About Us
About Us
Helping Hand Turkana Ato (HHTA) is an indigenous community-based non-profit organization established to address the critical challenges faced by children, youth, and women in Northern Kenya. Founded on 15th September 2016, HHTA was formed by a group of 27 dedicated youth members 12 women and 15 men who united under a common cause: to uplift and empower vulnerable populations within their community.
- We are committed to ensuring that our programs are inclusive of all, regardless of background, and actively support both refugee and host communities within our region.
Our Mission and Vision
Vision
Our mission is to promote Fundamental Children’s rights, Food Security and Environmental Conservation, Sexual and reproduction health rights, and sustainable development in the Community,advocacy, training, and Involvement of Children, Youth, and women in improving their social well-being in the community
Mission
An empowered population where children, Youth and Women live up to their fullest potentials
Motto
A caring for the needy in society
Shared Value
Meaningful youth engagement, non-discrimination, accountability, and integrity.
Strategies
- Mess Meanings with the support of all working areas.
- Work with Community Based Organization(CBO’s) and liked minded groups.
- Planning through Community Participation.
- Advocacy Strategies.
- Activities for the advocacy.
- Convergence with different stakeholders and line departments.
- Alliance building.
- Strategic planning.
Strategies
- Mess Meanings with the support of all working areas.
- Work with Community Based Organization(CBO’s) and liked minded groups.
- Planning through Community Participation.
- Advocacy Strategies.
- Activities for the advocacy.
- Convergence with different stakeholders and line departments.
- Alliance building.
- Strategic planning.
Problems/Issues Identified in the target area
- Poor Educational infrastructure facilities in the project areas.
- Lack of awareness on Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health and Hygienic condition.
- Lack of awareness on the important of Education for girls.
- Lack of Education/awareness about pregnancy and forced marriage among girls.
- Spread of HIV/AIDs and Other Chronic and Communicable diseases.
- Lack of Livelihood Opportunities and limited access to youth related program at Community.
- Gender inequality & Lack of equal wages.
- Child labor problems.
Objectives of the Organization
- To create social stability and awareness on Sexual and Reproductive Health issues, Family Planning, and HIV Prevention through community sanitization, Guidance and Counseling, Condom Distribution, Referrals, and Linkage Creation to services and other related adolescent issues.
- Advocate for the fundamental Children’s rights and provide support for the (OVC) at the Community level.
- To promote Girl Child Education at all cost,s especially in the rural settings of Northern Rift Valley, Kenya.
- Create a venue for advocacy for human rights, peaceful resolution of conflicts, and sustain socio-economic development among the marginalized communities.
- To advocate for a society whereby children and youth with disabilities have equal rights and opportunities for growth and development.
- To promote Vocational training for youth, Self-help groups for the grass root empowerment.
- To promote sustainable livelihoods among youth with community participation.Promotion of girl Education, Promotion of Vocational training, and life skills development.
Target group
Children: To provide healthy personality development, Vocational Skills, and professional development for sustainability.
Women: Identifying the poor child mothers and women and women and providing income-generating activities to them through the formation of self-help groups and adopting family planning & welfare programs relating opportunities in various vocational fields by providing training in the respect fields for sustainability as their own.
Youth: To prevent the youth from participating in anti-social activities. Provide Sexual Reproductive Health education as well as career guidance to the youth. Provide Vocational training to the skilled persons. Fixing the targets to the youth for their future life. Counsel and motivate them to achieve their targets.Upgradation of the skills for the skilled workers with the latest technology.Creating self-employment opportunities.Engaging the youth in the work nature and keep away from the idleness.Creating the youth as a role model to the future generation.Involving them in the welfare activities and implementing the Government policies.Preventing the youth from drug addiction.Creating awareness for the youth on Chronic diseases like HIV/AIDS etc.
Activities of the Organization
- Fundamental Children’s Rights: Under this we know children are the futures and their rights needs to be protected by everyone in the community and should be protected as an ‘’egg’ ’there for those who violets children’s rights are our enemies forever we want to ensure that people in the community are deeply informed about the children’s rights and the penalties of those who goes against that,the Organization is carrying out community sensitization,dialogue in school especially primary’s and nurseries school campaigned to help in reducing all the Child abuses means on the Orphans and other vulnerable children(OVC) the Organization has promoted early childhood development program through linking one of the ECD center for support from one organization called Helping Hand Self-Help Group and the Organization has visited many ECD center to monitor and supervised how these children are taught ECD lessons.In Turkana West Sub-County,the Organization is linking these vulnerable Children’s to other partners to get support.
- Child Protection and Support Program: Formation and training of child protection committes,community dialogue meetings and support to community led initiatives on child protection,translation of key legal and policy documents into local languages, and data collection on violation of children’s rights.
- Reproductive Health: This is done through:Behavioral Change Communication(BCC),awareness and distribution of information Education materials,the organization is promoting Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights(SRHR)both to the adolescence,child mothers and the youth in communities and schools,there is also Family Planning Services to adolescent youth for example Condom distribution,guidance and counseling referral services at the same time fighting against the escalating HIV/AID’s Prevalence at the communities among the pregnant mothers and youth through Voluntary sensitization,guidance and counseling,referral service and supporting the positive leaving people socially,economically,morally and linking them to the nearest health facilities so as to enable them access better health service and live longer in their respective communities,community sensitization to reduce on the new Malaria infections through community Outreach service.
- Food Security and Livelihoods Support: This is our Youth Empowerment innovation to give space to young people in Turkana West and Kakuma to have access to sustainable and Profitable means of livelihoods, training of Income Generating Activities and financial management, support and to learn about modern method of farming by transforming their mind set from subsistence to commercial farming.
- Education: This is an integrated activity.HHTA is supporting 20 Orphans and Vulnerable children by provision of Scholastic materials; we are getting a very big Challenge in-terms of funding considering the level of poverty resulting from Starvation and Drought. There are many OVC’s that need support but the capacity of HHTA cannot support beyond the 20 beneficiaries. Many girl Child are getting married –off at a tender –age and also serious cation put in place especially at rural settings.
- Advocacy Peace Building and Reconciliation: Training of Community on peace building and Conflict resolution, facilitation of community reconciliation and peace meeting, community and religious dialogues and consensus building on traditional justice system, interactive games and ports among children and youth.
- Environmental Protection and Conservation: Training of Youth Groups, Women’s groups, formation of Environmental Protection and Conservation Clubs in Schools, established a tree nursery which acts as a demonstration site and suppliers tree seedlings to the Community, advocacy campaign to create awareness on the massive deforestation and land degradation, encouragement of the youth to engage in environmental conservation through different methodology such as fruits and tree planting,Afforestation,introduction of new innovation Energy Saving Stove to reduce tree cutting especially in area registered with high level of deforestation.
- Mental Health: Due to Unemployment and high Illiteracy in Northern Rift Valley- Kenya, HHTA has identified the post war effects in youth characterized by Street Life, Alcoholism, Drug and Substance Abuse.HHTA is looking for Funding for this project. It will be implemented through: guidance and Counseling, Radio Talk shows, Youth Rehabilitation and Skills promotion/Capacity building center and Community Outreach. This is an area not being supported by any Organization and the Government Facilities are lacking. We feel there is need for an immediate response to this programmed.
Meet Our Amazing Team
Patrick Kiogora
Program Officer – HHTA OVCs+254724724406.
kiogorapatrick@gmail.com
Festus David Muya Ebenyo
Program Coordinator+254 721
Vanjil Elim Losike
Board Chairperson+254 718 911640
Abdulahi Longech Nakwawi
Executive Directorabdinakwawi@gmail.com
+254 721 434 875
