August 2011

In slum areas severely damaged by the violence after the Kenyan presidential election in 2007, JCCP is working to build up the capacity of Community-Based-Organizations to co-exist harmoniously and to improve the safety of their community.

In 2010, JCCP trained the youth in the slums as Community Animators – which means people who animate or actively stimulate the community (referred as “CA” hereinafter), – in order to provide psychological care to the victims of the violence. This year, CAs have established an organization named “Animator for Development” (“AFD”), and working for improvement of the living condition of the slum residents. As one of its operations, AFD provides psychological care to drug abusers. JCCP is training CAs on counseling methodologies for drug abusers.

Posted in November, 2011

 From February 2010 to October 2011, JCCP ran a program named “Development and Implementation of Community Project for Reconciliation and Co-existence through Capacity-building of Community-Based-Organizations after Post-election Violence”. This program was designed for internally displaced persons (IDPs), who were forced to flee their homes due to violence, for the purpose of enabling IDPs to co-exist with host communities and become economically independent. The attendants were divided into groups, and learned how to raise livestock cooperatively within the group, save the profit, and provide a loan to members. This project facilitated the interaction of IDPs and local residents, and improved economic conditions of great number of people.

Monica (true identity hidden), a single mother of six children, was infected with HIV/AIDS. Nursing homes only accepted children up to four in number so she was raising the remaining two at home, but she could not send them to school since she could not afford school uniforms. Her simple living solely depended on inadequate governmental aid, which does not enable her even to feed her children properly.

However, Monica’s circumstances changed greatly after she committed herself to JCCP’s project and learned to raise sheep as a member of a group.“I learned to build good relationships with the people outside of IDP camp. I did not have any earnings beforehand, but after I started to save and borrow money within the group, First I borrowed 3,000 shillings (approximately JPY 3000) and started a business selling vegetables. Now I earn 4,000 shillings (approximately JPY 4000) a month, and have bought school uniforms for my children. Also, I can afford food now. I learned it is very important to cooperate within a group.” – Monica told us happily.




Report of July 16, 2011

 IIn July 2011, AFD and its partner organizations called for slum residents to take part in the clean-up of the area. This activity aims to promote interaction and mutual understanding among residents through group work.
On the day, more than a hundred people, from child to adult, attended to clean up the slum area. They cleaned backstreets, scooped out drainages, removed oversized trashes. The city trucks cleared the collected garbage. The attended residents cooperated with each other, and took part in the clean-up with smiles on their faces.. 



JCCP continue to support the slum residents by enabling them to improve their lives by their hands through capacity-building of community-based-organizations such as AFD.