The Western Province Organic Growers’ Alliance (WEPOGA) is set to provide a safe environment condusive to learning that enables growth academically,emotionally,socially and spiritually of all orphaned children regardless of race, religion,gender, tribal,ethinicty or other discriminating factors.It is also concerned with creating an environment that will ensure prevention activities and to improve the capacity of communities to cope with effects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic using localresources thruogh community initiatives.The ministryis based in Western Kenya East Africa.
INTRODUCTION:
There is a large population of people who have contractedHIV/AIDS or have already died,while other familie often suffer even if only one parent dies while the children are still very young.The failies consist ofmany children,an average of 5-10 children per wife in each family.Therefore when the parents die the children becomes orphaned to due to in ability to care and support themselves economicayll.This in the ends up living in the streets in the nearest town.The streets leads the childen begging for food,clothes,and sniffing glueto warm their bodies in the colder areas of the country.It later results in to crime as means of getting food and clothing. The children need rehabilitation them in a daycare centre,food clothing,counseling,spiritual nourishment in order to compete with their peers when they enter in to job market and at the same time learning how to adapt life without parents while being made to feel an important member of the society and the productive part. RESOLUTIONS -There is a need to have a well established center which will take care of the orphaned children.Logos academy hopes to provide a place for the children to reside as well as learn employment trades in order to become self-reliant by the time they leave the academy. - The ministry strongly rely on well wishers,donors, churches,government support and fundraising to get more land bought,building and farmingproject.The center will start small with a few-self sustaining projects then as more children reside at the center and the more money making projects it has,the center will remain completely a non-profit organisation.
OBJECTIVES
1. To Offer services regardless of tribe, race, religion etc.
2.To Counsel and provide emotional needs for each child as well as drugs addictions.
3.To supply adequate clothes,food,education anda place to stay and teaching them living skills and other additional training specificneeds and disabilities.
4.To provide formal educatin as wellas some traditional excluding any tribal traditions due to discrinimination of certaintribes and harmful practice.This will slowly intergrate them back in to the society properly.
5.Provide a safe environment condusive to learning that anables growth academically,socially and spiritually.We shal expose them to God during worship services and daily prayers.
VALUES OF LOGOS ACADEMY MINISTRY
-Weare steward and value people's life.
-Weare partners and solidarity with people living HIV/AIDS,widows,orphans and widowers.
-Fairness,,justice and equity and respects for the rights of women and children. -Participation and inclusion,courage of conviction.
-Intergrity,honesty,transparency and accountability.
-Committed to the poor and the marginilised.
ESTIMATED BUDGET FOR THE 1ST YEAR
-Land and building $50,000 Food and clothing and medication for 100 children $13,000
-Salaries and wages per $10,000
-Transpotation of children to the center and hospital and collecting the children $12,000
-Education fro the children it will depend on where they want to go per child $10,000 .
