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Culture Information Pastoralist Development

P.O. BOX 302 – 60700, MOYALE

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QUARTERLY REPORT APRIL – JUNE, 2011

INTRODUCTION

The community of Sololo passed through hard period of severe drought arising from failed long and short rains of 2010. The long rained which was expected in March and April was late and very short. The community lost many livestock which increased poverty level even higher. OVC were very vulnerable to the drought due to lack of food and water. Sololo water tankering project for beneficiaries of OVC was extended to the month of April.

Obbitu children project Sololo has been running on smoothly. The activities has been running smoothly despite the severe drought which affected the whole Sololo community

1.       OBBITU CHILDREN’S VILLAGE

The children have grown and developed physically, intellectually, emotionally, in height and size.

PLANNED ACTIVITIES

2.      Provision of balance diet

3.      Provide clothing

4.      Provide curative ,preventive and promotive health services

5.      Improve performance in school

6.      Provide entertainment for children living in Obbitu

2.  BALANCE DIET

Food served for Obbitu children was well balanced served in adequate quantity. Children who stay at the village whole day eat 4 times per day. While children who go to school will eat lunch at school have light late lunch and dinner at Obbitu village.

The children who go to school cannot come back for lunch. They eat lunch at school. CIPAD pay for their lunch every month.

Fruits were not locally available, either bought from Ethiopia via Moyale or Nairobi.  The children have been eating fruits consistently available fruits were oranges,bananas and some times mangoes.

3.      CLOTHING

Obbitu children living in the village have adequate private clothes and change daily for cleaning and personal hygiene. Clothes  are washed daily.

4.      HEALTH CARE OBBITU CHILDREN

Between the moth of April and June 13 children were treated for minor ailments like stomach ache, URTI, malaria and ear ache at the village using the first AID drugs. Hadija- 106- 0293- malaria positive and Jarso – 106- 0169 was treated for asthmatic attack, were taken to Sololo mission hospital and treated at out patient.  No case of malnutrition among the children. Children bathe every evening. They are clean in body and clothes

5.      EDUCATION

13 children are in primary school, 7 girls and 6 boys. The class performance has greatly improved and encouraging. Dido – 002 -0005 has maintained a lead position in his class. Abdirahaman – 046- 0109 has greatly improved and become top of his class. Others also got good positions in the school had above average marks at monthly tests.  The children have text books at a ratio of 1:2 while some have all the text books alone. Exercise books, pens pencils, sharpeners and erasers and crayons are adequately provided.

Performance o f public school was very poor due to overcrowded classrooms and few learning materials and understaffing,

6.      ENTERTAINMENT

Play materials available to children in Obbitu village includes old tyres, plastic, puzzles, bottle tops, reach home game designed by the visitors. These games entertain the children and keep them busy and learning. They watch cinema on Friday and Saturday evening, raamole children still come and watch cinema with us

7.      WATER FOR OBBITU CHILDREN VILLAGE

Before the rains in May, the beneficiaries of OVC were getting water from Obbitu village. Water boozer was used to fetch water from Walda. Currently 15 tanks are full with water, while 5 tanks are being used by the 2 houses and the donkeys

8.      Lighting:

The village has adequate power from the big generator and the solar panels of each building. There was no breakdown of the generator. One security light between the children house is not working. The generator was started from 7.00pm – 9.00pm John Kalili changed oil once.The weather was cool and cloudy; sunlight was not very strong therefore less battery charge, from the solar.

9.      STAFFS AT OBBITU VILLAGE

The staffs are all well and working in harmony with the children, environment and among themselves, there was no dispute among them

We are focusing to collect quality data and reporting timely, there is need to increase 1 OVC field worker.

OBBITU MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

Management committee conducted its meeting on 9th July, 2011. Members present in the meeting were 16.  The committee deliberated on the following agenda

1.      Vetting of OVC to benefit from AMREF MAANISHA secondary school fees support

2.      Obbitu children financial expenditure summary

3.      Update on growth and development of Obbitu children

4.      Obbitu children village to recognized as 1 village unit in Sololo and given food relief from the community relief food ration

5.      Future planned activities

·         Construction of firewood shade

·         Construction of chicken house

·         Renew the fence of Obbitu children village boundaries

Secondary school fees

The committee selected 15 beneficiaries. 14 of them benefited from AMREF Maanisha support and 1 from Obbitu children project. 8 children are in our project and 7 were not in the project.

