By Monica Oguttu | Executive Director, K-MET
The community of Got Oyenga in Siaya, Kenya is receptive to the Participatory Integrated Community Development (PICD) process. This is clear in the response of those who regularly attend the meetings.
Got Oyenga Primary School is doing wonderful work with adolescent girls as part of your funding to One Village At A Time. Life skills sessions are held regularly with high attendance. Girls are purchasing reusable sanitary pads that allows them to stay in school during their menses. Our girls are empowered, confident, and vocal. This is rubbing off on the community.
At the Got Oyenga PICD meetings, the women are more vocal and participate more than the men. The teachers from the school, including the head teacher, are always present during the meetings and participate well.
One Village, in partnership with Kisumu Medical Educational Trust (K-Met), identifies a community and school with severe poverty and children suffering from malnutrition and high HIV rate. As a team, we introduce PICD to help the community being to coalesce and form a strategic plan for feeding the children in the school and to become self-sustaining. We set up a team that works regularly with the school and the community.
The PICD process has enabled the community members to realize the reasons some projects were started within the community but did not last due to lack of ownership. But the community of Got Oyenga is taking ownership of the school feeding program.
Parents contribute maize and beans toward the school feeding program. The pupils bring any available food from home to eat for lunch at school. Students are not allowed to leave the school grounds during lunch, necessitating sharing. That means that even those who do not have anything to eat will still have food. The school also has a garden where they cultivate maize.
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