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We are excited to be continuing our partnership with the funding champions for grassroots leaders, Segal Family Foundation. Over the past 5 years Segal has helped us move beyond crisis-management, by supporting us to adopt a more strategic-based approach that still gives us the flexibility to respond to the emergency needs of our semi-nomadic communities. Segal’s inclusive approach means that partners like us, benefit from their advocacy for African-founded, African-based, and African-led organisations who continue to disproportionately face sharp funding inequalities.
Don't worry if you missed it! Click on the video and catch up on Khadija's interview to hear what she had to say about facing and adapting to crisis.
Over the last couple of months we have joined in several online forums sharing wisdom and inspiration with Segal's illustrious African Visionary Fellows. The New England International Donors group recently hosted a virtual symposium on Innovations in International Philanthropy, inviting our very own Khadija to share her dynamic and important perspective on how funders should be thinking about responding to the effects of COVID-19 on the region. Watch the interview to see what she had to say about the longer-term issues for communities and the key defining factors in making progress possible.
Join us at The SFF Future Summit 2021 on October 7th to hear from some phenomenal African voices about how they envision the future for Africa. This is a space where a diverse global community of change leaders will gather to deconstruct and reshape trends in Africa from all angles. Take the opportunity to explore how we can use our various resources to support a vision for the continent that is locally authored and globally relevant.
Our School
Transforming ‘street connected children’ into productive individuals.
After the school closures last year, and the impact of Covid related fears, we are excited to be regaining momentum with 145 pupils attending our inclusive school programme. Tumaini Senior School is home to 75 ‘street connected children’ providing them with a secure foundation that makes learning possible. We are working with our multidisciplinary team of Teacher-Carers to develop a holistic approach towards tackling behaviour change and rehabilitation, while restoring mental and physical health.
Thanks to the inspiration from Railway Children at the recent “Breaking The Cycle” conference, we are increasing our learning around positive discipline and tackling harmful cultural norms that ignore the emotional needs of children. We are learning to adjust our expectations to meet the psychological needs of our pupils by increasing access to creative therapeutic support. As part of our efforts to improve the capacity and safety of our beneficiaries we have been engaging our staff in regular training and skills development.
Meet the advocates championing "Therapy for boys": Alex, Munene, Anthony, Felix and Rama pupils at Tumaini Senior School. Tackling stigma that boys aren't supposed to express their emotions, this team is helping their peers to recognise their feelings and celebrate their imperfections. Labelled delinquents and 'street boys', these boys now stand tall with confidence and self-esteem. The boys have passed through the Play and Creative Arts therapy programme and feel it's important to create awareness in their school about the importance of taking care of mental health, especially for boys.
Tumaini Trade and Talent Centre
Skills and education advancement, with improved economic resilience.
The current education system in Kenya has unfortunately been politicized deterring children from joining vocational training institutions, forcing every primary school graduate to join a secondary school. This is unhelpful for those families who cannot afford the fees, or for those vulnerable children who are unable to complete the 4-year academic learning programme, due to family responsibilities.
Our new Trade and Talent Centre aligns with the National Youth Development policy, which focuses on development issues for youth between 15 – 35 years. We are continuing to campaign for vocational training education to be made accessible for children from the age of 15, when they graduate from primary school. Until then we are continuing to integrate vocational training lesson plans, enabling Tumaini Senior School pupils to participate in the practical skills based activities.
We are excited about the enthusiasm from our youth leaders, keen to take ownership of the new Trade and Talent Centre by helping to develop accessible training and entrepreneurship courses and activities for disadvantaged youth. Our graduating team of certified Trainers in Financial Management are set to take the lead in starting their training programme for unemployed youth in Isiolo, who want to start their own businesses. Topics include budgeting, saving, financial policy and money beliefs. After detailing proposals of their small business ideas, they will have a chance to apply for small start-up loans to get things started.
Our Youth
Building an effective model of empowerment for marginalised youth.
Our inclusive Youth Peer Provider model is focused on behaviour change, empowering ‘street connected youth’ with capacity building, enabling them to positively influence their peers. The ‘peer to peer’ support helps to ensure that the groups are not relying on us for their own change process but are instead accessing more support than what we are providing. Through the formalisation of informal street youth groups, we have been able to work with 250 young people across diverse communities, equipping them with information and skills that result in improved decision-making skills and attitudes geared towards self-reliance. Topics include economic empowerment, employment promotion, HIV and adolescent reproductive health education.
Our Community
Improving health resilience, safety and community stability.

Our unique approach towards Community Health involves our beneficiaries in taking the lead in their own change process. Due to the limited number of professionals in our area and the diverse cultural and religious fabric of our communities, we choose to invest in those who have the best resilience to do the work. This includes having the ability to address sensitive psychological issues, which are best known by people who understand them and live alongside them. From 25 years of experience, we have learnt that people respond best to what they know and believe in, trusting their own kind of people to inspire them to change and adopt habits for positive living. Members have chosen to advocate for the use of traditional healing methodologies using natural herbs and nutrition to support an integrated approach towards health and well-being.

Our focus is now on the renewal of our commitment to community health needs following the impact of Covid19. We will be addressing the health and welfare issues most affected, including HIV, TB, Cancer, maternal health, neglect, and abandonment among the elderly. We recently completed our Community Health Worker recruitment process for 25 volunteers from 5 of our urban slum areas. We are currently re-training a further 15 Home Based Carers from the Turkana communities to reach the more traditional homesteads in the more rural areas. Our outreach team comprises of 40 women who have committed themselves to represent their communities as confidants, bridge builders and advocates for non-discriminating and dignified access to health services.
Looking Ahead
 1st December World Aids Day: Global Solidarity and Shared Responsibility
Over the last year we have seen how the COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated the challenges faced by people living with HIV, women and girls and key populations. The crisis has widened the social and economic inequalities that increase the vulnerability of marginalized groups to HIV. It is our experience that community activism and solidarity are paramount in providing people affected by HIV with information, services, social protection and hope.
In the run up to Worlds Aids Day we will be launching a campaign to:
  • Work with faith leaders, local government stakeholders and our support groups of people living with HIV, to engage in awareness raising activities that advocate for reducing inequality, human rights and gender equality.
  • Raise funds to deliver our life-changing and community-led work supporting people affected by HIV and marginalised groups whose vulnerability has been increased due to COVID-19. 
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