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We are doing our part to alleviate hunger among seniors in Isiolo and Kakamega Counties. Join this fight against hunger by supporting our campaigns.

Thank you for making a difference.#zerohunger

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We are doing our part to alleviate hunger among seniors in Isiolo and Kakamega Counties. Join this fight against hunger by supporting our campaigns.

Thank you for making a difference.#zerohunger

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What makes us different? • 100% of all donatio

What makes us different?

• 100% of all donations received goes directly to our programs such the Seniors feeding programme. All our admin and overhead costs are covered by our Founders.

• 95% of MIC staff are volunteers who dedicate their skills and time to the organization from the Board Of Directors, Ambassadors, Senior Management, Community Leaders to the Youth Advocates.

• Our interventions are specifically targeted to the Senior citizens in Kenya with the aim of ensuring they age in a healthy and dignified manner.

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Meet the endearing 94 year old Zainab Ndalo Shites

Meet the endearing 94 year old Zainab Ndalo Shiteswa, a resident of Majengo area in Kakamega county who is one of our oldest seniors.

She dwells in this run-down mud walled house with her grandchild as her sole provider.

Shiteswa is among the first 50 beneficiaries of our seniors feeding program in Kakamega.

Her old age does not allow her to undertake any economic activity and fully relies on the monthly food rations she receives to thrive.

She is extremely grateful to Mama Ibado Charity for reducing her distress of putting food on the table.

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A senior in Kenya is considered as a person above

A senior in Kenya is considered as a person above the age of 60 years.

We define our seniors as vulnerable persons above 60 years of age, who are poor, suffering from various illnesses and are the caretakers of their grandchildren from their deceased or divorced kin.

Our seniors have no source of income and in most cases, their survival is dependent upon well wishers or them begging in the streets.

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Prolonged drought seasons in arid and semi arid ar

Prolonged drought seasons in arid and semi arid areas (ASAL) has left more than 79% of residents within these areas stranded and deprived of access to basic needs such as safe drinking water (WorldBank).

We are doing our part in reducing inequalities and access to basic needs.

As part of our mission to reduce poverty in vulnerable communities; we unveiled a community water point at Esmit, in Isiolo county.

The community water point supplies 10,000 litres per day and is replenished from the Esmit Mama Ibado’s farm borehole .

Dances, songs and prayers of gratuity were in plenty as the community welcomed the new water tank.

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We had a splendid time engaging with the Isiolo Sc

We had a splendid time engaging with the Isiolo School for the Deaf community.

Our experience with the learners and faculty was very resourceful, heartwarming and fun.

These kids were the true depiction of disability is not inability. We supported them with stationary, sports gear and clothing donations to aid in their studies and co-curricular activities.

#MamaIbadoCharity #Isiolo #IsioloCounty #Isioloschoolofthedeaf #Restoringdignitytoourseniors #Education #KenyanSchools

The late Taparamai Kuya used to live by himself in

The late Taparamai Kuya used to live by himself in a dilapidated house but under the care of his son Nicholas (pictured) who was doing manual jobs to support him and his family.

Kuya is now deceased and left the house to his son Nicholas and his young family. Thanks to the roof over my head project, Kuya lived in dignity.

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The policy states that “ Older Persons are most

The policy states that “ Older Persons are most vulnerable to malnutrition, hunger and famine situations due to the fact of being food insecure, consuming foods with low nutrition values..….”

Through our Seniors Feeding Program, we have ensured 800 seniors from Isiolo and Kakamega Counties have access to monthly food rations that has significantly improved their health and well being.

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Being bedridden for 29 years and fully dependent o

Being bedridden for 29 years and fully dependent on relatives and friends to do daily tasks has been Catherine Ayuku’s life.

A road accident that spared her life, but left her with a spinal cord injury robbed her of what remained of her youthful years.

The 78 year old, who lives in a humble home in Majengo area, Kakamega county, is the sole provider for several of her grandchildren. Without an income she faces challenges when trying to access physiotherapy services.

To ease her movement we donated a wheelchair during our recent visit.

Catherine is among the first 50 beneficiaries enrolled into the seniors feeding program in Kakamega county. She says that the monthly food rations have really helped her and she is forever grateful to Mama Ibado Charity.

Seniors are the most affected when peace is not maintained as they are vulnerable and unable to flee.

We need to care for our seniors who in case of conflict are often left behind isolated from their family and communities.

Vote Wisely, Vote Peacefully.

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We are glad to have been hosted today by the Inua

We are glad to have been hosted today by the Inua Dada Foundation that empowers and upholds the dignity and protects the rights of every girl child.

The foundation ensures free access to sanitary towels to girls to end period poverty.

We today witnessed the pads project social enterprise centre that empowers the youth through employment.

We got to see how pads are manufactured at the Pads Making Machine initiative centre in Korogocho.

