KCDN Presents Cheques to needy Students

Friends,
When we hosted the Donholm Clean-up Campaign on the 6th August 2011, we did promise that we were going to pay school fee for some students.
We were given names from the District Education Officer Embakasi and today we presented cheques worth Kshs 15,000.00 to 3 such needy cases.
First, we were at Embakasi Girls Secondary School wherewe were received by Mr. Abraham Lagat and Ms Emily W Masele- the Deputy Principal.

Linet and Joyce at school today

Here, we presented Ms Joyce Kabingo- Form 1S and Ms Linet Awuor- Form2E with Kshs 5,000.00 each. Joyce has fee arrears of Kshs 38,527.00 while Linet has fee arrears of Kshs 58,690.00

Odhiambo T Oketch, a teacher, Linet, Joyce, Ms Masele and Mr. Lagat at Embakasi Girls Secondary School today

 We next went to Kayole South Secondary School where we presented Ms Mary N Mutheu Form 1G with Kshs 5,000.00. Ms Mutheu is an Orphan who is being supported by Mr.Musa Nyamae whose children are also attending the same school.

Ms Mary N Mutheu in School today

 We want to sincerely thank all the Friends of KCDN who made this happen. Specifically, we would want to thank Mr. Phillip Kisia- the Town Clerk City Council of Nairobi and Mr. Daniel Juma- Global Peace Youth Corps for donating the said moeny.

Ms Virginia Mugai- Accountant at Kayole South Secondary School, Mr.Nyamae, Ms Mutheu and Odhiambo during the presentation

We want to appeal to more Friends to step forward and help us make the change we need.
To all of us we say, Thank You.
Odhiambo T Oketch
KCDN Nairobi.

KCDN is requesting for your support

Dear Friends,

We have been on the campaign trail on the proposed new constitution for the last 20 years. At least it is coming to an end on the 4th August 2010 when many of us will be voting YES.

In the picture L-R; Sam Olendo, Odhiambo T Oketch, Ken Odondi on 24th July 2010 in Ndere Alego.

We are voting YES because we have been in the struggle and we have lived its ramification.

We saw how children suffered whenever we had conflict, and this made us at KCDN come out more strongly in support of our kids.

On the 7th March 2010, you will remember that the KCDN offices were broken into and all our items taken away- everything from our caps to our chairs to our computers to our files. We made a report to the Police in Kayole, and sadly, nothing has come of it till today.
Odhiambo T Oketch promoting the YES Agenda in the same function

This was an evil scheme to kill KCDN but we have come out of it much stronger. In between, Akiba Uhaki Foundation stepped in to help us develop our Strategic Plan in April. That is now complete and we will be sharing the document with all Friends of KCDN online. We have annexed the support from Friends of KCDN in the Strategic Plan and we will mail this to all the Friends of KCDN.

In between, we also received a financial boost from a Friend from Switzerland Ms Brigitte Frey. She came to know about us via an article that I had done on Donor Syndrome. She then visited our blog and was impressed. She decided to become a Friend of KCDN. We really thank her and we know through her and all the Friends of KCDN, we will reach out to more people of goodwill who will be able to help.

We want to move to a new office on 1st of August, and we believe that you can be able to support us in whatever way. We need office equipment, tables, chairs, filing cabinet, basically all that makes an office work.

We will need to pay office rent, our staff members, and run our programmes. We can only do this with your support.

This is not an easy task, but we are determined to make a difference for the Children we are supporting come 3rd December 2010 when we will host the 3rd KCDN Child Support Initiative.

Please give us the support that you may, and help us come back to owning an office.

Peace and blessings,

Odhiambo T Oketch
CEO KCDN Nairobi,
PO Box 47890-00100,
Nairobi, Kenya.
Tel; 0724 365 557,
Email; komarockswatch@yahoo.com
 Odhiambo is the current chairman to the Stakeholders Evaluation Team on Performance Contract and Rapid Results Initiative at the City Council of Nairobi.

Supporting KCDN

A Friend from New York has today sent us Kshs 3,980.00 to help support our activities.

He has requested to remain anonymous and as such, we want to take this opportunity to register to him our heart felt appreciation and gratitude. We are focused on our mandate and shortly, in line with our Strategic Plan which has been ably funded by Akiba Uhaki Foundation, we will release our revised schedule of activities.

Odhiambo T Oketch and Flo Kanyua join the teachers and pupils from Infill Academy in a jig during one of the KCDN functions

We will remain faithful to our core support to Orphans and Vulnerable Children, to our Peace Building Initiatives and to our Environmental Management efforts.

We would also like to continue being appreciative of all the support that we have received from Friends of KCDN, from Corporates and from Institutions.

Let us all unite and be of more support to humanity.

Peace and blessings,

Odhiambo T Oketch
CEO KCDN Nairobi.
Tel; 0724 365 557, 0735 529 126

2nd Edition KCDN Child Support Initiative

1^st October 2009

Hi,

It is that time of the year when we are coming together in support of our children, both orphan and vulnerable by mobilizing for them educational support. And the count has just begun.

Our First Edition of the KCDN Child Support last year on 5^th December 2008 was a big success. We supported 250 children in need with books, stationery and uniforms and as a result, many children and their parents came to us. We listened to their stories, visited with them, talked with their teachers and we were moved. We made up our mind that we will mobilize support for the ones that looked most deserving. We came up with a list of 1950 such deserving cases and on 4^th December 2009, we will give them what you shall have given to us.

As we did last year, we can once again come together and be of help to our children. This is what we need;

	Quantity	Items needed	Cost in Kshs
1	30,000	Exercise Book-Ruled/Square @ 30.65	919,000.00
2	6,000	Loose Leaf Pads- Ruled/Square @ 40.00	240,000.00
3	2,000	Fountain Pens @ 25.00	50,000.00
4	2,000	Ink Pelican 30ml @ 75.40	150,000.00
5	6,000	Pencils Pelicans @ 7.50	45,000.00
6	6,000	Pelican rubbers @ 15.00	90,000.00
7	2,000	Kamusi Ya Kiswahili @ 645.00	1,290,000.00
8	2,000	Good News Bible @ 495.00	990,000.00
9	2,000	Mathematical sets Oxford @116.00	232,000.00
10	2,000	Rulers Aim Brand @ 11.60	23,200.00
11	2,000	Pencil sharpener @ 7.00	14,000.00
12	2,000	School uniforms, ties, pullovers, PE kits @ 2,500.00	5,000,000.00
13	2,000	Pairs of shoes and socks @ 1,250.00	2,500,000.00
		Totals	11,544,500.00

We want to offer KCDN to be your preferred vehicle of support to the needy. You may give us your support in two ways;

A] Materially; you may choose to buy for us part of the stationery or uniforms.

B] Financially; you may make cash contribution either to;

• Komarocks Community Development Network
• Text Book Centre Ltd, or
• Uniform Distributors Ltd.

You may also reach the undersigned with your support through Western Union Money Transfer, MoneyGram, Mpesa, Cash Transfer or Zap. We look forward to you becoming a Friend of KCDN and helping us make a difference in our society. 4^th December 2009 is our next date.

Kindly visit our blogspot and see what you have done for us since January 2008.

Let’s make it happen…………

Odhiambo T Oketch,

CEO KCDN Nairobi,

Tel; 0735 529 126, 0724 365 557,

Email; komarockswatch@yahoo.com, friendofkcdn@gmail.com