Otto Benecker Foundation

PO Box: 5254; Kivuli Center, Kabiria Road
00100 Nairobi, Dagoretti Sub-County
Kenia

Persona de contacto: John Chavasu

+254 756 333857; +254722461108
ottobeneckerfoundation@gmail.com
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https://ottobeneckerfoundation.blogspot.com/p/about-us.html

Áreas temáticas

• Organización de apoyo
• Economía alternativa
• Política de la mujer / Proyecto feminista

• Ayudantes voluntarios serán bienvenidos.

Sobre nosotros

The Otto Benecker Foundation was founded in 1996 by young people in Mathare, the second-largest informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. The foundation began as a girls’ football team that was heavily supported by Father Otto Benecker of St. Benedict Parish, Mathare. The organization was christened Otto Benecker Foundation in his honor and remembrance.
Otto Benecker Foundation is located in Kenya. It is a non-profit organization that empowers women, girls, and youth through talent development: sporting activities, creative performing arts, and media, livelihoods skilling, child protection, and healthcare promotion. Such platforms are used to address sexual reproductive health issues, economic empowerment, and leadership and advocacy concerns.

The vision
A consciously functional society supportive of the well-being of women, youth, and vulnerable groups.

The mission
To support the social-economic empowerment of youth (adolescents) and Women (young mothers & and girls) through the promotion of dialogues, partnerships, and rights advocacy.

Main objective
To improve agriculture production, access to healthcare services, environmental conservation, information technology, alleviate poverty, and nurture talents through sports.

Otto Benecker covers the following thematic areas:
• Health and well-being (Reproductive health, mental health, and health systems strengthening)
• Child protection and advocacy
• Livelihoods development and Economic empowerment
•Talent development via (girl's football, creative arts & media)

Programs
• Talent Development Program: Sports and Creative Arts: Aim at identifying and tapping unexploited talents of young people and imparting vital skills in creative performance, soccer, and video production. Activity: Talent identification, development, training for entrepreneurship, and linkages.
• Livelihoods Program: Aims at imparting vocational skills to youth, women, and vulnerable groups to compete favorably in the competitive global space. Activity: We identify with group cohort needs in vocational and entrepreneurship spaces, income-generating activities, and livelihood opportunities available.
• Health and Wellness Program: The program focuses on reproductive health interventions together with advocacy in cross-cutting issues such as the protection of adolescents and youths’ rights, accessibility to financial resources, life skills development, career guidance and counseling, mental health, and healthcare systems strengthening. We promote community-based preventive responses as opposed to curative measures. Health Activities:
• Sexual reproductive health education among women and adolescents; Safe motherhood, anti-natal and postnatal care with safe delivery awareness;
• Family planning counseling and health education at school and community;
• Mental health literacy and hospital construction,
• Awareness raising through advocacy and mobilization; Health outreach clinics through sports and theatre; WASH programs
• Adolescent reproductive sexual health interventions
• Innovation, Micro Credit, and enterprise enhancement
• Livelihood enhancement, restoration and management,
• Climate-smart and sustainable agriculture and natural resource management/watershed development
• Non–farm technology promotion and farm-based technology promotion
• Sports, arts, and talent development and behavior change communication for attitude change
• Networking, Partnership, and collaboration

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.