Leo Community Development Network
(LECDEN-KENYA CHILDREN'S HOME)

 TESTIMONIALS FROM SOME OF OUR BENEFICIARIES/MEMBERS

 “I had never thought I would be where I am today if LECDEN-KENYA did not come to my rescue. They have helped me improve on my livelihood and that of the children I teach at the Riverside Day Care centre. Thank you LECDEN-KENYA and friends and wellwishers in the USA” - Gladys Atieno Arogo (Daycare Teacher – Kiambiu slum)


 

“Before LECDEN-KENYA came to my rescue, the better part of my life has been filled with sorrow and difficulties since my husband died from HIV/AIDS in the year 2002. LECDEN-KENYA brought relief to my life and that of my two kids after they gave me some money to start a micro-enterprise in 2006” – Patricia Ambatsa –Kibera Widow

 
 


“The help that LECDEN-KENYA gave me cannot be explained in human terms. I was suffering not

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 because I had a tumor but because of the stigma I went through from my peers in school. I had suffered from a jaw tumor from a tender age of 5 years and I had to drop from school. Thanks to LECDEN-KENYA I am now able to go to school and mix with the other kids freely” – Jackson Abujeka – Orphan, Kiambiu

 

“When I was diagnosed with the HIV virus in 2003, the doctor told me I had six months to live because my health had been severely compromised by the virus. I just went to stay at home as I waited to die. This was proved wrong by LECDEN-KENYA and friends & wellwishers (volunteers) from USA, who have been supporting me through medication and nutrition since the year 2005. I thank them all for the good work they are doing”
“I am always sure that I will be attended to… unlike other places where I can even be told that the Doctor is not in until tomorrow”

 – Evelyn Mueni – HIV Patient - Machakos

“Counseling is restorative”, is the driving slogan and motto in our work. Since its inception, LECDEN-KENYA has always recognized and employed counseling. Though largely unappreciated, counseling is a unique strategy that is not only remedial, but ultimately enables one to cope with an adverse condition or circumstance. HIV infection is one such adverse circumstance that has challenged people in an immense way, thus the need to employ counseling. The emotional and psychological trauma that HIV occasions onto people infected with it, calls for the careful employment of counseling services by qualified service providers. LECDEN-KENYA has institutionalized counseling as a form of care that goes beyond the physical human person, a therapy that embraces the body and mind and enables people to cope and live with an adverse situation, learning and making progressive decisions out of informed consent.

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- Care & Support for families infected &
  affected with HIV/AIDS
- Care & Support for Children  orphaned by
   HIV/Aids and girl Child Capacity Building.
- Environment Awareness, Water &
  Sanitation Programmes (Slum Upgrading
  Initiatives)
- Poverty Eradication through income 
  Generating  activities (I.G.A) for sustainable 
  livelihood
- Awareness Campaign on health & Drug
  Abuse
- Youth & Population Awareness Programmes
  (Reproductive health).     
- Campaign against child trafficking
- Campaign against Femal Genital Mutilation
  (FGM) and Gender Violence (Women &
   widows)        
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- Counseling and Group Therapy Services
- Vocational trainings for older orphans
- Home based care , Nutrition care , Medical
  Care
- Community Educational Programmes
  through capacity building
- Establishment of Community Based Groups
  to sustain development agenda
- Community Mobilization & Advocacy
   Programmes
- Outreach Forums
- Drama Programmes especially for the
   youth
- Community Resource Person Approach.
- Involvement of Local Administration at the
  community level .
                           
      
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- Lack of Technical Support and capacity building
   for our members
- Lack of resources to empower the most
  vulnerable through sustainable projects.
- Lack of donor funding

  Our Vision

Lecden Envisions " A just society in which human dignity is upheld and sustainably developed"

  Our Mission
To work towards initiating sustainable development programmes to improve the living standards of the poor rural and urban slum dwellers especially the very most vulnerable groups i.e children, girl child and women/widows (Affected or Infected with HIV/AIDS/Poverty)
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Our Goals and Objectives
a) The goal and objectives are orientation of health care , creating of HIV/AIDS, STI &
     poverty reduction awareness towards the most prevalent health needs and self reliance
     target area.

b) Control/Reducing of AIDS/STI and poverty existence by providing the necessary services to this
    population i.e. awareness - education , counseling of the already affected people / their family and
    referring of those who have been infected to health and poverty control institutions in addition to
    creating of employment and other self reliant options/measures among others.

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