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A DETAILED REPORT OF
THE FIVE DAYS
EDUCATION SEMINER AT
RODI-KENYA
Located Nateete -prime Village mall, level two
Tel: 0783559026/0755408205/0752829204
Website: www.labambacommunityservices.org
Email:[email protected]
FEBRAURY, 2017.
LABAMBA
COMMUNITY
SERVICES
“Striving for self-reliance”
Labamba community services has been established under the Uganda Registration services Bureau. It is a
fast upcoming premier organization prioritizing growth and development of skills especially among the
youth with in our society and has Highly Quality skilling programs as far as income generating activities
are concerned; we’re one of the recognized area’s most experienced trainers.
Labamba community services in conjunction with the most reputable trainers and managers, and
vocational skills, certificates are also offered from our recognized two institutes i.e. School of Beauty and
School of skills respectively.
It’s located in Nateete on prime village mall next to the taxi park. It was founded by an EX-prisoner from
Nairobi West prison in Kenya Mr. Ssekasamba Abdul Karim who developed the idea while in prison. In
this very prison RODI-Kenya could rehabilitate and teach inmates a variety of skills to help them start a
new life after prison that the community can definitely accept them back as transformed citizens. Upon
return, he joined hands with a few individuals whom he taught the skills learnt who now pass them to the
communities (schools, small groups of persons and now trying prisons) around and eventually Uganda as
a whole.
Labamba community services (LCS) was incorporated as a limited company by guarantee on 11th day of
Nov.2015 by a group of professionals and experienced Ugandan entrepreneurs who have identified and
recognized the challenge of ever increasing poverty with in our communities due to High rates of un
employment among the youth in Uganda. LCS is fully registered with the Uganda Registration services
Bureau, Organization Registration Number 211482, We’re also registered with URA. It has grown into
one of Uganda’s fast upcoming leading un employment solution provider to the Uganda’s population.
MISSION
To Produce More Independent Citizens through Capacity Building for The Creation of Income
Generating Activities and Employment, Targeting the Youth, Women and ex-prisoners.
VISION
To Be the Leading organization That Offers Quality Services for the Sustainable Livelihood
CORE VALUES
Integrity
Professionalism
Team work
Customer care
Transparency
Corporate objectives of the organization
To reduce on the Rate of ever increasing poverty levels among the youths.
To improve on the peoples’ income with in our communities.
To create more independent citizens in terms of financial support among the youth.
To increase on the number of Entrepreneurs in the country through producing more job creators.
To provide hands on skills to youths who have not achieved success from the formal Education.
Key strategies:
Pursue the highest level of employment opportunities in the country.
Strengthen skill development capabilities.
Strengthen organization expansion by Region.
Achieve further growth in core skill training.
Develop new ideas in skill training.
Consolidate corporate fundamentals.
Core products and dealings.
Labamba Community Services emphases the training of youths and women to acquire skills in making
the following products.
Hair shampoo
Liquid soap
Bar soap
Hands and Body lotion
Tomato sauce
Yoghurt
Cordial juice
Body jelly
Skin ointment
Bleaching Agent (jik)
Candle
Chalk
Conditioner
Disinfectant (Dettol)
Hand wash soap
Others services to be offered effect this year
Restoration and rehabilitation of prisoners.
Prevention of crimes in communities.
Milk sieve oil making to animal rearers.
Urban gardening skills.
Fruit jam making.
Sweets making.
It’s upon the services LCS wanted to incorporate this year that they found it worthy to learn them thus
wrote to AFIRD (Agency For Integrated Rural Development) on the 19th September, 2016 asking them to
aid the learning in Kenya with RODI-Kenya. After one week, on the 27th -09-2016 we received a notice
from AFIRD that our request was granted through a donor fund Tudortrust and was agreed on the 5th -
10th February, 2017 was the regional workshop for Ugandans with RODI-Kenya.
