Kenya Service Trip 2017
8591 km is the distance between Hong Kong and Kenya. Could you imagine that people outside the 8591 km how to live a life? Most of the people living in slums are low-income earners with a per capita income of less than $ 1.9 a day below the international poverty line. They also encountered many difficulties. In addition to difficult for affording living cost, suffering from exploitation, there are no clean water, the lack of sanitation, and living in the simple and crude house. As a result, children need to earn life expenses because of the hard at family. Ultimately, they cannot complete the study and they are no knowledge and skills, so that the outlook they can choose is very limited.

Basic knowledge and skills in Hong Kong, such as basic computer book processing, basic computer operations are very popular. However, those learning cost in Kenya is a major decision whether the family's life is full of food and clothing or not. A group of volunteer of youngsters will live in Kenya from 27 July to 7 August 2017. A sustainable community center will be established in the Kenya’s second largest slum, Mathare Valley, for improving their living conditions. At the same time, it is hoped that the people of Hong Kong will pay attention to Kenya so that if they cannot go with us, they can also contribute their helping to the people in need.

Introduction

Education in Hong Kong

In Hong Kong, every child can receive 12 years of free education. According to the statistics on the number of students in the 2015/16 annual report of the Education Bureau, the number of primary schools in Hong Kong is 337,558 and the number of secondary schools is 352 609. The literacy rate in Hong Kong has been getting closer to 100%

Education in Kenya

According to a survey conducted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for UNESCO for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Kenya has a literacy rate of 78 per cent over 15 years of age. This means that 10.31 million people are illiterate among the 465 million (2015 population). And this 10.13 million people is living in the lowest level in Kenya. With Africa's largest slum, Kibera, it is only a few minutes away from the heart of the capital city of Nairobi, where the unemployment rate is as high as 50%. (What is the main reasons? A lack of knowledge and skills)

Poor slum dwellers only eat a meal a day. No money is available for their children to go to school. Their children would face the problem of unemployment, causing serious cross-generation poverty while they are growing up and a lack of knowledge and skills. According to the Kenya Ministry of Education statistics, there are currently more than 1 million children due to poverty out of school. 9 children out of every 10 poor families cannot complete primary school. The rate of girls out of school is 50%, so this is why they cherish every opportunity of leaning.

To break the intergenerational poverty in slum, it is an important to raise the knowledge and skills of slum youths to increase their employment opportunities and to improve the economic situation of the family for achieving the goal of poverty alleviation. We hope provide different learning opportunities in a sustainable community center for slums including basic computer book processing (Microsoft Office) and sewing skills. We also set up a small shop, so that young people can learn small business skills. Besides, a toy library will be set up for the slum kids to enjoy playing with toys safely.

Project Proponent

The project proponent is a volunteer group of IVE (Tsing Yi) students from different departments, hoping to apply the knowledge they have learned to help the needy.

Purpose of fundraising

Hong Kong's dollar is equal to $ 13 for Kenya, and through our volunteer group, a small contribution from Hong Kong people can be assembled to build a sustainable community center for Kenya slums. they can improve their life skills from which. All the money raised will be used to build the infrastructure of the community center, such as the purchase of sewing machines, chairs, stationery, small shops of the first batch of goods, etc., it will also be used to set up the power supply system.

The Service List of Community Center (Initial Stage)

1. Fundamental computer book processing (Microsoft Office)
2. Sewing skills
3. Toy library
4. Small Shop：i) cheap copy and print service

                                    ii) cheap groceries such as rice, oil and cleaning supplies

Operation of Community Center

The first phase of the community center will be located in one of the slums of primary school, Caso Upendo Primary School. We will provide the training about the basic knowledge of computer for teachers and mature students. they thus become the first batch tutor. At the same time, 2-3 local college students will be invited to volunteer to form a mentor team with trained teachers to provide computer basic knowledge courses to slum youths.

Sewing skills will be taught by local teachers

The toy library will be managed by the school teacher and opened to the slum children after school

Hiring slums for sale and loan agents in the small shop, school teachers are responsible for the supervision and financial management. Also, it will recruit slums of young as interns for learning the operation as the store.

In addition, it is recommended that the center provide some activities to attract young people and children to participate in the community center

Schedule

Five year’s planning

As a result of the establishment of a vocational skill promotion center is a long-term plan.

We have a five-year plan to implement this plan.

Budget