Projects & Partners.
WHO WE ARE!
TEARS Group Kenya is a Non Governmental Organization based in Nakuru and operates within Rift Valley and parts of Kenya with collaborative partners. Founded in 2002 by a team of young performing artist.
TEARS: Theatre for Enhancement & Acceleration of Researched Solutions .
approaches such as performing arts, visual arts, focus group discussion, peer education among others to assist the communities to dialogue.
COMMUNITY OUTREACH.
As the community engage with the issues at hand, TEARS is able to harvest these and slowly start mapping out the issues as it seeks to seek ways of addressing them. Partnership and linkages plays a huge role is TEARS work as a catalyst since, the community is able to be linked to players in the community who can be able to assist the community to deal with the issues. The community members are able to be linked to and with potential service providers who are now able to continue the dialogue aimed towards reaching an amicable solution.
HOW WE WORK.
Our collaborators include both local and international players, the Government and private entity and most important of all-the community member.
Sustainable livelihood.
Through the TEARS Arts, Peace and skills Village (TAPEV), community members have been supported to enhance skills with a view to enhancing their livelihoods
SUPPORT & PATNERS
Bridging the digital and computer literacy among the local communities for social entrepreneurship and social network
This is a current ongoing partnership with Helward Packard (HP), Micro-Enterprise Acceleration Institute (MEA-I) and United Nation Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) focusing on impacting ICT skills and digital literacy on communication and social enterprise. TEARS has been awarded technology product of computer laptops among others of worth US$ 105,000.00 for a period of 2 years.
Project: Coaching and leadership developments through iLEAP International fellowship program in USA supported by PANGEA (Giving for Global Change) 2010 to date
TEARS received a scholarship of USD 8,000.00 from PANGEA for the Executive Director Leadership development on Collaboration, Social Digital Media, network and partnership building and sustainability in USA with iLEAP: Centre for Critical service. The Scholarship facilitated a platform for TEARS to create an International learning community with locals on leadership development, alliance building and collaboration through a cross cultural training and experience. TEARS is current a faculty partner with iLEAP: Centre for Critical services seeking to facilitate international experiential exchange; learning and a member of international networks and nonprofit across the globe.
Project: Arts Academy for decent livelihoods training on talents and informal skills .
TEARS with support from UNHABITAT & Janivo Foundation has reached over 400 young persons with life skills ,entrepreneurship and technical skills on their talents .This project was initiated by TEARS in 2007 before the post election violence and has contributed greatly on training the participants as agent of peace while undergoing the training at TEARS Arts & Peace skills Village. Up to the year 2010 the project has received US$ 68,000.00 from Janivo foundation and UNHABITAT and USAID funds (FAIR -APHIA II R/Valley).
Project: Youth Civic Engagement and Enterprise development 2006 to date suppotedc by World Bank and Japan Social development program through KCDF.
In the wake of the post election violence in the early part of 2008, Nakuru was the epicenter of the violence. Idle youth were a target for both of the warring parties. TEARS was contracted by KCDF to assist the community in Rift Valley in the healing process and peace building.
The project involved mobilizing, training and facilitating peace, reconciliation and conflict resolution sessions within the internally displaced persons. Focusing on building youth as entrepreneurs and peace agents through Community theatre techniques ,entrepreneurship training and peace camps to different communities .TEARS was also Sub granted by KCDF in 2010 to host Shabaa project ( a project on leadership and enterprise supported by International Labor organization (ILO) & World Bank) after following successful years of project support and funding. The KCDF has funded TEARS on Institutional strengthening, Youth and peace building in the year 2006 up to date. TEARS have received USD 34,000.00 for arts developments, Civic engagement and Institutional development and US$ 17,000.00 for leadership and enterprise development in Rift Valley Shabaa project).
Project: AIDS Population and Health Intergrated Assistance (APHIA II RiftValley) through National Organization of Peer Educators funded by USAID-2009-10
TEARS was contracted by NOPE to support the informal workplace population and their families at informal settlement to deal with the challenges of HIV and AIDS and health related. This was against the background of an increase in the infection rates and a lack of dialogue among married couples and disclosure following the release of the Kenya AIDS Indicator Survey (KAIS 2007).
An emerging gap at the time of the survey was identified as the lack of communication on sex related issues, which being a taboo topic among most communities ende up fuelling the spread of HIV. TEARS through its community theatre approaches was able to develop strategies to challenge this notion and develop strategies to increase the opening up of discussions on matters related to sex among couples with the target group.
Project: Sustainable livelood trainings and behavior change communication, supported Global Funds through National AIDS Control Council ,Kenya 2009
TEARS received a grant of US$ 5,000.00 to reach the young sex workers with behavior change communication and social entrepreneurship training on alternative livelihood skills. The project reached over 8,000 person with behavior change messages and trained 25 young women with enterprise skills.
Project: Pambazuko an Urban agriculture focusing on good nutrition, behavior change among the young sex workers and alternative livelihood skills 2009-10
This Project was supported by PANGEA with a grant total of USD 4,650.00 to support the low income families with nutritional education, behavior change communication and alternative skills training to young sex workers in Nakuru .Kenya
TEARS Resources Contact Information
Old Bishop HouseCatholic Diocese of Nakuru, Moi Road
Nakuru, Kenya
Phone:
+254 722 – 867673
+254 720 – 697634
+254 202 – 130381
E-mail: info@tearsgroupkenya.org
Programs & Activities.
- Creative talent nurturing and development
- Life skills development
- Health education and advocacy
- Leadership and Team building
- Trainings
- Outreaches
Community Outreach!
As the community engage with the issues at hand, TEARS is able to harvest these and slowly start mapping out the issues as it seeks to seek ways of addressing themFollow Us
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