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ORGANIZATION PROFILE

OCTOBER 2016

Contents

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Page

1.0 Background 4

2.0 Vision and Mission 4

3.0 Organization‟s mandate 5

4.0 Programme activities 6

5.0 Staff establishment 7

6.0 Institutional capacity building 7

7.0 Networking 8

8.0 Future plans 8

Board of Directors

Organogram

Copy: NGO Registration Certificate

Abbreviations

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CEO - Chief Executive Officer

CSP - Child Sponsorship Progrramme

CWIN - Community Wellness International

FPFK - Free Pentecostal Fellowship Church of Kenya

GENET - Gender Equity Network

KFA - Kenya Farmers Association

NGO - Non Governmental Organization

PERN - Potential Education Research Network

RWI - Running Water International

ECHO - ECHO Community

SUSANA - Sustainable Sanitation Alliance

USA - United States of America

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BACKGROUND

Community Wellness International (CWIN) was founded late 2014, by a group

of friends of career backgrounds in Social work, Health/Medical, Industrial

Science, Environmental Conservation, Sanitation and Entrepreneurship. The

idea was sparked by the existing rampant poverty and poor livelihood in the

sprawling slums of Nakuru Township. It was hard to imagine a future of

children who could not go to school in this day; the current livelihood they are

going through; if and how they get food, clothing, beddings and how they access

health services when they fall sick. The situation of the “down trodden” in

society was/is „heart rending‟ and greatly challenged the friends to do

something, especially to assist vulnerable children in the society.

Assuming a practical and more sustainable approach, the friends decided to form

and register a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) to facilitate mobilization

of resources to address the challenge. They decided too that the NGO would

serve all humanity in need and chose to name it, „Community Wellness

International‟ (CWIN) and registered it on March 5th

2015, with the NGO Co-

ordination Board of Kenya, No.OP.218/051/14-0502/9866.

Currently, the Organization is operating from Nakuru at KFA Plaza, East Wing,

1st floor, door No. 3. Its Founding - seven (7) members Board of Directors

(BOD) - is doing everything in its ability to enable CWIN take-off. In time, it‟s

hopeful that, it will access adequate resources and recruit the necessary

personnel to implement its core programmes.

2.0 VISION & MISSION

The Vision of CWIN is ‘Satisfactory livelihood for everyone’. The subscribers

are convinced that improving a people‟s livelihood was possible and doable; and

have set out to fulfill that desire.

The Mission of the Organization is ‘To assist and empower the needy and

disadvantaged people and communities towards self-determination, self-

reliance, self-sufficiency and responsible members of society.” Given necessary

know-how, all people are capable of making right decisions and determining

their own destiny in life. CWIN acknowledges this reality and is out to empower

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the needy and disadvantaged members of society through education, skill

transfer, nutrition and clothing, improvement of environmental conservation,

water and sanitation, and eradication of rampant poverty in our midst.

3.0 ORGANIZATION’S MANDATE

a). At registration, the NGO Co-ordination Board allowed CWIN to

implement programme activities in five (5) service and development areas i.e.

i. Needy child education and vocational training sponsorship

ii. Improvement of provision of Health services

iii. Poverty eradication

iv. Water and sanitation Improvement and access

v. Environmental conservation

These five (5) areas form critical pillars of livelihood and no doubt, people

accessing positive doses, enjoy the „Wellness‟ in life. CWIN desires for

everyone alive, to experience such satisfaction, irrespective.

b). Further, the Co-ordination Board assigned CWIN to work in 5 Counties in

the Western region of the Country i.e.

i. Nakuru County

ii. Baringo County

iii. Bungoma County

iv. Kisumu County

v. Homa Bay County

Regret to mention that CWIN is barely a year old since receiving its Registration

Certificate and is typically on the starting blocks. It has launched its programme

in Nakuru County and looks forward to gradually spreading to other Counties in

due course, as resource mobilization and access improves.

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4.0 PROGRAMME ACTIVITIES

At date the Organization is pre-occupied with friend-raising and resource

mobilization to harness start-up power for take-off. At the time of writing this

profile, various efforts have been made and there is hope for foundational

support in the foreseeable future. We have submitted target project proposals to

a number of well-wishers in Child Education and Vocational training area;

provision of clean and adequate water and improvement in the provision of

Health services, focusing Nakuru County, for a start.

a). Child Education Sponsorship programme (CSP)

CWIN has identified and is working with 3 primary and one secondary schools

located in the slum estates of Nakuru. In all schools, persistent pupil/student

absenteeism is very high. Poverty is the leading cause as absent children either

lack school uniform, scholastic materials or are too hungry to come to school.

Teenage girls in particular, attend school irregularly because of the aforesaid

reasons, but mostly because they lack sanitary towels and are unable to manage

their monthly cycles in school.

