Dream Again Foundation

About us

Dream Again Foundation is a registered non-governmental grassroots organization operating in Kenya. Our aim is not to impose solutions upon communities from the outside, but to facilitate the dreams and ambitions rising up from within the communities.
Dream Again's vision is to see people in poor communities identifying with their potential rather than their predicament. We envision an empowered Kenya that is ready and able to define its own future.
By beginning within the community and building off of existing grass roots efforts, Dream Again is positioned to help people who are interested in lifting themselves out of the cycle of poverty. Dream Again is an empowerment effort in every sense of the word.

Our activities
• Born from the efforts of a local community organizer, Dream Again has mobilized the Kibera community to undertake a range of projects from cleaning the trash from neighborhood alleys to establishing community centres where Kiberians read, debate and see schools unite.
• With the intention of reaching the youth who are the future of both Kibera and Kenya, Dream Again also focuses on its efforts on bringing the youth off the streets and enrolling them into schools, where they pursue their studies and play football and tennis.

Dream Again Foundation is based on a three pillar approach: community bases, inter-communal exchange, and grassroots focus.
• Community bases: The first pillar of Dream Again's strategy lies in the creation of community centers in urban slums as well as within rural villages. The community centers are located in areas where access to resources is difficult or impossible. These centers provide access to information and resources vital to the health and growth of the community, and house grass roots empowerment and development programs. So far, Dream Again has community bases in Kibera (Nairobi) and Nyakach, Nyankza province (our first rural community base). The next location will be another rural area, Kano, and we will also expand to at least two other areas. The community bases are where we run our programs, and provide facilities for the community, such as library resources. We've used our community base in Kibera for a range of training, educational, and capacity building projects. Have a look at some of the photos below of our work.
• Inter-communal exchange: By hosting international volunteer efforts in communities such as Kibera, Korogocho or Mathare as well as rural villages in Eastern, Southern, Western and Central provinces, visitors will gain insight and understanding into the needs as well as the strength and potential in the different communities. Through the community centers, international volunteers will have the unique opportunity to learn about the diverse cultures that exist in Kenya from the Turkana to the Kikuyu people, from the urban dweller to the rural farmer. The international community will in turn have an opportunity to participate in the grass roots movements happening within these communities through donating time, resources, ideas and expertise to the ongoing projects.
• Grassroots focus: Dream Again foundation seeks to build on the grass roots achievements of pioneers who, having been raised in Kibera slum took it upon their selves to improve and empower their community. By building on the work of grass roots organizers and encouraging others to do the same, we have the opportunity to affect lives in a unique way, responding to and encouraging the strengths and power of the people within the communities and assisting them to achieve their dreams and goals.

Kenneth Odoyo Owade is the Director of the Dream Again Foundation.

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