Winners Group Initiative (WGI)
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Mwihoko
Githurai, Kiambu County
Kenya
Contact person: Esther Njoki
+254715362190; +254748415297
winnersshg1@gmail.com
https://winnersshg.wixsite.com/winning
https://www.facebook.com/ThikaWins/?ref=page_internal
Topics
- Commune, community project
- Educational policy/project
- Women's policy
- Overnight facilities
- Volunteers are welcome.
About us
Winners Group Initiative, founded in 2014, is a registered community based organization in Kenya, which operates in the informal settlements of Kiambu County.
It is our mission to support marginalised youths, women, children and people living with HIV/AIDS helping them to access and excel in education and businesses.
We also assist young adults to acquire vocational & life skills, allowing them to start their own businesses and address social challenges in their community.
To achieve our goals and mission, we have implemented 5 ongoing programs:
• Nurturing: Nurturing program benefits primary school children, it ensures they have clean water, sanitation and environment. Also, in this program, children are provided with learning materials like books, pencils and uniforms. Winners also educate girl children especially the ones in menstruation period, how to take care of their bodies and to accept the changes.
• Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship focuses on women and youths. It is a program that ensures women and youth are in ability to start their own businesses. Winners achieve this by organizing trainings in different business opportunities and offering small loans to women and young people.
• Motivation: Motivation program supports people living with HIV/AIDS through educating them on treatment and medication. Winners group organize forums with Thika health department and educate the infected on how to take care of themselves. In the program we train grandmothers about HIV/AIDS to help us reach young people in order to curb new infections. Also, we have education programs to help these people face their challenges and live positively.
• Environmental care: In environment care program, we plant trees and plants that benefit the environment and reduce pollution. We have various education programs with the community teaching them on how to use water, dispose waste, demerits of chemicals in the garden and in water bodies etc. Our focus being to rescue the earth.
• Talent recognition: Talent recognition main objective is to reach out to the young people to make them independent and self-reliant. In Kenya, unemployment is a major issue affecting the youths thus winners wish to help them realize their abilities. By encouraging youths to use their abilities to earn a living decreases unemployment which results to decent living.
Winners' Initiatives:
• Children's Homes: Children's homes in Kenya are under resourced meaning even food and water can sometimes be a struggle. Winners Initiative, believe children need to have fun and therefore we work with a number of children's homes organising fun events for the children.
• Ball-to-All: Winners Initiative are ambassadors of the Ball-to-All organisation. Ball-to-All was founded with a simple premise: keep kids playing – it will help them grow healthier, happier and at the same time, keep them out of trouble.
• Sanitation: Winners Initiative focuses on keeping girls in school by providing free reusable cloth pads. Along with the pads, Winners Initiative educate girls so they can properly manage their periods and stay in school throughout their menstrual cycle.
• Sport: Through the Head Start Initiative Winners is supporting local youth sports teams through funding small income generating projects implemented and run by the members of the team.
• Single Mothers: Winners have a Head Start Project which provides support to single mothers that have small businesses. We provide small loans to help boost the business to make them more profitable.
• HIV/Aids Support: Winners support and educate people living with HIV/Aids. We provide both emotional support and help them consult doctors and get the right treatment. In addition, we hold community forums where we educate people to try and remove the stigma associated with HIV/Aids.
• Library: Winners next initiative will be to build a local library so children can have access to a variety of books. We have a dream to start reading clubs with the local children to try and stimulate their interest in learning to read as an extra curricula activity outside of school.
• Environmental Care: We believe that looking after the environment is paramount to building a better future. Therefore, we are working to educate people on topics such as waste management as well as organising tree planting events.
Esther Njoki is the Managing Director of the Winners Group Initiative (WGI).
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.