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WHO WE ARE

Imani Community Development Organization (Imani CDO) is a registered Community Based Organization with office in Oyugis Town, Homa Bay County. The Organization works in Rachuonyo South, Rachuonyo East and Rangwe Sub Counties of Homabay County in the following sectors, commonly referred to as Sectors of life;

Food and Nutritional Security.
Preventive Health Care.
Education.
Environment, Water and Sanitation.
Economic Empowerment.

WHAT WE DO

Latest news:

June 2026
Sweet Potato has been a traditional crop which was boiled and taken with Tea or Porridge for breakfast or lunch or dinner.
The old varieties of sweet potato production declined considerably with time until they disappeared.New varieties had to be developed for domestic use and industrial production.Imani Community Development Organization has been involved in multiplication of new varieties to be given to farmers.These new varieties are for various uses hence earning income for our farmers.Some are used for value addition hence migrating from the only boiled and table use to various uses.Imani CDO wants to multiply these varieties and give to farmers.Your financial support will greatly be appreciated to enable 1,480 farmers get these new varieties.

May 2026
Imani Community Development Organization has today brought young women who are at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS to meet with University of Washington Clinical research based at Rachuonyo County Hospital to discuss on how we can increase the use of preps in combating the disease.Recent report indicate the HIV/AIDS prevalence increased among young women aged between 18 to 30 years.

May 2025
Imani Community Development Organization initiated a bee keeping Project 10 years ago to increase resource poor farmers’ income.Todate several hives have been destroyed by weather.Imani also need to have it’s own institutional hives which will give the organization income.
The recent financial support given by our friends in The Netherlands has been used to buy 3 new hives at 8,000 shs each.Thank you our friends for the donation.We would wish to buy more hives and other bee keeping equipment as a sustainability strategy.Together we can bring hope to poverty stricken communities.

November 2024
The pre primary 2 class graduated to join Primary grade one next year. Imani Community Development Organization supports Mang’ang’a Youth Group to give proper foundation for the orphans and vulnerable Children.Your support can make a difference.

— Carbon Credit project

Imani has in the past implemented environmental conservation ideas ranging from soil science{conservation tillage},afforestation and reafforestation and energy conservation,all these ideas help reduce emissions and therefore can be used for carbon trade.We therefore have the experience to help carbon credit proponent to trade if we can be supported to hire extension staff and to delivery trainings to communities who will carry out conservation activities in their farms.

— Food and nutritional security

Human beings need three meals a day.The meals must be well balanced taking care of all nutritional requirements of the body.Most families cannot afford this particularly widows ,single mothers and orphans headed families.To support such families, Imani CDO has put various interventions in place such as training on sustainable agriculture, provision of farm inputs, training on kitchen gardening and local poultry rearing for affordable meat and eggs.We have also introduced cross breed cows for milk production.We advocate for food and nutritional Security for all.

— Preventive health care

We make efforts to prevent diseases instead of curing.In so doing,we have trained Community Health Volunteers (CHVs)whose title have now changed to Community Health Promoters(CHPs) drawn from various groups/ Communities that we work with.These volunteers work with our groups/Communities to ensure safe water system and use,improve sanitation by ensuring there are pit latrines as well as dish racks in every homestead.
HIV/AIDS still remain a menace alongside other sexually transmitted infection especially among adolescent boys and girls.Early pregnancy is still rampant among school girls that make them drop out of school while drug and substance abuse make boys drop out of school.To reduce this ,we have come up with Healthy Choices for a better future Program in mixed secondary schools and introduced Heathy Choices Clubs in these schools.We also do advocacy on behalf of communities on access to affordable health care, availability of drugs and services in health facilities.

— We Educate

Basic education is a right of every child of school going age.This is not a reality in Kenya,majority of children especially orphans,children slum areas do not have the privilege to attend early learning.To address this,Imani CDO has supported a number of communities to start schools within reach of orphans and vulnerable children.We have built classrooms,purchased desks,bought books and uniforms and paid school fees for orphans and vulnerable children.We also do advocacy on their behalf for the Government to ensure quality and affordable education for all children.

— Environment (Climate Change resilience, mitigation and adaptation), water and sanitation

Our environment is not the same again and yet we have to live in the that environment.Climate change resilience, mitigation and adaptation must remain our focus.We have promoted tree planting,sustainable agriculture, conservation Agriculture to prevent Green House Gas emission.We particularly have started intervening on large scale by exploring on carbon credit trading.While we have been doing much of the conservation work using the above approaches,this has been in smale scale.To address the critical issue of climate change we now have to scale up the interventions that we have had before.In this area we are calling for serious partnership because without our environment,we cannot live.Water sources have also dried up because of climate change.We advocate for a conserved environment

— Economic empowerment

We acknowledged that we will not be supporting widows ,orphans and vulnerable children,People living with disabilities and resource poor farmers for ever.There has to be sustainable mechanism put in place.Economic empowerment is the answer.We have conducted various trainings aimed at empowering our clients to have some income generating activities e.g bee keeping for honey and other products , jewellery for necklaces, bracelets and earrings particularly for old women and people living with disabilities.We have also trained youths on event management,commercial farming.What we have done is still not adequate,we need support to increase our capacity so that our sustainability plan is achieved.

Kennedy is the manager

Kennedy Obong’o is the manager of Imani CDO. He is 45 years old, married with six children and has been involved in community development activities supporting orphans, widows and people living with HIV/Aids for over 25 years. He has an extensive education in Community Development with a specialization in Project Management.

Steven and Mirjam are the facilitators

Mirjam and Steven have known Kennedy since their volunteer work at OIP in Oyugis. Since the corona pandemic, they have been trying to support Imani CDO where they can.

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WHO WE ARE

WHAT WE DO​

— Carbon Credit project

— Food and nutritional security

— Preventive health care

— We Educate​

— Environment (Climate Change resilience, mitigation and adaptation), water and sanitation​

— Economic empowerment

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