Altogether 550 children have been identified for assistance with uniforms and

girls, with sanitary towels and under wears to keep them in school. The

Organization is following up with a willing US well-wisher – Liberty and Justice

– based in Liberia, to donate the uniforms. One most needy kid at Kaptembwa

primary school has been fully kit with uniform by Board members after an

appeal by the Head teacher.

b. Vocational skill training

Today, Kenya suffers a 70% youth unemployment rate and which is getting

worse. Youth Polytechnics have been identified as viable institutions to provide

vocational training to enhance self-employment opportunities for youth. CWIN

is convinced by this ideology and the fact that self-employment is capable of

creating more jobs for other community members, thereby reducing

unemployment in the country.

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The Organization has developed and submitted proposals towards reinforcement

and management capacity building of deserving Youth Polytechnics in Nakuru

County, aiming to enhance quality and competitive vocational training. This is a

potential area for individual and community growth and CWIN will continue to

seek the necessary support for deserving YPs, trainees and communities.

c. Improvement of Health facilities and services.

Similarly, the Organization has submitted proposals requesting for equipment

and medicinal support to operationalize County health facilities in Ronda and

Kapkures slum communities but not yet successful. Physically, the facilities are

good but require the necessary basic equipment and medicines to operate as

expected.

An emergency service to handle increasing motor accident and other similar

cases in Nakuru County it desired and CWIN has linked up with a US Medical

Telephone Emergency firm known as Trek Medics- International (Beacon), to

develop a similar Service in Kenya. We are anxiously looking forward to this

realization.

Other sectors will be developed and implemented as we grow, get resources and

prioritize emerging needs in their core areas.

5.0 STAFF ESTABLISHMENT

On account of limited resources, CWIN does not have employed staff at the

present. The 7 Members of the Board double up as volunteers to enable

organization take-off. However, as much as they are doing well, the Board will

recruit the necessary staff no sooner the Organization is able to pay for their

services.

Please, see the appended Organogram reflecting the anticipated future image of

the Organization.

6.0. INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY BUILDING

Mid this year (2016), Global South Organization identified CWIN and listed it

for a 6-month capacity building training in Project and Financial management

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areas, effective October 2016, through Nature Kenya (a Capacity Building

Partner).

This facility and service came at the most opportune time and we are very

thankful to both Global South and Capacity Building facilitator - Nature Kenya,

for their goodwill to sponsor and train our Board Members, in the critical areas

of Organizational and project Management. We confidently look forward to

working from informed perspectives and to a very successful performance,

henceforward.

7.0 NETWORKING

We are aware how networking is a lifeline for human-based service and

development organizations. Although very young, CWIN is ready and willing to

network and collaborate with other Organizations with similar objectives and

thinking, to strengthen the approach to dealing with the socio-economic

concerns in target communities.

We are happy to be getting along with other Kenyan NGOs i.e. On-Course

Organization, RWI, GENET, FPFK, PERN, SuSanA working group and ECHO

Community, and believe we shall access many more in due course.

8.0 FUTURE PLANS

i. The Organization urgently needs full time staff and will have to hire one or

two to take care of increasing office inquiries, communication and itinerary

issues, document preparation, dispatching and filing.

ii. Individual Board Members have usually provided the Organization with

Computers to process its work. As we go forward it has plans to buy 2 desk

computers and one Laptop computer with a photocopier/printer and scanner

machine.

iii. The Organization needs to furnish its office to facilitate convenient working

environment. Adequate resources are required to accomplish this need.

iv. Looking into the future, CWIN will continue to enhance efforts in friend-and-

fundraising through appeals, concept and proposal writing; locally and

internationally, towards its Mission and Vision in the future.

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MEMBERS: BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

1. Mr. Edward W. King‟oro - Chairman

2. Mr. Kevin O. Ojowi - CEO/Secretary

3. Mr. Felix O. Ochieng - Treasurer

4. Mr. Churchill Ochuka - Asst. Secretary

5. Ms Diana M. Wambui - Member

6. Mr. Zachariah W. Odak - Member

7. Ms. Lillian Opande - Member

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ORGANOGRAM

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

(Board Secretary)

HEAD OF ADMINISTRATION

AND FINANCE

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

(Secretary/Receptionist)

PROGRAMMES

CO-ORDINATOR

PROJECT OFFICER &

STAFF

Education & Vocational

training Department

PROJECT OFFICER &

STAFF

Medical and Health

Services

PROJECT OFFICER &

STAFF

Environmental

conservation, Water &

Sanitation services

PROJECT OFFICER &

STAFF

Entrepreneurship

development and

Livelihood

Security personnel

Office Assistant

Driver

NOTE: This is an anticipated Organogram once CWIN acquires the necessary

resources and capacity to implement its core Programmes. In the meantime, it

has a Board of Directors (7), who under the leadership of the Chairman, Secretary

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and Treasurer is jointly doubling up as the executive on voluntary basis to enable

Organization’s take off.

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