 Learners

30,000.00

1,500,000.00

Health support

50 Learners

40,000.00

2,000,000.00

SRGBV research to implement effective strategies to keep learners safe.

Data capture tools, interviews and  research  facilitation.

–

–

150,000.00

Data analysis, presentations and publications

–

–

300,000.00

LRC building

–

–

5,000,000.00

Computers and Accessories

20 Computers and Accessories

50,000.00

1,000,000.00

Establishing a well equipped Learning and Resource Centre (LRC) to provide access for teachers and students to teaching resources and facilities for study and training.

Furniture (Tables and chairs)       Land

–

–

1,500,000.00         2,250,000.00

Curriculum/syllabus  Textbooks, reading materials and stationeries

–

–

700,000.00

15,288,000.00