ICP ACTION PLAN — DANDORA 4, KENYA

Community State/Province Country DANDORA 4, NAIROBI, KENYA Community Photo   Full Name of Contact Diana Jomo Contact Email st.bendictcommunitycentre2008@gmail.com   Title of Project HELP FEED A CHILD   One to Two Sentence Program Vision A child from slums rarely gets opportunity to access quality education as her/his peers from high income areas. As a result, they cannot favorably compete for opportunities associated with education, these results into intergenerational poverty in families. Unless kept in school children face the danger of crime, child labor/abuse, and death due to unhealthy diet among other problems. The vision of St. Benedict community Centre is to change one life at a time for a prosperous community by providing support and knowledge that restores human dignity. This very vision has been threatened by lack of regular support of feeding program.   Descriptions of Challenges Dandora is located in the eastern part of Nairobi and the main dumpsite of all the wastes in Nairobi. It is divided into 5 phases; the school is located in phase 4 not far away from the dumpsite. The bad smell from the rotting wastes is environmental hazard and a health risk to people who directly depend on the dumpsite for their livelihood. At times chocking smoke fills the air from the burning waste making it difficult to breath and causes respiratory diseases among the residents of Dandora. With all these risks poverty-stricken children find this dumpsite the only alternative for survival, directly consuming the leftovers. Crime rate is high due to high number of children who drop out of school caused by lack of school fees. There are several cases of young boys and girls being killed by either police or mob due to crime. Most of these children are orphans who live with their poor relatives who cannot provide them with good shelter, school uniform, writing materials and good diet. Education therefore plays a vital role as a change agent to children living under challenging circumstances and environment like Dandora. Education has the ability to address inequality, poverty, unemployment and problems associated with illiteracy. SBCC was founded and registered in 2008 to address the challenges needy children in Dandora face. The Centre has had a steady increase in children enrolment with the current learner’s population being 160. First group of beneficiaries are in various secondary schools across the country proceeding with their studies. Learner’s school attendance, health and lesson concentration is directly depending on the school feeding program. St. Benedict community Centre depends on wellwishers who occasionally support the feeding program, no regular supporter of the program. At some instances the kitchen runs dry and as a result affects children’s concentration in class and school attendance as well. The need to offer meals for these children from poor families are an overwhelming task and therefore the Centre is making an appeal of KSH 499,792 per term support towards the feeding program.   Longer Project Description ST. Benedict Community Centre is located in Dandora, Nairobi Kenya. Diana Jomo the founder of SBCC found it hard to ignore the suffering of vulnerable children who due to poverty could wake up very early in the morning and walk straight to the dumpsite to look for the filthy leftovers. As a result, she established SBCC as an educational institution to offer humanitarian assistance to needy children. Apart from primary education, children are provided with two meals a day, guided on Christian values and their talents nurtured. At SBCC, children are given the necessary care, love and their hopes for a better future restored. The care does not end when a child completes primary education, the Centre always strives to link them with well-wishers to assist them transit to secondary schools. Since its establishment the Centre operates in rented premises which are not conducive for learning purposes. The premise has small rooms made of old iron sheet walls and roof, poor drainage system, and no electricity. Due to poor drainage system sewer water usually floods the classes whenever it rains posing a health hazard to children. Cases of children having stomach upsets and respiratory problems are common due to this poor state of the current location of the school.   First Project Steps The first steps of the project will be purchase of the dry foodstuff to make them available in the school kitchen store.   Who the Project Impacts The targeted beneficiaries of this project are the 160 learners who are already at St. Benedict community Centre ages between 4years to 14 years old. 89 girls and 71 boys.   Follow-up Phase II Steps At each and every stage of the implementation of this project, all stakeholders will be provided with photo reports, written reports, Consumption records and purchase receipts. Physical and online meetings shall also be organized for the stakeholders during the implementation of this project.   How We Measure Success i. Improve the health of children with malnutrition ii. Reduce cases of absenteeism iii. Increase learners’ concentration in class. iv. Avoid cases of children going back to the dumpsite for the decomposing leftovers.   Detailed PDF of Project Feed-a-child-6c52767c75a0a9df635a2fcd577fa811   Community Photo 2   Community Photo 3   Description of Photos Community photo and community photo 2 shows children having their meals and community photo 3 shows children having their digital literacy lesson.

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