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TITLE
Evangelism and church planting in Kenya

IMPLEMENTING CHURCH
Bethel Covenant Church

CONTACT PERSON
Nasokho Michael
The Senior Pastor
Bethel Covenant Church

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The projected population of Kenya by the Kenya Bureau of statistics according to the census of the year 2004 was estimated to be 32,254,350 million people. Of this total Kenya is purported to be 80% Christian, but a number of evidences shows otherwise.

We as believers of the body of Christ knows that there are about 22 million people/groups that are designated as unreached as far as Christianity is concerned.

About 79% of Kenyan’s population resides in rural areas and villages. With about 21% in town center, within Nairobi accounting for about 7% of the town dwellers. Over 50% of the countries population is under 15 years of age, with over 800,000 eight hundred thousand children living in the slum areas of the city of Nairobi i.e. Kibera, Kariobangi, Kayole, Dondora, Mukuru, Kawangware, just the mentioned but a few.

Most of the towns in Kenya are currently experiencing a high number of street children which the government cannot cope up with. There is need for spiritual nourishment

INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

East Africa and Kenya in particular needs the help of organizations, groups or even individuals who can make it possible for the great commission to be accomplished
Kenya having been stable and peaceful for a long period with a stable economic dispensation except after the 2007 general election. With instability in the neighboring countries, Kenya has housed a big number of refugees coming in from different groupings.

Executive summary
In Kenya current estimates indicate that 3.2 million Kenyans are HIV positive; and are living with AIDS (Kenya Aid control centre) 1.8 million have so far died leaving behind about 1.5 million orphans under 18 years of age without protect from the World’s harsh condition of all levels. With HIV prevalence rate of 6% and mortality rate of 700 persons per day among adults of reproductive ages, the country is producing orphans at an alarming rate which have called for a lot of churches intervention as a common hand of care.

Bethel Covenant church as a family within churches in Kenya has not been left out of this plague. With a prevalence rate of 24%, HIV/AIDS in the care that the church is operational is a real threat to the livelihood in these areas. The disease has led to the death of most of the parents to those children rendering them as potential orphans at a very tender age, in all the evils of the society.
The orphans in most cases cannot afford the basic necessities like food, as most of the guardians whom they stay with are financially handicapped, the orphans also lack proper clothing, shelter, access to education and clothing.
The survey undertaken by Bethel covenant church in most of its areas of operation indicate that orphans are faced with psychological distress, this is generated from the trauma the children experience as the watch their parents die of the dreadful disease HIV/AIDS.
These factors have made life very difficult to the orphans and those who have been left to be taking care of them. The increase in family to many and the many mothers to feed with the same income or even a low income. This burden have had a flow to the churches, and as a result Bethel covenant church have initiated a tears of hope program an extended hand as an orphan care project that will see the lives of orphans and some of the people left to take care of them improved in various parts in Kenya where we have our branches like Kisumu, Kakamega, Kitale, Eldoret and Bungoma all in the Western part of Kenya and also in Nairobi.
This project aims at improving the livelihoods of orphans through the provision of essential basic needs like food, education, clothing, medical care and shelter. The provision of basic skill to the people who have been left to take care of the young orphans under responsible caregiver unit.
Tears of hope program recruits and counsels caregivers to HIV/AIDS orphans. We involve the caregivers’ seminars and meetings to learn basic business skills and in occasions extend small grants to ensure future sustainability of the basic they learned during the projects intervention. In a large scale, we are involved in the advocacy of behavior change with the communities –BCC2- Bethel Covenant Church behavior change community.
The district development committee- DDC and the constituency AIDS control committee – CACC have accorded tears of hope program through bethel covenant church some recognition of our activities.

INTRODUCTION
Bethel Covenant Church is a registered church organization in Kenya, founded and planted in bible doctrine to all believers within our reach. All its activities are still in Kenya with intention of moving to Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo, those countries which have war in Eastern region of East Africa.
Specifically, we focus our activities in poverty stricken areas, within our reach and along hot-spots (Lake shores, sugar plantation fields, transit points, emerging markets centers) At the moments, we are offering care and support to 176 pupils of Soweto Slum area in Kayole where our head office is, and some support in Kitale and Bungoma church centers. More than half of these children are total orphans, majority of orphans double up as pupils and household heads.

MISSION STATEMENT
Mitigate the socio economic impact on orphan of HIV/AIDS epidemic initiate community orphan support projects and instill positive living to communities and PLWHAS people living with HIV/AIDS.