On February 5, 2017 a group of five (5) people from LCS together with one (1) representative from
AFIRD set off for Kenya using road transport (Guardian angel bus) namely:
NAME FIRM POSITION CONTACT
(+256)
Ssekasamba
Abdul Karim
LCS C.E.O 0755 408205 [email protected]
Lutalo Abasi LCS General
Manager
0752 829204 [email protected]
Mbaziira Sam LCS Projects
Coordinator
0783559026 [email protected]
Senkomago
Nathan
LCS Marketing
Officer
0772 064165 [email protected]
Naddya
Benittah Kevin
LCS Secretary 0701 573709 [email protected]
Kaggoya Lydia AFIRD Projects
Coordinator
0704 901928 @labambacommunityservices.org
Arrival in Ruiru Nairobi-Kenya at RODI premises
We were warmly welcomed in Kenya by the RODI- Kenya (Resources Oriented Development Initiatives)
team. They availed us with the programs of each of the five days we were to stay with them.
This was the final time schedule program after many adjustment and coming to a consensus by the two
bodies.
RODI started in 1989 with an intention of training farmers who could not afford modern agricultural
chemicals to use organic products. After visiting the prison (kodiara prison) and discovering a river
passing through it, was a great opportunity to run his project.
RODI is registered under the NGO Co-ordination Bureau in Kenya as an NGO with an executive
Management Board of seven members.
Kenya has a problem in the education system (inadequate life skills and lack of practical lessons) which
causes unemployment thus an increase in crime and food shortage. “An education system with no
practicals is the beginning of remembering 10% of what you are taught yet 90% is all about what you
DAY/DATE TIME ACTIVITY FACILITATOR
Sunday
05/02/2017
From 1600hr
Arrival and Registration
Mukundi and
Tabitha
Monday
06/02/2017
08:30am to10:30am
10:30am to 11:00pm
11:00am to1:00pm
1:00pm to 2:00pm
2:00pm to 5:00pm
Introduction and climate setting
TEA BREAK
Restorative Prisoners Rehabilitation
LUNCH BREAK
Community Crime Prevention
Mbiri
ALL
Eliud
ALL
Esther
Tuesday
07/02/2017
08:30am to10:30am
10:30 to 11:00pm
11:00am to1:00pm
1:00pm to 2:00pm
2:00pm to 5:00pm
Skin Ointment
TEA BREAK
Milk Sieve Oil Making
LUNCH BREAK
Urban Gardening Skills
Suzan
ALL
Suzan
ALL
Maina
Wednesday
08/02/2017
08:30am to10:30am
10:30am to 11:00pm
11:00am to1:00pm
1:00pm to 2:00pm
2:00pm to 5:00pm
Fruit Jam Making
TEA BREAK
Disinfectant Making
LUNCH BREAK
Sweets Making
Suzan
ALL
James
ALL
Monica
Thursday
09/02/2017
08:30am to10:30am
10:30am to 11:00pm
11:00am to1:00pm
1:00pm to 2:00pm
2:00pm to 5:00pm
Hand wash making
TEA BREAK
Fish Farming
LUNCH BREAK
Labelling and Marketing
Mbiri
ALL
Mbiri
ALL
Mbiri
Friday
10/02/2017
08:30am to10:30am
10:30am to 11:00pm
11:00am to1:00pm
1:00pm to 2:00pm
2:00pm to 5:00pm
Visit to Nairobi West Prison
Visit to Nairobi West Prison
Visit to Nairobi West Prison
LUNCH BREAK
Free (shopping)
Mbiri and Benson
Mbiri and Benson
Mbiri and Benson
All
All
REGIONAL WORKSHOP FOR UGANDANS Dated 5th -10th February 2017
RESOURCES ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES (RODI-KENYA)
know.” In a survey of inter- University council of East Africa, it is stated that Kenya is the best in the
region but only 49% of the students are prepared for the job market. On realizing this RODI decided to
practice it in schools
ACTIVITIES DONE
A. Restorative prisoners rehabilitation
This looks at the way offender rehabilitation is conducted in and out of prisons. Many prisoners leave
correctional institutions worse off, poorer, hardened and stigmatized with an option of being rejected by
the communities. Through reoffending or trumped up charges, they return to prison ending up in a cycle
of recidivism.
The main aim is to restore three personalities i.e. the offender, the victim and the community. This
enhances re-integration and reduces re-offending by learning for own use or getting skills to pass on to
others. This falls under restorative justice in law different from what most African countries’ justice that
considers criminal justice “the offender is looked at only.” So you as a rehabilitator teach people on
answering three 3) questions i.e.
a. What to do?
