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  • 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 […]

ACLAD’s work in Kenya began with a child sponsorship program and grew to include food security (agriculture), community and family strengthening and livelihoods improvement. Our programs are transitioning to focus on long term family and community strengthening focused on sustainable agriculture, household economic empowerment and education.

KILIFI COUNTY

We partner with: Kilifi Watoto Center (KIWACE), a Community Based Organization (CBO) established in December 2012, that works with the children of Ganze to address issues that hinder their holistic development.

KAKAMEGA, BUSIA AND NORTH RIFT (Eldoret, West Pokot)

We partner with: Gynocare Women’s Hospital – Fistula Reintegration Program. The reintegration program helps obstetric fistula survivors heal and rebuild their lives after surgery through vocational training, business loans, emotional support and educational scholarships.

Anglican Development Services Western (ADS Western)

A Faith-based organization whose overall goal is to contribute to the realization of participatory sustainable development among rural communities in the Western Kenya Region to inspire productive lives and to promote a God-fearing society.

Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) 

KAJIADO COUNTY

We partner with: A  Faith Based  Organization (FBO) that focuses on community capacity building through Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLA).

 

For all our USA sponsors, you can give through our partner organization Africa’s Kidz and receive a tax receipt. Send cheques to:

Kim Aleman
Africa’s Kidz
Phone number: +1-509-840-2421
Email Kim Aleman

312 Maberry Loop, Lynden
WA 98264, USA

For direct donations to ACLAD, send an email message to:
Dr Nema C.M. Aluku
info@aclad-hq.org