The project was launched in May and Inua dada has so far produced and donated approximately 20,000 sanitary towels since initiation.

The founder, Janet Mbugua is a friend of Mama Ibado Charity who joined us in Kakamega as we donated sanitary towels to students at Lugala Secondary School, Shinyalu Constituency.

#MamaIbadoCharity #WazeeWaKenya #InuaDada #InuaDadaFoundation #SanitaryPads #EndPeriodPoverty #GirlChild #Sanitarytowels #keepagirlatschool

As part of our sustainability program, we grow cro

As part of our sustainability program, we grow crops and rear livestock at the Ibado Farm at Matabithi, Isiolo.

Our directors, ambassadors, and volunteers got to visit our Ibado Farm and harvested some capsicum.

We had a good harvest however, we are facing human-animal conflict as elephants invaded our farm at night and damaged our crops and fence. We also had livestock which were stolen at night.

#WazeeWaKenya #MamaIbadoCharity #SustainabilityProgram #Isiolo #IsioloCounty #Seniors #ZeroHunger #Kenya #RestoringDignitytoourseniors #Canada #Ontario #Toronto

We constructed houses for 85 vulnerable beneficiar

We constructed houses for 85 vulnerable beneficiaries in Isiolo county under the Roof Over My Head campaign sponsored by the Monk Foundation, based in Canada.

The campaign was initiated in 2018 with the aim of providing better shelters to our seniors and was completed in December 2021.

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#WazeeWaKenya #MamaIbadoCharity #Roofovermyhead #Isiolo #IsioloCounty #MonkFoundation #Seniors #KenyaSeniorCitizen #Kenya #Canada #Ontario #Toronto #Restoringdignitytoourseniors

Meet Mohamed Astone who dreams to be a civil engin

Meet Mohamed Astone who dreams to be a civil engineer in the future.

An alumnus of Kakamega Township Primary School and currently a student at Kakamega High School.

He is one of our beneficiaries of the school bursary program, who performed exemplary in the recently concluded term one athletics by emerging the top champion in Kakamega county in the 100metres sprint race.

We are excited that he not only performs well in academics but also a trailblazer in co-curricular activities who aspires to break records like Omanyala.

#MamaIbadoCharity #SchoolBursaryProgram #Kakamega #KakamegaCounty #KakamegaTownshipPrimarySchool #KakamegaHighSchool #Omanyala

The areas of our interventions are Kakamega and Is

The areas of our interventions are Kakamega and Isiolo counties.

The Kakamega office is run by the project coordinator Naima Salim and Makamu Heston.

We have an office assistant Abdul and two volunteers Ikram and Samira who take great pride in what they do.

MIC Kakamega currently provides monthly food rations to 200 seniors under the Seniors Feeding Program and over 800 students at Kakamega Township Primary School under the School Feeding Program.

#MamaIbadoCharity #Kakamega #KakamegaCounty #KakamegaTownshipPrimarySchool #Schoolfeedingprogram #SeniorsFeedingProgram #Restoringdignitytoourseniors

85 elderly persons in Isiolo benefit from free hou

85 elderly persons in Isiolo benefit from free houses.

More than 80 elderly persons have received free houses from a local charitable foundation aimed at improving their living conditions.

The project by the Mama Ibado Charity and Canada’s Monk Foundation targeted senior citizens in Isiolo County affected by poverty and who could not afford food and quality health care.

The organisations partnered with members of the community, who donated parcels of land where the houses were built.

Ms Maimuna Abdikadir, a beneficiary, said the house gift was a huge relief as she used to sleep on the floor and the roof of her previous house leaked, exposing her to cold.

“I have been living in a dilapidated structure but I am so happy I have a decent house and will not catch cold, especially at night. I have also been receiving monthly food supplies,” said the 73-year-old, who lost her husband in the early 90s.

Mohammed Mohammud Mohammed, another beneficiary who has received the foundations’ monthly food donations since 2011, said the intervention had eased the burden of fending for himself and helped restore dignity in his life.

“I have also benefited from their previous medical camps,” he said.

The housing project kicked off with four houses five years ago but was suspended for two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic before resuming earlier this year.

Handing over two of the houses in Bulapesa last week, Mama Ibado Charity founder Ahmed Jibril said a total of 85 houses had been completed and handed over to beneficiaries.

“The shelter and food provisions are aimed at ensuring the elderly and vulnerable have decent lives,” he said, adding that the majority of them were going for days without food due to lack of caregivers.

He said over 600 households with elderly, sick and bed-ridden members across the county were benefiting from monthly food rations meant to cushion them against the biting effects of the drought and help them fight malnutrition.

“Well-wishers and the government should consider replicating the programme in other parts of the country to cushion the elderly and vulnerable against the harsh economic times and put a smile on their faces,” he appealed.

