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INFORMATION ABOUT THE NGO PROMOTING THE PROJECT

DENOMINATION:

C.C.M. (Comitato Collaborazione Medica)

ADDRESS:

Corso G. Lanza 100, 10133 Torino

LEGAL STATUS:

- NGO (Non Governmental Organization)  art. 28 Law 49-1987

- ONLUS (Non Profit Organization) D.L. 460-1997

CERTIFICATE OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

(art. 28 law n. 49/87) D.M. n. 1998/128/004187/2D of 04.09.1988

PRESENTATION OF THE INITIATIVE

Project Title:

“Obijtu Children”

Intervention of social promotion and development of under age orphans and adolescents (AIDS) in Sololo, Kenya

Country and Location               Kenya – Sololo area, Obbu-Uran Divisions, Moyale

of Intervention:                          District

Duration:                                     36 months

Promoting NGO:                        C.C.M - Comitato Collaborazione Medica

Local Counterpart:                    CIPAD – Cultural Information Pastoral Development

Address:                                      Sololo

Legal Representative:                Gufu G. Guyo

Legal Status:                              The Cultural Information Pastoralist Development   ( CIPAD) is a Community Based Organization (CBO), founded by the Senior Chief and the Elders of Sololo and registered by Kenyan law.

The responsibilities and obligations of the counterpart are as mentioned in the Standard Operational Procedures signed on 7th May 2005 with CCM. The handover by the end of the project includes that all services offered are in charge of the counterpart and will consider the way and the necessary time in respect of the social and educational purposes of the project.

Other Organizations involved:      Government of Kenya:

National Council for Children’s Services

Moyale County Council

District Commissioner Moyale District

District Development Officer Moyale

Local Authorities of Sololo Senior Chief

Galma Dabasso e Community Elders

Other Organizations involved:

Besides the local governmental and district authorities, the local Women and Youth Groups regularly registered with the Ministry of Culture and Social Affaires will be involved. There are 21 associations present in the area since 1980. Some of these groups focus their activities on educational projects, youth forming, children’s rights observance, cultural promotion; other groups perform trainings on cattle breeding and trading, agriculture, bricks production.

Among the members of these Women and Youth groups the “mothers” and “aunts” and the other operators of the village will be chosen. CIPAD will provide for the necessary arrangements with the single groups and CCM will collaborate in writing the agreements.

The local health facilities, the Sololo Hospital and the governmental dispensaries will be involved in offering health care and/or admit, when necessary, the children in need of health care and those resulting HIV/AIDS positive during the screening.

Other CCM Projects in Sololo area

1

Title:

FGM Eradication Campaign in MOYALE DISTRICT KENYA

Objective:

Opposing the traditional practice of female genital mutilation

Realization:

in process

Donor Organization:

UNICEF

Counterpart:

Government of Kenya

2

Title:

Moyale District Community-Based Therapeutic Care (CTC) Nutrition Project

Objective:

Opposing the malnutrition occurring after the recent severe drought

Realization:

in process

Donor Organization:

World Wide Concern

Counterpart:

Government of Kenya

3

Title:

Support of Sololo Hospital

Objective:

Assuring the continuity of services, technical up-dating and quality control of the health care offered

Realization:

constant

Donor Organization

Private donors

Counterpart:

Diocese of Marsabit

4

Title:

Support of Governmental Dispensaries and follow-up of Curative Mobile Clinic in 10 villages distributed in 100 km area

Objective:

Supporting the counterpart to realize the proper objectives

Realization:

Continuously through annual agreements

Donor Organization:

Private donors

Counterpart:

Government of Kenya

5

Title:

Training and Health Education, directed to operators and population

Objectives:

Supporting the counterpart to realize the proper objectives in training TBAs, CHWs and VHCs and in mass health education

Realization:

Continuously through annual agreements

Donor Organization:

Private donors

Counterpart:

Government of Kenya

Regional Context

Kenya takes part of  the low income countries. The gross national product per person is 388 Euro.

