By Benard Adera First, it was a thought born by one woman. That thought was then shared by another woman, then another one, and another one; shortly after, the thought was in the heart and minds of 15 women. That woman of thought was Rebecca Awiti. After going through the taxing path strewed with cruel realities because of giving birth …
By John Ken Opiyo Across the Nairobi City Informal Settlements, live people with different diverse interests. Most of them rated amongst the most poor in the modern world. These people live below one dollar within twenty four hours i.e. one day. The challenging thing to note about them is that the majority are women and children. Of these, some are …
Kutoka Network represented by its program officer in charge of youth and gender-Charles Ochieng’ participated in the accountability forum that was held in korogocho on 26th February 2019 and which brought together various stakeholders, key among the them; community Justice centers from Kibra,Mathare, korogocho and representatives of local community based organizations. The forum provided an opportunity for the participating organizations …
Decentralization comprises of devolution, delegation and privatization. Devolution is a key ingredient of democratic governance and a means of inculcating a democratic culture. Thus devolution refers to the transfer of administrative and political authority, power, resources, functions and responsibilities from central government to lower units such as administrative departments/ regions and especially semi-autonomous bodies/entities such as the 47 counties. This …
Kutoka network conducted a civic education at Korogocho community hall in Korogocho location with an aim of creating an enabling environment for the purposes of the return presidential election. The civic education brought together participants from Korogocho,Kariobangi,Dandora,Baba Dogo and lucky Summer under the theme: civic education on community dialogue and cohesion. During the deliberation on key constitution aspects and clauses …
Promoting inclusive and participatory governance, peace and social cohesion
( http://www.businessdailyafrica.com) Father John Webootsa, a Kenyan catholic priest who has devoted his life to help improve the living conditions of slum dwellers in Nairobi’s Korogocho and Dandora settlements has been named the inaugural winner of the Franco-German Human Rights Award. Father John (left) leading a walk for peace in Nairobi’s Korogocho slum The 37 year-old cleric has been honoured …
Ensuring equality of all genders and gender-sensitive approaches in all areas of life of young people.
Strengthened and diversified livelihoods adequately mitigating cumulative shocks and stresses for socio-economic stability of residence of informal settlements.
By Peter Kuria Kanini (pkuria@yahoo.com) Urban lifestyle can never be complete without talking about street children. While most urban residents dread the site of these children, Napenda Kuishi Trust, a project of Comboni Missionaries embrace these children. They struggle to recruit them and rehabilitate them to live like any other children staying with their parents. As one way to make …
