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Title:
Saphalo community welfare project
Summary Of Project and Amount of the Money
Requested
Saphalo Community Welfare project is designed to provide basic
education for the refugees communities in Eastleigh and enable them
to curb the current Appalling socio-economic situation. As such, the
proposed project, with following detail
and financial request of as US $289,817.70, will go a long way in
fulfilling the intended mission, objectives and goals of our
Foundation
The Management
Review of Present Situation.
While the refugee community in Kenya is unpredictable, the Kenyan
Government has been generous to allow many of us to live in the
community. But without having any assistance both from the
government of Kenya and the UNHCR be it in terms of financially or
in kind, daily operations are very difficult.
IrRESPECTive of all that Saphalo education foundation SEF is
actively involved with education programs especially for children,
teens and young adults. We have a literacy program that was designed
to assist the community with communication and reading skills that
would enable them to easily adapt to their environment.
Another vital aspect of our services is to educate our community
with a general knowledge of the importance of education, which we
think they lack. Also we would like to assist them with continuing
to achieve their primary and secondary education.
Currently we are teaching mainly Oromo community (the single large
refugees from Ethiopian in Kenya), Somalia and other residing in
Eastleigh, the poorest part of Nairobi.
Many of the people we serve are designated by the UNHCR as urban
refugees with mandate letter for residing in Nairobi. However they
are without any financial assistance including education services
from the UNHCR for many years. Parents from our community could not
afford to send them to private or public schools because of economic
and security reasons.
In a nutshell, we have taught more than 1000 adults, children and
other community members since February 2001. We were able to bring
the community together and enable them to discus issues concerning
educational matters etc.
Present operating facilities
A. Five computers and one hp640 printer
B. Two classrooms
C. Library with 1500 books from DECO international
D. Two office rooms
Present sources of income
Except for little income from school fee of Kenyan shilling 200 per
month, from less than half of our 130 students, our meager current
sources of income depends on the effort of our different Oromo
individuals, private organizations and communities in Diaspora.
Present Monthly Budget
A House rent US$ 117.00
B. Teachers incentive US $42.00
C. Stationary ,office supply equipment $82.00
D. E-mail and mailing, telephone US$1790
E. Transportation US $12.00
F. Others US$49.00
Sum total = US$ 2092
Present Discrepancies
The lack of permanent income has a tremendous impact in our
day-to-day activity .For instance our plans and programs are often
interrupted by the shortage of money. It is very difficult to manage
and control volunteer workers for long period as some of them
frequently abandon their duty or the school service because of minor
disappointment.
There is also occasional police harassment even with presence of
mandate letters from the UNHCR, which designates our legal status in
Nairobi as urban refugees. However, the main obstacle /discrepancies
for our activities is the lack of finance.
PURPOSE FOR THE PROJECT
The purpose of the project is to enhance the foundation financial
and man power capacity so that it can strongly accomplish the
intended missions and aims.
The project is supposed to bring
significant changes to the lives of our volunteer staff (which would
be on paid salary) which in its turn will contribute to poverty
eradication programs in Africa it also boosts the moral of our
members and community at large by changing the life of its volunteer
servants.
The project will serve Oromo and other
community from Ethiopia ,some Somali
refugees and other destitute human being who are residing in the
dirty slum of
Nairobi namely East Leigh second street. We also want to reach
refugees comps
and extend our services in the future to the neighboring countries
like Somalia,
Djibouti, Eritrea and Sudan where refugees and other human being are
raged with
famine, war and disease.
The project is very crucial
particularly for the refugees’ communities like Oromo
who are designated by the UNHCR as urban refugees but without any
economic,
social and more assistance. We dare say it is only S. E. F, which is
providing some moral and psychological encouragement to our
community for the last two years, the services which would have been
expected from the UNHCAR and other humanitarian organization the
means strengthening S E F with your fund is nothing more than
alleviating the lives of more than 10, 000 helpless refugees in the
area.
