GATEWAY DEVELOPMENT CENTRES Gateway Development Centre is a centre of the Gateway Partners Organization. It was established in 2012.we have centers in Mombasa,Voi and Embu We have been empowering poor/vulnerable people through providing participatory development services. OVERALL GOAL Vulnerable communities empowered to effectively address toot cause of poverty and injustices for the attainment of sustainable livelihoods. VISION Gateway development centre vision is to be a leading development centre that significantly contributes to holistic development of vulnerable people, for their attainment of social, economic fulfillment. MISSION Gateway development centre mission is to uplift the social, economic and human conditions of the needy by facilitating them to realize their potentials through enhanced capacity. OUR PROGRAMS YOUTH The main goal of the goal of the program is to holistically empower youth in Mombasa so that they can be self-reliant.the empowerment involves building their capacities to initiate and engage in constructive endeavors that will advance economically mentally and intellectually. CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM the program aims at strengthening the community’s ability to address cases of child rights violation through improvement of quality of life of orphans and vulnerable children .children are children reached through community clubs, satellite schools and and public schools that are nearby. The centre is achieving this through provision of functional education, training, character formation, enhancing child participation and talent/skills development NON-FORMAL EDUCATION The aim of the program is to provide basic literary and numeracy skills to out of schools orphaned and vulnerable children between the age of 9-16yrs.we also expose them to vocational skills, life skills and the holistic development of the child. ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM The program‘s goal is to improve the income of Mombasa residents .We use the self-help group approach. This SHG approach targets the poorest of the poor ,especially the women populace who are considered the most vulnerable. INFORMATION EMPOWERMENT AND ADVOCACY The program seeks to build the capacity of the community to enhance local democratic governance and uphold human rights. This increases the capacities of people to engage, influence, defend, protect, and demand for their rights from those who act on their behalf and make decisions that affect them .The program assists the community to identify their developmental needs and potentials and also initiate developmental activities to address these needs. CHILD RESCUE The program aims at reducing child mortality by the implementation of a cost-efficient rescue system for the poorest population in Mombasa community. We identify children of 0-5 yrs who are at risk in the community, assess the risk and then refer accordingly for proper management. The parents &guardians of the rescued children are provided with health education of counseling for adoption of safe child-care practices. OVC SMALL COMMUNITY PROJECT The program aims at building capacity to grass root organization (CBOs,FBOs,SHGs a and local NGOs) to ensure holistic sustainable care and support for orphans and vulnerable children. This is done through limited financial structures and systems development. The project reaches out to grass root organization all over Kenya. TRAINING This is a holistic approach in the training of students. In addition to their academic studies, students are trained in life skills and provided with guidance and counseling. We train them in developmental issues, social and capacity building.
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