The area including the present project is the Obbu-Uran Division, which is one of the four divisions of Moyale District. The district lies in the oriental part of North Kenya (Eastern Province). The territory of Moyale District is arid and semi arid land and borders in the North on the Ethiopian Highlands at about 700 m/asl and in the South on arid lands at about 550 m/asl.  The temperature varies between 16° and 45° and the warmest season is between September and March. The population of Moyale District is mainly Boran. The Boran are pastoralists and live in the area between the Kenyan and Ethiopian border. Approximately 100.000 persons live in the arid northern Kenyan area and approximately 200.000 are estimated to live in Southern Ethiopia.

The economy of Moyale District is based on cattle breeding.

There is no system of organized business. The cattle sold on Moyale market has a different value in relation to its health status hence to the condition of the pasture. After the end of Menghistu’s regime in Ethiopia the closure of the border involved severe consequences, among these the accessibility to many water sources and to the pasture land to which the cattle of the Kenyan Boran refer during the drought periods.

The average life span in Kenya in 2005 was 49 ½ years for men and nearby 48 years for women. According to the projections of the Kenyan Ministry of Health in 2005 the AIDS infection caused in the whole country more than 2 millions orphans. According to estimations in 2010 the orphans will be 2,3 millions, that means 20% of the total of children in the country. In the whole Moyale District  the number of orphans estimated is 1.400 units. The number in Sololo town is estimated in 200 units in between the next 2 years.

In the area of Sololo town the problem of orphans under age due to HIV/AIDS is among the most urgent and severe problems.

The children live in poor conditions and without resources due to the disintegration of the family caused by HIV/AIDS deaths of one or both parents. Very often these under age orphans are spoiled of their proper rights, are at high risk of health and abandonment, of antisocial behaviour and consequently of problems on community level. In the remote and isolated areas like Sololo the traditional lifestyle is still very present and respected, therefore the caretaker of the family of a deceased member is the living brother. If not possible, the grandmother takes care for her grandchildren. This model assures complete protection for the orphan. Indeed, the traditional system of handing over the children, a kind of family entrust, is a sincere and present kind of assistance inside the Kenyan society system. Unfortunately, in a reality of extreme poverty like in Sololo this traditional assistance for the orphans will not be able to face the high number which will predictably occur in exponential way in the next years. Furthermore, in the past ten years the model of traditional family suffered a change due to the impact of modern western lifestyle. Not only social-economical changes occurred but also the stability of values and doubt about the traditional models are under discussion. The traditional enlarged and polygamist family is replaced by a monogamist and mono parental family unit which is completely strange to African culture. Inside the clans the bonds are becoming weaker and the conflict between present and past contributes negatively causing problems in assisting the under age, who are the most vulnerable threatened by these changes and lack of balance.

In 2001 the Government of Kenya approved a  new law for the under age, the Kenya Children Act, in accordance to the Convention of New York on Children’s Rights of 1989. The Government undertakes the responsibility to assure the survival, the care and the development of the children in problems through public structures realized in order to take care of them. Unfortunately, due to lack of resources these interventions are mainly concentrated in urban areas (Children Act, section 4). In the area of Sololo the actions of the responsible governmental offices concerning the under age are nearby inexistent. The politics of intervention of the Kenyan Government include the involvement of other institutions like NGOs, the local community and others facilitating the search and application of solutions for the under ages in need of protection and care. Offering a solution to the problem of under age orphans the local and district authorities in Sololo together with the representatives of the elders and governmental administrators highlight the necessity of an intervention that excludes institutional, more or less standardized, solutions which would result far from the traditional lifestyle of the Boran. They ask for solution respecting their tradition where the under age orphans take part of the enlarged family system. Therefore, the Kenyan law aims to assure to the under age orphan the reintegration into the local community and favours the inclusion in a substitutive family group. The present project tries to protect the specific Boran culture avoiding to impose unknown models. Particularly, the project is inspired by the traditional Boran lifestyle which is up to today followed up in the nomadic village called Yaa, where a group of chosen children from the different clans, who will become the future leaders of the Boran’s Gada system, live together under care of the elders – tutors, learning the history and the traditional usages and customs (“I Borana” Marco Bassi – Editor Franco Angeli, Cultural and Social Anthropology)

Project:                                                                                         “Obijtu Children”

Origin of the initiative

This project origins from the request of intervention presented in 2004 to Dr. Bollini, CCM co-operator,  present in Sololo as Project Manager, by the Senior Chief Galma Dabasso and fifty members of the Elders Committee of Sololo together with the representatives of women and youth groups of Moyale area. Since 1982 the CCM (Comitato di Collaborazione Medica) is present in North Kenya. The request originates from the necessity to meet the lack of interventions in the area in favour of under age orphans and wants to prevent the cases of “street children” by now almost close to the area of intervention.

