AFRIKASI KENYA COMMUNITY BASED ORGANISATION

AFRIKASI KENYA KINDERGARTEN FEEDING PROGRAMME  APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE Afrikasi   Kenya Community Based Organization is a duly registered non-profit organization that specializes in education sponsorship and operates mainly in Deepsea Slum, Highridge area in Nairobi. Afrikasi Kenya CBO runs an ECD (Early Childhood Development) Centre called Afrikasi Kenya Kindergarten that offers quality education to over 70 needy and disadvantaged children from the Deepsea Slum aged 3 – 6 years old. At this Kindergarten we run a feeding program where we provide two meals to the children i.e. porridge and a snack and lunch. The children consume the following food per month. No. Food Item Quantity per day Per week Per month 1. Unga (Maize Flour) 6 kgs of Unga for 2 days 12 kgs 48 kgs 2. Uji (Porridge) 2 kg per day for 5 days 10 kgs 40 kgs 3. Wheat flour 4 kgs for 3 days ...

THE DEEP SEA SLUM   The Deep Sea slum is located in Highridge, Parklands area. This barely 2 acre piece of land is occupied by over 12,000 residents who are mainly youth or young adults and children. The slum is not commonly known to many Kenyans since it is uniquely sandwiched between very well developed and affluent residential and business locations of Highridge, Westlands, Parklands and Muthaiga. The adult residents mainly supply casual labour force in form of househelps, cooks, guards to these plush neighborhoods. A tin shack that residents here call home is rented for between 1,200kshs to 1,500kshs per month. This is approximately 12 to 15 dollars per month. These congested tin shacks of 10 feet by 10 feet are very close to each other. This makes the Slum prone to fires caused mainly by electrical malfunctions and paraffin stoves. The tin shacks do not have toilets and running water which also makes the area prone to cholera and other water...

AFRIKASI KENYA CBO APPEAL AND FUNDRAISER FOR DEEP SEA SLUM FIRE OF 27 th November 2017 Afrikasi Kenya Community Based Organisation is a duly registered non profit organization that specializes in educational sponsorship for the needy and disadvantaged school going children and young adults from pre-school to University mainly from the Deep Sea slums. The Deep Sea slums are located in Highridge, Parklands area. It’s over 12,000 residents are mostly children and youth. The slum is not commonly known to many Kenyans since it is uniquely sandwiched between very well developed and affluent residential and business locations of Highridge, Westlands, Parklands and Muthaiga. The adult residents mainly supply casual labour force to these plush neighborhoods. Just like other slums in Nairobi, Kenya, there is a high incidence of poverty manifested by drug and alcohol abuse, petty crime, prostitution, sex exploitation, early pregnancies, high school drop outs and so many other inciden...

AFRIKASI KENYA KINDERGARTEN, LOWER KABETE INTRODUCTION Afrikasi Kenya Kindergarten which is one of the show case projects of Afrikasi Kenya C.B.O was founded in 2016 to cater mainly for the needy and disadvantaged children from the Deep Sea slums but outside the slum environment so that they can be exposed to the other side of life and slowly erase the ‘slum’ mentality. Currently the Kindergarten has a total of 70 children, 90% of whom come from the Deepsea Slums. The rest are from the lower Kabete and the neighboring environs. The Kindergarten provides a unique, serene, peaceful and clean environment for the children, a well balanced diet feeding program which includes tea break and lunch, neat classrooms, sporting and co-curricular activities and very competent Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) qualified teachers. It also provides very subsidized fees because it mainly caters for children from disadvantaged and needy families. ...