Pastoralism in the Borana community is a common pr

Pastoralism in the Borana community is a common practice that often involves the entire family. Its efficient operation is wholly dependent on sufficient division of tasks.

This form of livelihood is all Amina remembers from her childhood, which she really loved.

Born in 1946 to a pastoralist family, Amina and her siblings found themselves out grazing animals more often than not. And like
most Borana women at the time, Amina did not attend school.
Robbed off her childhood by traditional customs, Amina became a young bride. She was married off to an older man at the tender age of 8 years old.

She was forced to mature fast and take on wifely responsibilities. Barely a teenager then, she survived her reality and built her home.

Her husband settled them in Garba Tulla. She borne six children, two boys and four girls whom she loved dearly. Unfortunately, two of them died which led to grief shaking her to her knees.

Little did she know, further misfortune was around the corner. Some years later the shifter wars began. She remembers the strife and suffering that claimed so many lives.

Livelihoods were shattered as livestock was either stolen or killed. Amina lost all her livestock to the war. The banditry injured Amina’s community. It really took them a while to find their footing after the war.

When tensions cooled off Amina and her family moved to Isiolo.
They settled in a village called Bula Pesa. She tried to
pick up her life and started a small business where she sold groceries.
Her husband took on cargo transportation jobs. Isiolo proved to be a little bit more modern than her former home, having her overcome a lot of challenges both socially and economically.

As soon as she was finally settled and familiarized with the community, her husband passed away. The demise of her husband shook her.

Rendering her helpless and ill; with it went all her dreams of running and expanding her business. Her family became poor and destitute yet again.

Amina’s health took a turn for the worst as she became bedridden for three years suffering from hypertension and diabetes. Isolation and health issues had her fall into depression.

Our Founder Ahmed Jibril speaks on how Mama Ibado

Our Founder Ahmed Jibril speaks on how Mama Ibado Charity is supporting the girl child in partnership with Kakamega Forest Heritage Foundation by providing sanitary towels to school girls, to keep them in school.

Video: Brenda Wawire, West TV.

Two charities donate sanitary pads to schools in W

Two charities donate sanitary pads to schools in Western.

Story by @thestarkenya

Lack of pads due to economic hardships cited as one of the factors contributing to teenage pregnancies.

• The two partners donated sanitary pads to 361 girls in three high schools in Shinyalu constituency.

• They committed a yearlong sanitary towel and undergarment supply to keep them in schools.

Two charity organisations have partnered to expand donations of sanitary towels to schoolgirls in Western to keep them in school.

Kakamega Forest Heritage Foundation and Mama Ibado Charity have partnered to reduce the number of girls who miss classes during their menstrual period due to lack of sanitary towels.
Kakamega Forest Heritage Foundation has been donating sanitary towels to girls in Kakamega county alone.

It is estimated that more than one million girls in the country stay out of school due to lack of sanitary pads, significantly hurting their overall performance in class work.

Lack of pads due to economic hardships has been cited as one of the factors contributing to teenage pregnancies as the girls are forced to look for alternative sources of money to buy pads and some end up being sexually abused.
The two partners donated sanitary pads to 361 girls in three high schools in Shinyalu constituency and committed a yearlong sanitary towel and undergarment supply to keep them in schools.

“Sanitary pads donation is our flagship programme and we will see how best we can scale it up across the region. The challenge is widespread in Kakamega and even other counties,” Mama Ibado Charity founder Ahmed Jibril said.
“Today we are here to support the girl child. Their plight was brought to our attention by Kakamega Forest Heritage Foundation and we said we will be partners to support the initiative,” Jibril said.

Jibril is the chairman of Fly 748, a key partner of the initiative through Mama Ibado Charity.

Kakamega Forest Heritage Foundation chairman Johnson Murilla said the donation will boost girls performance in education.

Wazee wapitao themanini na watano kutoka kaunti ya

Wazee wapitao themanini na watano kutoka kaunti ya Isiolo wamepokezwa nyumba za bure chini ya mradi wa makazi unaofadhiliwa na wakfu wa Mama Ibado Charity pamoja na Monk Foundation.

Mfumo huo unalenga kuwatoa wazee hao kutoka hali ya dhiki .

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85 elders in Isiolo have a reason to smile after t

85 elders in Isiolo have a reason to smile after they were gifted free houses from Mama Ibado Charity and the Monk Foundation.

The foundation and charity organization say the project seeks to provide better living conditions for the elderly residents in Isiolo county.

Video : @citizentvkenya

We today visited the Aliwadyn Rescue Centre and go

We today visited the Aliwadyn Rescue Centre and got to see the Girls Vocational Beauty School .

We provide a 1 year supply of sanitary pads to the girls at Aliwadyn Centre.

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