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OUR MISSION
LDK’s mission is to provide a quality education to the children who are most in need, equipping them not only with practical knowledge and skills, but also with the optimism, open mindedness, and drive to lift their communities out of extreme poverty.
An orphan or destitute child living in the slums without intervention will remain illiterate. In less than ten years, this child will perpetuate an already vicious cycle that has debilitated several generations. With compassionate, understanding assistance, the child will break free of the cycle of poverty, becomes a role model (employed & working professionally) and earning a good wage; encourage other people in the community that success is possible, within their reach.
Programs of Learning and Development Kenya are implemented carefully to offer the best odds to reverse the cycles of poverty and, illiteracy
Learning and Developmet Kenya
P.O. Box 13808
Nakuru - 20100, Kenya
Tel. 254 51 221 2557
254 721 919 483
Email
Learning and Development Kenya (LDK) is a local non-governmental, non-profit, non-sectarian development organization founded in 1998 and registered with the NGO Co-ordination Bureau as an NGO in 1999 via registration number OP. 218/051/98202/1207. Its’ PIN number is P051131945N. It works with those who are extremely poor and vulnerable, especially children, youth and women. It is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations since 2008.
NAKURU CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL
LDK provides primary education to more than 400 students, aged 6 to 18, from the poorest neighborhoods of Nakuru, Kenya’s fourth largest city. Without LDK, these children may not attend school at all, as the government schools—while technically free—have burdensome financial requirements such as required uniforms and desks. Other schools can have100 students in a class with a single teacher, and there is little hope of receiving a quality education.
PHILANTHROPY COLLGE
LDK now offers specialized training in IT; ECD; Social Work, Community Development, Accounting and others to the youth.
January 2010 intake in progress. APPLY NOW FOR ADMISSION!
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Providing quality education to orphans and vulnerable children in Kenya |
In order to become productive contributing citizens, children need support and assistance to break the cycles of misery and poverty inherited from previous generations. LDK provides a variety of these supportive services to children and their families. By ensuring educational and social assistance, children and their parents have been able to reach beyond obstacles to a hope-filled direction. A better standard of living provides the foundation for their future. The Goal is to break the circle of illiteracy, disease, premature death, and poverty which have plagued poor children and their families in Kenya for a long time by providing preventive, creative solutions
The Treasurer’s message and appeal
February, 2009
Dear friends and colleagues,
More than ten years ago, in 1998, we founded Learning and Development Kenya (LDK) to work together with the communities in addressing the problems that they faced then, largely brought about by the introduction of the structural adjustment programs (cost sharing scheme in the education and health sectors). The scheme adversely affected the poor and contributed to: the increase in child labor; high rate of school drop out; low school enrollment; the increase in the number of homeless children (street children or families); and early/forced marriages of girls from nomadic communities.
We reflect the years we have been in existence as an organization with satisfaction for what we have been able to do within this period of time in communities living in abject poverty in Kenya. We are very proud of what we are doing. Through the micro credit program many poor families in rural and urban poor areas have been reached and assisted and or empowered - through skills training and workshops, and provision of capital to initiate family income generating activities aimed at improving the standard of living for these families and in the process contributing towards fighting poverty.
The school education program for poor and vulnerable children has been the most successful with many destitute children who would not have had a chance to join school for basic education now comfortably in their high school and determined to pursue a paying career that will see them and their families transform poverty within their respective societies.
The empowerment of women through skills training; civic education on the rights of the child; as well as training and workshops carried out to create more awareness on the potential of infection of HIV/AIDS among the vulnerable youth; and even activities carried out to increase public participation in the political process have all aimed at achieving LDK’s vision: “To see a free Kenyan society without inequalities of extreme poverty, destitution, deprivation or austerity”. Our programs will continue to be carefully tailored to serve the community and favor concrete social and policy changes.
All these positive achievements would not have been possible in the short span of ten years that we have been in existence without your support and tremendous trust in what we do. This has truly humbled me. I take this opportunity to thank you all, again and again, for your abundant support. I believe that we are together changing the world that we live in to a better place to live in by our future generations through what we are doing to improve the lives of the needy in our society.
Future years are even harder and challenging without your continued support. Please consider supporting our projects now and in the future so that we are able to bring hope to the hopeless, poor, and vulnerable children, youth, and women together.
For Online donation, please donate to any of our projects on betterplace.org
Sincerely,
Benta Atieno Owino
Treasurer
Learning and Development Kenya (LDK)
OUR NUTRITIONAL PROGRAM
Orphans and destitute children living in the slums of Rhonda estate are living at the edge of starvation, especially now when an estimated 10 million Kenyans are threatened with hunger. Lack of proper nutrition and vitamins have detrimental effect on their physical and mental development. When parents and relatives do not have income to provide proper nutrition, children are prone to serious infections and their capacity to grow and learn is greatly diminished.
The nutrition program currently being implemented by LDK is a critical need because it provides a warm meal with essential elements of proper diet that helps towards preventing far more serious health and psychological difficulties. Provision of simple, nourishing warm meal a day is a cost-saving beneficial means for the poor population.
A typical warm, nourishing meal consists of: Beans, Rice, Maize mixed with beans, Vegetables, fresh cabbage, fresh carrots, onions and tomatoes. Cost of a warm, nourishing meal for one child a day is $0.45. Cost for a month for one child is $13.5. Help us to implement this essential program for needy children
Christmas gifts (food) being received from Christ Aid Kenya by the house mother on behalf of the children |
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