Water Access
ACTION2DAY’s great achievement in 2023 was the borehole construction of drilling water in Tharaka-Nithi, Kenya. Ongoing drought in central and northern Kenya continues to threaten agriculture production in Tharaka-Nithi County. People are forced to spend about four hours a day walking just to bring water from the Tana River. This milestone achieved, providing enough and clean water directly to citizens, is the key to unlock potentials of agricultural and farming options, sustainability and empowermenet to local communities, educational & financial independency alternatives.
Women Empowerment Action - Kenya
Lack of food, education, clean water, and economic opportunities disproportionately harm women and drive generational poverty. Together, empowered women have the means to empower their communities. Action2Day supports female-led initiatives at St. Clement School in Nairobi and in Tharaka-Nithi County that promote economic autonomy and empower local women to shape the education of their children. Each day, women in Tharaka-Nithi County spend several hours weaving colorful baskets that are available for purchase in Europe and the United States. It takes around two weeks to make each "Basket of Hope," which comes in different colors and traditional motifs. Sales returns directly support the women and the needs of their community. With the support of donors, Action2Day raised money for 30 goats and launched a beekeeping project together with the women of Tharaka-Nithi County. Promoting quality education and school attendance means curbing period poverty, widening access to menstrual products, and starting conversations around cultural stigmas. Only about 35% of Kenyan women can afford sanitary pads, and girls in rural Kenya resort to skipping school during their period due to the lack of sanitation facilities and the social stigma associated with using cleaning facilities where they exist. Our team provides sanitary pads every month to teenage girls at St. Clement School in Nairobi.
Educate a Child
We strongly believe that education is key to social and economic development in Kenya. Tuition costs in Kenya can be high, and many families do not have the resources to ensure that their children are able to attend school, very often even secondary school. Our goal is to continue to sponsor school fees for local students in need, and partner with schools where our financial assistance would directly support children’s education. We are currently sponsoring 27 children.
Action2Day Art and Iconographic Center
The initiative of opening an Art and Orthodox Iconography Center came as a necessity in order to offer a chance to the less privileges ones to have access to violin classes, drawing/paintings and creation of books classes. In addition, member of orthodox parishes will have the chance to take free online classes of iconography. The Art Center will offer: a) Violin classes for children (6-10 years old) under the supervision of a qualified professor b) Creation of books on the lives of saints (in Swahili) based on paintings made by the children (7-12 years old) under the supervision of a professor c) Online iconography classes for adults – course Every Saturday from 10am-12pm-Valley Rd no 6, Nairobi.
Sustainability against hunger
We partner with St. Clement School on the outskirts of Nairobi to provide low-income students with two meals a day and a consistent meal program. St. Clement School offers free education, health services, food, and clothing to 300 children, including orphans, refugees, children from single-parent families, and children with AIDS. The meal distribution program is key to keeping these children in school, and plays a vital role in their growth and development. Our team supports St. Clement’s meal distribution program in three ways: 1) Fish farming (Circular Economic Project); 2) Organic Farming (in collaboration with students and teachers, our team set up an organic vegetable garden); 3) Occasional Food Support (Christmas meals, rice and oil for the community of Tharaka-Nithi, Migori Women's Prison and the surrounding community of St. Clement School, Nairobi).
Health Center Construction
Empowering Women & Children by rendering health services & education whereby is not an easy task. This is possible when knowledge and services downhill the sledge towards the slum breaking the social stigma and crossing physical barriers. We need your help in order to construct a Health Center in Tharaka-Nithi -Kenya that will serve the community of four villages (more than 360 families) . Kenya is one among the East African countries which is susceptible for life threatening health issues such as Malaria, Yellow Fever, and HIV, epidemics, nutritional disorders, neglected tropical diseases and array of other diseases including Neoplasm. Risk in the reach ability into the core of community, break in the supply chain of medicines and vaccines, lack of knowledge about communicability of diseases are a few reasons for the high incidence of mortality and morbidity. Health Centers play crucial role in such vulnerable communities where medical and health services are effectively collaborate to reach the needy population especially women and children