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Campaign: Donate a book, educate the world!

Reason: the CADVES Org’ did a fusibility study in the community and realized that there was only one library which was accessible to the community youths. The study also shows that the library had very limited books and reading resources in their closet. The library does only serve the children and youths in school alone and ignore the children and youths out of school. Based on the growing number of dropouts from schools due to different reasons we asked ourselves the hard questions like where will these lot get education, where will they get motivation, where will they read whenever they wanted to do so…..and so on and so forth. With that regard, we took it upon our initiative to organize and facilitate a state of the art library that will focus on enhancing the lives of the youths and children out and in school. This library is intended to pull youths from different ward areas and different villages, such as:  Korogocho, Babadogo, Kariobangi, Huruma, Mathare and Dandora.

Apart from just coming to read, this library seeks to work as a platform for empowerment and motivation through a program within the library. The program is tailor made to encourage the children and the youths that come to read in the library to share experiences and encouragement discussions with professionals that will be invited by the management once a month.

This vision cannot be realized without the humble help of the community and the well wishers who have in the days, weeks, months and years donated books and other in-kind resources that have gone a long way to putting a smile on a person’s face. Given the huge vision that we have with this program, the CADVES members decided to create a campaign that was going to help mobilize books from well-wishers and donors both within and abroad. We thank God that DONATE A BOOK EDUCATE THE WORLD initiative worked really well in mobilizing the same.

We therefore invite anyone who feels they have any inspirational book, Bible or any other book in their closet and they feel that book can help change someone’s life, they may donate it to our library and God will bless their generosity.

Campaign: Pads and Pants campaign!

Reason: We appreciate that most public schools have benefited in the government program of sanitary towels.  The CADVES organization has been conducting their programs in primary and secondary schools within the most disadvantaged areas in Nairobi. Throughout this process, we have met several stories of girls not attending classes due to shame of their colleagues laughing at them during menstruation periods. This seems an outdated menace, but to our surprise, this is the main reason why girls drop out of schools. The issue of sanitary towels have been a talk in the mouths of a few in the past, this belief have managed to silence most people including mothers at home. We understood, through the interactions we usually have with the girls in schools that we visit that even the people that have once used these materials before and are mandated with the responsibility of enlightening the young approaching girls on the signs and how to conduct themselves whenever they were there. Mothers felt that the teachers had the lion responsibility on how the child should conduct herself at this point while the teachers felt that it’s a matter that the parents have been throwing to them but was a sole responsibility of the parents.

Questions to this regard, proved to be so many than answers. This is why the CADVES organization then decided to mobilize sanitary towels and inner pants to help girls in primary and secondary schools stay, learn and graduate from these institutions.

With this regard, we invite anyone who’s willing to support our cause, may donated or drop a packet(s) of sanitary towels and inner pants to the CADVES group’s resource centre/offices in Korogocho Ward, ngomongo village next to Ramogi studio. You can also call Winnie on 0708288343 or Cellestine on 0712685106.

We also want to thank those who have found it in their schedules to come and drop the essentials to support this initiative.

Campaign: Plant one, Cut none campaign!

Reason: This campaign was motivated by news on the BBC on global warming and a tragic story of our water towers. We felt the pain of losing water just because a tree is cut down by some individuals because of their own gain and interests. With this regard, we decided that enough with politicking this issue and it was now time to do something about it. The members thought of articulating an initiative that will see millions of trees planted around the world. Plant one, Cut none campaign seeks to encourage people around the world to plant at least a tree at places of their choice through media, advertisements, social media and other avenues that are influential and can reach so many people as possible.

This activity will be celebrated once a year on the 25/Sep of every year.(note: if the day is a week day, the organization may decide to push the celebration to a day within which will be convenient) , but the CADVES organization will be conducting several activities in schools, recreational areas, river banks and other places after every three months. We also felt that this was the best way of celebrating the life lived and fight fought by Prof. Wangari Maathai for a single tree here in Kenya and beyond.

This activity is also intended to encourage the children to generate some fundamental values like CARE, HOPE, and ACCEPTANCE through a program within it that will see each child given a seedling to plant in his/her school compound, water the tree, take good care of the tree, and ensure that the tree becomes a part of him/her. This spirit is going to make the child attend school without failure, it is going to make the child have hope and the child is going to generate a sense of ownership given that the compound has something that is close to his/her heart.

This initiative is a partner driven activity and therefore we invite any individual, organization or cooperate companies with similar objectives to join hand when we not only celebrate the life of our Icon, but when we bring a new life for our nation and beyond.

Campaign: Hold my Hand campaign!

Reason:  A survey done by Kea Watoto Kea, revealed that so many girls in the most disadvantaged areas/communities have once or severally been abused sexually. Some of them fell pregnant , others were over powered and ended up giving in  to the pressure and died  through different means,(suicide being the most likely), while others survived but are living with fear and anger in equal measure bundled in their hearts and minds. We thank the almighty that a good number of the girls were able to talk about what happened to them during and after the incidents and were really eager to get help.

The survey also indicated that nearly a half of the girls between the ages of 13-17 have willingly been engaged to sexual act because of different interests. It was and of course it is evident that even this lot faces the same rough life like the initial lot. Managing the children they gave birth to, the men that made them pregnant and vanished, the bills that they will now live to pay,  and the society that is now expecting them to perform are the very basic problems that they are sharing in common up to this very end.

These stories seem different, but when analyzed keenly, they share the same end state. We realized that most of the girls decided to keep their mouths shut and let the pain burn them from within rather than letting it out and create a huge scene with the parents, guardian and the authorities, others ran away from home to go where they thought they would get “Freedom”, which also turned wild on them.

Unable to cope with the pressure they were facing within the premises they were living, out in the streets, and in the institution where they attended school or work, these girls opted to withdraw and stay back at their hiding places and kill their ambitions just like that.

The CADVES ORG’ thought over this issue and felt it was necessary to do something for this lot. After thinking really hard, we had these questions to answer:

v  These girls have children?

v  How do they take care of the children?

v  What is the father of the kids saying about the children if not the mothers?

v  Do the kids get paternal love?

v  Do the kids attend school?

v  Is the Mother working?

v  How does the Mother pay the school fees?

v  What can the mother do to enable her manage the bills? And,

v  What can we do to help these families?

This led to the creation of a program called Young Mothers Empowerment Program and because we wanted people who could help us champion the same, we created a campaign called Hold my hand campaign to help us get well-wisher, professionals and mentors to come and talk to the girls and impart sense of holding on, inculcate the values of HOPE, PERCERVERANCE and ACCEPTANCE to these girls to enable them move on and on again. This campaign targets Women leaders, Women Pastors, Women in Cooperate world, Women Mentors and many other women who have gone through these kind of a situation and managed to overcome and are now moving on with their lives.

We also thought of the children from these families and realized that most have never seen their fathers since the day they were born, so we created a centre called;  Daddy’s Day Care Centre which is going to house the kids during their free days to enable them get the fatherly embrace, care, teaching and love in order to minimize cases of low self-esteem and carelessness amongst these precious generation.