• Youth Skills for Peace and Development

    On the 15th of July 2024, World Youth Skills Day was marked with the theme Youth Skills for Peace and Development. These skills for peace and development encompass various competencies that empower young people to contribute positively to society, thereby promoting peace and sustainable development. The key areas can include: Collectively, these areas contribute to […]

  • Vijana wa shule ya upili ya Friends Shamberere wa-Chagua Maisha

    Since ACLAD adapted the World Relief Choose Life curriculum for imparting life skills on adolescents in 2020, we have reached over 1200 girls and young women in western Kenya. Having tried and tested our Chagua Maisha  curriculum on girls and seen the positive impact it had on them, staff members revised the program so that […]

  • The Stepping Up! plane has taken off…

    After months of preparation and laying the groundwork, pre-identified participants who met the criteria we were looking for in this Stepping Up! project on Saturday 19th November 2022 officially started their sessions using the two adapted curricular. Stepping Stones is being used by youth aged 15-18 years and 19-24 years in separate peer groups for […]

  • Education today for a better tomorrow.

    Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. – Malcolm X Education is said to be the greatest equalizer and can be used as a key tool for eliminating discrimination and inequality in any country. Though it may seem like a drop in the ocean, as […]

  • Dear men, you must act as partners in combating menstrual stigma

    Period poverty is described as the lack of access to sanitary products, menstrual hygiene education, clean toilets, hand washing and waste management facilities. In other words, period poverty occurs when girls and women lack access to sanitary products due to financial constraints. In our quest to address adolescent menstrual health and end period poverty, we […]

FOOD SECURITY

We strive to ensure that families in every community have access to sufficient and nutritious food always. We partner with Bio-Gro USA to enhance community resilience in food security through care and restoration of the environment thus enabling communities to experience greater food security, increase incomes, and maintain sustainable food production – as evidenced by food production through interventions that best fit all members of the community – young men, young women , elderly men, women and children – such as maximization of land use ; appropriate animal husbandry ; organic fertilizers and appropriate farming technologies for small scale farmers.

We partner with like minded Non Governmental Organisations (NGO’s), Fatih Based Organisations (FBOs), Community Based Organisations (CBOs), Community Groups, Health Facilities and individuals to realize sustainable socio- economic development. We partner with Gynocare Women’s Hospital Fistula Reintegration program to build the agricultural and livelihoods skills of fistula survivors. Through this partnership, we expect to reach over 100 women with conservation agricultural skills as well as farm inputs such as seeds and appropriate technologies that enhance soil and plant nutrition for better yields.  The projects are implemented through community empowerment, needs identification, problem- solving and informed participatory decision – making approaches. This enables the targeted community to think critically and find solutions to their own challenges. Through these partnership, we expect to enhance livelihoods of orphaned and vulnerable children.