Establish training demonstration firms or units with in prisons for practices training of prisoners
and prison officers in sustainable agriculture, appropriate technologies and natural resources
management.
b. Why do it?
To help in supporting the reintegration of ex-prisoners by linking them up and working with them
in their home communities through formation of Community Livelihood Improvement Groups.
Error is to human, its bad to committee and offense but the worst thing is to repeat an offense.
Believe that prisoners can be rehabilitated or transformed. Prisoners can be a resource to
themselves and their communities thus need to be accepted back in their communities.
c. How it’s done?
Follow up Ex-prisoners upon release to monitor their progress, provide additional training and
support to speed up re-integration. This helps them restore self-esteem, hope, and skills for self-
support among others. Prisoners can announce say in church to be forgiven and to forgive. Can
organize prison open days (bringing them closer to their relatives and communities)
A sustainable rehabilitation of a prisoner must have an element of community involvement. Prisoners are
burdens to the community, tax payer, worse cause they interact with worst offenders in prison, leave their
family responsibilities to their relatives; they don’t contribute to the national income. Instead of carrying
all these burdens, simply off road them that is rehabilitation.
Prisoners attending a rehabilitation session
B. Community crime prevention.
This can be done in communities to secure food and reduce crime in society. Such a program lays
major emphasis in training target beneficiaries to be peer educators and trainer of trainers,
through peer learning and farmer to farmer learning concepts, effective in passing on skills to the
wider community.
It can be done in schools to strengthen the capacity of school children in playing a role in
promotion of sustainable agriculture and crime prevention, enhance the capacity of school
communities in addressing crime and violence situations for holistic child development and crime
prevention, nurturing a culture of crime and violence free in students and schools as a way of
stemming the influx of young people into prison. This helps students live a life free of crime and
enhance their self-reliance after leaving school in a manner that compliments the current
education curriculum through application of practical skills and life training. Show the students
the difference between being a good person in society and being a criminal.
In crime prevention, violence can be reduced. This can be done by mapping communities to spot
out areas of crime; this will help you understand the effect of crime (drugs, unemployment, dark
spots) mapping can be done by the help of children, security officers and other members of the
community. After mapping look out for people who go to prison and how they are treated, instead
of taking them to prison and fencing homes work with them (offenders) and help them set up
something just like yours.
When prisoners are out follow them up, encourage them to hang around good company that they
become accepted in the soci
Trainees learning about crime prevention, how to go about it and how to conduct it
C. Skin ointment making.
In most African countries, skin infections and are very common among our people more so the
children as per research carried out by the Infectious Research Collaboration Institute 2015, On
many or most occasions in-organic substances are used. But to the skills attained, the use of
organic substances is less harmful to our skins and environment. This more required by ladies
with itching scalps treated organically at a low cost.
Mrs. Njoroge Wangiro Monica in redand Mr. Kareoki James standing taking through the session
for skin ointment
D. Milk sieve oil making.
Many farmers find it hard to smoothly milk their animals since they can’t afford milking
machines. They end up letting the calves to first suckle to prepare and soften the udder and do the
milking later. This leaves the milk unclean thus a need to bridge the gap. With the skill learnt,
LCS is ready to improve the milking process of many farmers in Uganda
E. Urban gardening skills.
Uganda has a population of 7.4 million people leaving in urban centers as per the National
Housing and Population census 2014. With these increasing numbers from 1.7 million people in
1991, land does not expand in size yet the cost of leaving is relatively high. It’s due to this that
urban gardening was a life changing opportunity to train our community members. This helps
them to maximally utilize the small space around them while minimizing their expenses. In case
the soils are not fertile enough they can be supplemented with organic manure i.e. compost
manuring, green manuring, plant/ tree manuring and verm-culture.
Below is the demonstration of team members fully participating in the urban gardening scheme
Preparing the urban garden
Planting short the vegetables in the
urban garden
F. Disinfectant making.
Examples of antiseptic disinfectants that are easily known as Dettol. These fight fungicides and
virucides that affect the skin. These infections are mostly found in children, also found in slum
areas because they are over populated, in schools, hospitals yet the cost of disinfectants is high to
be managered by most of the people in Uganda. This was a great opportunity to teach the
communities on how to fight a number of infections in their families.