For more in formation please contact:
Benson Alakonya in Kenya, P.O. Box 662,Bungoma, Kenya, East Africa. E-mail- balakonya@yahoo.com
We are also currently operating five mobile clinics each month in remote, rural communities from which travel to the nearest regular medical facility is difficult. On an average one-day clinic we see upwards of 200 patients. Many have chronic conditions with osteoperosis and osteomilitis being common. Wounds are also a regular as are tropical children's conditions such as blackwater fever, typhoid, malaria, as well as scabies, ringworm,, etc. In addition I run five clinics each month for victims of torture -obviously largly trauma patients. These are held in the areas around our Western Kenya base.We also work at the local district hospital, and Three times a week we assess patients for HIV/AIDS and provide access to VCTs andtoARVs where appropriate.We supervise about ten teams of home-based care volunteers and also run training weeks for new volunteers. In addition we visit schools, youth groups, community groups and churches with HIV/AIDS awareness presentations. At present we are also leading training seminars for medical staff on ARV treatment.When staffing levels permit,We also offer free health checks for pupils at local primary schools (ages 6 to 14). This month, for example, we aim to visit just one school, but it has 1200 pupils. Outside the strictly medical area, we assist with OVC programmes and nutrition/PMTCT projects. An average day begins at 0600 and we get home around 1900. We travel by a hired 4x4 as our clinics are quite remote. It costs around $200 US to live well here per month this is $50 per week, including accommodation! This excludes the local nightclub and brew! We charge a program fee of $200. The cost of getting to us from either Kampala or Nairobi is about $120 round trip. It would be good to have you join us for a few weeks/months/years. You'll certainly see things you will not experience in any where/place.We supervise about ten teams of home-based care volunteers and also run training weeks for new volunteers. In addition we visit schools, youth groups, community groups and churches with HIV/AIDS awareness presentations. At present we offer : ·
HIV/AIDS Awareness in schools and youth groups · Home-based care of HIV infected and affected people · Mobile clinics in remote, rural communities · Development of high-income cash crops · Micro-enterprise groups · Provision of healthcare, education and daycare centres for orphaned and vulnerable children · Assistance for widows and street dwellers · Patient advocacy in local hospitals · Alternative income projects for those involved in brewing illicit alcohol, as part of a broader campaign against alcoholism, and · Gender equality programmes. VOLUNTARY WORK OFFERED Medical Internships (Primary healthcare and Tropical medicine) Rural business development specialists Pre-med placements Agriculturalists Teachers (primary and secondary) in ESL and science in particular Lay volunteers to help with administration and ancillary clinical work Any persons willing to give schools presentations or to work as patient helpers in hospitals. Placements are ideally for a minimum of three months (with two weeks off mid-placement for independent travel in Kenya). However, we will consider well qualified volunteers for periods as short as four weeks. Most volunteer placements are for periods under six months, but some can be for up to two years. As the project works year-round, volunteers are accepted at any time subject to space being available. Placements are at the WEPOGA base in Bungoma or with community groups . All volunteers work in the community. There is no language requirement other than a need to be able to communicate in English. Accommodation is in African-style houses, in rural areas is often more basic. Bungoma is a substantial town with a reasonable range of stores and eating places. Kakamega, Busia, Webuye and Malaba also offer some scope for shopping. Otherwise, most Western volunteers will find some of their needs hard to fill in the smaller market centers. Food and accommodation is provided for a basic cost of $50.00 (or the equivalent Kshs 3800) per week . However, Kenya wins no prizes for gastronomy and many volunteers occasionally find need for a "big city fix" in terms of a pizza or burger in one of the two main cities within two hours’ drive – Eldoret or Kisumu. Help is offered to obtain an appropriate visa and airport pick-up is free from either Kisumu or Eldoret airports, which are connected by daily flights to Nairobi International. Pick-up from Nairobi is arranged, but costs about $120.00. Every volunteer is linked to an established expert and to a local family. WEPOGA does charge its volunteers anything to participate in its programmes. However, we do not pay salaries either. The costs with which we invite volunteers to assist are any of the following: · Helping to buy fuel for project vehicles when serving the community · Purchase of pharmaceuticals available easily at the volunteer’s home · Provision of old, serviceable equipment not currently needed at the volunteer’s school, hospital or place of work ETC We estimate that a volunteer needs about $350 per month to live comfortably whilst working with us, including accommodation, food, project assistance, and spending money. This excludes travel costs beyond Western Kenya. Initial expressions of interest should be addressed to Stephen and should include the following information: · Name, address, email address · Age · Type of work volunteer wants to do · Qualifications to do that work · Experience, if any, of Africa or of work in any other developing economy · Length of time volunteer is available and when In case of medical students or interns, kindly also include: · Medical/clinical specialty · Where studying (if applicable) · Is this placement regarded by your med school as part of your clinical placement or rotation? · Would our Clinical Director be expected to provide a report of your work here? In case of teachers: · How long have you taught? · What is the largest class you have taught on a regular basis? · What grades do you teach · What subjects do you teach If you have a strong religious belief it would be useful to know what it is, as Western Kenya is a heavily church-going community, with a significant Islamic minority. Finally, remember Western Kenya is one of Sub-Saharan Africa’s poorest regions. Infrastructure is very poor. The average rural family earns under $3 per month. Consequently, be patient. Internet access is patchy, at best. We’ll get back to you just as soon as we can, but it likely will not be as quickly as you would like. Hope to hear from you.
