Dear Prospective Partner

 

Thank you for visiting our website, since we in Rural-Kenya World Cultural Link (CULINKE) believe in partnership this is our website, yours and ours.  CULINKE belongs to all Humanit

y united in the fight against poverty. It is an MDGs influenced, sectorbroad organisation with crosscutting programmes addressing poverty, its root causes and effects along the lines of global development goals.  Today we all know poverty is not just about incomes but also about lack of physical, human and social assets and lack of savings and credit. Poverty is like multi-organ disease that demands a broad spectrum treatment. This broad spectrum treatment is equivalent to the partnership approach, the multi-sectoral approach to poverty reduction, hence CULINKE’S belief in partnership to fight poverty.  

 

Our main objective in CULINKE is to holistically improve in ways that are sustainable in the long term, the livelihoods of the poor and vulnerable who are determined to escape the poverty trap. In this way CULINKE is contributing to efforts to achieve the MDGs. We can’t do this alone. Achieving the MDGs requires stronger partnerships between local communities and grassroots’ NGOs working with them, local NGOs’ and international NGOs and between donor and partner countries. Such productive partnerships require new levels of mutual trust, respect, transparency and accountability. This is where we stand.

 

We all know partnership is crucial process to reducing poverty because the multi-dimensionality of poverty and the linkages in the MDG objectives inherently calls for a multi-sectoral approach to reducing poverty which translates into an integrated interventionist approach. Indeed globally partnerships hold great promise for accelerating progress towards the achievement of the International Development Goals.

 

We in CULINKE place human well-being and poverty reduction at the centre of our development objectives. Every single day, we constantly challenge ourselves to be better human beings. We understand that we have the responsibility to honestly reduce vulnerability and to help local communities lead fulfilling lives and also celebrate their lives by simply motivating them by building their capacities. The possibility is right in their hands.

 

They only need our support. Our partnership starts with them, and is based on dialogue, mutual trust and joint accountability. We strive to be the motivating force for always making things better. We lead by example—walking the talk and not just talking out of both sides of our mouth.

 

 

We know development is multi-faceted and complex, and we understand poverty as multi-dimensional and so we have the Professional Advisory Committee (PAC) who are senior professionals from different sectors who volunteer their specialist expertise and consultancy through multi-dimensional analysis to CULINKE.

 

The composition of PAC is a reflection of the multi-sectoral and multiple pathways approach adopted by CULINKE in the efforts to alleviate poverty. It is also in line with the interconnectedness of the MDG objectives and the multi-dimensionality of poverty in its causes and effects. PAC helps CULINKE to match relevant issues and trends in development and donor funding with the organisation’s strategic focus programmes and activities. PAC meets once every quarter.

 

We believe the struggle to reduce poverty demands a common human effort and will consistently pursue this with utmost zeal and respect the aspirations of all our partners by working diligently and with transparency and accountability, and we don’t do it for ourselves but for the people who lie at the centre of need. Our belief is simple poverty anywhere affects humanity everywhere! Working as partners we will have no limits to our achievement and will be humbled in our shared contribution to reducing poverty.

 

 

Join CULINKE in this call and help make a difference - if you have ever wanted to do something to help reduce poverty, we are providing you with an opportunity to make a difference for yourself and for someone, as a volunteer or a donor, or both…the choice is yours, the opportunity is waiting, and the list is endless, if you want to donate for or volunteer in a health facility, youth resource centre, for the girl-child education or women’s empowerment....just go to "Our Programmes" on the home page and make a choice.

 

Since transparency, accountability, commitment and professionalism are at the heart of our organisation, we waste not nor squander any single coin in our determination to use our meagre resources and donations to effect changes in the lives of so many families in Kenya. We hope you will join us in this effort. We have not re-invented the wheel but we have revised and redefined approaches to poverty reduction. You can be a part of it.

 

Thank you.

 

John-f. Oddenyo