The Elders Assembly, authorized by the Government, on 12th April 2005 assigned the area of territory at disposal for the Orphanage Village buildings. On 1st August 2006 the work of constructions started.

General Objective

The general objective of this project is to improve the life conditions of under age orphans particularly those whose parents died due to HIV/AIDS, assuring in this way the right of a family for the under age orphan.

Specific Objectives:

The specific objective is to assure care and protection for about 200 under age orphans admitted into the “Residential Village”, realized in modules of “Traditional Family Homes”.

Problems to face

During the phase of identification of necessities the following problems appeared and need contribution for solution:

Lack of care and abandonment of children HIV/AIDS orphans of which some are HIV positive.

Lack of qualified personnel to employ inside the residential village to care for the under age who need assistance and protection.

Lack of psychological and sanitary support for HIV/AIDS orphans with some of them HIV positive.

The present project does not pretend to solve all the problems appeared during the identification study (propagation virus HIV/AIDS, the current economical condition of many families residing in Sololo …), but through admission/counselling of the orphans and the activities of training/sensitization of the “mothers” and “aunts” , which will take care of the children, it will be possible to reply to some of the priorities pointed out.

The levels of intervention include:

a) the realization of a residential “village” similar to the other nineteen villages composing the present town of Sololo, finalized to admit and educate orphan children. The village will be composed by different units of “traditional family houses” and realized in accordance to the usages and customs of Boran.

b) offering a training addressed to the staff of the village: to the “mothers of the village”, each responsible of the running of the traditional family unit in charge; to the “aunts of the village” as assistants for the mothers; to the maintainers and security workers to improve the technical knowledge; to the pastoralists.

c) offering the service of individual health and psychological support to each orphan.

The strategy and modality of realization of the intervention includes that each action will be realized through partnerships with different local partners almost present in the area promoting children’s rights and particularly the counterpart C.I.P.A.D.  (Cultural Information Pastoral Development) as coordinator of all project activities such to favour the sustainability by the end of the programme.

Beneficiaries

The following schedule reassumes the number of direct beneficiaries of each year:

I year

II year

III year

TOTALE THREE YEARS

Orphans

50

50

100

200

Father of the village

1

1

Uncle of the village

1

1

Mothers

5

5

10

20

Aunts

5

5

10

20

Guardians

6

5

10

21

Pastoralists

5

5

10

20

TOTAL

73

70

140

283

Indirect beneficiaries of the project are the local women and youth groups, regularly registered with the Ministry of Culture and Social Work. At present the registered groups are 21. The operators of the village will be selected among the members of the groups.

The local school will be an indirect beneficiary due to the fees paid for the children living inside the new village.

The local health facilities, Sololo hospital and the governmental dispensaries will benefit through the agreements to provide for health care for the children of the new village.

Furthermore, the project  offers new job opportunities for the local population in building the new village.

It has also to be considered that there will be a general benefice in relieving the community from the burden to sustain the orphans and in benefiting of what the village will be able to produce for itself sustainability.

Strategy of Intervention and Expected Results

Expected Result N. 1

Offering accommodation and protection in the “Village” to under age orphans of Sololo, as a different solution to institutions and abandonment

In between three years, construction of a “Village” for orphans in Sololo admitting 200 under age orphans in compounds “traditional family houses”.

It is an essential condition of the project that the purchase of cattle, of materials and the construction of the houses, the furniture and all other work need to favour with priority the residential population, in kind of enterprises and individual work.