INTRODUCTION:
There is a large population of people who have contractedHIV/AIDS or have already died,while other familie often suffer even if only one parent dies while the children are still very young.The failies consist ofmany children,an average of 5-10 children per wife in each family.Therefore when the parents die the children becomes orphaned to due to in ability to care and support themselves economicayll.This in the ends up living in the streets in the nearest town.The streets leads the childen begging for food,clothes,and sniffing glueto warm their bodies in the colder areas of the country.It later results in to crime as means of getting food and clothing. The children need rehabilitation them in a daycare centre,food clothing,counseling,spiritual nourishment in order to compete with their peers when they enter in to job market and at the same time learning how to adapt life without parents while being made to feel an important member of the society and the productive part. RESOLUTIONS -There is a need to have a well established center which will take care of the orphaned children.Logos academy hopes to provide a place for the children to reside as well as learn employment trades in order to become self-reliant by the time they leave the academy. - The ministry strongly rely on well wishers,donors, churches,government support and fundraising to get more land bought,building and farmingproject.The center will start small with a few-self sustaining projects then as more children reside at the center and the more money making projects it has,the center will remain completely a non-profit organisation.
OBJECTIVES
1. To Offer services regardless of tribe, race, religion etc.
2.To Counsel and provide emotional needs for each child as well as drugs addictions.
3.To supply adequate clothes,food,education anda place to stay and teaching them living skills and other additional training specificneeds and disabilities.
4.To provide formal educatin as wellas some traditional excluding any tribal traditions due to discrinimination of certaintribes and harmful practice.This will slowly intergrate them back in to the society properly.
5.Provide a safe environment condusive to learning that anables growth academically,socially and spiritually.We shal expose them to God during worship services and daily prayers.
VALUES OF LOGOS ACADEMY MINISTRY
-Weare steward and value people's life.
-Weare partners and solidarity with people living HIV/AIDS,widows,orphans and widowers.
-Fairness,,justice and equity and respects for the rights of women and children. -Participation and inclusion,courage of conviction.
-Intergrity,honesty,transparency and accountability.
-Committed to the poor and the marginilised.
ESTIMATED BUDGET FOR THE 1ST YEAR
-Land and building $50,000 Food and clothing and medication for 100 children $13,000
-Salaries and wages per $10,000
-Transpotation of children to the center and hospital and collecting the children $12,000
-Education fro the children it will depend on where they want to go per child $10,000 .
For more in formation please contact:
Benson Alakonya in Kenya, P.O. Box 662,Bungoma, Kenya, East Africa. E-mail- balakonya@yahoo.com
We are also currently operating five mobile clinics each month in remote, rural communities from which travel to the nearest regular medical facility is difficult. On an average one-day clinic we see upwards of 200 patients. Many have chronic conditions with osteoperosis and osteomilitis being common. Wounds are also a regular as are tropical children's conditions such as blackwater fever, typhoid, malaria, as well as scabies, ringworm,, etc. In addition I run five clinics each month for victims of torture -obviously largly trauma patients. These are held in the areas around our Western Kenya base.We also work at the local district hospital, and Three times a week we assess patients for HIV/AIDS and provide access to VCTs andtoARVs where appropriate.We supervise about ten teams of home-based care volunteers and also run training weeks for new volunteers. In addition we visit schools, youth groups, community groups and churches with HIV/AIDS awareness presentations. At present we are also leading training seminars for medical staff on ARV treatment.When staffing levels permit,We also offer free health checks for pupils at local primary schools (ages 6 to 14). This month, for example, we aim to visit just one school, but it has 1200 pupils. Outside the strictly medical area, we assist with OVC programmes and nutrition/PMTCT projects. An average day begins at 0600 and we get home around 1900. We travel by a hired 4x4 as our clinics are quite remote. It costs around $200 US to live well here per month this is $50 per week, including accommodation! This excludes the local nightclub and brew! We charge a program fee of $200. The cost of getting to us from either Kampala or Nairobi is about $120 round trip. It would be good to have you join us for a few weeks/months/years. You'll certainly see things you will not experience in any where/place.We supervise about ten teams of home-based care volunteers and also run training weeks for new volunteers. In addition we visit schools, youth groups, community groups and churches with HIV/AIDS awareness presentations. At present we offer : ·
