Goals
and Objectives
- To provide care, support, and life skills education to orphaned and vulnerable children.
- To provide
handicapped children who are destitute with a family which
cares for them.
- To address the HIV/AIDS issue in all areas of awareness, caring for people living with HIV/Aids.
- To educate, enlighten and empower women and girls who are marginalized by society.
- To provide spiritual and moral support to the victims of society.
- To have a full operational early childhood development program.
- To provide finances to the needy so that they may borrow and invest through the micro enterprise development program.
- To provide good nutrition for those under our care.
- To help youths through a rehabilitation program.
- To deal with reproductive health issues.
- To maintain human rights based programs e.g. supporting children's rights.
- To promote civic education.
- To have a fully equipped resource center including vocational training, a library and an information technology center.
- To create Community Based Organizations (CBO's) to address the needs of society
Strategy
This
will be achieved through participatory initiatives which seek to meet
the spiritual, social, economic, physical and psychological needs of
people, especially the marginalized.
Entry
The
organization has an entry protocol, which addresses the issues facing
potential beneficiaries of our program. Why him/her? Why not the other
person? Candidates for the Maji Mazuri Center are listened to closely
as they, or in the case of a child, the guardians, explain their
needs. Also an analysis is made by a social worker to assess the true
situation.
Children:
The children who are admitted to Maji Mazuri Center are mostly in these categories:
- Orphaned children with no guardians.
- Physically or mentally disabled children with no one able to take care of them.
- Destitute children therefore in danger of becoming street urchins.
- Malnourished very young children.
- Physically or mentally abused children.
- Vulnerable girls who are betrothed when they are young.
- Children that lack any form of education.
Women:
The women who join Maji Mazuri do so largely for capacity building, growth and development. Their categories include:
- Imprisoned due to slum vices e.g. fights etc.
- Engaged in illegal activities e.g. illicit brews.
- Prostitutes (commercial sex workers).
- Idlers who spend their lives engaged in casual talk .
- Unable to provide basic needs to their families.
Youth:
This is a highly volatile group. Categories include:
Drug addicts or alcoholics.
- Those in poor health and/or affected by HIV/AIDS.
- Those in extreme poverty, unable to access or housing.
Exit
We look forward very much to the successful exit of our clients from the Maji Mazuri program as fully formed and self sustaining mature individuals.
Here we give some examples of what this can mean:
Karanja:
- He entered Maji Mazuri Center as a child of 12 years, from the streets. Currently he is a youth leader and doing very well in the chicken business.
Wambugu:
- He entered the micro enterprise group through the Youth Program and was trained in small-scale business. He is now very successful businessman. He has been able to employ more people in his business, take care of his family, educate his children and care for his mother.
Faith:
- Came in as an abandoned child who had been abused after her mother’s death. Maji Mazuri took her in educated her and after high school education she went through skills training and later had a chance to further her education in Britain. She is now settled with her own family and also fostering two children from Maji Mazuri.
Eunice:
- She is a Masai girl who took refuge at Maji Mazuri because her father wanted to get her married after her mother had died in the US embassy bomb attack in Nairobi. She went through vocational training with us. Now she is employed as a manager in a
Masai project near Loitokitoki.
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