Welcome to KCDN

This is KCDN, an Environmental Management, Economic Empowerment and Poverty Eradication Civil Society.

We welcome you to our site. Kindly feel free to share with us your thoughts. Ideas that add value will be appreciated. Ideas that want to make us improve our physical environment will be welcome. And more so, ideas that redirect us from the lost cause will be of immense value.

It is us who will improve the lot of our Environment, our Economy and make Kenya a Clean Country, where People join hands to work for our own Economic Emancipation and where Municipal Solid Waste Management is looked at as a resource, not as waste.

We need to set the standards in this region of the World and become the referral point in how a people can join hands and work for their own Economic Liberation, where waste can be used as raw material and become a source of employment for our people.

Our collective actions will surely make a difference. This is why in partnership with our Key Strategic Partners- The Public Service Transformation Department, the National Environment Management Authority, the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources, the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation,other key Ministries, the Local Authorities in Kenya, the Provincial Administration, A Better World, Akiba Uhaki Foundation and other Partners, we are moving deliberately in sensitizing and mobilizing Kenyans to work towards A Clean Kenya where waste is separated at source.

And this is why we are inviting Kenyans to join with us in The Clean Kenya Campaign and be a Member of Kimisho Sacco Society Ltd

Welcome.

Odhiambo T Oketch,
Team Leader & Executive Director,
KCDN, KSSL, KICL & TCKC,
Tel; 0724 365 557,
Email; komarockswatch@yahoo.com, kimishodevelopment@gmail.com
Website; www.kcdnkenya.org.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Our Programmes at KCDN

We have 3 programmes running concurrently at KCDN and they are all linked up.

Our forte is child support which we run through the KCDN Child Support Initiative. In our inaugural meet of last year, the Director of Basic Education Mrs Leah Rotich was our Key Speaker in a celebration where our Chief Guest was Ms Irene Wasike of Barclays Bank. On this day, we gave 250 Orphans and Vulnerable Children books, stationery and uniforms, courtesy of the Friends of KCDN and Friendly Institutions, key among them being Phoenix Aviation Ltd who were our single largest supporter for the event.

Following the success of that day, many children and their parents/guardians came to us for support. Through Nestle Kenya Ltd, Tetra Pak EA Ltd, Text Book Centre Ltd, Express Connections Ltd, The Cradle, Capital Airlines Ltd, Rachier and Amolo Advocates, H20 Beverages Ltd, Mini Bakeries [Nairobi] Ltd, Phoenix Publishers Ltd, East African Educational Publishers Ltd, Aristocrats Insurance Brokers Ltd, and many Friends of KCDN, we were able to mobilize nutritional as well as educational support for these children.

We will again converge on 4th December 2009 to once more give these children educational support. This time around the number is large and we again will rely on your generousity to support the 1950 who have registered with us. We do not need money as usual, we need the items. And all those who have supported us know that we ask them to pay for our provisions. If we receive cash support, we pass it to the correct Initiative.

Our 2nd programme is the KCDN Peace Run/Walk. We encourage the children and parents in our KCDN Child Support Initiative to become Peace Ambassadors. We encourage all to be as open as possible about their political preference and ensure that it does not become a source of conflict. We are one family and as we vote separately, we must eat together as one family. We hosted the 2nd Edition of the KCDN Peace Run/Walk on 13th June 2009 and again, we must appreciate the support we got from the many Friends of KCDN and in particular, Akiba Uhaki Foundation who were our single biggest supporter this time around, and the Administration Police Band for leading the event. Last year, SGS Kenya Ltd were our single biggest supporter. Again like we do with all our Initiatives, we do not ask for money, we ask for provisional support.

Our last programme is the KCDN Environmental Conservation. This year, we mobilized our children and their parents to join us and the residents of Komarock on a clean up of the Komarock Canal on 5th September 2009. We must thank Total Kenya Ltd for having been our largest supporter this year by donating to us seedlings and cash to facilitate the process. We must also thank Safaricom Ltd for having donated to us cleaning equipment worth Kshs 50,000.00. And we msut that the City Council of Nairobi who were our partners in this clean up. Again, as we do with all our Initiatives, we ask for provisional support. If you give us cash, we pass it on to the Initiative.

Lastly, like all organizations, we have administrative costs to meet. We have an office to pay rent for, the rent of which I have been paying largely from the family business proceeds. However, when we were had up and at the point of being thrown out at some point, Friends of KCDN responded with speed and raised the rent arrears for us. Like all nascent organizations, we have our fair share of administrative issues to handle, and if any Friend of KCDN wishes to support us by paying our rent, we will welcome that. If you want to give our staff some token of appreciation, we will welcome that. We really need it as we engage in our core services.

It is that openness that has endeared many people and institutions to us. We really value that support, and as we approach our last event of the year, we appeal to many more Friends of KCDN to step forward and help us help these children.

They need your support, now, not tomorrow.

Peace and goodwill to all men of goodwill [that includes women]

Odhiambo T Oketch,
CEO KCDN Nairobi.
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