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Friends of KCDN,

KCDN today presented the completed Strategic Plan 2010- 2013 to Akiba Uhaki Foundation. We must thank AUF for all the support and partnership that we have enjoyed in the last 2 years. We must also thank all the Friends of KCDN who have contributed to our events. It is you who made us strong. We want to thank all of you as well.

More specifically, we want to thank AUF for supporting the development of our Strategic Plan that we submitted today. It was not easy, coming on the wake of a raid on our offices that left us with nothing and without an office.

We successfully completed the development of our Strategic Plan and Mr. Jasper Morara did us proud. He was able to guide us through our thematic areas and we can say with confidence now that we want to stay with these issues.

We now have some clarity of thought on the 3 Thematic Areas namely;

* Child Support;
* Environmental Management; and
* Peace Building.

1] On the KCDN Child Support Initiative, we are down sizing our support to Orphans and Vulnerable Children to the initial 250 children that we supported in 2008. We want to be more effective with our support to these children to enable us provide educational materials such as stationery, books, uniforms, shoes, socks and such like schooling items as we also follow these children to their houses where we will seek to look at how they do their home works and how and what they eat.

This will call for provisions of such items like paraffin and unga. We will make it such a holistic and interactive approach to child support for which we will invite many players to help see us it through.

2] On the KCDN Environmental Management Initiative, we will enhance the confidence that we have with the schools and the community to focus more sharply on our role as society in environmental campaigns. We believe that it is our responsibility as consumers of services being rendered by the various government arms to enhance environmental awareness and invite each one of us to be responsible in how we handle our waste and dispose of the same.

This will call for positive interventions from key players in the sector as we invite the community to also be pro-active in Environmental Management.

3] The KCDN Peace Caravan will be restructured and will focus more on Peace Building. We will engage the various communities to find strength in our diversity. We will go out and create linkages that will help promote good neighbourliness and respect for each tribe. We will advance the call for respect, tolerance and togetherness.

We must appreciate all the support that AUF and all Friends of KCDN have given us to make sure this thinking is captured in a Strategic Paper, and we know that you will walk with us through the implementation stages.

We want to thank Felix, Sarah and Dorine for receiving our report. I also want to appreciate my colleague and Board Member at KCDN- Mr Caleb Ben Onyango for making time for this important engagement in the life of KCDN.

Lastly, I want to appreciate Mr. Ezra Mbogori, the CEO Akiba Uhaki Foundation for the short discussion we had with him on the way forward for KCDN, CCNSET and Vugu Vugu Mashinani. I know we will stay with the issues in all things we do.

Peace and blessings,

Odhiambo T Oketch
CEO KCDN Nairobi,
PO Box 47890-00100,
Nairobi, Kenya.
Tel; 0724 365 557, 0735 529 126
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Odhiambo is the current chairman to the Stakeholders Evaluation Team on Performance Contract and Rapid Results Initiative at the City Council of Nairobi- CCNSET—

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