Volunteership in Rachuonyo North DistrictKenya and Possible Impact.

By: Mr. Millan Ochieng Otieno Programme Manager ACBOHI

AWACH SARE COMMUNITY BASED ORGANISATION

FOR HEALTH INITIATIVES
P. O. BOX 156 KENDU BAY
Tel: 0726879354 OR 0714655611 or 0721920056
Email: acoyhi2010@gmail.com or acbohi2010@bmail.com.
Website: www.awachsare.net78.net

Discussion objectives:

About ACBOHI and Rachuonyo District

Kenya
Discuss the Challenges faced by the
community.
Discuss the significant contribution by
volunteers/volunteer-ship.
Banking on networking and
partnerships.

Our Belief

"Volunteers do not
necessarily have the time;
they just have the heart.
~Elizabeth Andrew

Our Organizational Rule

We observe the A.C.H.I.E.V.E. factors

to deliver outstanding peak results.
These are our Critical Characteristics:
Attitude
Competence
Highest Reputation
Innovation
Empathic Relationships
Vision
Enabling Systems

About Us

Awach Sare Community Based Organisation for Health

Initiatives (ACBOHI) is a youth led initiative formed by young
people of Rachuonyo North District in 2008, and was registered
in 2010. ACBOHI project started as health rehabilitation CBO.
The CBO has been known for peer education as strategy for
BCC but has since then increased its development initiatives to
cover youth empowerment initiatives, food security,
environmental rehabilitation, other HIV/AIDS interventions like
care, water and sanitation, gender equity, and disaster
mitigation. It provides beneficiaries with an outlet for their
enthusiasm for positive life and for therapeutic activities and
other opportunities despite adversity of life. Currently the CBO
partners with CREPP to implement a food security project in the
region by promoting improved cassava species. ACBOHI is a
non-partisan, non-religious organization run on voluntary basis
with a trained management on issues of governance, project
management and comprehensive HIV prevention and care.

Rachuonyo North District

District within Homabay County

Split District From The larger
Rachuonyo District into North and South
Homabay county is found in the former
Nyanza province in Kenya - Africa
These changes are as a result of new
constitutional dispensation

Situational analysis.

Economically the area relies heavily on piecemeal

agriculture, nocturnal fishing in small scale as the
catchment is found along the shore, small and micro
businesses.
The region regularly face drought, unreliable and
unpredictable rainfall with most parts of the area
being sandy soil resulting to inadequate harvests by
farmers.
HIV/AIDS pandemic has set a humanitarian and
developmental crisis of unprecedented proportions in
the project area
Poverty in unmatched proportions interwoven with
illiteracy due to inaccessible unaffordable and poor
learning infrastructures

Challenges we face

HIV/AIDS pandemic and its impact

Retrogressive cultural burden/practices that
burdens the women- food production, ,
movers of household economy etc
Poverty
Ovc support (care and education)
Illiteracy and drop outs due to poverty
Food insecurity
Unreliable/ unpredictable rainfall

Our People

An Exciting cultural society, believed to

be orderly, hospitable and welcoming.
One cultural belief is that my visitor is
important than my self- I can offer my
chair and bed and would rather stand or
sleep on the coach.
They speak Luo, and a few who can
speak Swahili and English
They are nilotes. And are a fishing
community.

Volunteer support needed

In your hope to volunteer with us we hope to achieve the following:

Knowledge transfer

Networking and future partnerships

Sustainability through adopt a project option

Leisure and fulfillment of visiting Kenya

Helping hand is always welcome

Profiling of the organization as a learning destination

Impact felt through sustainable programs initiated by passionate

individuals

Our community believes a visitor than their own (the prophet at home?
Right)

Capacity building of the community and the organization

Linkage to donors and well wishers

Opening to let the world understand our culture the beauty and the
challenges Acbohi and surrounding faces.

Strategic Objective for

volunteership team

TO INCREASE HIV/AIDS
INTERVENTIONS UPTAKE AMONG
THE GENERAL POPULATION OF
KARACHUONYO NORTH LOCATION
Health club visits in schools
Community trainings
Institutional visit/experience/appraisalGovt health centre

Strategic Object

TO SUPPORT EDUCATION AND

POVERTY ERADICATION
INTERVENTIONS IN KARACHUONYO
NORTH LOCATION
Leadership
Self reliance
Structural support- proposals
Behavior change communication/Lifeskills
Adopt a child (ovc) for mentorship/support
Community survey

Strategic object

TO ESTABLISH COLLABORATION,
NETWORKS AND PARTNERSHIPS
TO ENHANCE EFFECTIVENESS AND
EFFICIENCY IN THE
INTERVENTIONS
Developing community strategic plan
Fundraising and resource mobilization
Develop linkages

Assumptions

That you will make it to kenya

That the objects are achievable
That you will adopt faster
That your sponsoring organisation will
support your basic requirements and
give you support needed
That it will be fun

Tourism and fun

You will visit:

The Huma Hills
Huma Hot springs
Simbi Nyaima Crater lake
River Awach Kibuon Delta
Lake Victoria Beaches
President Barack Obama ansestral
Home in Rachuonyo
Ruma national park/ Kisumu museum

Photo gallary

Nairobi capital

Gallery
Registration
certificate

Services
HIV/AIDS
Awareness
Poverty
eradication
programmes

Provision of
clean water

Reproductive
health

Health and
sustainable
development

Skill
Development &
Innovations

Foo d security
and Agriculture

Education
support to
OVCs
Environmental
and energy
conservation

Nature

Lake Simbi Nyaima

Gallery

Ovcs fetching water and going to school

Gallery

Uniform initiative by ACBOHI

UNIFORM INITIATIVE

Kanyadhiang primary

Ovc Uniform project

Nyangajo primary

Healthy Weight

Gender and development training at

Awach Handicraft ( hand loom)

BCC

Peer education at the youth centre

Our Organogram

Board
Trustees

Project
Coordinator

Finance &
Administration

Health, Education
& Training

Youth & Children

Empowerment

Food security and

environmental
conservation

HIV/AIDS, Social
Support

Food for thought

What is your opinion?

Do you want in?
A friend in need is a friend in deed.
Right?
We want to be heard in a different way
and helped in your own way
What is your contribution to humanity in
this life?

PRACTICES

Creative approach towards sustainable dry land

farming
Collaboration with related Ministries
Involving schools in tree planting and HIV/AIDS
educational activities
Increased youth and women involvement in
reproductive health and maternal care interventions
Improving the nutritional status of HIV/AIDS affected
individuals by promoting the consumption of
indigenous food products with high nutritious levels
Facilitating access to clean and safe drinking water
for the rural household

Process of rural /community

change adopted

Capacity building
Strengthening partnerships and
collaborations
Facilitating sharing of best practices, skills
and innovation
Promoting exchange programme learning
Sourcing of information and innovations
Information dissemination
Behaviour/attitude change

Contact us
Contact us on:
Awach-Sare Community-Based Organization for
Health Initiative (ACBOHI)
P.O. Box 189-40301
Kendu-Bay
KENYA
Mob. No: +254-726-879354 or +254-726020598
Email: acoyhi2010@gmail.com