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FUTURE IN OUR HANDS KENYA

Future in Our Hands Kenya
P.O. BOX 4037
Kisumu
Kenya
Co-ordinator: Rom Wandera
EMail: fiohk@hotmail.com

BACKGROUND
The FIOH group in Kisumu was founded in 1985 by Cecilia Obuya who was then the Municipal Community Development Officer. At its inception it had 15 members with diverse professional backgrounds. A doctor was the chairperson and there were social workers, teachers and a few students.
Our early activities focussed mainly on tree planting with the help of funds from Plant a Tree in Africa, a UK charity. The target groups were women living in rural communities who relied on fuel wood for their domestic cooking. Many thousands of trees have been planted in rural communities and schools as a result of our encouragement and support and the education we have provided about the importance and uses of local species. We set up several tree nurseries covering three districts of western Kenya.
In 1990 we started teaching schoolchildren how to establish tree nurseries and the techniques for harvesting seeds.

Our activities have expanded considerably since those early years and new FIOH groups have been established in the surrounding districts of Kimilili, Muhoroni, and Busia.
Volunteers from the UK and the USA have helped us considerably with programmes to:

  • provide school fees for children from poor families
  • enable school children to visit and understand the importance of, the local Kakamega tropical forest
  • dig wells and provide hand pumps for rural communities, whose women had previously to walk for for two hours to fetch water from polluted rivers.
  • reduce HIV/AIDS. This is now done mainly through the 21st Century Kisumu Forum (Agenda 21) which was inaugurated by FIOH Kenya.
  • help women establish savings and credit co-operatives
  • establish rural health centre and pharmacies

FUTURE WORLD
CAMPAIGN
NEWS
IDEAS BANK
YOUTH
COUNTER CULTURE
TOPICAL
ISSUES
 
SIERRA LEONE
INDIA
PAKISTAN
UNITED STATES
CAMEROON
       
AIDS awareness campaign by 21st Century Kisumu Forum
FIOH memeber and volunteer from the USA talking to family of AIDS sufferer
Health centre at Buburi built by the local community and overseas volunteers through
AidCamps International
       
Crops planted by Siani FIOH womens co-operative
Accommodation at Buburi built by local community for visiting doctors Components for hand pump financed by overseas volunteers
 
     
 
Vocational training established by FIOH Kimilili
Meeting of FIOH Kimilili womens
co-operative
FIOH Kimilili members
 
Further details HERE
2005
 


EDUCATION SUPPLEMENTS INTERNATIONAL

P.O. Box 3305
Nakuru
Kenya
East Africa
EMail: edsupintl@yahoo.com

The photographs below illustrate activities of the Dundori Organic Farming Project in Nakuru North District, Rift Valley:

Members of the Group Farmers sifting the organic manure
Crops grown - cabbage, kales, bananas, spinnach and nappier grass for animal feed Weeding at the tree nursery
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