Alliance for Development of Population Services (ADEPS)

About us

Alliance for Development of Population Service (ADEPS) is a non-profit, non-commercial. Community Based Organization (CBO) established in 2001 in response to myriad of development problems in Vihiga County. ADEPS, is a nonprofit organization working to address development problems affecting the community, alleviate poverty and help reduce suffering through research and needs assessment studies in poor and disadvantaged communities, there by helping to promote social economic development and building up more healthy, economically strong and vibrant society.
Our current areas of priority includes; Health care; Orphans and vulnerable children support program; Environmental protection and improvement; Women issues among others

Our Vision
To build a strong vibrant and cohesive society free from all sorts of injustices and caste including social and economic and having a scope for self-reliance.

Our Mission
ADEPS is committed to empowerment of grassroots people to strive for their basic needs and generally improve their live hoods and welfare by promoting a more constructive lifestyle through capacity building, provision of knowledge and information, skills improvement, change of attitudes, development programs and provision of materials/Capital support.

Programs and projects
• Health care: We conduct community engagement seminars /workshops to discuss health issues and problems affecting people and together developing appropriate counter measures to be able to address the threats and diseases under focus in villages. Again, we make further visits to much deeper rural areas where health services are rarely found, reaching out to the very common ignorant individuals who lack the important basic health information and provide the services while distributing health related products to help the community effectively manage and control the diseases. Finally, we arrange follow up activities at households’ levels to carry on with further demonstration and to judge how effective our impact is, through inspection, monitoring and evaluation activities, measuring the outcomes.
• Orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) support program: We work to protect and improve these children’s welfare through counseling and rescue services, where the affected children are rescued from the hands of possible perpetuators and take them to our center for further support services. we also get out to the rest of the community through various public gatherings, churches and others to talk about these issues and educate the public in issues to do with children rights and protection, so as to prevent cases of child abuse and use the same forums to encourage and educate members of the public on the importance of basic necessities to children which includes; shelter, basic education, food, health services, clothing and others, so as to restore hope into these hopeless children. We have established a model day care center to provide a special alternative for these troubled children, where they can receive normal learning like the rest of the other children in conducive environment that best suits their situation.
• Environmental protection and improvement: We conduct awareness to the community regarding the impact of environmental degradation and the need for comprehensive mitigation actions at all levels of the general population, including family and individual levels .We also conduct community engagement workshops to empower the existing traditional systems for coping and also equipping them with special knowledge, skills and the remedial measures, needed for them to fully take up a complete responsibility on how to effectively and properly utilize and restore the indigenous tree species and grasses to protect, manage and improve their general environment, for improved living standards and sustainable development .Finally, we take up a leading role to move up and down, collecting seeds wherever they can be found, prepare the seedbeds and mobilize the community to participate in the planting exercises.
• Women empowerment: We also train them, equipping them with the needed extra knowledge and entrepreneurial skills and also provide them with start up capital, so needed to enable them start and actively participate in income generating activities [IGA] for them to enhance their earning power and improve their livelihood together with those of their families.

For other net participants we can procure expert information in the field of environment; education; women issues.