Below is the demonstration of disinfectants while following instructions.
G. Juice and fruit jam making.
Juice is healthy for every one’s health and it can be made in every fruit and some vegetables. It
can be made manually and use of juice making machines. This skill promotes the planting of
more fruit tree than flowers. Since its natural, better for one’s health than cordial product in form
of juice that are full of chemicals. For example if a child cannot eat a pineapple, its better to take
it in form of juice when mixed with mangoes or any other fruit. This helps children consume
more fruits thus boosting their brain cells.
Final product of flesh fruit juice.
Jam making. This is requires the use of products that are very or clear ripe. The learning of this skill helps
in value addition of the products grown by farmers. Instead of disposing off the fruits that can be
reproduced/ transformed into other product like jam thus value addition. If passed on to the schools and
institutions, diet, health can be improved
Finished product of fruit jam
Preparing to make fruit jam.
H. Sweets making.
Sweets are mostly consumed by children and they comprise of the best population in the country
Uganda as per National Housing and Population Census 2014. With a low input someone can
start up such a business. It’s a product that can further be used as an input in the procession of
other products so we are assured of its market after production.
I. Hand wash soap making.
Everyone requires cleaning their hands using a detergent other than ordinary soap. Many
organizations, people, institutions, communities need such a skill to minimize on their
expenditure because clean person is a clean community thus an infectious free nation. Based on
this LCS found it necessary to learn the skill and later pass it on to other (acting as a trainer of
trainers)
During the process of hand wash soap. After the process of hand wash soap.
J. Fish farming.
Fish farming, also known as aquaculture is the process of raising fish in an enclosed area for use
in the fishing industry. A farm can be built on land or over naturally occurring bodies of water,
such as of a lake, river swamp, stream and an ocean shore. Within the body of water, a wide
variety of fish, shellfish, and aquatic plants can be raised. Every year, such farms throughout the
world produce over 65 million tons (59 million MT) of many varieties of sea life for harvesting.
It's not always necessary to build a fish farm and a body of water such as a small pond or lake can
be used instead. Many are highly technological, however, and man-made facilities are designed to
control every aspect possible for raising aquatic life. The purpose of these kinds of farming
structures is to decrease the possibility of many outside factors, such as contaminants and
predators, while creating an environment within which the fish will thrive. Farms can also be
important for maintaining endangered wild fish populations, such as salmon and trout by growing
them and then returning them to the wild. With manmade pond, too much fertilizers decrease
Oxygen levels and too much algae means too much demand for oxygen at night which might
cause death of fish.
Trainer Mbiri in army green demonstrating fish farming farming after the theory class at their
demonstration ponds.
K. Labeling and marketing.
The essence of marketing is to understand your customers' needs and develop a plan that
surrounds those needs. Let's face it anyone that has a business has a desire to grow their business.
The most effective way to grow and expand your business is by focusing on organic growth. You
can increase organic growth in four different ways. They include:
Acquiring more customers
Persuading each customer to buy more products
Persuading each customer to buy more expensive products or up selling each customer
Persuading each customer to buy more profitable products
All four of these increase your revenue and profit. But encourage community members to focus first
on which is to acquire more customers. Why? Because by acquiring more customers you increase
your customer base and your revenues then come from a larger base.
How can the basics of marketing help in acquiring more customers?
Spend time researching and create a strategic marketing plan.
Guide your product development to reach out to customers you aren't currently attracting.
Price your products and services competitively.
Develop your message and materials based on solution marketing.
Why Target Market in a Small Business?
When it comes to your customers keep in mind the importance of target marketing. The reason this is
important is that only a proportion of the population is likely to purchase any products or service. By
taking time pitch your sales and marketing efforts to the correct niche market, you will be more
productive and not waste your efforts or time. It's important to consider your virtual segmentation by
selecting particular verticals to present your offerings to. Those verticals will have the particular
likelihood of purchasing your products and services. Again, this saves you from wasting valuable
time and money.
