Although the number of children in Kenya attending primary education has increased significantly over the past 5 years, it turns out many children leave primary school without being able to read and write. ICS believes that the quality and effectiveness of primary schools will increase if management and teachers are held accountable to the children's parents and the community. School Improvement Programmes (SIP) are being created by school community clusters to make this happen, in which representatives of the school and the community work together to safeguard the quality and access to education.
Two school community clusters in the districts of Busia and Teso (Western Kenya) will be supported in creating and execute a School Improvement Programme (SIP). The support consists primarily of training and financial contributions to the execution of the SIP’s. The project involves 2 community clusters, reaching 7 Early Childhood Decelopment Centres, 9 Primary schools, 3 Secondary schools and 1 Vocational school.

In the poor region of Sadisa in the southwestern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo malnutrition occurs very often. In order to combat malnutrition and other illnesses, often caused by improper nutrition, a team of nurses founded the Nutritionnel Sadisa Bakweno Centre in March 2006. Besides reducing malnutrition, its aim is to provide timely treatment, offer information and assist the disabled, widows, and orphans.

HIV/AIDS is a huge problem in the Namakkal District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Here, intense drought caused by the absence of the monsoons is resulting in a major labour migration among the population. And this is leading to an increased risk of the spread of HIV/AIDS. Another important factor contributing to the spread of HIV/AIDS is road transport which is a major form of employment in this region. Drivers have unsafe contact with prostitutes and then take the disease home with them and their wives are frequently widowed. Relief services lack sufficient resources and are too sparsely distributed to be effective in dealing with the problem. Many children are direct or indirect victims of HIV/AIDS because they become infected or because their parents die from the disease. Lack of knowledge among people in the children’s environment also means that they are often stigmatised and discriminated against.

 

Society for Serving Humanity creates community support for people with HIV/AIDS, and raises awareness of the problems on a local level in order to combat discrimination. This project intends to create facilities for a training centre of SSH, to make the organisation more sustainable.