One can perhaps not imagine that
desperate refugees can establish a kind of
community based organization like S EF just from the scratch and
provide schooling service for more than one thousand fellow refugees
children adult and teens with of course volunteer workers serving
their people for continuos years No one can also believe that S E F
has also established itself like that without any permanent fund
form any organization But we Saphalo community have proved that
refugees can also be productive human being who can bring change for
themselves and to their hosting nation we thing our who attempt is
the best testimony for those who to support their community and
remarkable for the finding agencies that S E F can accomplish more
worthwhile achievements if it will be well supported our
achievements scored so far would also be proof our strength
successfully accomplish the project under discussion.
In short we have been teaching ore than 1000 refugee. Of which half
of them were illiterates. We have also been giving counseling
against HIV/AIDS, illicit alcohol, and drug abuse chewing Mirah/
Khat but to a lesser extent. Therefore, if we will successful in
getting the project fund we are confident that we will undoubtedly
duplicate our services.
Approach
Plan of Action
There are several areas that are very important to the growth of
Saphalo Education Foundation. At present we are serving 80 students
in basically two small classrooms .The programs that are in
operation at present are schooling/ teaching / library services and
computer training. We intend to expand and develop Saphalo Education
Foundation to a broad-based Non-Governmental Organization (non-for
–profit) but at the same time be able to become self-sufficient. The
services that we would like to provide in the future are:
A/ English language teaching
B/ Computer training
C/ Internet browsing and e-mail services
D/ Telecommunication services
E/ Educational advising
F/ Communication, sales, marketing and business courses
G/ Counseling and HIV/AIDS services
Our community needs are also very challenging. We would like to
offer the following community services.
A/ Medical /clinics for general medical services and pre natal
services.
B/ Higher education opportunities for some university students
through networking with other countries.
We also plan to expand our foundation in the following areas
A/ To develop Saphalo Education Foundation from CBO to NGO.
B/ To develop our community school from informal tutorial elementary
school gradually to high school and beyond.
C/ We want to extend our service from Oromo /Ethiopian and Somali
community to other African refugee communities.
D/ We have also a plan to reach refugees in camp and neighboring
countries in Somalia, Djibouti, Sudan and Eritrea.
Sequences of Activities to Be Carried Out
The project Saphalo community welfare has been started by the
community volunteers two years ago. Now we need to have fresh
impetus to go a head.
Our first activities are to improve the functioning facilities. That
is:
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We add three rooms for computer
training ,medical services and internet browsing and
telecommunication services
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Purchasing equipment’s for the
schooling
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Paying salaries for our qualified
teachers and administrators
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Purchasing additional computers and
employ computer teachers
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Employing new teachers for teaching
international communication and other business courses We
simultaneously work on developing SEF to NGO and other necessary
facilities and services will added.
Client selection and procedure and policies will be based no the
overall organizations
Objective and
policies.
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Gender issues will be considered and
women will be given the first
priorities in all the fields mainly to encourage them in development
activities.
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Many of our beneficiary clients are
from the downtrodden or helpless
parts of the community
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In other aspects skills and
qualification can play a determinants role
Major
milestones (progressive)
Major milestone for the project will undoubtedly depend on the money
received.
With that, we anticipate a dramatic change will be seen in the
quality of our
services and more importantly in the change of our staff and
community members
in general
The project which was already started
in February 2001 is functioning with very
scarce and unpromising resources. However, we hope it will be ended
at the end of December 2003 if we get the funds we are applying for.
Justification
for the project.
The project is extremely important for the community for the
following reasons
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Almost all ( some 10. 000 ) community
members are without education health facility and communication
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95 per cent of the youngsters of the
community are engaged in chewing mira /khat and many more recently
spreading glass based smoking called
Shisha, alcohol and sexual abuses.