Update of OVC children. Mr. Abduba informed the meeting the nutritional status of the children according of health assessment, 6 children were malnourished.

10 children are on food voucher at a shop where they are given food valued at 3,000/= per month.

Cash balance from activities was KSHs 68,800/=. CIPAD planned to use the cash balance for construction of the External fence of the compound, chicken house and firewood shade. The committee accepted to our proposal.

Management committee refresher training.

The workshop was facilitated by district children officer Moyale and CIPAD.

The participants were drawn from the committee, guardians of OVC, village elders the total number of participants were 30. The facilitators were DCO Moyale, Gufu Guyo, Abduba Halake and Gufu Duba

The workshop budget was 91,000/=. The cost was 84,500/=. 1,500/= was used for management committee meeting over expenditure lunches. 5,000/= was saved from the training but used to pay school fees for Abdi Gobana, who is form 2 at Sololo boys secondary school. He and his twin sister in Obbu girls were in the program but dropped due to over age, they are most needy students

OVC SUPPORTED AT HOME BASED CARE

Follow up and updating data of Home based children has been going on. Health care service on monthly basis has been carried out through PFL. Monthly food ration for Home Based support was done twice per month.

No. of household visited this quarter __ April –, May. – 115, June – 115 Total – house hold

No. of children seen and information collected___ April –13, May – 12, June – 23.

FOOD DISTRIBUTION

Every month food was distributed to 115 households of supported OVC. The food included

1.      Maize

2.      Beans

3.      Cooking oil

4.      Sugar

5.      Tea leaves

6.      Salt

7.      Rice

To improve hygiene some times washing soap was issued.

The table below summaries foods which was bought and distributed by CIPAD.

Food items

Qty APRIL

Qty  MAY

Qty. JUNE

Total  kg

Total Cost

Maize

3450

1760kg

0

5,210kg

154,680

Beans

920kg

550 kg

0

1,270kg

80,850

Cooking

oil

240 lit

110 lit

240 lit

590lit

125,000

sugar

4 bags

0

7 bags

11 bags

55,700

Tea leaves

22 stakes

0

3 boxes

3 boxes,2 stakes

11,600

Table salt

6 bales

0

4 bales

10 bales

6,000

Transport

1,000/=

1,000

The unit prices in the market have increased and fluctuating for all the food items.

Food received from GOK – in the month of May but distributed in June

1.      Maize ________ 44 bags of 50kg each

2.      Beans_________21 bags of 50kg each

3.      Rice ____________7 bags of 50kg each

The food has saved many families from hunger and starvation. No child on support program has been admitted to hospital for any form of malnutrition. The food also improved the nutritional status of people living with HIV and AIDS

HEALTH CARE SERVICE

326 OVC were targeted for nutritional assessment and treatment of illness.

1.       No. of children found malnourished _________6

2.      No.  of children found sick and treated________82

3.      No. of children very sick and Referred_ _____1.  Treated and cured

Sick children will attend the nearest dispensary and the nurse will write their complains in health record book. The nurse will send an invoice to CIPAD to pay the bill for these children. There was no bill presented to CIPAD from dispensaries

NO.

CENTRE

OVC TARGETED

ACTUAL NO. ASSESSED

OVC TREATED

% COVERAGE

1

Wayegoda

17

15

5

100%

2

Sololo makutano

44

36

8

83.7%

3

Madoadi

33

30

18

100%

4

Damballafachana

8

7

2

87.5%

5

Sololo Raamata

155

115

37

100%

6

Obbitu village

22

22

0

100%

7

Anona

21

20

6

95%

8

Golole

43

31

5

78%

9

Uran

5

5

1

100/=

TOTAL

326

288

82

88.3%

Update from house hold visits

1.      23 shelters in poor state of repair or Falling apart

2.      Health assessment and treatment

Common ailment seen and treated include the following

-          Fungal infections – 9

-          URTI – 16

-          Diarrhea .amoebiasis – 11

-          Worms – 5

-          Malaria 1

-          Ostitis media – 2

SECONDARY SCHOOL FEES FOR OVC

AMREF Maanisha once again supported 14 OVC with 5,000/= secondary school fees. 8 of the children are in our OVC Home based support. Two of the children were twins previously in the program. They made the fifteenth children and most needy. We used 5000/= from saving made from the training of management committee

