Dear Visitor

 

Thank you for visiting our website, yours and ours-our website. Once here you become a part of us, we become partners, and supporters. We support each other to make 

a difference in the lives of the poor who live amongst us. We encourage you to talk to others about our work and this website because "our" tagline and web name is “Humanity United Against Poverty” meaning all well-meaning people and philanthropists worldwide are part of the war to rid the world of dehumanising poverty. 

 

We in CULINKE believe that through meaningful partnerships change in the human condition is possible. We can move humankind away from the debilitating and dehumanising state of want to a fulfilling life of equity and dignity, a life where rights have a meaning, and people are able to enjoy their time on earth.

 

We believe that this possibility comes with a meaningful present and a ‘sustainable future’ in which protection of the natural environment, economic prosperity and social justice are pursued simultaneously to ensure the quality of life of present generations and to secure the well-being of generations to come. We can achieve this only through meaningful partnership.

 

 

We believe in peer monitoring and a participatory tripartite benchmarking arrangement where our partners or donors are involved, ourselves and the communities we work with for ownership and sustainability. Meaningful and effective  partnering  takes the process a step further - from mere interaction and boardroom negotiation to working together on mutually identified problems, and compromising on expected benefits for all involved. It is for this reason that CULINKE also has the Professional Advisory Committee (PAC) to give us a deeper professional insight on project implementation. 

 

The Professional Advisory Committee (PAC) and the Board of Trustees are volunteers but we have our heart in what we are doing because we are a part and parcel of the humankind and any pain humanity goes through affects us-hence our assertion that poverty anywhere affects humanity everywhere!

 

In Western Kenya where we operate over 65% of the people live below the poverty line earning less than a dollar a day. We are appalled by this, and more so by the effect of this on the expected realisation of the MGDs by 2015. It’s simply impossible unless we rise to the occasion and join our hands to make a difference. 

 

We know everyone wants to help; only they don’t know how or there is lacks a credible way to ensure your donation, or volunteer efforts yield fruits. Here’s the opportunity to play your role in making poverty history, not just for Kenya, or Africa but for the world. The MDGs are globally binding, your action helps make a change for the world. You can do something.

 

We in CULINKE are looking upto corporate partnerships –by which I mean something more than corporate philanthropy, we would like to see a personal relationship between organisations and the corporate sector on behalf of the poor. Philanthropy with an human face where staff of the corporation, members of the local community and staff of the NGO engage in solution finding to enduring challenges through volunteering, fundraising  and lobbying for pro-poor policies and donor harmonisation. But we are also seeking out the numerous smaller private foundations, small time one off donors and other well meaning people to come out and help make a difference.

 

You will not be disappointed, we are an NGO run like a corporation, our profit is the evidence-based results at community level, we manage by objectives and ensure staff and volunteers deliver, and that board members contribute meaningfully.  We do not waste a single cent, and importantly we are eco-conscious, and gender sensitive. We will protect both your brand and our brand and our reputations then we can say “yes” we all have a meaningful engagement with each other-The Community, The Organisation and the Donor Community.

 

We take human health very seriously and address the thorny issue of population growth, while also taking care of the living. We give education the seriousness it deserves-all round education-academic to health to agricultural to social education e.g. the importance of making informed decisions to knowledge of sanitation to adopting pro-poor farming techniques to  gender equity...I mean it’s all deeply integrated, and the approach must be the same. There is no more specialisation, but there is integration, and there is partnership. No single organisation can succeed alone. 

 

Lastly climate change, youth and employment; and women, so very diverse from the face value yet inextricably bound if the MGD targets are to be realised. In CULINKE we are merely revising approaches to poverty reduction by going deeper into the causes, we can’t do it alone, we need each other, we need you?.

 

Make history by joining us and seeing your contribution make a change.