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According to medical reports of IOM
the HIV/ AIDS is highly spreading among our community especially
after 1999
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Almost 90 per cent of pollution
including those educated elite are not
computer literate, to benefit form 21as century of information
technologies
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As many of them are refugees, in most
cases supposed to be resettled to
the different world corners they ought to have at least rudimentary
knowledge of world geography which they totally lack now.
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Majority of them came from countryside
and need to know the philosophy of urban life, which we are trying
to provide them in the basic education courses.
Therefore the project is so crucial for the advantage of these
people and with out it they undoubtedly remain to suffer more.
The specific outcomes
expected from the project is not other than:
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Solving socio-economic problems of the
community mentioned above
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Literacy and poverty eradication from
the community
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Improving the life of our staff and
community members
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Development of SEF in to full flagged
NGO, which can provide better
services for the international communities as well.
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quality education for our students
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substantial reduction in number of
people involved in bad practices like HIV/AAIDS by the end of
project duration.
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SEF will economically be
self-sufficient by the end of the project period.
The project activities
will be evaluated and results will be reported as follows:
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The evaluation framework will be the
action plans we will set in advance. It will be carried out by the
concerned body assigned to this purpose.
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The achievements will be reported to
the funding body quarterly and annually or it it will be subjected
to the interest of the funding bodies.
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The growth of our clients
/beneficiaries and the expansion of our services.
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The monthly management committee
meeting will be an instrument for regular evaluation of the project
activities and its minuets will be used as one of the mechanisms of
reporting the result.
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The organization is keen to accept and
welcome all constructive ideas and suggestions of the funding
organization.
13. Once we are well established at our present center we have a
plan to expand and reach different refugee communities in Nairobi,
in the refugee camps out side Nairobi and in neighboring countries.
Qualifications
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The Oromo community and other
refugees have been in Nairobi at least for the last ten years with
out any assistance for their basic needs. As a result the refugee
community at present in Kenya is very unstable and many of them are
helpless human beings .Due to this sad state of affair they give
little attention to education and other progressive aspects of the
social affairs. They are rather susceptible to bad cultural
practices like smoking, chewing mira/khat’drinking illicit alcohol
and other sexual abuses.
Having been worried with this appalling situation, we were
determined to establish a kind of self-help welfare association, we
the refugees ourselves. Thus, the first operation for establishing
Saphalo Education Foundation was started in august 2000 and
established in December 2000, with mission of providing refugees
with basic education, counseling and medical as well as relief
services. As we thought education is a key to solve all problems and
bringing about the development we embarked on opening school as our
first project.
Thus the Saphalo Community School project was started in February
2001 with the immediate programs of eradicating illiteracy from our
community. By providing adult basic education; to equip our
community with general idea of the vitality of education which we
think they lack; to give the society overall awareness of HIV/AIDS
epidemic which is ravaging the entire continent. In short it is a
kind of launching a campaign for skill and literacy training for
better livelihood.
The proposed project, with its broader vision of contributing to the
African attempt of eradicating illiteracy and poverty as well as
combating the horrendous HIV/AIDS epidemics a part of the already
started SEF activities and we hope it will make tremendous
differences for our community in realizing its dreams if it will
succeed in getting funds requested in this proposal.
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Names and backgrounds of that key to
project including consultants are as follows:
No Name Qualification Position Remark
1 Bedri K. Mohamed 12+5 with work experience of 7 in project work
Chairman
2 Bishar Ibrahim Form four+4 years with experience if Secretary
3 Jamal Mohamed Yonnes 12+5 with work experience of 6 years
supervisor
4 Marium Abdulaziz Uso 12+ 1 with experience of 20 years in teaching
and 2years cashier treasurer
5 Sultan Aman 12+1 with experience of Purchaser
Consultants and cooperating agencies
DECO International
Their supportive or recommendation letters will be attached herein.
Strength
1. The sole strength of Saphalo Education Foundation lies on the
commitment of its dedicated staff and members. It is unthinkable for
any organization to start from the scratch and found itself on the
level of SEF’s achievement of today(see )
2. We believe that is one of the evidences indicating our ability to
effectively curry out the proposed project. We can also argue that
our qualified and efficient workers and the properties we have
already owned can enable us to successfully complete the project.