CHALLENGES

1.      Families not available during visit to their household

2.      Some OVC children who are on the project are older than 15 years that they fill they do not require health assessment unless they are sick

3.      Lack of secondary school fees for OVC

4.      Lack of adequate reporting skill by the HB care giver

5.      No budget line to renew PFL agreement.

WAY FORWARD

1. Lunch for children who are not going to school will be cooked together in one kitchen. Children will eat one table

2.  1 OVC field worker to be employed to strengthen data collection at home and school on OVC children accurately and timely

3. CIPAD to write more proposals for funding to supplement the Mondeco funding

4. Construction of 1 more house in Obbitu children’s village to accommodate new 20 OVC

5. 2 casual workers who were hired on Sunday have been stopped from 17th /7/2011 because firewood and water is provided in the village

6.  The committee agreed to request the office of the chief to consider Obbitu village and give some food relief from the community. CIPAD to write a formal request letter

FINANCIAL REPORT

NO

BUDGET DESCRIPTION

BUDGET COST

EXPENDITURE

BALANCE

1

Personnel salaries

654,000

654,000

0

2

Obbitu village food ration

366,000

363,680

2,320

3

Home based OVC food ration

330,000

333,530

+ 3,580

4

Emergency program

147,500

147,500

0

5

Health care service

30,000

9,210

20,790

6

School fees Gada /Starehe/ books

27,000

55,595

+ 28,595

7

Refresher training committee

91,000

84,500

6,500

8

Mgt. committee meeting

7,500

9,000

+1,500

NO

BUDGET DESCRIPTION

BUDGET COST

EXPENDITURE

BALANCE

9

Generator fuel, lubricants, petrol and maintenance

84,400

106,750

+ 22,350

10

Administration cost

35,400

33,510

1,890

11

Miscellaneous expenditure

0

49,110

_

12

Clothing for Obbitu children

0

24,040

_

13

Food voucher for malnourished children

0

60,000

_

14

Sewing machine

10,000

0

10,000

14

Fire wood purchase

45,000

29,750

15,250

TOTAL COST

1,827,800

1,960,175

FINACIAL SUMMARY

Fund received from MONDECO ____KSHs______1,877,662

Cash withdrawal from bank _____KSHs______ 1,746,100

Salary Gufu Duba ___________________________135,000

Emergency program received from Gufu Duba___ 147,500

Cash balance from previous quarter____________ 15,309

TOTAL FUND FOR THE QUARTER________ 2, O43, 909

LESS TOTAL EXPENDITURE______________ 1,960,175

CASH BALANCE _____________________ 83,734

JUSTIFICATION FOR EXCESS FUND

1.      20,000/=  came from previous bank balance

2.      147,500/=  received from Gufu Duba for emergency program

3.      15,309/=  cash balance from previous quarter

Total excess fund utilized __________182,809

PLANNED ACTIVITY EXPENDITURE

1.      Construction of firewood shade, fence, chicken house ______ 68,000

2.      Sewing machine _____________________ 10,000

3.      Secondary school fee support Abdi Gobana – Sololo secondary school _____ 5,000/=

CASH BALANCE BROUGHT FORWARD THIS QUARTER ________734/=

CONCLUSION

The increase in the cost of commodities in Kenya due to fuel prices and conflicts around the world has directly affected Sololo local prices.

CIPAD has planned to reduce on all items to save fund without compromising quality of service to OV and Obbitu Children village.

It is hoped that once Obbitu village receive some food from the community then CIPAD will save on the food to be purchased.

John kalili did not do much activity to warrant payment. CIPAD propose to hire his skills when need arises.

Since the emergency drought program is over, CIPAD will not renew PFL agreement but instead call Paul to do health assessment on quarterly basis. Sick children will visit nearest dispensary and referral done by the nurse of the dispensary.

GUFU GUYO

CIPAD COORDINATOR