As we come to the end of the year it is a great pleasure to applaud all our partners in development during this year. It started in a very high note because we were implementing a project for Cooperative Managers and Staffs that was funded by the ILO/CoopAfrica it was a great joy to explore the cooperatives and their role in poverty eradication inn our society. Although they have a thousands plus challenges especially in the areas of marketing and management the few that were able to pass through our six days capacity building programme applauded the opportunity given to them to attend the workshops.
As we were rolling out our plans we also blessed to have with us the blessed lady who is the Executive Director of the World Impact Network (www.worldimpactnetwork.org) Gabriella Van Breda who held a workshop on Global Leadership Development Training Seminar for Religious and Community leaders from what we are now calling counties Nyandarua, Kiambu and Kajaido. The training which emphasised so much on self exploration was geared to ensure that each leader could easily identify the potential in him/her and the use the locally available resources. Many who are exploiting the traits learned in the workshop with Madam Gabriella are enjoying the fruits of those few hours and days that we spent together. We know that she is planning to come again with more insight and knowledge. Together with her was Fred Breedlove who is Elder at Mountain View Community Church in Snohomish, who also is very resourceful person and the two weeks he was in Kenya were of great importance to us all. With his message of h|ope to many he inspired them on how to focus on the future. Also in the Team was Olu Oluwatofehinti Associate Pastor at the Bellevue Foursquare Church who also inspired the Religious leaders who had attended the forum.
As the runner up for the reforms were going on Merciful International Guild was not left out either because we got funding from UNDP-Amkeni Wakenya Programm to train 160 Women on the Participatory Reforms a project that emphasised on the role of women as voters. To be able to participate in the voting process in Kenya one must be in possession of the National Identification card and then register as a voter a phenomenon that we realized that it is not applicable to many women. It is estimated that over one million eligible women especially in the central region has no ID cards and therefore they cannot participate in the reform process because they cannot vote for their leaders nor the constitutional order. During the Seminars we were blessed to have with us one of the Programme Officers from Amkeni Wakenya Madam Tania Mutuku who paid a courtesy call to us and it was all joy as she shared with us and even sat with the trainees in the hall.
As we work on the final report our Tributes goes to all who funded our projects ILO/CoopAfrica, National Aids Control Council, Amkeni Wakenya, World Impact Network and many of our friends whose contribution cannot be ignored because it has brought us this far.
God Bless you all
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