VISION
1. Provision of all basic to orphans and more so, in conformity with the child rights Acts
2. Community positive acceptable of orphans resulting from HIV/AIDS of PLWHAS
3. PLWHAS involvement in income generating activities (IGA)
4. Reduction in the rate of HIV/AIDS infection Nationality through abstinence to the youth message or if and only if can not be avoided their use of condom especially among the youth.

VALUES
We at Bethel covenant church we believe that:-
i. Before God, all people are equal in Jesus name
ii. All humanity should live a decent and natural life in Jesus name
iii. A healthy family is a happy church and nation
iv. An informed society all levels makes a quality decision

BACKGROUND
At present, according to the District Development plan the prevalence rate of orphans in projected at 48.5% in the district of our operations, population growth rate at 1.2 % and poverty rate at 58.2%. at the moment, Western part of Kenya stands amongst the leady in orphans and HIV/AIDS risky areas.
At this rate and coupled with the worlds economic down recession, there has been a downward trend in school enrollment and sharp increase in dropout rates even with introduction of free primary and low cost in secondary education. A high rate of under age employment. Most affected have been orphans (physically able and disabled) however, the few orphans who are still in schools are under the custody of their fragile grandparents.

Proximity of the western part of Kenya to board point lake, highway connecting other landlocked countries and coming up to small town centers has caused great damage. The girls (orphans) are often pushed by circumstances or guardians into maids, prostitution, farm work, forced marriage just to mention but a few
Problem statement
Orphans and mostly HIV / AIDS victims lack emotional love and care. The guardians whom they stay with lack counseling skills on how to handle these orphans because some are already old for the current day to day activities. The day to day lives of these orphans are characterized by brutality, emotional abuse and economic exploitation. Some orphans who have no relatives to turn to, are staying in depilated houses and each day have to struggle adverse conflict (poverty, discrimination, illiteracy, oppression, sexual abuse etc.) which render them vulnerable to being exposed to HIV/ AIDS infections or other STD - sexually transmitted diseases.

Beneficiaries.
Through the implementation of this project orphans whose parent have dies from HIV / AIDS are bound to benefit as well as vulnerable children. These projects will cater for their needs i.e. provision of education, medical care, food, clothing, shelter, psychosocial support and legal protection. Orphans caregivers and PLWHAs are also bound to benefit through the initiation of income generating activity, counseling and business skills. Orphans will also gain through positive community perceptions and shelter under caring and responsible guardian.

Justification / Rationale
It is estimated that around 2.3 million people in Kenya have died of HIV / AIDS leaving at least more than 1.8 million orphans. This problem of orphans is no longer a community issue, but a national concern. Unless this issue is addressed, the orphans in general are bound to indulge in dangerous criminal activities as a mean of survival.

Methodology.

The following methods will be employed to address the problem described above.
i) Training
Counseling services and business skills will be offered to PLWHAs, guardians. Orphan homes controllers, and house hold that offer care to orphans and any other people who take care of vulnerable children.
ii) Workshops
Their will be need to build HIV / AIDS counseling and stress management workshops for the orphans caregivers in all our centers, 1800 persons are targeted.
iii) Meetings
Holding community- behavior change meetings to encourage all and sundry to embrace orphans other than entice them into dangerous indulgence.

Capacity Building strategies

i) Formal training
a more formal intervention of organizing workshops or seminars to provide instruction on a skill to be developed or a body of knowledge to be understood, adopting participatory approaches as appropriate
Management and co-ordination
Internal and external coordination is an essential aspect of this program to ensure its success. To do this, Bethel Covenant church proposes hiring a program coordinator, who will also service as capacity Building adviser.
He/.She will facilitate the monitoring and evaluation of the overall program progress. Compiling the reports and results of each target district groups, and overseeing financial management. Having a considerable experience in capacity building, community development.
The monitoring role is considered essential to build sustained capacity, while simultaneously allowing partners to carry out activities directly. This team works closely with the community will be the key community coordinating bodies.

Evaluation Framework.
Monitoring and evaluation will serve as both a form of assessment and an important management tool. Monitoring progress towards objective, identifying possible improvements, and providing as means for demonstrating accountability for the resources received.
In order to evaluate the program progress towards achieving results, some tools and procedures will be employed.