A label item used to identify something or someone, as a small piece of paper or cloth attached to an
article to designate its origin, owner, contents, use, or destination. Thus labeling is the process. This
shows distinction between yourself and the rest of the world. It can’t be used by anyone else; labeling
can be in form of a diagram, wording, log, budge etc. For example this label is only and only
a property of Labamba Community Services (LCS)
L. Visit to Nairobi West Prison.
This was arranged for since the founder of LCS was an ex-prisoner in the very prison. Mr.
Sekasamba Abdul Karim who was travelling to turkey ended up in Nairobi west prison where he
learnt a lot of skills that he started practicing after prison. He is currently employing many people
acting as TOTs in the different communities. To our notice other two ex-prisoners joined us while
taking this journey that is:-
Mr.Mburu David a former soldier
Mr. Kibati Patrick a specialist in pharmacy.
We were warmly welcomed by Mr. Wanjala an officer in prison who introduced us to Mr. Gathang’a. Mr
James officer in charge of prisons who gave us a brief background of the prison, a brief of the three ex-
prisoners we had and their future prospects. He was mostly happy to see Karim once again and that he
took wh at he learnt to Kampala-Uganda and back to testify that his life in Nairobi West prison was a life
changing moment and those around him courtesy of RODI.
He advised Prison administrators that they should understand that the government cannot sustain prison
but if other organizations come in through the open door policy that help them teach the prisoners
something new that they don’t appear in prison again. He also advised them not to hold suspects in jail
for long but make them sentenced that they serve their punishments as soon as possible. He concluded by
encouraging prison officers to treat prisoners the way they would want to be treated because they deserve
their rights and need a chance to live.
We were also presented to the discharge board were prisoners whose sentences are about to end are talked
to, encouraged and motivated on how to face and live in harmony with other community members. It’s at
this point that ex-prisoners (Patrick, David and Karim) talked and encouraged inmates that are about to be
discharged as a way of motivating and encouraging them that life can be restored after prison.
Encouraged those still serving their punishments, that life does not end in Nairobi west prison but a best
life style waits after prison only if you work on yourself while in prison.
All thanked RODI for transforming their lives during and after prison where by all they had was no more.
Karim thanked the prison together with RODI for all they impacted in them plus the follow ups. Further
thanked AFIRD through their representative for the opportunity granted that they returned to Kenya to
learn more skills. Through AFIRD, he extended his sincere gratitude to Tudor trust who sponsored our
education trip he promised to further impact the skills learnt to his countrymen only to close the gap left
behind by the government. He asked his team to present their donations to the prisoners an action that
gives them hope that somebody else is thinking about you although you are in jail. He asked everyone to
be around on The launch of Labamba community services on 6th May, 2017 to prove their works in him.
Mr. Ngunjiri (CEO RODI-Kenya),
Mr.Gathang’a (in-charge prisons) and an Ex-
prisoner Mr.Sekasamba Abdul Karim
The three Ex-prisoners testifying to the
discharge board in prison.
CHALLENGES ENCOUNTERED WITH POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS.
The Ugandan, agriculture is the back bone of the country but it’s not taught in primary schools yet it’s
optional in secondary schools. In most schools it’s taken as a punishment thus low interest as a career by
many. LCS has decided to charge course of action to go and work with schools in order to feel the gap left
by the education system thus addressing the problem the country is facing like food insecurity, too much
importations etc.
With rehabilitation there is a problem of education indifferences of prisoners, some are reluctant to
change but to revenge, some are highly expectant yet needs vary, and some think that those are suspicious
ways government gets information out of them and trainers find a problem of being accepted in their
prisoners’ families. With all this, the introduction one gives to the prisoners moves everyone, use of
former prisoners to testify to the inmates, continuously talk to them until their perception changes, also
ask them what they want to learn (shoe making, mobile phone repair, motor bike repair, hair dressing,
catering etch)
With urban gardening LCS finds it hard with demonstration firms since they are renting their premises on
a stalled building with no compound but only try quick vegetables (spinach, sukuma wick ) yet LCS
wants to be a number one live demonstration firm in Uganda.
For the case of disinfectants, most people are skeptical with chemicals, but LCS with the skill acquired is
ready to work closely with community members with the way how chemicals are handled and the
quickest first aid given. It’s on our discovery that such a skill is highly demanded yet not readily available
LCS would hand it with seriousness.
