PURSUE

Our programmes: 

As we work towards empowering communities, we focus on three key areas of community life:

Pursue: Better Living

We want to see people’s quality of life improved, and we seek to do this through our Jiggers programme. Our Community Helping Hands dedicate regular time each month to offering treatment for tungiasis (a flesh eating flea that causes great pain in hands and feet) and bedbugs which infest entire houses. The Community Helping Hands also teach communities first aid and provide basic health and hygiene training to help avoid these conditions reappearing once they have been eliminated.

We also facilitate the establishment of table banking initiatives, as we believe that every community member is part of the solution to its problems, so we want to see people empowered to raise their standard of living through communal business ventures. 

Pursue: Family and Community

We believe that every individual is valuable. Pursue seeks to bring self-worth and foster a sense of community through initiatives such as weekly widow’s meetings and marriage courses, all designed to grow a sense of community and encourage grassroots income generating projects. 

 Our dedicated Community Helping Hands spend the majority of their time visiting the individuals and families that we work with, in order to build relationships and really understand their challenges. We also partner with organisations to offer a range of tailor-made programmes to cater specifically for the community or individuals that we work with.

Pursue: Education

More than one in three adults in Western Kenya are illiterate.  This has a huge impact on their self-esteem and ability to find paid employment. Pursue works within communities offering free literacy and numeracy classes to those otherwise unable to access learning. We want to see more people able to provide for their families through employment or managing their own enterprises.

There are now more children attending school in sub-Saharan Africa than ever before. Parents often spend what little money they have on sending their children to school. But sadly the standard of education is often very poor and the children do not always learn the valuable skills needed to thrive in the future. Out Teacher Development Programme works with untrained teachers to improve education in rural schools through a series of seminars, mentoring and school-based support.