Detail budget
for the project
For SEF Administration Staff
No Position Salary Remark
1 Managing director (founder) $500.00
2 Assistance manager $450.00
3 Secretary $400.00
4 Treasurer $400.00
5 Finance officer $450.00
6 Education officer $450.00
7 Public relation $450.00
8 Administration officer $400.00
9 General service $400.00
10 Health officer(a doctor) $450.00
11 accountant $300.00
total $4200.00 Total for two years US $111600.00
For SEF Teachers
The following budget breakdown is made for the currently operating
informal refugee school. But that can be refined and more developed
for the formal school which could teach all curriculum in Kenya.
No Teachers Salary per month in US $ dollar remark
1 Director of school $300.00
2 English teachers(2) $200.00
3 Afan Oromo teacher $200.00
4 Swahili $200.00
5 Social science $200.00
6 Natural science $200.00
7 Math $200.00
8 Librarians(2) $100.00
9 Cleaner $50.00
10 Guard $50.00
11 Creator $50.00
Total $2900 US $69,600.00 for two years
N.B. The number of teachers and workers can be added owing to the
necessity arises.
For Purchasing Material
We have stated finished and permanent material. Finished goods are
calculated for a year.
No Materials Quantity Price per room in US dollar Total
1 House rent 4 rooms $70.00 6720.00 for two years
2 Computers 12 $649.4 $7792.9
3 Printer 2 $649.4 $1298.8
4 Chairs 20 $19.5 $390.00
5 Desks 30 $13.00 $390.00
6 Book shelves 4 $29.00 $104.00
7 Cupboard 3 $39.00 $117.00
8 Office table 10 $65.00 $650.00
9 Text books 42 $2.6 $109.2
10 Black board 3 $19.5 $58.00
11 Stationary materials N/A N/A $389.6
12 For telephone and internet service $1000.00 Per year $2000.00 for
two years
13 Transportation $1000.00per year $2000.00 for two years
14 For purchasing medicine some equipments $2500.00 $5000.00
Total $108,617.00
Other necessary materials can be added accordingly
• Total requested money US $ 289,817.70
• Add contingency US $14,490.90
2 Amounts To Be Contributed By Applicants
2.1 / Amount to be contributed by the applicants is difficult to be
clearly stated, as the organization does not have permanent income.
However, from our previous two years experience we can contribute
five percent of the money we requested.
2.2/ One can see the inconsistency of our income from detail of the
funds received from other donors.
No Name on the organization or individuals Amountof donation
received USA Time (date) Remark
1 Birraa Foundation $1104.00
2 Father Growls Welfare project Nabat Ibrahim $800.00 Material
donation our public officer
3 DECO International Material donation
4 African Education Material donation
5 Australian (Melbourne) Oromo comm. $300.00
6 North American (Minneapolis) $500.00
7 Canadian (Toronto) $425.00
8 Nairobi Oromo Community Ksh.47933
9 Oromo National Academy (ONA) $300.00
10 Jamal Ibrahim Sadik Euro.50.00 US
11 Ganamo Badhaso US $65.00
12 Abdi Barru US $100.00
Currently we do not have pending donors
3 We hope if we succeed in getting this fund for the project SEF
will stand on its foot and curry out the projects within com it will
generate from little school fees, computer training fees and
internet browsing with occasional fund raising from our community
here and in aboard.
Conclusion
The absence of any type of assistance to our refugee community by
the concerned organization and the impending socio-economic crisis
has initiated us to establish our Foundation. However, commitment
and determination alone can not make any difference. All the
shortcomings and irregularity of our activities and expenditure are
generated from the absence of permanent income for the Foundation
Recommendation
To benefit the aforementioned community:
1. Permanent sources of income is very vital both for the
orgnization and the community it is establish for
2. With that qualified and professional should be put in position
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