The model of the village will be in accordance to usages and customs of the Boran and will be realized by them using a new system of construction which assures better hygienic conditions and long lasting constructions compared to the present way of building.

During the first year the following constructions will be realized:

n. 5 compounds (traditional unit) each entrusted to a “Mother of the village” and an “Aunt of the village” as assistant for 10 children each compound;

n. 1 house for the “Father of the Village”;

n. 1 multiplex building: hall – office – workshops;

n. 1 building: store;

n. 1 building: guest house for accommodation of expatriates or consultants temporarily present.

During the second year the following constructions will be realized:

n. 5 compounds (traditional unit) each entrusted to a “Mother of the village” and an “Aunt of the village” as assistant for 10 children each compound;

The possibility that these 5 compounds will be built in available spaces inside the19 residential villages forming the town of Sololo cannot be excluded. The final decision will be taken by the Elders of Sololo together with the father of the village considering the former experience and all the aspects connected to the acceptance of the children inside the local community. A high increment of the new village may expose to the risk of interference in the lifestyle of the population rather than being involved inside the town.

During the third year a replication of the first two years will be realized incrementing one of the traditional permanent villages which are placed not far away from Sololo town. The project gains in this way the possibility to admit 200 children which is the estimated number of orphans for the next two or three years in Sololo.

Thanks to the concept of modular buildings, the project will be able to be replicated also in the future years expanding in Moyale District up to the whole number of orphans in need of accommodation.

Each unit “ compound “ traditional-family-home”, build on two hectares with local fence, is composed as follows:

-         A rectangular house of 5 m x 12 m to be used ad dormitory, completely furnished and equipped, divided in three rooms, 4 m x 5 m each, with veranda of  2,5 m x 12 m.

Construction realized with a new  technology using:

Basement and load-bearing parts in concrete; walls in double wire and cement cover. The final result has relevant advantages like: light structure and quick instalment, low cost (30 al 40 % less than a traditional block building ). Versatile global structure, time resistant and without particular maintenance, with heat and rumour isolated walls, being furthermore anti-fire and finished up in many different ways. Roofing in metal sheets.

The local constructor  has almost finished one of these buildings (attached picture) and verified on the place the feasibility with main part of the materials locally available,  together with the fitness of this technology to the capability of the local persons.

-          A water tank allows to collect the rain water from the roof of house and veranda.

-          A building to be used as kitchen and similar to the traditional huts (round buildings with walls of poles and mud covered with grass – attached picture)

-          Also this building, diameter 4 m, will be realized using the above mentioned technology. The round roof is build with cement-wire, covered with grass and provided with a gutter to collect rain water. The walls are realized with double wire and cement and can be decorated in traditional way. The final structure assures long time duration without maintenance and major comfort and hygiene compared to the traditional buildings.

-          A similar construction contains the lavatory and the showers.

-          A similar construction contains the toilettes prearranged for biogas collection.

-          A fence for the animals for each family;

-          A kitchen-garden, approximately 1 hectare of the whole area, together with the necessary tools for cultivation.

- The house for the “Father of the Village” includes: kitchen, bathroom, dining room and 4 bed rooms.

- The multiplex building includes: a meeting hall, three offices, a workshop for car maintenance and a workshop for carpenter work.

- The store is provided with two rooms.

- The guest house for the accommodation of expatriates and consultants includes: kitchen, dining room and 5 bedrooms with bathrooms.

All these buildings will be realized using the new abovementioned technology and are based on standard modules, rectangular 5 m x 12 m with veranda 2,5 m x 12 m, and are enlarged or reduced depending on the final use.

Each building will be provided with basic furniture and consumption materials.

- The village will be provided for its own sustainability and in respect of the Boran tradition of trading with the necessary collective cattle under the care of the “Father of the Village”  and will be:

-      5  bulls

-          10 camels

for each compound

- Each unit will be provided with a group of animals under the care of the “Mother” and the “Aunt”  assisted by the pastoralists of the village and will be:

-    1 donkey (for water and vegetable transport)

-          4 cows

-          10 goats

-          5 hens

-          1 cock

The collective cattle under care of the father together with the “second group” of animals under  care of the mother and aunt form the basic cattle of a traditional pastoralist’s unit of a typical Boran village: the cattle producing milk nearby to the village and the cattle for breeding on the far away pasture land.

