Kenya

Country info
Child mortality: 68 per 1,000 
Illiteracy: 22%
Life expectancy: 52 years
HDI rank: 148 out of 177 

HIV/AIDS

Tear´s commitment in 2008: €192,465

Partners: Lifeskills Promoters and RGC

Programme content:

• Providing information to 140,000 schoolchildren.
• Training hundreds of young people and 500 church/village leaders.
• Supporting 840 people with HIV/AIDS with regard to medical research, reference to HIV clinics, testing, medication and nutrition.
• Training 42 health workers.
• Establishing 42 savings and loan groups to generate additional income.

Target group: 140,000 children

Education

Tear´s commitment in 2008:€30,000

Partner: Redeemed Gospel Church

Programme content:

• Providing access to primary education for 1,525 children.
• Providing access to vocational training for 265 young people.
• Strengthening the organisation.

Small-scale enterprise

Tear´s commitment in 2008: €68,000

Partners: CITC (Nairobi) and AIC Naivasha

Programme content:

• Vocational education for 375 young people, who learn the skills they need to start their own business or to find a job in an urban area.
• Special training places for young people who have fled political violence.

Target group: 520 students

Food security

Tear´s commitment in 2008: €88,246

Partners: ACK Narok and CCSMKE 

Programme content:

Limiting the vulnerability of groups of people living in more marginal agricultural areas by facilitating cooperation between them and improving the problem-solving capacities of the population.

Emergency relief

Tear´s commitment in 2008: €44,000

Partners: RGC and LISP

Programme content:

• Working for reconciliation between slum-dwellers following post-election violence.
• Providing food and medical care to 684 families.
• Providing trauma counselling for children and their parents during and after the post-election violence.

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