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About Kiinii sustainable initiative website

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Kiini Sustainable Initiative (KISI) is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) operating and located in Nyeri town, Mang’uru house, at 1st floor room 9. The Organization was founded in 2005 as a youth group and was later elevated to a Community Based Organization. KISI was born from the merger of youth groups where leaders exchanged ideas of trying to solve problems facing community including unemployment, HIV/AIDS stigmatization, value addition of locally produced goods, and gender inequity.

The Organization advocates for the gender rights of each and every individual person in the society as such, the organization works with the women, men and the disadvantaged people in the society like orphans, physically challenged people and the aged.

The Organization assists the community to achieve their dreams through participatory rural appraisal by;
• Training
• Community mobilization
• Initiation and implementation of income generating activities
KISI has identified 40 women groups and 5 youth groups that are committed and active with an average number of 22 members per group. The main activities undertaken by the organization are:
1) Agri-business and environmental projects
2) HIV/AIDS issues
3) Orphaned and Vulnerable Children (OVC)
4) Gender empowerment
5) Micro-credit facilities

VISION

To empower the community to be able to implement their own sustainable initiatives through revealing, mobilizing and utilizing of the hidden resources in order to meet their social development challenges.
MISSION

To work aggressively towards the elimination of gender violence, stigmatization of HIV/Aids infected and affected orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC) and poverty eradication by reaching the poor and the very poor with a range of financial services to enable them to realize their potential.