Kenya: Community Development Projects
SVQF’s community development projects in the Narok South District of Kenya’s Masai Mara take a holistic approach to poverty alleviation, simultaneously providing health care, primary education, safe water and sanitation, and income-generating programs for the women of the community. The immediate improvements in health and social services, coupled with the long-term economic development initiatives, will enable the communities to independently maintain an improved standard of living once the project is completed.
In each project, SVQF’s primary partner is Free The Children, founded by international child rights activist Craig Kielburger. Free The Children and Craig Kielburger have been recognized on several occasions for the excellent work, receiving the World’s Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child in 2006 and three nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. SVQF also partners with other organizations to complement the work done by Free The Children: MoojAnimations has created educational animated children’s films to strengthen health and sanitation training in the communities; and Doc to Dock has provided medical supplies and equipment for a mobile health clinic as well as for the District’s first permanent medical clinic.
Documentary on SVQF in Kenya 2009
Educational animations for Salabwek schools 2009
Shipment of medical equipment to Salabwek, Kenya, 2007
