Organization Cares for Needy Families, Advocates Sustainability

Kisumu, Tuesday, May 16, 2023

KNA by Fleiss Akoko

An Organisation celebrates milestones in fostering kindness by assisting and empowering impoverished children by providing them with life's essentials like shelter, food, clothing, and education.

“The SOS Children's Villages in Kenya embarked on programmes to sustain destitute families”, disclosed Lilian Juma, a representative from the organisation during the International Day of Families marked in Kisumu County on Monday.

The organisation focuses on supporting families by paying school fees for their children and enabling them financially to establish businesses for sustainability.

Ms Juma says children make up a family and if parents are supported, they will be able to live together with their kids to complete a family and they will be able to know what to do to as a family.

“We support parents by paying fees for their children and provide startup capital for parents to establish ventures to support their families. For some families we support them through providing vouchers that they would use to buy basic needs,” said Juma.

There are different types of families and being an international family’s day, families are called to come together and identify challenges they face in their various family set ups in order to chart the way for solutions.

“Today being international family’s day, we call upon parents and guardians to work together and identify the gaps so that they work towards ensuring their children reach their full potential,” added Juma.

The organisation's financial incentive targeting to support the sustainability of families has benefited many parents who could otherwise not live as a family due to financial challenges.

One of the beneficiaries is Joseph Omedo for whom the organisation paid school fees for his children and received farming inputs including fertiliser and seedlings to plant on his farm to support his family.

“I have benefited a lot from SOS children villages Kenya, they provided seeds for me to plant in my farm and now I am happy to see my farm doing well. They also paid school fees for my kids and gave me 5 goats to keep through which I get milk that I use to feed my family,” said Omedo.

As the world observes International Family Day, the organisation aims at identifying and finding lasting solutions to the challenges that hinder families from living together.

Apart from partners, the Organisation also works with teachers, the community, the church and other stakeholders in helping to improve children’s lives and the sustainability of families. 

Parents and stakeholders were called upon to identify the gaps and challenges that they may face in taking care of children during the celebrations marked under the auspices of the theme, ‘Demographic Changes and Family Well-being’.

 Courtesy; K.N.A