Welcome

to Kuap-Pandipieri

Brief History • Kisumu is comparatively recent in origin

having developed at the beginning of the 20th century. It is the 3rd largest city in Kenya after Nairobi and Mombasa respectively. Approximately 350,000 people live in the informal settlements (slums) where the standards of living are poor. The Luo tribe is the majority in Kisumu City. There is widespread poverty among the people and people do not earn enough to live in wellness.

The Community is gifted and varied and is

known for their hospitality and friendliness.

Kisumu informal settlements lack basic

environmental health infrastructure such as

clean and safe water, sewers, drainage,

acceptable standards of housing, and other

public health infrastructure and utilities.

These have been strongly associated with

states of ill health and higher prevalence of

diseases such as malaria and typhoid.

The community is the biggest resource that

KUAP Pandipieri has and since the

inception invested in training Community

Health Volunteers (CHV) and they are multi

skilled and work in Children’s Services,

Health & Education.

KUAP PANDIPIERI FOUNDER • In 1979 the Bishop of Kisumu asked Mill

Hill Missionaries to work in the informal settlements (slums)of Kisumu. Fr. Hans Burgman a Mill Hill Missionary from the Netherland was chosen to start this mission as a means to reach the community who were not reached by the traditional Church.

• He came to live with the people, worked with them learnt from them, respected their opinions which was the stepping stone to the development of Small Christian Communities in the informal settlements (slums).

KUAP Pandipieri continued

Fr. Hans began his ministry by gathering a team which he likened to the Early Christian Community where the team lived and worked together and shared everything in common. The team members were African and European lay and religious who learnt from each other and proclaimed the Gospel message touching the lives of people positively. The team was an inspiration to the community in shanty areas.

Today KUAP is mission focused, performance based

and productivity oriented with strong participation from the community because of the seeds sown by Fr. Hans and the founding members.

KUAP’ vision:

‘A Gospel driven community living a life of dignity and hope’

KUAP’ Mission KUAP’ mission is ‘to provide activities in

Community Health and Children & Youth Services for vulnerable groups of people living in the Urban and Peri-Urban areas of Kisumu East & West Districts so that their quality of life is nurtured; ensuring freedom of choice is respected. This will be done through an integrated approach of community empowerment, advocacy and capacity building’.

Areas where KUAP-Pandipieri Works

The areas mandated to KUAP Pandipieri are in the informal settlements (slums)of Kisumu; they are overpopulated, lack infrastructures such as clean safe water and sanitation, houses, roads and affordable health care services. There is lack of gainful employment and the poverty level gives rise to concern for the care of children .

Projects Summary

KUAP-Pandipieri has three Programmes

Children’ Services, Education and Community Health. Under the Programmes there are 11

Projects in total and under these projects there are specific activities that enable the projects to

reach the aims and objectives of the Programmes. Projects are linked to each other

to bring comprehensive services to the community that KUAP-Pandipieri is mandated to

give services to.

Children’ Services Programme The Rehabilitation Project

prepares children to be rehabilitated with their families. These are children who lived on the streets of Kisumu and some of them being very young. All children are rehabilitated within 4 months of coming to the project to ensure they do not linger in an institution. Day and Night street work is undertaken by the project to reach the children living in the streets to protect them.

NON-FORMAL EDUCATION (NFE)

Children from the Rehabilitation Project and children from the community whose family experiences domestic problems attend the non-formal education and are then placed in mainstream education. Currently KUAP is implementing inclusive education in NFE so that children are taught in smaller groups for more individual attention.

Child Rights & Advocacy (CRA)

The child rights and advocacy project is concerned with all issues of physical, sexual, emotional and social abuse . A group of pro-bono lawyers represents children and families in court. Currently there is a lot of work to be done in the community to protect children.

Education Programme

The Education Programme has projects in ECDE (kindergarten) in Pandipieri & Magadi Centres to meet the needs of children from the community living in the informal settlements. Children on completing 3 years ECDE school undertake an examination and they achieve very well and have over the past years excelled to reach number 1 position in the examination results enabling the children to have a choice of Primary School

Vocational Training Schools There are 2 Vocational Training Schools in the

informal settlements with;

• Food & Beverage

• Garment making

• Hairdressing & Beauty

• Masonry

The youth have

Excelled in

Examination results where all passed.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Information

Technology is very

important to the youth

living in the informal

settlements and

Pandigraphics is

providing services to

meet the needs of the

youth. The IT teacher

is a former student of

Pandigraphics. Students undertake certificate level,

International Certificate Driving

License, and in 2014, 5 students went

on to do degree courses.

