Our purpose is to outline the linkages between community, business entity, stakeholders, corporate donors, foundations and government to achieve SDGs and Vision 2030 through Youth/Women and marginalized persons as key milestone.

Furthermore, we seek to increase the coverage and quality of Women/Youth projects environmental Conservation, Governance, Social Recreational activities like sports, peer pressure, Health (HIV/AIDS), Health care, art/culture environment conservation tree planting exercise and other components that will benefit Women, Children/youth in communities within Nairobi area; Dandora/Kayole Matopeni, also marginalized areas specially Northern part of Kenya and most areas that have been affected by Human ignorance

EDUCATION

Project objectives

This project proposal has two main objectives as mentioned here under: To respond to the needs of a rapidly growing business and education sector in Kenya and Somalia municipality by producing the quality and quantity of educated people sufficiently equipped with the requisite knowledge to solve the society’s problems in order to meet the challenges of development and attain competitiveness at regional and global at large at affordable costs.

The project is in line with government efforts to establish as many pre-schools, primary schools and secondary schools as possible so that many children get access to education. Quality basic education is very important to even the poor children. People of Kenya and Somalia constitutes empowerment; and it is one of the tools that will empower the country in different aspects of the war against.

Priority need

The priority need of this project proposal is to have an education institution which will join hand with the ministry of education’s effort of having a nation with high level of education at all levels; a nation which produces the quality and quantity of educated people sufficiently equipped with the requisite knowledge to solve the society’s problems in order to meet the challenges of development and attain competitiveness at regional and global at large at affordable costs.

SOMKEN DEVELOPMENT AID HEALTH CENTER

Project Scope and Key Activities The Project scope will consist of four main components. The objective of these components is to design the health facility of the Internal Medicine Building in Kenya and Somalia as per international standards, construct the health facility according to the original design scheme, provide the necessary medical equipment and electromechanical systems to perform effectively. In addition to providing capacity development in the form of staff training in subjects that are conducive to enhanced health service quality.

SOCIAL-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

PROJECT OBJECTIVES
The overall objective of this project is to create an enabling environment for the community of Kenya and Somalia so that they can be self-dependent, contribute to the development of the area and be an active participant in development effort of the nation.

Specific objectives are to inculcate entrepreneurial skills in the youth to become self- employed, and initiate the youth to be engaged in sporting activities, small business, skills training, ICT enterprises and other similar innovative and creative projects.

PROJECT AIM
To improve the living standards of people within our communities in extremely marginalized areas of country through farming projects, sewing projects, entrepreneurs’ creation and training, educational activities, skills development and training (in areas of computer literacy, business creation and management) and support.

RE-EXCAVATION OF WATER CATCHMENT

Project Objectives and Key Activities
The project’s objective was to strengthen the communities’ resilience to climate change impacts, and its variability, through awareness-raising and capacity building activities in water security and natural resource management. Building on local knowledge and using a participatory approach, awareness raising workshops were held on climate change, its short-term and long-term impacts on the communities, how they can cope in a sustainable way and how national policies can be influenced by their actions.

The project activities for water security included the rehabilitation of the community water catchment that was out of use for 40 years; the construction of an earth pond system (which also supports the objectives of the Pleasant Valley Reforestation Project); the development of a sustainable water harvesting system; and the awareness-raising of community members on the productive use and care of rainwater harvesting ponds and catchment. These activities improved water availability and quality for irrigation especially during incidences of floods and droughts.

The water management initiatives supported agro-forestry activities. In this regard, adaptive management tools in Sustainable Land Management (SLM) were applied accordingly and together have led to improved production in agriculture and/or other land-based/cottage industries. In turn, these have led to food and water security, as well as income generating activities.

FOOD & LIVESTOCK RELIEF

Targeting Strategies

The program will focus on MVCs in Kenya Counties and Somalia Federal States. Vulnerability is measured by the experience of poverty along three dimensions: deprivation, exclusion and vulnerability.

The project defines the MVC as those children facing Deprivation, Exclusion and Vulnerability (DEV Framework). The DEV framework is based on solid research whose findings revealed that poor children are not only deprived of essential material conditions and services, which is the focus of most approaches to child poverty alleviation. According to children, they also describe their experience of poverty in terms of exclusion—they feel excluded on the basis of age, gender, class, caste, etc. They go further, to describe their experience of poverty in terms of feeling vulnerable to threats in their social and physical environments. Examples of these dimensions of experiences of poverty are: Not having enough food to eat (deprivation), not remaining in school for girls because of their gender (exclusion), anticipating being orphaned.

Sustainability

The project will be maintaining the outcomes, goals and products, institutionalizing the process through the development of broad-¬‐based partnerships that foster collaboration, involvement of all stakeholders: parents/guardians/grandmothers, pupils, politicians, community leaders, school administrations and provincial administration. The project will also develop an outreach plan to share resources and expertise. At the community level continuous community conversations will enhance more dialogue and action taking on education matters which will ensure a demand seeking behavior for target communities to the government and non-¬‐governmental partners. Community microfinance is also believed to be a powerful sustainability tool towards a community/school feeding program in Kenya and Somalia

IDP IN SOMALIA

This families are in the outskirts of the district of Dinsor of South West state of Somalia. They originally moved from different parts of South West & are in need of basic human needs for survival such as food,shelter,water & important means to settle either as farmers or pastoralists. They also need Primary education for their children. The cost of a decent local house for a family is $1500 USD. including toilet & Kitchen. Watch More

Volunteer with us in one of our projects, ranging from Health, Girl Child Education, Women empowerment, support on Peace building and Human Security Programs and mainstreamed with cross cutting sectors governance, Environment and public education awareness about drug abuse in the regions. SOMKEN DEVELOPMENT AID is non-partisan, impartial and not operated for profit working in Kenya, Sudan, Somalia, and Ethiopia. In Kenya, Nairobi, Garissa, Mandera, Kilifi, Isiolo Machakos, Busia and Counties of Northern Eastern Province.

• Soma Mtoto
• Books & Uniforms
• Nutritional & Economic Empowerement

YOUTH EDUCATION PROGRAM

SOMKEN Promoting Inclusive Education, Every child has the right to acces ot quality education.Soma mtoto program promotes inclusive education while addressing the plight of disabled children at primary level.

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BOOKS & UNIFORMS [NAIROBI KENYA]

We acknowledge that the underlying principle to any economy is education and knowledge, we support the incapacited families by providing school uniforms and books

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NUTRITIONAL & ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT [MOGADISHU SOMALIA]

Hesad maintains its core mandate of outreach to partner countries.We help the community by empowering them through social-economic activities and proper sanitation.

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