Expected result N. 2 a

a) Individualization of the local staff to employ inside the village caring for under age children needy of protection

The village considers the following staff:

-    1  Father of the Village, resident inside and supervising the village

-    1  Uncle of the Village assistant to the father, non resident inside the village

-          20 “Mothers”, in between three years of project’s activities, residents inside the village

-          20 “Aunts” assistants to the mothers, in between three years of project’s activities, not resident inside the village

-          21 maintainers and guardians, not resident inside the village

-          20 pastoralists, keeping care for the cattle belonging to the village

After consulting the local governmental authorities and the Elders assembly, the promoting NGO CCM will proceed with the nomination of the Father of the Village.

The “Uncle” of the village chosen by the father according to the elders assembly will be the assistant of the father of the village as mentioned at 3.5.

The selection of the “Mothers” and the “Aunts” will be done among the members of the local women groups. The choice will be done by the Father of the village together with the Elders Assembly.

The selection of guardians and pastoralists will be done among the members of local youth groups. The choice will be done by the Father of the village together with the Elders assembly, like for  the Mothers and Aunts.

The guardians will take care for the maintenance and the security of the village. They will assist the “Mothers” and “Aunts” during their daily duties in the kitchen-garden and all other necessities.

The pastoralists will take care for the cattle of the village.

The selected staff will make the necessary job agreements directly with the single group of membership. The counterpart CIPAD controls the conformity and regularity of the agreements.

The single group concords with the Father of the Village the job descriptions and the duties of the single persons.

Expected Result n. 2 b

b) Training of local staff to employ in the Village to take care for the under age children in need of help and protection

The project includes training courses for the staff working inside the village in Sololo. The “Mothers” and the “Aunts” follow each year six courses, each course including 5 days of 8 hours each and will be concentrated on one particular argumentation.

The courses will be followed up by a local external psychologist consultant together with an expatriated and a local educator assisted, when necessary, by other professional persons.

The local educator together with the expatriated educator will be the “tutor” for the children, the mothers and the aunts and will be the mediator for the activities of trainings, for the local external psychologist consultant and all the village operators. ust’ultimo QQ bd dfgb

The topics of the courses preparing the mothers and aunts to care and protect the under age children are based on the principles of  Kenya Children Act (Part III, section 23) and will be:

·         personal hygiene;

hygiene inside the houses;

good nutritional standards;

protection from carelessness, discrimination and abuses;

schooling;

affective and moral support;

HIV/AIDS prevention.

Particular importance will be given to the training of HIV/AIDS prevention.

The local culture is lacking  prevention, therefore the aim is to sensitize and educate the mothers and aunts, which care for the children inside the village, through specific workshops, carried out by local group members and/or other specialized personnel under supervision-approval of the local external psychologist consultant and, anyway, always referring to the whole training programme.

The Youth Groups of origin will be in charged to train the guardians – maintainers on their duties

in respect of the Children Regulations (Charitable Children’s Institution’s)  and will be supervised and approved by the Father of the Village. Each project year includes a number of workshops for both groups of staff. Each workshop includes three meetings of  8 hours each four months.

Expected Result  n. 3:

Working out an individual programme of psychological and sanitary support for each under age child admitted to the village

When entering the village each child will be screened and interviewed such to determine the specific psychological needs. This procedure allows to prepare an individual clinical chart which includes the individual sanitary, curative and educational programme.

Sanitary Programme

The medical evaluation will be followed up by a local or expatriated medical consultant who will compile the clinical chart for each child and will proceed with the first medical screening to check the presence of diseases or HIV/AIDS.

The medical consultant has the duty to check the health status of each operator of the village and to prepare a clinical chart such to individualize disease vectors among the population of the village or persons affected with transmittable diseases particularly common in the area such as tuberculosis.

The visits and screenings will be repeated each six months and whenever the medical consultant considers it necessary.

Furthermore, the medical consultant will provide through proper theoretical and practical courses for First Aid trainings addressed to the adults living inside the village.

