Kabissa wins the Netsquared FACT Social Justice Challenge!

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 23 October, 2010 - 13:48

Thank you everyone who voted for Kabissa Connections on Netsquared to get us into the final 15 and thank you judges who selected us to be among the 5 winning organizations to receive a $5,000 cash prize. I also would like to congratulate the other 4 winners, in particular Agricultural Marketing Information Services in Cameroon and Integrated Electonic Peace Building Project in Kenya which are both very innovative and powerful projects deserving of recognition and support.

World Cup Launch in Kibera

Submitted by Kirsty McLullich on 12 June, 2010 - 21:58

There was a definite air of excitement on the day the World Cup opened in South Africa. People in Kenya were tweeting about wearing football jerseys to work and that some offices were closing early to allow staff to go and watch the opening match.

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CIVICUS and IPS collaborate on online database to connect CSOs to the Media

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 14 December, 2009 - 11:38

CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation - has partnered with IPS to create an online database to make civil society worldwide more accessible to the media. I learned about this today in a special mailing (pasted below) from eCivicus. This new database is a great idea and I recommend Kabissa members explore it and sign up. I do wonder, though - this means yet another online profile for CSOs to maintain. How does it add value beyond what is already provided for civil society organizations by services like Kabissa, Idealist and Wiser Earth, not to mention Wikipedia and Facebook Fan pages?

Why Child Sponsorship?

Submitted by Kirsty McLullich on 11 November, 2009 - 18:13

Child sponsorship programs offer organisations like Vision Africa the potential for regular funding which contributes to the education or welfare of children. It sounds like such an obvious statement but doesn’t quite express the vital work that these contributions make to projects and to children and their families.


At Vision Africa, we have sponsorship programs for a variety of different projects. Those of you who read our recent update “Baby Talk” might recall that in our abandoned baby unit we have a “sponsor a cot” program.

Value for Money

Submitted by Kirsty McLullich on 2 November, 2009 - 16:36

Vision Africa's chairman, Bob Dowty, has updated his blog. His new post ponders whether our organisation needs to change its model or whether we can continue to be successful AND grow AND keep our overheads as low as 2%. These days donors demand value for money and administration costs can be a deciding factor when people are choosing who to give money to. How do we maintain our advantage and grow?

Baby Talk

Submitted by Kirsty McLullich on 27 October, 2009 - 14:12

In November 2007, the opening ceremony was held for the St. Andrews Baby Unit in the grounds of Kandara Children’s Home in a rural part of Central Province, Kenya. As a volunteer at the home at that time, I was asked to write a poem for some of the children to recite at the event. I can’t remember all of it but it started....

“Abandoned at birth, left in despair...no-one to love them, no-one to care”

Autumn Newsletter Now Available

Submitted by Kirsty McLullich on 26 October, 2009 - 16:44

The chairman of Vision Africa, Bob Dowty, has pulled together our latest newsletter. There are updates on projects, information about the social networking sites we're using and the story of an amazing 80year old man! Check out the newsletter at http://bit.ly/2h2wk and then give us some feedback on our work. We'd love to hear from you.

Education - A Right? A Privilege? A Dream?

Submitted by Kirsty McLullich on 21 October, 2009 - 16:22

As the K.C.S.E (Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education) kicked off this week and we spent time at our football office making success cards for their K.C.P.E candidates (Kenya Certificate of Primary Education), I’ve been thinking a lot about education and how many people take it for granted.

When I was in secondary school in the UK, there were no university tuition fees – as long as you got the marks and could be supported for the duration of your course, it was relatively easy to do a degree. I had 7 years of free primary education and HAD to attend secondary school until I was 16, regardless of the marks I scored. I actually ended up doing 6 years in secondary school and all my parents had to pay for was my uniform and some stationery.

I don’t think I actually appreciated just how lucky I was until I came to Kenya.

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