Region: Africa

Country: Kenya
Province: Nyanza

Focus Districts: Kisii Central districts, Kenya

Regional Office Location: Kisii Town, Gusii County Hall Ground


contact info:

Mr. Kennedy Gichaba
Executive Director/Board Secretary
HCCMC Kenya
Gusii County Hall Ground
P.o box 176-40200
Kisii, Kenya,
Tel: +254-735-782802,254-727-427692

Background:

Founded in 2000, HCCMC is a Christian nonprofit, Non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to building a just world through service and partnership.
HCCMC provides people access to the tools they need for a life of dignity for themselves, their communities and their people.
Working with local communities and churches to build their capacity to act on their local problems in the way they want, HCCMC programs include:
-Primary Health Care Program
-HIV/AIDS care
-ICT Education &Training for Orphans
-Community Water & Sanitation
-Humanitarian assistance and Relief
Individuals, churches, governments and inter-governmental organizations provide the means for us to help people to help themselves.

Through seminars, workshops, street theater and puppetry, HCCMC promotes healthy messages to mothers in Kiogoro and Wanjare divisions (Kisii Central) whose children face HIV and AIDS, malaria, pneumonia, poor nutrition, diarrhea and tuberculosis.

Vision:

HCCMC envisions a world where no-one lives in poverty or suffering; where all have access to a decent standard of living and the opportunities and choices essential to a healthy life.

Mission Statement

To give the poor and marginalized women and children in deprived rural areas a voice and hope in their own future through partnerships and access to tools for sustained health, educational and socio- economic development.

Objectives:

-HCCMC is about empowering individuals, communities and the churches serving them.
Specific Objectives:

I. To serve as a partner, friend, advocate and facilitator in the mobilization and motivation of vulnerable groups towards the improvement of their social, economic, health and environmental conditions.
II. To provide the necessary information, advocacy and training services towards the right of the vulnerable (children, youth women)
III. To provide opportunities through capacity building, access to credit, income generating activities and institutional support for women groups towards the overall development of their communities.

Core-Values:
• Respect for people comes first
• Gender equality is a prerequisite for development.
• Greater participation leads to greater commitment.
• Democracy accelerates development.
• The environment must be respected.
• Good stewardship ensures trust

Programs and Projects:

Primary Health Care Program

Focuses on improving access to and quality of care for the most vulnerable. We work at both the district and community level implementing rural health programs in partnership with local Ministries of Health, NGOs and CBOs. Through behavioral change approaches, we promote sustainable solutions in the areas of maternal health and child survival, reducing malaria and Tuberculosis, enhancing hygiene and sanitation, encouraging good nutrition and breast-feeding, and managing diarrheal disease and HIV/AIDS.


HIV/AIDS programme:
Ø For Persons Living with HIV/AIDS
Ø Encouraging home-based care programs and training additional community health care workers to provide regular support to those in need.
Facilitating access to clinics, antiretroviral drugs, and other treatments.
Providing start-up money for small business programs so that families have funds to pay for medications as well as basic needs.

ICT Education &Training for Vulnerable Youth:
HCCMC COMPUTER TRAINING CENTER PROJECT:

This center helps to train kisii vulnerable youth in computer skills to help them more effectively cope with a competitive job market. Also, some older orphans and widows are offered computer and internet training to help them acquire these valued skills. The computer school is also open to other people within the community who are interested in the training and Internet access to browse for information which they cannot be able to access. The adult students who are working contribute a minimal fee for their training. This helps with the servicing and maintenance of the computer equipment and pay for internet connection. The number of students currently is 30.
The cost of fees for computer training/student for full course is $ 100

EDUCATION & TRAINING FOR ORPHANS PROJECT.

We help Children access education by providing for the needs they have to be able to go to School. The Kisii extended family system, like many other developing countries, has been the core support provider for orphans, but AIDS, combined with other social and economic pressures has pushed the extended family system to breaking point especially in the worst affected villages here in Kisii . As a result, the Streets of our Towns are getting big numbers of orphaned Children who do not have anyone to look after them come to live a life of a beggar on the Streets!
FIRST - first of all we tend to look into the nutritional, medical and educational needs of the child, as required. At the same time, work with the family, teaching parents or guardians skills that can raise their incomes and help them become self-sufficient. And we do this according to the need throughout an entire area or village.

As the child's basic needs are tended to, he or she will find hope in family and in the surrounding environment. And as a result, the child will begin to hear a voice swell within him - the voice of self-esteem. It tells him something he may never have heard or felt before - that somewhere he matters just enough to have his spirit revived, his hunger satisfied, his mind challenged. The project supports 110 orphans in terms of food, vital medications and educational needs.



Partners

-District Development Office-Kisii