Projects We Support

Selected Project:  

Poverty Youth Action Group Northern Frontier District, Kenya

 
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Who they are: A group of young Gabbra people (aged 20-30yr) in Kalacha Dida, Northern Frontier District, Kenya.
What they do: The group was  formed to create awareness and education of Gabbra culture through dance and drama performances to tourists; create awareness and education of HIV through workshops coordinated with other NGO's; sustainable protection and conservation of indigenous trees and exotic natural resources for drought resistance and reforestation & fuel (tree planting & irrigation); creation of  chicken and egg  small scale project; creation of small scale camel industry (drought resitant vs. cattle/ goats)

WildiZe funding enabled the group to :
1. Co-ordinate with agro NGOs in the area for tree seedlings
2. Create structures for the dance/drama performing teams
3. Hold community educational meetings
4. Kick start small scale income generating projects
5. Clean the town by implementing better waste management methods

 


FAST FACTS:

Kalacha, in the Chalbi Desert, for centuries offered, in addition to its water sources, valuable pastures around  which  Gabra and other pastotorial tribal herds nourished.
But  of late, the cycles  of drought  have been accelerating, the pastures are under pressure, and the herds are dying of hunger.
These degraded lands are also starting, in human terms,  abandoning their nomadic lifestyle  to take advantage of food aid.  In the process they become environmental refugees, losing their identity.