Juice and jam are a good product and business to venture in since it requires less capital to start. With
organics a challenge comes in preserving the product for quite a long period it’s advised to be practiced
on a small scale.
LCS finds it a bit challenging to fund some of the projects they would wish to pass on to their
communities. This has delayed a number of their activities to be accomplished. LCS usually fund raises
for their projects through project proposals to get startup capital, from a few well-wishers and facilitation
fee from the beneficiaries.
POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATIONS
The government of Uganda should embrace change to see such skills impacted in prisoner to keep them
busy in cells and also prepare them for a life after prison than keeping them in a circle of crime and
violence.
The community members should be taught that prison is not a better life to live and that someone can
transform after prison or even, the case can be settled without criminal justices because it does not solve
anything but to keep away the person for some time who remains the same.
The acting NGOs should follow up the skills impacted in their people to make sure they practice what
they are taught. May be that’s the reason why most projects fail to become a success.
CONCLUSION.
It was a great opportunity that we learnt all these skills. Since they are cost friendly, we believe that most
people’s lives will be transformed from surviving on one meal a day to self reliance and sustainance. We
have made some additions to our package in addition to our line of tool kits. We care about your
everyones dream. Our industry needs talented future professionalsjust like you.
APPENDIX
Mr Ngunjiri Eliud Kihoro the vision
bearer of RODI-Kenya. He now
employed more than 30 staff members
including teaching and none teaching
staff. He has transformed many
members of the community and
sponsored many children in school.
The three Ex-prisoners from Nairobi
west from left Mr. Kipaty Patrick a
pharmacist by profession , Mr. Mburu
David a retired solider and
Mr.Ssekasamba abdul Karim a business
man by profession telling their stories
on how they entered prison, what went
on while in prison and what they are
after prison
Charity at the prison. A sign of love and humors
ACTION PLAN FOR LABAMBA COMMUNITY SERVICES.
ACTION RESOURCES TIME ALLOCATED
RESPONSIBLE PERSON
DEADLINE EVALUATION AND FOLLOW UP
Crime prevention and community safety promotion in 40 communities.
Through project proposals
To be done in 1st
March,2017
Karim and Benittah 1st
May, 2017 Enoch, Ibrahim, Joweriah and Ronnie
Production of moisturizing skin cream for income generating activity for 160 households in 50 communities
Through project proposals
To be done in 1st
March, 2017
Sam and Benittah 1st
May,2017 Enoch ,Ibrahim, Joweriah and Abasi
Promotion of milk sieve oil making among 65 farming communities.
Trough project proposals
To be done effective 1
st
April,2017
Karim and Benittah 1st
July, 2017 Sam,Enoch, Ibrahim, Joweriah and Ronnie
Promotion of urban gardening skills in 125 Nateete slum areas.
Through project proposals
To be done effective 1
st
July,2017
Karim and Benittah 1st
September, 2017
Sam, Enoch, Ibrahim Joweriah and Ronie.
Provision of disinfectants in all health centers in Uganda.
Through project proposals and fundraising.
To be done effectively 1
thOctober, 2017
Karim, Sam, Benittah and Enoch
30th
December 2018
Sarah, Nathan and Abasi.
Provision of fish farming to 30 targeted communities
Through project proposals
To be done effectively 1
st
December 2017.
Karim, Sam, Benittah and Enoch.
1st
January, 2018
Sarah ,Nathan and Abasi
Set up 20 community owned juice and fruit jam making small scale industries,
Through project proposals
To be done effectively 1
st
January 2018
Benittah ,Sam and Karim
1st
February, 2018
All staff
Promotion of health in 10 primary school and 10 secondary schools by teaching them hand wash and disinfectant
Through project proposals
To be done effective 1
st
March, 2017
Sam, Karim, Benittah and Nathan.
1st
April, 2018 All staff
Strengthening self- esteem and hope to prisoners in 5 prisons through Restorative Prisoner Rehabilitation program.
Through project proposals
To be done 1st
April 2017
Karim , Sam Benittah ,Nathan , Abasi and Enoch
30th
December 2018
All Staff
