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The Women’s Sub-department - Women’s Rights e.g. Prevention of Gender Related Socio-Cultural abuses and right to education amongst others - Women’s entrepreneurial and empowerment programme - Reproductive Health (Youth (Adolescent) and women (15-49 yrs) Reproductive Health Programme) in schools and within women’s groups. - Vocational Training e.g. business development skills, Computer training, tailoring, handicraft training - batik, tie. RURAL-KENYA WORLD CULTURAL LINK (CULINKE) is committed to the achievement of world peace and supports the promotion of effective methods of conflict resolutions and arms limitation through security and justice. Human Rights Education RURAL-KENYA WORLD CULTURAL LINK (CULINKE) believes that the understanding and experience of human rights is essential to peace and development in a world where individuals may make free choices for their own lives. Concepts associated with human rights should be acquired from early stages in life, beginning within the family and continuing into formal education. RURAL-KENYA WORLD CULTURAL LINK (CULINKE) urges the government to develop and provide education programmes, appropriate to all ages, which develop awareness and understanding of the basic sanctity of all human beings. It also recognises and respects the diversity of races, cultures and creeds and the need to raise awareness of human rights issues as set out in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  RURAL-KENYA WORLD CULTURAL LINK (CULINKE) believes that violence of any kind is intolerable and in particular condemns the use and/or threat of all violence against women. Acts of violence endanger women physically, mentally, emotionally and economically, perpetuating and reinforcing unjustifiable inequalities in all aspects of women’s lives. It supports the strategic objectives stated in the Platform for Action, adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. It urges governments to secure the safety of girls and women from acts of violence, and to help them overcome the consequences when violence does occur. RURAL-KENYA WORLD CULTURAL LINK (CULINKE) recognises education as the key to the prevention of violence. It urges the provision of appropriate programmes for victims and potential victims; of legal enforcement systems and the education of the media in order to address human rights protection, provision of resources and personal responsibility. |
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.
