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CULINKE offers the development community a unique opportunity at working with civil society organisations to put both local communities and governments on a path to realising the MDGs. With the CULINKE model of a participatory tripartite benchmarking arrangement where our partners or donors are involved, ourselves and the communities, closer partnership and ownership of projects and programmes is realised which eventually leads to a high degree of implementation. The CULINKE approach of a two tier governance and professional levels each with complimenting roles and guiding management is akin to effectively run corporations. In CULINKE partnership is not just between funders and implementing organisations but with the local communities too. Our Professional Advisory Committee provides expert and authoritative advice, reasoned recommendations and innovative policy options and solutions to highly complex and sensitive issues in relation global development. We therefore use expert knowledge and proficiency to develop and implement activities in partnership with the local Community and our esteemed donors to improve not just health outcomes important for development takeoff for our people but to equip them to be self sustainable. The understanding of the MDGs by CULINKE is also unique---our understanding of the interconnectedness of the MDG objectives and the inherent but often assumed need for concurrent implementation of activities makes us the organisation to work with change the face of the world through replicable interventions. We are no doubt sectorbroad but we can’t do everything. We know poverty is multi-dimensional and so we attack it on all fronts - with partners of course. Why have primary school education without lunch for example? Or sing women’s empowerment needs without empowering them, its equivalent to giving one a hoe without a shamba or a farm! Our uniqueness is that we have an eye, a mind and an idea for all this, it’s all in working together-uniting humanity against poverty! For the first time ever small time donors or funders have an opportunity to make a big time impact through a professionally run organisation with smaller impactful projects for them. Look at our programmes and adopt one, make it yours, find other like minded people form a network, work towards implementation of the project, come and volunteer, raise funds, be there to make the change. Contact us at
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POVERTY
Poverty Reduction
Poverty is malnourishment. Poverty is homelessness. Poverty is inability to access medical care. Poverty is lack of an informed mind, lack of basic general knowledge and basic literacy skills. Poverty is lack of savings and inaccessibility to credit…living from hand to mouth by the day …merely existing, scraping through life, groping for a meaningful co-existence with others, including nature.COMMUNITY
Community Services
This programme is takes care of the Social Development Goals of the MGDs. CULINKE acknowledges that economic growth is essential for poverty reduction, but it is not sufficient. Growth must be accompanied by measures that ensure its benefits reach all segments of the population.HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS
Of great concern to CULINKE is the effect of HIV and AIDS on the productive life of the people. HIV and AIDS induces and deepens poverty. The scourge has emerged as a cause of poverty and is officially recognized as a threat to development in Kenya.ICT
Information & Communication Technology
The Department of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is youth-led and inspired. The department is a part of the social entrepreneurial and sustainability efforts to CULINKE. Under the youth it is referred to as Youth Employment for Poverty Reduction through ICT Services and Resource Centres.HEALTH
Health & Medical Services
Disease is one of the main reasons that stand in the way of the efforts of the people of developing countries trying to overcome poverty. Poverty accelerates the spread of disease and the spread of disease aggravates poverty, creating a vicious cycle. There is a fundamental relationship between health deficits and poverty.AGRICULTURE
AGRICULTURE
Orphanhood, HIV/AIDS and cultural norms like gender discrimination harm agriculture leading to debilitating hunger and extreme poverty. Families scratch out an existence that is brutally difficult, living on the edge of survival and often falling off the edge, leaving them sick and unable to afford medical care.