The medical consultant will be on the place each six months for a period of at least one month and will be at disposal whenever his presence is needed.

When necessary, the children will use the health services offered by Sololo Hospital and the governmental dispensaries which afford each kind of necessity.

Psychological Programme

The whole psychological activity will be followed up and supervised by a local external psychologist consultant, possibly specialized to deal with orphans and vulnerable children.

Through individual interviews followed by the psychologist consultant and assisted by an expatriated educator together with a local educator-tutor, it will be possible to point out the will of the child to be admitted to the village and his specific needs.

The psychologist, always assisted by the expatriated educator and local educator-tutor, will work out an individual programme to sustain the child.

A particular part of the activity of the psychologist consultant will be, through individual and group meetings, the psychological support and  help for the children to overcome possible traumatic experiences due to sexual abuse, physical violence, but also other emotional traumas like the experience of abandonment, deaths.

In parallel, the consultant carries out an important work also with the mothers and aunts of the village.  He organizes proper workshops based on children’s psychology aimed to increase the parental capacity of the adults which will take care of the children, such to make them be the leaders of the educational work. The psychologist will also work as technical supporter for both educators, expatriated and local.

The consultant psychologist will be on the place on three months basis for approximately 10 days and will always be at disposal for any kind of intervention that might occur.

Sanitary Chart

For each under age child admitted to the village it will be possible to work out and update continuously a “Sanitary Chart” containing the documents and the data concerning  the physical and psychological condition. Based on these data it will be possible to work out a personal “care-training-educational programme” aimed to respect the  “Child placement plan” as mentioned in the  Children (Charitable Children’s Institution’s) Regulations.

CHRONOGRAMME

Activity

1^ year

2^ year

3^ year

Construction of  5 residential units  (compounds) for admission of 50 under age orphans

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

Construction of  5 residential units  (compounds) for admission of 50 under age orphans

Construction of  10 residential units  (compounds) for admission of 100 under age orphans

Construction of  1 house for the “Father of the Village”

Multiplex construction: hall, offices, workshops for carpenter and maintenance

Store construction

Construction of  guest house for expatriates and consultants

Selection and sending of expatriates

Cattle purchase under care of the “Father of the Village”

Cattle purchase under care of the single residential units

Selection of the local village personnel

Trainings for guardians/maintainers

Trainings for pastoralists

Trainings for “Mothers” and “Aunts”

Thematic workshops on  HIV/AIDS

Individual interviews with the children admitted to the “Village” aimed to determine the specific psychological needs

Follow up of sanitary screenings of the admitted children to determine possible paediatric diseases and HIV/AIDS

Monitoring

Evaluation missions

Necessary human resources

Expatriated personnel

The following professional staff has to be considered:

-          A project-manager supervisor and responsible of the general implementation of the programme including the management of the human resources and, in collaboration with the local counterpart, responsible of the planning, coordination and conduction of all the activities, responsible also for the necessary accountability. He is the referral for the promoting NGO towards the local community and the authorities. Three years contract. Preferably experienced in management of development projects in low income countries.

-          An international volunteer qualified psychologist and/or expert in education and group management, particularly referred to women groups. He will assist the local psychologist consultant during the interviews with the children and during the trainings of the “Mothers” and “Aunts”. Furthermore collaborates with the local educator-tutor of the village. He is responsible of the application of the general psychological actions, agreed and shared, and supervises on daily basis the realization of the personal educational trainings.

One professional person could be in charged to cover both roles of Project Manager and Psychologist and/or Educator if qualified with the necessary preparation

-          An administrator/logistician responsible for the management of administration-accountability of the project. Supervised by the Project Manager the logistician  provides for all necessary materials including visas and permits.

Other consultants

-          A medical consultant who needs to be present in Sololo for at least one month every six months and at disposal whenever necessary. His duties include the sanitary supervision of the village, the preventive and periodical medical visits of the guests of the village and the working staff including the first aid training.

