Future in our hands
international network - Kenya

KENYA PARTNERS

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
  
  

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: