FOOD SECURITY

Food security has been an issue in our country Kenya for a long time. Instead of teaching our Kenyans how to fish we have been giving them fish all the time, what measures can we learn from other countries where there are no rain for all round seasons. Examples of Israel who have great irrigation systems from their small rivers and lakes.

President Kibaki pointed out that the Government has taken steps to implement both short and long term measures that will ensure the country does not continue experiencing maize shortage.

"We are importing more maize so as to ensure Kenyans can easily access the commodity. We are committed to ensuring that wananchi have enough food," President Kibaki said.

The President was addressing wananchi when he distributed relief maize at Kithimani Market in Yatta District, Ngoliba Market, Kilimambogo Market and Gatuanyaga Primary School in Thika East District and at Kiandutu in Thika West District. This was in February 2009 to date these areas have experienced enough shortage of food commodities.

The President said the Government is focusing on implementing water projects in the arid parts of the country including Yatta, Thika East and Thika West districts so as to provide sufficient water for domestic use and for irrigation. Though the projects are well intended to improve the areas it always takes much time for implementation to take place in such areas or even forgotten.

"The provision of water for irrigation is a long term measure geared towards addressing food shortage," the Head of State said.

President Kibaki said the Government is also working towards providing fertilizer and other farm inputs to farmers as a way of boosting food production in the country.

On youth empowerment, the President said his Government is implementing policies to create employment for the country's youth.

Emphasizing the importance of education in empowering the youth, President Kibaki once again urged parents to ensure their children acquire adequate education.

The Head of State said plans are also underway to rehabilitated roads in Yatta, Thika East and Thika West district as it is doing in other parts of the country so as to reduce the burden of transport costs on wananchi.

He commended residents of the three districts for living together peacefully and urged them to continue in the same spirit.

Speaking during the occasion, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Uhuru Kenyatta assured Kenyans that as leaders they will rally behind the President in ensuring that Kenyans have enough food.

The Deputy Prime Minister called on leaders in the country to shelf personal interests and work together for the common good of the country. But still there is little done on these matters.

Since then the people have never seen again the rationing of food the chilling question is how can we teach our kenyans on food security issues instead of asking for assistance from our donor brothers.

Kenya should be challenged to seek help from God to show us the way forward for anything instead of all the time relying on our government for food rationing which will never be enough though we should be mind concious on what we have as a community and come up with ways on which we can sustain our communities come rain or sunshine.

SCHOLARSHIP

EDUCATION TO ALL

With the hardship among the society in Kenya and other parts of East African countries as a whole, MCMCK have put in place a scholarship fund with the partnership of Facefund organization. Funding African Children's Education, Inc. (FACE) is a nonprofit organization with a mission to award secondary school scholarships to orphaned and needy African students so that they will have the opportunity to become self-sufficient adults and contributing members of their community and country.Face fund has been assistance to Mother and Child Mission Centre (K) in this field and we have been ascertaining that all children who have passed well be it girl child or boy child they receive their higher education needed and IT studies which are conducted within the centre। Face fund has been inspirational in assisting MCMCK in paying the school fees for these students in conjunction with MCMCK and currently we are having four students for this years scholarship beneficiaries.

Students who received scholarship from FACE FUND

above on the Left - Annie the President of Face fund hands scholarship to astudent

MCMCK don't discriminate their race, colour or ethnicity since all children are equal in the programmed areas of scholarship and other educational management and assistance MCMCK offers.

We have currently given our IT services to more than 20 students on scholarship basis freely in our centre and have three who are currently learning and have completed their courses in August 2008. We are currently having five students this month and more are to be enrolled next Month May 2009.

The centre director has been the pillar to this IT sector scholarship as he receives many applications though the centre has just few computers cannot accommodate each and every student the centre is trying to expand its IT classes so as to accommodate more scholarship for the needy boys and girls who have completed their secondary education.

स्चोलार्शिप्स

EDUCATION TO ALL

With the hardship among the society in Kenya and other parts of East African countries as a whole, MCMCK have put in place a scholarship fund with the partnership of Facefund organization. Funding African Children's Education, Inc. (FACE) is a nonprofit organization with a mission to award secondary school scholarships to orphaned and needy African students so that they will have the opportunity to become self-sufficient adults and contributing members of their community and country.Face fund has been assistance to Mother and Child Mission Centre (K) in this field and we have been ascertaining that all children who have passed well be it girl child or boy child they receive their higher education needed and IT studies which are conducted within the centre। Face fund has been inspirational in assisting MCMCK in paying the school fees for these students in conjunction with MCMCK and currently we are having four students for this years scholarship beneficiaries.

Students who received scholarship from FACE FUND

above on the Left - Annie the President of Face fund hands scholarship to astudent

MCMCK don't discriminate their race, colour or ethnicity since all children are equal in the programmed areas of scholarship and other educational management and assistance MCMCK offers.

We have currently given our IT services to more than 20 students on scholarship basis freely in our centre and have three who are currently learning and have completed their courses in August 2008. We are currently having five students this month and more are to be enrolled next Month May 2009.

The centre director has been the pillar to this IT sector scholarship as he receives many applications though the centre has just few computers cannot accommodate each and every student the centre is trying to expand its IT classes so as to accommodate more scholarship for the needy boys and girls who have completed their secondary education.

VACANCIES

FUND RAISER/RESOURCE MOBILIZERS

The ideal candidate shall be mandated to look for donors who can fund the organization in the program areas of:

1. Peace Building and Reconcilliation (IDPs) in Kenya
2. Reproductive/Sexual rights
3. Sexual abuse/Child abuse
4. Scholarship to less fortunate children (Secondary & College education)
5. Community IT Education
6. Food security and Medication

The candidate shall liaise with the Donor on the above programmed areas and with vision and mission of the organization Mother and Child Mission Centre (Kenya) has if is affiliated with the Donor organization.

The work shall be on part time basis.

Terms and conditions shall be:

• PART TIME
• ON CONTRACT BASIS
• HAVE WORKED WITH A NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION
• HAVE ATLEAST 6 Months EXPERIENCE WITH AN NGO/CBO
• WILLING TO WORK IN HARDSHIP AREAS (RELIEF AREAS)

APPLICATION DEADLINE - OPEN

विल इद्प्स रेसिवे थे कैश DONATED

President Kibaki and his Cabinet ministers on Monday appeared to set aside the law banning public officers from conducting harambees and gathered to raise Sh457 million for internal refugees.

In a manner reminiscent of former President Daniel arap Moi’s time, Cabinet ministers lined up to hand the President donations from their ministries.

And in less than three hours, the President announced the final figure of Sh457,271,129 raised to help families affected by the post-election violence to resettle. The violence which followed the disputed presidential election, left more than 1,000 people dead and 350,000 displaced.

But the figure was still far short of the Sh30 billion budgeted to help displaced people rebuild their lives.

When he came to power in 2002, President Kibaki and the then Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Mr Kiraitu Murungi, went to great lengths to distance the new administration from harambees.

Mr Murungi successfully lobbied for enactment of the Public Officer Ethics Act which, among other things, banned civil servants from presiding over harambees as a way of fighting corruption and looting of State resources.

True to form, President Kibaki even stayed away from a harambee in his Othaya constituency to drive home the point.

The President was at Kenyatta International Conference Centre to launch the funds drive at a function attended by Cabinet ministers, permanent secretaries, members of the diplomatic corps and chief executive officers of various parastatals.

The function brought to mind similar drives conducted by then President Daniel arap Moi in aid of schools, churches or water projects.

President Kibaki pledged a donation of Sh5 million towards the resettlement kitty, insisting that it will be his personal contribution.

The ceremony differed from others as ministers both from ODM and PNU led their assistants and PSs in presenting cheques to the President.

The president then presented the cheques to the chairman of the fund, retired Archbishop Ndingi mwana a’Nzeki. Donors were warned that it was now a criminal offence to issue bouncing cheques.

Public Service

The Ministry of Agriculture led by William Ruto topped the list of donors with Sh298 million, money contributed by members of staff and parastatals under it.

The newly created office of the Prime Minister donated Sh500,000 with a pledge to give more. The cheque was presented to the President by Public Service minister Dalmas Otieno as the PM, Mr Raila Odinga, was in Western Province. The Office of the Vice President donated Sh512,700. The cheque was presented by Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka.

The Ministry of Energy led by Mr Kiraitu Murungi donated Sh14.8 million.

Other contributors were Ministry of Medical Services( Sh6.6 million), Office of the President (Sh6.3 million) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sh4.6 million.

Ministry of Trade headed by Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and the Ministry of Local Government led by Deputy PM Musalia Mudavadi donated Sh1.3 million each.

The government of Algeria donated Sh30 million while China gave Sh1.38 million.

Speaking during the launch, President Kibaki urged Kenyans and the international community to help the government bridge the Sh29 billion deficit needed for the resettlement.

It requires Sh30 billion. The money will be used for construction of new houses, replacement of household effects as well as rehabilitation of community utilities and institutions destroyed in the violence.

Already, the Government has donated Sh1 billion to the fund also known as the Humanitarian Fund for Mitigation of Effects and Resettlement of Victims of Post-2007 Election Violence.

He said the resettlement programme must succeed adding that those displaced were mainly smallholder farmers who played a major role in food production.

Food production

There is fear that famine might hit the country as food production is expected to decline in the face of spiralling global prices.

Seated with President Kibaki at the dais was Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka, Speaker of the National Assembly Kenneth Marende, Internal Security minister George Saitoti and his Special Programmes counterpart, Dr Naomi Shaaban.

President Kibaki said the resettlement which started with those who were in the camps, will now move to the next phase; address the plight of those who took shelter in homes of friends and relatives after their property were destroyed.

Last week alone, he said 85,000 displaced persons returned to their farms under the Operation Rudi Nyumbani programme. Prof Saitoti said 70,000 people were still in the camps, adding that the task of maintaining them was a major challenge to the Government.

He said the Government will soon convene a meeting with donors and NGOs to seek support for the resettlement.

Prof Saitoti said the provincial administration is compiling a list of all property destroyed during the violence.

He said 32 new police stations and 40 administration police posts had been built in the affected areas to restore security.

Mr Musyoka said though construction of police stations was critical, there was need of encouraging reconciliation among the different communities.

“It is time for proper national healing and reconciliation and we will need more than construction of police stations,” said the VP.

ELECTION GIMIC FOR WOMEN

What the government is trying to do is buy votes from women too just it has done to the youth fraternity. Most of our challenges which our communities are encoutering is to see food on the table and these culmunates the 50% poor communities within urban and semi urban areas. With the hardship encoutered in our society the government is dangling with the kity while the common mwananchi doesnt know that the same cash being dangled to them is their own revenue being collected annually.

The Government is reaching out to the country’s crucial voting bloc by giving out Sh500 million under the Women Enterprise Fund, with a pledge to triple the kitty to Sh3 billion next year.

Gender and Sports minister Maina Kamanda was quick to distance the release of the first tranche of the Sh1 billion kitty from the electioneering goodies, stating that the fund was a commitment President Kibaki made to the women last year.

“This fund was set up last year by the President to empower women and today, we are giving out the first allocation of the fund to facilitate enterprise development among women. We are not doing this for political reasons,” he said.

But the leaders of women financial institutions who were present at the official launch of the fund at the ministry’s offices at NSSF Building declared at a victory for their gender.

The release of the Sh500 million, which would be disbursed through selected 12 micro-financial institutions and the fund’s committees in each constituency, comes only 13 days to the General Election in which President Kibaki will be seeking to defend his seat on the Party of National Unity (PNU) ticket.

His challengers, who have dismissed the women fund and the youth fund as ploys to attract votes, are Mr Raila Odinga of ODM and Mr Kalonzo Musyoka of ODM Kenya.

Mr Musyoka and ODM Pentagon member William Ruto declared that the emancipation of the women and youth needs a comprehensive program of timed targets and not short term measures.

“How can they claim to be empowering women by releasing cheques when we know very well that the Sh1 billion youth fund is still shrouded in clouds? The Government has been unfair to the women of this country and ODM Kenya will change that when we take over power,” said Mr Musyoka.

On his part, Mr Ruto said the Kibaki administration was engaging in meaningless short-term interventions that could not last long and stated that ODM has a clear program on how to uplift the welfare of women and the youth.

“Both the women and youth funds are gestures of tokenism which will not have any meaningful impact to the plight of women and youth in this country. To be able to create opportunities for women and the youth, you need a complete shift to a comprehensive program. Short term myopic gestures targeting patronage will not succeed,” he said.

The Youth Enterprise Fund was also conceived in June 2006 and President Kibaki launched it in February this year where a total of Sh1 billion was given out. It is meant to draw the country’s youth who are most hit by unemployment to engage in income generating activities.

As the two leaders dismissed the launch of the fund in separate phone interviews, Mr Kamanda submitted that the Government has, in addition to the Sh1 billion kitty, put in place measures to give women a prominent role in the development of the country. He cited the review of laws that criminalise discrimination against women, enactment of the Sexual Offences Act, ratification of a convention to eliminate gender violence and the setting aside of one-third of public service jobs for women.

“The President has shown his determination to empower women to take their rightful place in socio-economic development. What we are doing today bears the testimony to the Government’s commitment to integrate women in the process of national development,” he said of the women who form majority of the country’s 14.3 million registered voters.

Most of our women lagislators should encourage this or ignore it. Remembering that our current situation is to get something for our families on the table we should think before we vote we should not vote with our stomaches neither our voes be bought but we should vote wisely .

Zachariah Ochieng
Mother and Child Mission Centre (Kenya)
Centre Director

ELECTION

GENERAL ELECTION - 2007

With the elections of December 2007 in Kenya women have been the worst hit in this general elections be it parliamentary or civic elections. Most women have been battered by the male counterparts as if the world belongs to men dominance only.

Mother and Child Mission Centre Kenya has foreseen this as the worst Gender based violence against women as a whole leave alone the family squamishes which occurs on daily basis. With just some few weeks to come to the general elections women have gone further in this election to elect their own and to foresee that gender based issues in the parliamentary assemblies are passed.

Most of the women who have the empowerment have gone ahead to assist other weak candidates who are viewing for the same positions as men to see them through young women and youth have to forge ahead and say even women can be leaders of this country and especially the most dominated areas by men since the independence of this country Kenya.

What can the communities do right now is to elect leaders not gender, be it women or men Mother and Child Mission Centre Kenya is looking on issues where by women have been critisized that they cannot be leaders while a leader cannot be just a man in this world.

We should focus our minds to our women candidates for the first time and overlook our men if they can be trusted really for the last years since independence other communities have never seen nor had a female candidate. The worst lesson should be let men vote for women and be counted as real men and let women vote for their fellow women and be counted as courageous women not to vote for men due to their masculinity but for their empathy and virtures of good leadership not through tribal lines nor through their background, but through self aspiration and determination that they too can lead this nation to the extreme of good governance and more so through better future for all women and the children of this country.

Let their be fair election for all women -

MOTHER AND CHILD MISSION CENTRE KENYA
CENTRE DIRECTOR
ZACHARIAH OCHIENG
TEL: 254720 935561

THE POOR REMAINS TO BE WOMEN

With Great empasis on the UNDP survey Mother and Child Mission Centre Kenya has foreseen that most of the Poorest and more marginalised within the society are women of this country Kenya:

In all matters parataining to education, health, wealth, among other lines women suffer more as compared to their men counterparts.

A new United Nations report has revealed shocking disparities between Kenya’s poorest and the richest regions.

The report also says that 50 per cent of Kenyans are living below the poverty line.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report states that four out of the eight provinces recorded an increase in poverty levels in 2005.

“Compared to the year 2004, human poverty has increased marginally in all the provinces, except Nyanza, Western and Coast,” says the Kenya National Human Development Report 2006.

At least one in every two Kenyans live below the poverty line, while the number of those living in abject poverty has deepened. These are the Kenyans without access to health care, including doctors, water and proper nutrition.

Richest households

Paradoxically, the report says that the 10 per cent richest households control more than 42 per cent of incomes, while the poorest 10 per cent command 0.76 per cent.

According to the report released yesterday, the biggest increase in poverty levels was recorded in North Eastern Province, whose human poverty index rose from 43 to 50.5 per cent.

In Nairobi, the figures rose from 26 per cent in Nairobi in 2004, to 29 per cent in 2005, Central 30 per cent to 36 per cent, and Eastern 39 to 41 per cent. Whereas the indices stabilised at 39 per cent at the Rift Valley and 43 per cent at the Coast, they declined in Western, from 40 per cent to 37, and in Nyanza, 41 to 38.

Although the economy has grown to nearly six per cent, the reduction in the number of Kenyans living below the poverty line has been slow.

In terms of regions, Nairobi, Mombasa and Kericho are the best places to live in.
This means that people in the three towns enjoy high standards of economic, health, personal and food security, among other measures on which the scores were given.

While Turkana, Wajir and Garissa are the worst districts to reside in due to myriad of hardships, including insecurity.

Human development

The report examines seven realms of the human security, which are considered central to the improvement of the welfare of human beings.

These are economic, health, food, community, political, personal and environmental and are measured using mathematical models that come up with a summary measure of human development.

The final figure is referred to a Human Development Index (HDI).
Discussing the poverty levels, the report says the poorer people have little or no hope of bringing up a child to the age where they can benefit from the free primary education introduced by the Narc Government in 2003, let alone send them to a secondary school.

In terms of life expectancy, the report notes that a person born in Nyanza Province can expect to live 16 less years than his counterpart in Central. Life expectancy in Meru is double that of Mombasa, 68.6 and 33.1 years respectively.

About 93 per cent of women in North Eastern Province have no education at all, compared to three per cent in Central Province.

Again, Central Province fares far better on health matters, compared to all the others. Thus, whereas it has one doctor for about 20,000 people, in North Eastern there is one doctor for 120,000 people.

Every child in Central Province attends primary school compared to about one out of three in North Eastern Province.

The report also says that the proportion of households with piped water in their homes in urban areas is five times than in rural areas — about 19.2 per cent and 3.8 per cent respectively.
It calls for fairer distribution of resources, equal opportunities, improved security and greater investment in technology.

“The country has to institutionalise income protective mechanisms, among them the minimum wage, wage indexation and progressive taxation,” it recommends.

Life expectancy is surprisingly highest in North Eastern Province at 62.2 years followed by Central at 60.4 years and lowest in Nyanza, at 41.7 years and Western Province, 49.8 years.
A person born in Rift Valley Province can expect to live to be 59.1 years, Eastern 57.6 years and Coast 52 years.

Turkana, which is at the tail end, has an index of 0.172, Wajir (0.256) and Garissa (0.267). Other 10 districts in the bottom 10 are Makueni, Tana River, Ijara, Mandera, West Pokot, Samburu and Kajiado.

Agricultural areas

The districts boasting high quality of life are generally urban centres, with industrial concentrations or high potential agricultural areas. Also in the top 10 are Maragua, Tharaka Nithi, Nyeri, Embu, Mt Elgon, Moyale and Koibatek.

The report recognises the economic growth, which started in 2003 and saw the Gross Domestic Product grow to 4.9 per cent in 2004 and 5.8 per cent in 2005.

Due to registered economic growth, the country’s general HDI has increased from 0.52 in 2004 to 0.532 in 2005. However, Kenya is still ranked behind Uganda but ahead of Tanzania in East Africa.

The report cites the hot spots of chronic poverty, where people live on less than a dollar a day, as being concentrated in North Eastern, Eastern, Coast, Nyanza and Western provinces.

HEALTH ISSUES

With the kind of hardship women and children undergo in our socities today, Most of the third world countries have neither wish nor life to live for leave alone the udge to go on living, Aids is the most killer disease in the mouths of many not forgeting malaria, hunger and other small diseases which are impacably discussed within 1st world and second world countries.

With major threat being hunger and disease, first world and second world countries tries to eradicate their assistance by polluting the minds of their fellow friends that Africa and especially Eastern and sub-saharan areas are sustainable and are ok as per their wealth status are concerned. Leave alone their health issues which has become the talk of globe while African cities and communities.

What should the world do to ensure that all races, beings are equal in the face of the earth not withstanding the racism which occurs in each community and society but in the name of health issues and global friendship.

CHILDREN OF THE FUTURE

CHILD HEALTH

CHILD HEALTH

The Facts

§ Access to safe water and sanitation is the foundation of a healthy childhood, and is central to the survival and development of children.
§ Appropriate environmental management through improved sanitation is critical in the prevention and control of major child-killer diseases in Kenya such as malaria.
§ Young children are at the highest risk of dying from water- and sanitation-related illnesses, including diarrhea, resulting from unhygienic disposal of faecal matter, which leads to pollution of water sources.
§ In slum areas of Kenyan cities, morbidity and mortality stemming from environmental conditions are significantly higher than in non-slum areas of cities due to poor sanitation and lack of safe water.
§ Unsanitary conditions and practices at the household level such as the absence of sanitary facilities, unsafe waste disposal practices and unhygienic food preparation, expose children to an unsafe environment with consequent health risks.
§ Water scarcity makes it difficult to maintain domestic and personal hygiene, which can result in an outbreak of water-washed diseases such as scabies and trachoma. Both have debilitating effects especially in children.
§ Indiscriminate disposal of wastes and use of ‘flying toilets’ for human wastes disposal is both a health risk and is unsightly.

POVERTY

THE FACTS

§ In Kenya about 70% of the land is classified as arid and semi-arid. The poor communities living in these areas are most vulnerable to the effects of environmental degradation including frequent droughts.
§ The poor bear the brunt of water scarcity, pollution, droughts and flooding resulting from inappropriate environmental management practices.
§ In Kenya there is a need to improve water security, sanitation and hygiene especially for poor peri-urban and rural dwellers who often live in harsh environmental conditions.
§ Pollution control can enhance environmental sustainability leading to better health among the poor who are most vulnerable.
Why water, sanitation and hygiene?
§ Increased access to water and its management especially in small scale farming using appropriate technologies such as drip irrigation is essential in boosting economic growth and the reduction of poverty among the rural poor in Kenya.
§ The provision of safe water and adequate sanitation contributes to better human health thus enabling the populace to fully engage in income generating activities.
§ Increased access to safe water and sanitation especially among the poor saves household income, which can be used to purchase other household needs.
§ Improved water, sanitation and hygiene are essential in mitigating the effects of natural resource degradation and contribute to the enhancement of people’s livelihoods and health. This is critical in promoting sustainable economic growth.

GENDER

THE FACTS

§ Women bear the brunt of the burden of fetching water and are most affected by low water security.
§ Gender mainstreaming in interventions aimed at promoting environmental sustainability is key as women play a major role in the provision of water, food and firewood for domestic use.
§ Environmental degradation impacts on the most socio-economically disadvantaged members, who are more often women. Specifically more women than men are sole parents and work part-time.
§ Women grow a substantial proportion of the world’s food, and there is considerable evidence that their labour- intensive food production practices tend to be environmentally sound, and contribute substantially to food production while at the same time protecting the resource base.
§ Women are mainly responsible for ensuring the environment children live and play in around the home is safe.

WHY WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE?

§ Improved water and sanitation facilities within reasonable distances enhance women’s dignity, status and opportunities in Kenya.
§ Access to a safe water supply reduces the time women spend collecting water and therefore enables them to engage in other productive activities.
§ Where there are working and well maintained sanitation facilities for girls, school enrolment and performance increases.
§ Improved water and sanitation facilities will reduce the burden of domestic tasks releasing women to engage in, for example, environmental conservation activities especially in arid regions.
§ Improved access to water, sanitation and hygiene contributes to appropriate environmental management to promote people’s health and contributes to greater hope and better opportunities for the future generations in Kenya

WHY KENYA SHOULD FOCUS ON ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

THE FACTS

§ Without appropriate environmental management, sustainable health and development cannot be achieved in Kenya.
§ With improved access to water, communities could for example, be supported to initiate tree nurseries for eventual a forestation of depleted vegetation cover.
§ A significant burden of the diseases affecting Kenyan population emanate from poor environments.

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE

As a kenyan and a citizen of the country Kenya.... I wonder why the world is so cruel in fighting the communities within their setups.

It has been a week since Kenyan Members of parliament and assistant minister died in a plane crash just to pursuade ordinary figheters to stop the killings of their friends come enemies in the name of land, pasture, animals to name a few.

This week neighbouring Ethiopians more than 1,000 raiders targeting their loved border kenyan friends masacred atleast 5 people and stole unknown number just to give a small number goats being 3000.

Is this world so poor that we have to kill to gain? Or too rich to kill for anything they need whether they should have it or not.

Children and women are the most vulnerable among all this and no one leave alone the president and the ministers dare take action againt the wore mongering people within such societies, what our member of parliaments urge for is the power and salary they gain after being posted in parliament as stamps to their constituents.

Should this things happening in Kenya happen round the world????

Pliz give peace a chance and give our children and women the urge to love what they call their country if we cannot then we should be burried by our pride and go direct to hell.

CHILD RIGHTS

Since being a child I have admired being my mothers boy. I have shared differences with people as a child and I have learnt the hard way to life. Most of African children have the courage to live life with or without their families.

Due to Aids scurge in Kenya and other nations of Africa, Children have been the hard hit in this whole sufferings encountered within the societies leave alone the communties. With over 3 million children in Kenya alone being orphans due to the HIV/AIDS Diseases, I came to learn that the world is dying slow death with the compromise neither pitty of the ones being left behind.

A community with no elders, only youth and most of the youth are between 6 - 15 years olds. With no means and ways of getting livelihood, I wonder if other countries within the global village life same as african counter pants like Europe and Asia. Most of the children in Africa have no rights, neither do they know what a right is to their life. Leave alone the parents neither the communities know that a child/children have their rights.

I head an NGO in Kenya and the organization deals with Women and children protection. This organization (MOTHER AND CHILD MISSION CENTRE KENYA) Came into inception in the year 2004 and with the main purpose of ascertaining the rights of women and children, within any societal setup and an exampler to other communities which adhere to their ethnic background as we call it the cultural and elderly believes within the societies.

With diversified fields we have been in we have programmed areas dealing direct to the children and knowing them better for their lives and likes. Example the cases of Rape/defilement among children in Kenya is something which is wanting and compromising to the communities in Kenya , hence most of our people are always men prone behaviour kind of. Hence what should the world do unto such situations where men take themselves to be superior in everything they touch, whilst other women tend to change things within the society, few support men to be their head not understanding that they have their rights and their childrens rights too to be adhred too, by these same men.

What can the society do unto men who defile children? I have this in mind but as a human right activist said, there is no need to custrate these men, since they are just as demons droped from hell to earth, not even dogs do rape their young ones, what has happened to the fathers, and uncles who rape the children the youngest being 3 years even 2 year old. Do we call that being insane or being a devil himself. a 57 year old raping a 4 year old girl, or a 60 year old raping a 10 year old boy, what can we call these kind of people in the society.

To make the matters worse the administration take long in prosecution of these culprits and even if justice is foreseen then too late or not even made. Once a man went scot free after being found guilty and admitting to the judge. In his plea he said he was willing to marry the girl, at the age of 10 when she was raped and the case being heard when she was 14 after four years.

To foresee justice for our children has been a hard nut to cruck since most of these cases are solved in within the community setups and the children are the ones being traumatised due to the scare in their life long time to come. Only to realise that the family had done so in their expense. By accepting bribes not to take the matters to the court of law. Even others goes to the extent of not mentioning it to the administrations.

MCMCK have been in the forefront to foresee that childrens rights especially the rape cases are dealt with as per the requirements, only that the legislation of this country (Kenya) have no harsh sentence to such cases. One is jailed for two to three years and being back to the community as the child is still traumatised to see the same person within. There should be amore harsher penalty to such offenderes who have the habit of rape to both women and children.

With other programmed areas such as Orphaned education I have tried to see that most of Aids orphaned children are atleast acomplishing their dream fo higher education, though this is an uphill task with other wellwishers it can be acomplished and be successful

Most of these children are brighter students unlike the children who have everything within their families. Since they have to take care of their young siblings, they have to work harder and foresee that their young ones are satisfied to the later.

MCMCK wishes to ask any one with a heart to help to assist in donations, of used clothing, food stuffs, shoes, bags, blankets, sheets, and cash donations. To foresee these children and young women don't practise prostitution, which the centre is trying to reduce HIV/AIDS cases among young women.

MCMCK Shall appreciate your contribution for you and I we are the world and the world need to save the remaining from dying, what can we do to accomplish these? Its only by foreseeing that the children of tomorow are adhered to and they receive their rights, as children whether they have parents or not, whether they are from Africa, Asia, Europe, etc or not. All children are equal and should be treated equally around the world. MCMCK has taken the mandate to that and we shall be encouraging all friends, friends of friends who can assist in any means:

Remember to save a child you have saved the future. For the future is theirs. We are at the present and we need to protect the future for once we were the future of today.

Thank you.

ZACHARIAH OCHIENG
CENTRE DIRECTOR
MOTHER AND CHILD MISSION CENTRE (KENYA)
P.O. BOX 44432 - 00100
NAIROBI - KENYA

Our Programmes

MCMCK have been in operational on these programmed areas since inception:

Health & HIV/AIDS – Nutrition, Malaria, malnutrition and Reproductive Health

Land management and irrigation – crop and food policies, boreholes and dam (water storage), Land tenure

Legal Rights – Rape among children and women, legal aid

Economic Empowerment – small grants & loans (capital) to small business accessing market outlook, linkage building with research and other business practioners in improving economic development

Community Policing – Insecurity, Draught compartment, Mother and child violence, child abuse and labor

Orphaned children education – higher education programmes

http://mcmck.cfsites.org/programmes

word from centre director

The organization is a women & children target with key target beneficiaries being women and youth, especially young girls and boys.

Women are the key decision-makers and are involved in all stages of programme; from conceptualization to planning, implementation and management.

Men are occasionally included in the committees, consultative forums and group memberships


Centre Director