HIV/AIDS Awareness in schools and youth groups · Home-based care of HIV infected and affected people · Mobile clinics in remote, rural communities · Development of high-income cash crops · Micro-enterprise groups · Provision of healthcare, education and daycare centres for orphaned and vulnerable children · Assistance for widows and street dwellers · Patient advocacy in local hospitals · Alternative income projects for those involved in brewing illicit alcohol, as part of a broader campaign against alcoholism, and · Gender equality programmes. VOLUNTARY WORK OFFERED Medical Internships (Primary healthcare and Tropical medicine) Rural business development specialists Pre-med placements Agriculturalists Teachers (primary and secondary) in ESL and science in particular Lay volunteers to help with administration and ancillary clinical work Any persons willing to give schools presentations or to work as patient helpers in hospitals. Placements are ideally for a minimum of three months (with two weeks off mid-placement for independent travel in Kenya). However, we will consider well qualified volunteers for periods as short as four weeks. Most volunteer placements are for periods under six months, but some can be for up to two years. As the project works year-round, volunteers are accepted at any time subject to space being available. Placements are at the WEPOGA base in Bungoma or with community groups . All volunteers work in the community. There is no language requirement other than a need to be able to communicate in English. Accommodation is in African-style houses, in rural areas is often more basic. Bungoma is a substantial town with a reasonable range of stores and eating places. Kakamega, Busia, Webuye and Malaba also offer some scope for shopping. Otherwise, most Western volunteers will find some of their needs hard to fill in the smaller market centers. Food and accommodation is provided for a basic cost of $50.00 (or the equivalent Kshs 3800) per week . However, Kenya wins no prizes for gastronomy and many volunteers occasionally find need for a "big city fix" in terms of a pizza or burger in one of the two main cities within two hours’ drive – Eldoret or Kisumu. Help is offered to obtain an appropriate visa and airport pick-up is free from either Kisumu or Eldoret airports, which are connected by daily flights to Nairobi International. Pick-up from Nairobi is arranged, but costs about $120.00. Every volunteer is linked to an established expert and to a local family. WEPOGA does charge its volunteers anything to participate in its programmes. However, we do not pay salaries either. The costs with which we invite volunteers to assist are any of the following: · Helping to buy fuel for project vehicles when serving the community · Purchase of pharmaceuticals available easily at the volunteer’s home · Provision of old, serviceable equipment not currently needed at the volunteer’s school, hospital or place of work ETC We estimate that a volunteer needs about $350 per month to live comfortably whilst working with us, including accommodation, food, project assistance, and spending money. This excludes travel costs beyond Western Kenya. Initial expressions of interest should be addressed to Stephen and should include the following information: · Name, address, email address · Age · Type of work volunteer wants to do · Qualifications to do that work · Experience, if any, of Africa or of work in any other developing economy · Length of time volunteer is available and when In case of medical students or interns, kindly also include: · Medical/clinical specialty · Where studying (if applicable) · Is this placement regarded by your med school as part of your clinical placement or rotation? · Would our Clinical Director be expected to provide a report of your work here? In case of teachers: · How long have you taught? · What is the largest class you have taught on a regular basis? · What grades do you teach · What subjects do you teach If you have a strong religious belief it would be useful to know what it is, as Western Kenya is a heavily church-going community, with a significant Islamic minority. Finally, remember Western Kenya is one of Sub-Saharan Africa’s poorest regions. Infrastructure is very poor. The average rural family earns under $3 per month. Consequently, be patient. Internet access is patchy, at best. We’ll get back to you just as soon as we can, but it likely will not be as quickly as you would like. Hope to hear from you.
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