Local personnel

-          n. 1 educator as “tutor” for the under age children, for the “mothers” and the “aunts” of the village. Assists and collaborates with the local external psychologist and the expatriated educator elaborating the psychological activities and the individual programmes sustaining each under age child and the training of the “Mothers” and “Aunts”.

-          n. 1 “Father of the Village” operating responsible and supervisor of the village in respect of the decisions of the village elders and the traditional Borana culture. Operates in close collaboration with the local elders assembly and with the project manager.

-          n. 1 “Uncle of the Village” assistant to the father of the village

-          n. 20  “Mothers” in between three years

-          n. 20 “Aunts”, assistants to the mothers, in between three years

-          n. 21 maintainers and guardians

-          n. 20 pastoralists caring for the cattle of the village

Local consultants

-          1 local external psychologist present in the village for at least 15 days every three months and at disposal whenever necessary. Responsible for the psychological activities particularly for the personal training-educational programmes and for the training of the mothers and aunts of the village. Assisted by the expatriated educator and by the educator-tutor employed in the village.

Project costs

This project has been drawn up for modular buildings and is therefore simple to finance or totally or   progressively increasing the period of realization.

A progressive financial plan has to consider the following priorities:

- village construction

- cattle

Necessary expenses starting from the beginning of admissions into the village and considering the number of compounds running:

- furniture and equipment

- food and dresses

- salaries for the operators

- training of operators

- medical-psychological service

- veterinary service

- school fees

Necessary but not priority expenses:

- Biogas installation

- transport means

- other expenses

Table of expenses - in Euro – (assumption 1 euro = 93 Ksh)

Kind of expense

1° year

50 children

2° year

50 children

3° year

100 children

NOTE

Land value:

1.250

1.250

2.500

Contribution sustained by the counterpart  CIPAD: 1.250

Constructions:

General services of the village:

Construction of road of access

430

430

430

Contribution sustained by the counterpart   CIPAD: 430

Fence

12.000

6.000

20.000

Watchmen’s lodge

1.250

1.250

General water connections and troughs for cattle

5.100

5.100

Contribution sustained by the counterpart  CIPAD: 2.540

Lighting plan including central generator

11.000

11.000

Contribution sustained by the counterpart  CIPAD:14.600

n. 1 building for the “Father of the Village” including water connection, light 220 V and solar light

21.000

21.000

Contribution sustained by the counterpart  CIPAD: 16.300

n. 1 multiplex building: hall – offices – workshops, including lighting plan 220 V

38.000

38.000

n. 1 store building

7.200

7.200

n. 1 guest house for consultants including lighting plan, solar and water connection

26.500

26.500

n. 5 compounds (traditional family homes) entrusted each to a “Mother of the Village” and an assistant “Aunt of the Village” receiving 10 children each home

82.000

82.000

Contribution sustained by the counterpart   CIPAD: 25.770

n. 10 compounds (traditional family homes) entrusted each to a “Mother of the Village” and an assistant “Aunt of the Village” receiving 10 children each home. Included buildings:  rectangular house and three round houses: kitchen, laundry-showers, toilettes and water connections, lighting plan 220 V, solar light

164.000

Non priority expenses

n.3 Installations, one each year, for Biogas production

45.000

45.000

90.000

Vehicles:

n.1 3 t Lorry

32.300

n.1 Land rover

53.800

n.1 Cross motorcycle

1.100

1.100

2.200

n.5 Bicycles

270

180

430

Expenses necessary to sustain starting the village

Cattle:

“group of cattle” entrusted to the Father of the Village, assisted by the pastoralists, composed by 5 bulls and 10 camels for each compound

12.400

12.400

24.800

“group of cattle” entrusted to the Mother and the Aunt of each compound, assisted by the pastoralists, composed by 1 donkey (for water and garden products transport), 4 cows, 10 goats, 5 hens and 1 cock

4.600

4.600

9.200

Veterinary service

15.400

30.800

61.300

Furniture and equipment of the buildings

44.000

7.500

51.500

Clothes for children

2.750

2.750

5.600

Food integration for children

6.500

13.000

26.000

School fees

3.300

6.600

13.200

Medical – psychological sanitary service

10.000

20.000

40.000

Staff expenses (inclusive travel expenses, insurances and others)

