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- Merille Isiolo Eastern 60300 Kenya
- https://www.betterplace.org/en/organisations/28179-lchokuti-foundation
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Causes: Adult Education, Community Improvement & Capacity Building, Education, Philanthropy, Philanthropy, Charity & Voluntarism Promotion, Public & Societal Benefit
Mission: To create funds for everyone to work towards their dreams and to empower, assist and enable them through exposure and informed decision making to choose and reach their goals and lifestyle without being forced into any practice they don’t want to engage in. To eradicate poverty in a self-sufficient way through education.
Results: Lchokuti Foundation was only established in 2016, i.e. a few months ago, hence it is to early for most of the successes to be seen. Especially the shift of attitude of the local community in regard to negative view towards education is a long process, as opinions cannot be forced upon people but rather need to be convinced slowly. Partial successes could be witnessed as a higher intake of at least the smaller children after our main parents’ event/ organization launching, however whether they will remain at school is another issue and will be seen in the farther future taking a lot of work. Furthermore, we have caught big interest of the community in participating in our informal education programme hence showing locals’ readiness and promising success. Also, in our initial evaluation period of our prize/reward system for pupils’ good attending as part of the school programme, we recorded an increase of attendance.
Target demographics: educate illiterate pastoralist community and support a local primary school
Geographic areas served: Merille community, Northern Kenya
Programs: "Informal Education/Advisory Programme", i.e. teaching health, language, life skills etc to those who never got the chance to go to school "School Programme", i.e. mobilizing funds for a very resource and teacher poor primary school to uplift pupils standards, as well as increase attendance "Business Programme" "Community Building Projects Programme"