Summary
Offering sports, games, lifeskills, counselling, clothing and education to 1000 children and youths affected by Ethnic Viloence at Kachibora IDP camp in Kenya.
What is the issue, problem, or challenge?
Project is addresing trauma, stigma, ethnic hatred, illiteracy, torture and torments of children and youth in Trans-nzoia district affected by ethnic violence. This project offers psychosocial programs, eg sports, games, music, dance and drama, counselling, education, clothing.Over 1000 will benefit.
How will this project solve this problem?
We run a daily sports/games/Music/Drama/Dance program at the Internally Displaced Camp at Kachibora. We hold talkshows and lifeskills workshops for the youth.
Potential Long Term Impact
The project will support 1000 children and youths to gain usefull lifeskills and to cope with the trauma experienced during the ethnic violence.
Project Message
Through the sports/games/music/drama/dance and counselling, at least I am able to forget the bad experience I went through when they burnt our house, slashed my brother with a knife & raped my sister
- Raphael--a youth in the project, Youth at the camp
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $850
Funding Information
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding.
Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as
indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the
"Project Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $850
.
The original project funding goal was $25,000.
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).