Macheo Children's Centre
The Macheo NGO was founded in 2005 with a single goal: creating a fairer future for Kenyan children. Macheo, which means “sunrise” in Kiswahili, supports vulnerable children in the urban slums and rural areas around Thika, Kenya. Through a self-designed and developed system, Macheo identifies needs, determines how the root cause(s) of these needs can be addressed quickly, effectively, and efficiently, and assesses whether these interventions produce the intended changes.
Macheo believes in tailor-made solutions. There is not one solution for the challenges these vulnerable children and their families face. The situation is too complex. This is the reason why Macheo approaches identified needs in a holistic way: Macheo aims to see the total picture, including root causes, instead of dealing with only one (symptomatic) need. When Macheo helps, they look further than only the one individual who needs help; where possible Macheo involves the entire community to partner with them to solve the needs
Macheo Education Girls & Economic Empowerment programme
Ten years ago, A4C embarked on a mission to empower the Macheo Children’s Organisation, and we were part of various projects in those ten years. In 2022, we started supporting Macheo’s Educating Girls & Economic Empowerment project, by paying the fees for the all-important first year of High School for 54 girls and by supporting the girls’ families to start a small business. An adolescent girl not being in school is at very high risk in Kenya. So getting her in school is the first priority to prevent social exclusion and teenage pregnancies.
Family economic empowerment program
Education is a human right, but one that millions of children are still denied. By providing underprivileged children with an education at our school, Future Hope gives them the key to unlock opportunity; a chance to get a decent job, to escape poverty and to support their families & communities.
We Need Your Support
With all the projects we support, there is always more there can be done. Perhaps you have something that can be donated that may help them. This depends from project to project but can include: time, equipment, (school) materials, involvement or long term commitment from you or your company. Contact us if you want to help.