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Rural-Kenya World Cultural Link-CULINKE is a sectorbroad youth-led organisation with crosscutting programmes addressing poverty and root causes of poverty along the lines of global development goals. Of great importance to us is the prevalence of HIV/AIDs and it’s effect on wealth creation and youth life. Another key concern for CULINKE is the catastrophic socio-economic impact the pandemic is having on Kenya through the numbers of AIDS orphans generated by parental deaths. Many orphaned children are abandoned and need a home to call their own and love and acceptance to move on. One cannot address poverty alleviation without a strategy of integrating orphans and vulnerable children and youths into the mainstream and fabric of a productive community life through education, skills building, leadership training, micro enterprise training and healthcare. The life of orphanhood and perpetual vulnerability dehumanises children and youths and takes away from them their selfhood and personhood. They grow up without ambition and with no sense of direction. A life that offers no hope. The outcome of this is institutionalisation of poverty and the dependency syndrome over generations. On very many occasions youths and children are drawn to the streets, into prostitution or are forced to succumb to child labour and are subjected to varying forms and degrees of child and human rights abuses in their struggle to survive. In this environment we cannot talk of halving the world’s poverty by 2015. The all-compounding problem of HIV/AIDS is Kenya’s biggest threat to economic recovery and a stable future for the youths. In our determination to alleviate poverty, and lead Kenya into a path of sustained development, CULINKE acknowledges the arresting effects of vulnerability on the future as represented by the youth and the orphans.
On the whole CULINKE operates on the premise that the potential to ease poverty and enhance people’s quality of life is inextricably tied to amongst other things the full integration of HIV/AIDS and reproductive health and family planning services into the development agenda, and that the achievement of desired family size and spacing children are indicators of a healthy informed family. The linkage between population growth and HIV/AIDS; family planning and development; women’s empowerment and the realisation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) cannot be overlooked in the fight to end poverty. Sustainable development is impossible in an environment of rapid population growth. Such growth impedes sustainable production, consumption and redistribution of resources at all levels, local and global. Change starts with awareness in the youths in all sectors leading to responsible citizens always serving than being served, and for youths out-of-school, creating an environment conducive for growth-micro finance.
As a world community it is our moral obligation to make a change, we can make a real difference in the fight against poverty by making a difference in the lives of orphans, vulnerable children and youths.
We would appreciate if we partnered with an organisation or organisations or individuals with whom we share this aspiration.
Please visit our web site at www.culturallinkkenya.org to learn more about us. Feel free too to let us know what you think is appropriate for us to succeed. We are open to learning, and we are very flexible to accommodate new ideas.
We define poverty as a lack of basic necessities that all human beings must have: food and water, shelter, education, medical care, security, etc. We understand it as a multi-dimensional condition that exceeds all social, economic, and political boundaries. Our efforts to alleviate poverty therefore are informed of a variety of different factors, hence our integrated approach.
My name is John-f. Oddenyo and I am the Executive Director of CULINKE-which in short is Cultural Link Kenya.
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