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Causes: Adult Education, Economic Development, Education, International, International Economic Development, International Relief, Microfinance, Primary & Elementary Schools
Mission: The East African Center for the Empowerment of Women and Children is a non-profit organization committed to assisting communities to achieve empowerment through adult and child literacy programs, health education, and poverty eradication projects.
Geographic areas served: Eastern Kenya
Programs: East african center provides adult and child education, health education and information, and poverty eradication programs in kenya. It has a school for grades kindergarten through 8th grade and a school farm that supplies food for the students everyday. The organization supports a team of 50 community health workers to inform the community about health, provide monitoring for post and pre-natal care, and economically empower families who support individuals with hiv/aids. Eacs primary approaches are to meet the stated needs of the community, partner with and build the capacity of local government rather than create parallel services, facilitate access to resources for true empowerment, and create sustainable programs.
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.