Macheo Children’s Centre

Project Macheo Children’s Centre

The Macheo NGO was founded in 2005 with a single goal: creating a fairer future for Kenyan children. Macheo, which means “sunrise” in Kiswahili, supports vulnerable children in the urban slums and rural areas around Thika, Kenya. Through a self-designed and developed system, Macheo identifies needs, determines how the root cause(s) of these needs can be addressed quickly, effectively, and efficiently, and assesses whether these interventions produce the intended changes.

Holistic approach

Macheo believes in tailor-made solutions. There is not one solution for the challenges these vulnerable children and their families face. The situation is too complex. This is the reason why Macheo approaches identified needs in a holistic way: Macheo aims to see the total picture, including root causes, instead of dealing with only one (symptomatic) need. When Macheo helps, they look further than only the one individual who needs help; where possible Macheo involves the entire community to partner with them to solve the needs.

Macheo Education Girls & Economic Empowerment programme

Ten years ago, A4C embarked on a mission to empower the Macheo Children’s Organisation, and we were part of various projects in those ten years. In 2022, we started supporting Macheo’s Educating Girls & Economic Empowerment project, by paying the fees for the all-important first year of High School for 54 girls and by supporting the girls’ families to start a small business. An adolescent girl not being in school is at very high risk in Kenya. So getting her in school is the first priority to prevent social exclusion and teenage pregnancies.

Family economic empowerment program

The initiative’s primary goal is to facilitate the pursuit of secondary education for teenage girls. This is achieved through a collaborative effort between guardians, the Macheo school fee payment intervention, and the family economic empowerment program. Guardians receive support in establishing small enterprises, empowering them to cover school fees for a three-year period. Simultaneously, the girls are enrolled in high school, and the fees for the first year are covered. The guardians exhibit strong dedication to this noble cause through the success of their small business initiatives.

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