Mwangaza Art School Mwangaza is located in Nyalenda community

in Kisumu, Kenya. It is the only art school in Western Kenya and was founded in 1987. Students study art for 2 – 3 years and learn various art forms including visual art, performance art, dance, and music. It has a lot of potential for development of students.

Community Health Programme

The Health Programme is involved in preventative and curative services and has 2 outpatient clinics with clinical consultation laboratory and pharmacy services. Kisumu is known for the high incident of Malaria and waterborne diseases which are managed at the clinics. In 2013 a diabetic clinic was open to manage the increasing number of people at risk from developing diabetes.

Community Health Programme Continued

Under the Maternal & Child

Health Clinics pregnant

women are monitored

throughout their pregnancy.

There are 3 Outpatient

Therapeutic Projects for

severely and moderately

malnourished children and

this service prevents the

mortality of children from

6 month – 5 years who are

at risk. 4 prevention & Care

clinics take place weekly.

•There is a Therapeutic Outreach

Project for care of severely

Malnourished children in their home

HIV & AIDS Prevention & Care • The project has a comprehensive Care Centre for

people with HIV positive status with a registration of 5,300 patients 355 of these are children. Other services provided are;

• Pregnant women with HIV positive status get full care during pregnancy and referred for delivery

• Cervical cancer screening

• Home Based Care for bedridden patients

• Work in 28 schools in Kisumu giving HIV Prevention education, sexual health education

• Computerized Health Education

Child and Family Counselling The Child Counselling project

works in 34 schools and in the community and has links with the Child Right and Advocacy Project. The project has trained Teachers on Psychosocial Support to help them understand the needs of children. There is a Children’ Resource Centre for psychosocial support for children and families.

Clubs for children with HIV positive status take place weekly for psychosocial and social support for the children.

Children at risk are

supported through

counselling support

services

Environmental Health & Sanitation

The project trains Community Health Workers to manage the health of the community. Water is an integral component of health and the project works with the water company KIWASCO to bring water to the community. Spring protection is undertaken in communities and provides safe water. Children clubs are established in schools and children are trained in environmental health and sanitation are actively take part in creatively caring for the earth. Spring Protection

Human Resource & Administration

A team manages Human Resource & Administration. KUAP-Pandipieri has a Management Team and a Board of Governors. The community is an integral part of the organization and Board Members with the required skills and training are selected from the community to support the Programmes.

KUAP-Pandipieri works in partnership with various Ministries and with other NGOs and CBOs.

FUTURE

• The work undertaken by KUAP-Pandipieri is huge. However, the needs that are identified are many and we recognize that we cannot do everything. With the current programmes it is planned that we think strategically to incorporate new ideas to meet the identified needs as follows;

Link with Health Project to provide sexual health

Education in KUAP Vocational Training

Schools & Non-Formal Education

Use the talent of the students from the Art School to give opportunities to

Street Children and ECDE children to

develop skills in art and drama.

To address neglect of children and provide child protection for

children at risk ECDE will eventually

develop playschool for children age 3

years and seek funds for this venture

Vocational Training Schools to focus on what the needs of the youth are and develop courses

to meet these needs. Re-establish co-curriculum

activities to embrace the wishes of the students.

The Art School vision to have a studio to

show-case the work of the students to become a reality

Past students of KUAP Vocational

Training Schools, ART School and Information Technology be invited

to give talks to students on their achievements as

encouragement to students and

give them hope for their future

Scale up on child

protection training and awareness

Development of partnerships with

Friends, the various Ministries, local &

international volunteers and

NGO’

Implementation of Inclusive Education in KUAP-Pandipieri

Non-Formal education.

Opportunity for information

Technology for children from the

street and community

children

Development of strategies to

engage children and families in

building relationships

Child Counselling Scale up on child

protection & safeguarding training and awareness

Prevention of diabetes and high blood pressure in children through

education and screening of children

at risk in schools

Health education in schools covering

Water & Sanitation, nutrition and

physical exercise to counter diabetes

Develop Child & adolescent clubs for HIV Positive children

& youth and seek resources to meet

their needs

HIV Prevention awareness targeting adolescents involved

in commercial sex and at risk of

contracting HIV.

KUAP Pandipieri

We have given you a sketch of the activities of KUAP-Pandipieri and our hopes for the future. Thank you Fr. Philip Baptiste for sharing with Our Lady of the Holy Souls Parish. May your Lenten Project be successful. You are in our thoughts & Prayers

Sr. Bernadette & the Management Team