🏢 About the local organisation
Kipepeo Community Empowerment Program is a community Based Organization initiated in October 2009 to help spearhead community driven development initiatives and enable needy community groups participate in integrated development to achieve quality livelihood from; orphanage and rehabilitation of street children's, support vulnerable children, voluntary work to various community projects, Community Savings and loaning , HIV/AIDS trainings & awareness Campaigns, Capacity Building, Organic Farming, Fish Farming, Clay Works, Computer Services and Eco-Tourism and Environmental Management.
The program is also designed to respond to Emuhaya youths' needs and assets; the KCEP Project aims to empower youth to make sound career and life decisions as they transition from high school to the next phase of their lives. The project is also building the capacity of local institutions and networks to sustain the much-needed services that KCEP will provide. Specifically, the KCEP Project intends to offers youth a series of inter-connected interventions to: build skills, facilitate appropriate career choices, provide employment and/or income generating opportunities, bridge technical and university education opportunities and provide fun and safe spaces.
💼 What the programme involves
Project activities
Cyber café project; Free computer training to orphans and vulnerable youths; community microfinance project; street kids, orphans and vulnerable children support project; Eco-tourism development.
Volunteer tasks
Monitoring and supervision of the microfinance group meetings; Capacity building trainings of the groups through small business development skills; Business awareness information trainings; Data collection of microfinance groups meetings performance summaries; Updating the microfinance data base;