Expatriated staff

1 Project Manager

65.000

65.000

65.000

The two positions could be covered by one person

1 Psychologist and/or educator

40.000

40.000

40.000

1 Administrator/logistician

40.000

40.000

40.000

1 Medical consultant

20.000

20.000

20.000

Local staff

1 Local external psychologist

15.000

15.000

15.000

Probably from Nairobi

1 Educator acting as “tutor”

3.500

3.500

3.500

1 Father of the village, resident inside the village, supervisor

5.200

5.200

10.400

1  Uncle of the village, assistant to the Father, not resident inside the village

650

650

1.300

5 Mothers, resident inside the village

3.300

6.600

10 Mothers, resident inside the village

13.200

5 Aunts assistants to the mothers, not residents inside the village

3.300

6.600

10 Aunts assistants to the mothers, not resident inside the village

13.200

6 maintainers and guardians, not resident inside the village

2.320

5 maintainers and guardians, not resident inside the village

4.260

10 maintainers and guardians, not resident inside the village

8.520

5 pastoralists caring for the cattle

1.950

3.900

10 pastoralists caring for the cattle

7.800

Staff training

6 Trainings per year for 5 days each for mothers and aunts

810

810

1.620

3 Workshops per year for 1 day each for mothers and aunts

81

81

162

3 Trainings per year for 1 day for guardians and maintainers

48

48

96

3 Trainings per year for 1 day for pastoralists

48

48

96

Trainers

510

510

510

Stationary

55

55

55

Other Expenses

Projectstudy

x

General expenses

x

x

x

Expenses in Italy

x

x

x

Local expenses

x

x

x

Evaluation and monitoring missions

x

x

x

Contingencies

x

x

x

1° year

50 children

2° year

50 children

3° year

100 children

Total (approx.)

585.000

500.000

861.000

1.946.000

Three years budget for the admission of  200 children

Less the expenses sustained by the counterpart CIPAD

60.890

Sub-Total (approx.)

524.000

Less the expenses considered not priority

78.670

Sub-Total (approx.)

445.000

To this amount

To finish the constructions

145.000

To start the village, including the salaries

300.000

the “Other expenses” need to be added

Economical-financial sustainability

The running costs of the village have to be considered diminishing in relation to the grade of self-sustenance the village will obtain through

- the cattle

The economy of cattle breeding is the principal activity and also the best known by these people obtaining the way of survival from it.

- kitchen-gardens inside the compounds

the products not necessary for the family are easily sold on the markets of this semi-arid area

- small trading activities

which can be started by each member of the resident families by whoever is interested to realize handcraft wooden or iron articles because able due to studies or personal capability or by who likes to start his proper activity as mechanic using the workshops of the village.

Furthermore, the village offers concrete possibilities for the experimentation of new technologies and new sources of alternative energy which, if successful, will certainly assure a long term sustenance.

Considering for example:

- Biogas production, from human and animals biological refusals

Enclosed the presentation of an Italian specialized factory. At present for Sololo the gas cylinders can be purchased only at a distance of 500 kms. Similar initiatives have been started in Kenya in the area of  Nakuru and are very appreciated.

- Cultivation of colza, future raw material for biodiesel production

Colza is almost successfully grown in semi-arid areas of Kenya similar to Sololo. In Italy, the farmers’ cooperations of Modena and Bologna obtain very promising results. The production of vegetable fuel and combustibles is much more advanced than commonly know.

- Realization of “hut-houses” built with the new technology used for the project’s buildings

Some communicating round hut-houses together form modular houses which are permanent and hygienically. These constructions may offer the possibility of capital investment for the village because renting or selling houses using payments in kind of animals the village increases the number of the village’s cattle.

- Last but not least, there is the possibility to equip the village to accept periodically a limited number of persons looking for an “ecological and responsible tourism”.

By the end of the project and during a proper evaluation mission the CCM responsible together with the representatives of the local counterpart and the sponsors will evaluate the level of objectives obtained and dispose for the final report.

For further information concerning the area and the other CCM activities consult the websites: www.sololo.it  and www.ccm-italia.org