Our focus
Water & infrastructure
We support practical initiatives that not only provide short-term tactical benefits ‘on the ground’, but that also contribute to our longer term strategic objectives. Primarily, these relate to the accessibility and sustainability of clean potable water, and to facilitating the development of physical infrastructure like community buildings, whilst providing training and associated work opportunities, supporting entrepreneurs and encouraging the empowerment of women through economic activity.
We fund the running costs and maintenance of 26 nutritional rehabilitation centres for children aged 2 – 5 years old. The focus of these centres is to provide each child with nutrition, clean water and an opportunity for them to learn basic skills. More recently we have embarked on an agricultural programme to ensure every NRC will eventually be able to grow some food for its own use.
A common theme across all our projects and areas of activity is the need to create opportunities for employment. This can be through one of a number of activities such as providing support in the form of fishing equipment, training to maintain equipment, micro loans, and creating bakeries. Our commitment to creating and encouraging employment stems from the fact that it creates wealth, increases security, and empowers community members, especially the women.
Education is recognised in the developed world as the single most influential factor that benefits the economic and social wellbeing of a country and its people. So too in the two countries where we are running programmes at the moment: Ethiopia and Turkana in Northern Kenya. We believe access to education at all levels is key to the empowerment and eventual independence of the communities we support.
Example projects
Construction of Assembly Hall
Naturomoe, Ethiopia Aim To construct assembly hall for use by the community Result Assembly hall constructed and ready for use
Assisting families to have basic lighting
Nkhotakota District, Malawi Aim To improve rural community’s lives by facilitating access to a basic and reliable source of light
Water supply for herders and fishermen through drilling a well
Kapedor, Turkana, Kenya Aim To improve the quality of life in the area by increasing the possibility of local resources
Saint Peter Health Centre, South Sudan
In 2023, UNDP classified South Sudan as the last country worldwide in the development index. This is backed up when
Nariokotome PHC and Mobile Clinic
Aim: Improvement of Maternal Child health care and provision of Primary Health Care Services of the population under Nariokotome territory
Health programme with mobile outreach in Lobur – Vitamin A project
Facilitating access to health care During 2022, the Health Programme based in Lobur, Turkana North has continued improving the services
Empowering women through agriculture
Turkana, Kenya This project aims at educating and training women on agricultural skills and increasing nutritional knowledge in the wider
Purchase and distribution of seedlings
Salima and Nkotakota Districts, Malawi Aim To ensure that families in the Benga area have access to the seedlings and
Furrows in the Desert
Furrows in the Desert is a community-based long-term agricultural development programme Aim To introduce agriculture in the ASAL area of
Secondary Education in Malawi – Bridging the Gap
Malawi, often referred to as the “Warm Heart of Africa,” faces significant challenges in its education sector despite making strides
A tale of two sisters
This is the encouraging, important, and heartwarming story of Caroline and Scolastica Epokor, twin sisters from a family of Turkana
Chikowa Nursery School, Malawi
Early education and nutrition The Chikowa Nursery School was set up to help the children of neighbouring rural communities in