Dear Friend

We are glad that you are visiting our web site. The Rural - Kenya World Cultural Link shortened Cultural Link Kenya with an acronym CULINKE is an MDGs inspired organisation existing to help Western Kenya realise the MDGs by helping reduce poverty. The Millennium Development Goals are a unique opportunity to end poverty. 

CULINKE is a multi-team environment and the Professional Advisory Committee (PAC) is a reflection of this and of our understanding of poverty as a dynamic phenomenon requiring an integrated approach to address. We can’t do this without you. As chair of the PAC, a fully voluntary arm of CULINKE charged with the responsibility of providing professional and intellectual direction to the organisation, on behalf of the committee members I urge you to come along with us and help us help our people live a changed life.  

Without you and I the chronically poor continue to experience multiple deprivations, including hunger, under-nutrition, illiteracy, lack of access to safe drinking water and basic health services, social discrimination, physical insecurity and political exclusion. These multiple deprivations make it harder for these people to escape from poverty. Together as our tagline Humanity United Against Poverty which also gives us our web name says we can make a big difference.

 

CULINKE is driven by cutting edge thinking, great expectations for Western Kenya and the immense potential to end chronic poverty. The Professional Advisory Committee plays an invaluable role towards this effort.

 

The Millennium Goals represent a global partnership for development. CULINKE like the MDG objectives is concerned about people living in absolute poverty and deprivation – many of whom will be chronically poor if the MDG targets are not met. Their lives are extremely difficult and, being marginalised, their story is rarely told. CULINKE is here to highlight their plight and make a difference but we can’t do it alone. Visit C-PAGE, CHESS and CHURCH programmes to learn more and see what you can do or better still sign up to volunteer with us. These programmes help to end intergenerational transfers and the intergenerational transmission of poverty by providing education to the girl-child and youth. In this way CULINKE is promoting progressive social change.

One other key programmatic area is Health and Medical Services. In CULINKE we believe that health lies at the heart of development yet 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. It is not possible at all to make a difference in poor people’s lives without proper health facilities and services. Unfortunately health care in Kenya and indeed in many parts of Africa is usually nonexistent or highly limited and under resourced and many die prematurely of easily preventable deaths.  In this kind of environment it is impossible to achieve the MDGs by 2015.  We address this by sourcing medical equipments for under resourced rural medical facilities and enlisting medical volunteers to volunteer in rural medical facilities we work with.

We urge other professionals to join us in our endeavour to end poverty in Western Kenya. It is possible.

Chair-Professional Advisory Committee