Murera Community Empowerment & Support Organisation

To mobilize resources for the benefits of orphans, vulnerable children as well as widows and their families in Ruiru district of Kenya with an aim of supporting immediate needs that will enable these marginalized community members be self reliant and respond to their needs and overcome illiteracy, poverty, hunger, unemployment and health problems holistically.

The principle Philosophy of the organization include the following;
-Preferential option for the poor
-Holistic approach to community development
-Collective responsibility of the project beneficiaries
-Equity and Gender equality
-Enabling marginalized communities to participate in their own development through support and empowerment

Murera Community Empowerment and Support Organization (MCESO) was founded in March 2000 and later registered in the year 2003. MCESO is a non-profit, on-governmental, and non-political social service organization. We came together to offer support, empower, and equip each marginalized orphans, vulnerable children and widows in Ruiru district through provision of vocational training skill opportunities, health education, economic empowerment, provision of clean drinking water and establishing sustainable poverty eradication projects that will have multiplier effects to the target groups to help them overcome the burden poverty and unemployment hence lead a self reliant life in future.

We have been working actively in community development works in various parts of Ruiru District by implementing different programs for the empowerment and uplift of these marginalized communities since inception. Murera Community Empowerment and Support Organization is designed to reach, inform, assist and give hope to hopeless to ensure that get appropriate help and get it as early as possible, thereby giving them a much greater chance of taking their rightful place and playing their part in the society. We also collaborate and work with other local and international organizations.MCESO has since then became a strong grassroots organization, working to reduce poverty and improving the livelihoods of the poor orphans, vulnerable children as well as widows and their families in Ruiru district of Kenya.

We are currently in need of funds to help us procure equipments and facilities for water harvesting as well as construct hygienic and save sanitary facilities for over 2,400 in four different local primary schools.We are requesting and donation from $ 50, $100, $200, $ 500 and above.Too, we will be glad if students can contribute for this noble cause.

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Where water is an important resource, which sustains people’s life, there is lack of reasonable access to safe and clean drinking water for the children in local primary schools in Ruiru district of Kenya. The target schools have the potential to harness rain water but this has not been induced due to lack of harvesting facilities. School children in the target schools have been drinking dirty and contaminated water increasing water related diseases; like diarrhea, dysentery, and several other water-borne diseases. The schools have unhygienic sanitation facilities resulting some of which have no doors for privacy resulting to absenteeism especially girls.

 Project goals

-Promote provision of clean water & hygienic sanitation in target local primary schools in Ruiru district

-To increase the number of school children with sustainable and reliable access to clean drinking water and hygienic sanitation facilities in Ruiru District

-Improving the health care system in local primary schools in Ruiru district

-To provide good quality and adequate water to reduce the health risks especially of children under age of 5 (reduce child mortality rate).

Project objectives

-To increase the availability of safe and clean drinking water for the 2,400 children in local primary schools in Ruiru district by the end of March 2012 by installation of rain water harvesting equipments and facilities.

-To lessen the incidence of water borne disease among the young school going children in the target primary schools from 20% to 50% by the end of March 2012 through sensitizing and educating the children on the importance’s of drinking clean water always at schools and at their homes

-To lessen the incidence of disease caused by poor sanitation and personal hygienic measures from 30% to 70% by the end of March 2012 by constructions of save and hygienic sanitary blocks in the target schools.

-Carry out sensitization, hygiene promotion and training on drinking clean water and observing proper sanitation measures for the children in the target schools.

-Strengthen capacity of local schools to maintain clean water sources for children

-Enhance knowledge of (WASH) Water and Sanitation Hygiene education in local primary schools in Ruiru district

-Promote schools project ownership through establishment of hand wash and hygiene clubs to ensure project sustainability

Project activities

-Meeting the target school principals and explaining to them the importance of the project to the children as well as the entire schools.

-Formation of the implementation committees in each school to work together with MCESO staff

-Selection and survey of the area where latrines will be constructed in each of the target schools

-Procure building materials for construction of latrine units in each of the target schools using locally available materials ensuring that children are empowered to adhere to class times and upholds professional standards, as well as their dignity. This number is determined by commonly held minimum standards based on gender. The project will target a ratio of 25 girls per door and 30 boys per door, plus one urinal facility in each school.

-Installation of hand wash stations at each of the target school, sited appropriately near latrine blocks to facilitate good hygiene behaviors. The project-supported student WASH clubs will be responsible for conveying to their schoolmates the importance of hand washing at critical times and its relevance to community and their personal health. This will include practicing hand washing at critical times, such as after using a latrine or before cooking, and best practice in using a latrine. Hygiene education will be carried out in schools to maximize the spread of these messages and safe practices across the school children.

-Procure equipments and facilities for rain water harvesting for each of the target schools. This will include, 10,000 litres water tanks, gutters for water harvesting, fisher boards, nails, paint, and hand wash basins among others. Currently, the target schools are plagued by unreliable and often completely unavailable safe water supplies which are not adequate for both drinking and washing of classrooms and toilets; this forces children to bring more water from home, exacerbating an already critical water situation in surrounding communities. The procured equipments and facilities will be installed at each school helping to correct rain water for the school going children.

-Organizing hygiene education in target primary schools in Ruiru district. Raising the awareness and promoting key hygiene messages and practices. School health and hygiene education will be conducted, one for each school, where health education messages on hygiene promotion will be passed to the children through child to child (CTC) and child hygiene and sanitation transformation (CHAST) approaches will be adopted. Mural drawings on school walls will be used to reinforce CHAST methodology. CHAST and CTC tool kits will be developed to facilitate the children to cascade the approaches. Hygiene promotion IEC materials will be developed such as brochures and booklets.

-Monitoring and evaluation of the project progress periodically

-Report to the stake holders and donor communities

Target benchmarks of the project after completion

-At least the target primary schools in Ruiru district will have safe sanitation and drinking water facilities.

-The will be a percentage reduction in water shortages in the target schools and therefore more time for learning.

-Reduction of diseases associated with drinking dirty water and observing unclean hygienic behaviour among the 2,400 school children

-The target primary schools will have functional hand wash and hygiene clubs at the end of the project period

-At least 2,400 children aged 3-15 years in the target schools will have improved hygiene and sanitation behavior, such as use and regular maintenance of latrines, and practice hand washing with soap.

2,400 children will know about risks due to unsafe water and sanitary to their health and how to avoid these risks, and have passed on this knowledge to their families.

-Safe sanitation and hygiene practices will reach and benefit children’s families and community.

-There will be an improvement in the hygiene, sanitation and essential learning as well as life skills of the pupils in the target schools

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