CITIZENS for CHANGE - CBO

On the 14th Day of February 2021, our Deputy Secretary/M&E Austin Mcharo (in black t-shirt) and Executive Director R.M. Mackenzie delivered relief food to identified needy widows in Jorori Village, Matuga Sub-County - Kwale County. The widows benefitted from the  "FEED A WIDOW"  program which was run under the  Support the NEEDY Initiative  (Support to MAKE A CHANGE) , which is a brainchild initiative of our Executive Director. The initiative is intended to support needy cases ranging from Education, Health, relief food, and other Basic Humanitarian Challenges. FEED A WIDOW  program was spearheaded through an online resource mobilization under the leadership of our Executive Director. PHOTOS

On 24th October 2020 , as an Organization, we were actively presented by our M&E Officer Austin Mcharo in the Chachawiza Maskani Program at Mwaroni Primary School Grounds courtesy of our partners SambaSports Youth Agenda ( SSYA) . The program revolved around DIVERSITY where participants were taken through; - What is diversity? - How is diversity important in our socio-economic collaboration? - What are the challenges brought by diversity? We continue to appreciate SSYA for their continued engagement and support to us - ASANTENI SANA.

Yesterday, we were delighted to be presented by our Executive Director to the historic inauguration of the Kwale Youth Assembly which took place at the Kwale Cultural Amphitheatre. Our ED also had the privilege to represent Kwale CSOs and deliver a speech on behalf of Kwale CSOs Consortium, Presiding Convener Mr. George Jaramba. As Organization we are looking forward to engaging and collaborating with any like-minded partner in order to seek better governance and service delivery for the great people of this County and Kenya at large. We are determined to continue championing the rule of law, transparency, accountability, diversity, and exclusivity among others. .

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, many families have been affected socially and economically leading to psychological effects including cases of trauma within families. This is what led to our Organization to organize an activity dubbed “Trauma and COVID-19 Awareness” with an aim of creating awareness basically on the effects of Trauma with regards to the novel virus . We narrowed down to the mitigation measures of how to stay safe, fit, and healthy during this period of the global pandemic by taking participants through the focal steps of ensuring everyone is out of danger of the novel virus. On the Trauma aspect our guest SambaSports Youth Agenda, Partnership Advisor - Mr. Mohamed Mwachausa took the participants through what is trauma, types of trauma, causes of trauma, how trauma manifests in human life, and finally how to cope with trauma.

Today, we had a very constructive planning meeting on our upcoming activity on Trauma and COVID-19 pandemic. 

  #WakoWapi ? On 30th August 2020, we joined other Human Rights Organizations from Kwale, Mombasa, Kilifi, and the great people of Coast region in commemorating the International Day of the Victims of ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES in Msambweni Sub-County, Kwale County - Kenya. The event was marked by conducting a Peaceful Procession from Kona ya Musa, Diani to Corner Beach where we held a 30-minutes vigil, followed by a submission of a Memorandum to the Area OCPD.