I) Qualitative and quantitative indicators
Developed to monitor progress and impact including the qualitative indicators the qualitative indicators, with regular milestone as well as final targets indicators will measure the programs progress in terms of impact on reductions.

ii) On the job training
Working side by side with people who are already working with orphans. PLWHAs to provide more personalized instruction in a realistic, practical setting, or work through problems together, with an emphasis on more active learning

Iii) Monitoring
Supporting partners by discussing issues or challenges faced and providing advice or guidance or facilitating and informal process to allow the partner to resolve an issue or solve a problem themselves.

iv) Supervised experience
Hiring the people involved direct responsibilities for which they are accountable, and allow partners to learn by doing. Supervision is made available to support to support the peoples or partners particularly for the first responsibility, but the emphasis is on allowing the partner / people to do it themselves with some support and become self sufficient and independent, learning from their experiences, both successes and mistakes.

v) Home based care
This has been identified as the most effective means of mobilizing families to provide support to orphans and PLWHAs in the target areas, particularly given the distances some people live from our centers, which limit the practicality of providing facility-based follow up. A team of peer educators will be trained to visit homes and train family members of orphans suffering and improvement of their well being, as well as improvement on capacity building. Baselines and District targets will be established in a participatory manner in the early stages of the program with the community and the district development committee.

vi) common reporting formats
This can jointly be developed and constituent used across the operating Districts including any facility based reporting on the progress work. The community BCC Bethel covenant church activities should also be consistent with the DDCP- District development committee plan required reporting formats to facilitate future integration with national development information system.

vii Monthly progress briefings
Among the leaders or partners in each district and the local communities, to ensure continual feedback and participation, also facilitating informal monitoring for troubleshooting and motivation e.t.c

viii Quarterly technical reports
Measuring progress towards results and objectives and an analysis of challenges and lessons learned, accompanied by financial reports tracking expenditures against the budget, validated in the District workshop with all groups/ partners and representative of beneficiary groups participating

ix) Quarterly visits
Done by the program coordinator/capacity building adviser and others as required but very minimum, to supervise and validate reports and progress in the district.

X) Annual reports or program reports
Substantial technical and financial reports to be Produced per and annually ready for any donor requirements

i. External Review
An external review at the and of the project period to evaluate achievement of results and the transparent and accountable use of funds by BCC-Bethel Covenant Church and Sub-grantees.
The BCC personnel from Head Office in some of its branches will provide technical support and efficiency in all aspects of the projects management and implementation. The project team will center regularly to ensure that an acceptable level project design or work plan as required through consultation and with approval of beneficiaries and DDC.
These system, together with internal and external reviews, will form inputs into the evaluative process that reveals progress made towards achieving the projects objective.
NB-
- A church profile is provided for further persuade of it’s projected plans.
- The period can be more that one month depending on the area and the community.
- Our support is home based system.

ESTIMATED BUDGET – APPEDIX 2

1. cost center unit cost/period total
Project Manager/ Coordinator 1 500x1 500
Project Officer/Field 2 400
Counselors 4 400
v Accountant 1
v Support Stuff 2
Trainers/Lecturers 4 400
Personal cost 1700

2. Training
Material 200
Transport 200
Video camera/ film/dock/ screen/projector 300
Training cost 700

3. orphans care and support
1) feeding – provision of food stuff 900
2) medical 500
3) clothing 400
4) shelter – material 700
5) education – fees, books 700
6) skills-training 400
7) economic empowerment 300
8) others – sanitary towels 200

4. administrative support
5% of the all sub total costs Part of administrative cost. 325
Grand total 6825
Note: the amount usd 1,825 above the budget of 5000 dollars is to donated by the community and the church as there contribution

Budget justification

i. Orphan care and support
This are support to be provided directly to the orphans i.e. basic needs, food, medical, clothing, clothing shelter.

ii. Training expenses
Training will be conducted to owners of the house hold groups who are interested to the plight of the orphan. Training expenses will be incurred in terms of meals during training, materials, live of equipment and transportation cost.

iii. Personnel costs
These will include facilitators cost who will be hired to train the house holds who will be attending training for HIV/AIDS, stress management to the orphans, the efforts need to be compensated for during and after.
The coordinator, project officers counselor will be those who am directly introduced in the operation.
iv. Administrative costs
Printing stationery, communication and other offices miscellaneous cost which will ensure an effective management of the project.

APPENDIX 3

LOG FRAME WORK

Regional Ministries

04 April 2016