Toto Centre Initiative
PO Box 8-80503 Mpeketoni
Mpeketoni, Lamu County
Kenya
Contact person: Hamisi Dzole
+254 737 592266; +254 729 523181
toto.ourcentre@gmail.com
hamisi.dzoleh@gmail.com
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Topics
- Aid organization
- Educational policy/project
- Overnight facilities
- Volunteers are welcome.
About us
Toto Centre Initiative (TCI) is a registered CBO in Lamu County, Kenya. The organization was founded in January 2019 and officially registered as a CBO by the Department of Social Development in Lamu.
Our primary mission as a CBO is to work directly with children, school community members, key departments from county and national government, and like-minded organizations to address and eliminate social and cultural barriers that affect education of boys and girls in Lamu County.
To drive and sustain our mission, Toto Centre Initiative is guided by the following:
• The Constitution of Kenya (Article 53) on the Rights of Children,
• The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) (Article 11) on a Child’s Right to education and personal development, and;
• United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) (Articles 19, 28 and 42) on protection from violence, abuse and neglect; the right to education; and the State’s obligation to inform children and families of their rights.
Our Objectives:
• Conduct research to inform current social and cultural gaps/norms/beliefs affecting education of girls and boys in the county.
• Work with children, school officials, community leaders and parents to design and implement child rights and protection programmes that eliminate harmful social and cultural beliefs and practices that affect education of boys and girls at school community level.
• Work with key departments from County government, National Government and likeminded organizations to strengthen and or develop laws and policies that shall eliminates all harmful practices that hinders education of boys and girls in the county.
Activities
Our key activities are guided by our main objective where we work with school officials, parents, local community leaders and government offials to eliminate social and cultural barriers that affect education of Boys and Girls in Lamu County. With the effect of Covid-19 in Kenya, we have so far implementing the following:
• Creating awareness to community members to understand fundamental rights of children
• Currently we are developing a plan with ministry of education and TSC to address various socio-cultural issues affecting girls’ education (especially defilement and teen pregnancy so rampant in Witu and Mpeketoni)
• We are currently implementing menstrual hygiene knowledge and sanitary kit support to marginalized girls of Mpeketoni and Witu at school level.
• Mentorship/life skills support targeting young and adolescents youth in and out of school,
• Awareness in schools on Drugs & Subsistence Abuse since it is affecting our young adolescent boys in the county
• Currently we are developing plans to address issues of violence including against children in schools including bullying.
Hamisi Dzole is the Co-Founder & Chairperson of the Toto Centre Initiative (TCI).
For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.