Programs

Our work is to create concrete help for a better future

01

Education

Education is the cornerstone of GVEF. It lays the groundwork for the future direction of people’s lives and the societies they live in. It is a fundamental human right and essential for the exercise of all other human rights and for social, political, and economic participation the foundation has supported over 615 students to access scholarships and bursaries.

02

Health

The Menstrual Health program is designed for primary school girls of menstruating age. This program is presented at primary schools across Kenya. During the presentation, every girl of menstruating age receives a Dignity Kit containing an information booklet on Menstrual Health and Sanitary Pads for 1(One) Year.

After the Dignity Kits presentation, the girls participate in a Menstrual Health interactive education session where they get to learn about their menstrual cycle and hygiene, motivation and building self–esteem, hygienic way of using and disposing of sanitary pads.
Goal of GVEF Menstrual Health Program is to:

Ensure that mentorship programs, counseling services, Menstrual Health Management, and Child Rights education are available for primary school girls of menstruating age in Kenya.
Provide primary school girls of menstruating age in Kenya particularly those from low-income schools with Sanitary Towels and other basic hygiene products like panties and soap.
Work with County Schools and Primary Schools in Kenya to ensure that girls of menstruating age have access to water, hygienic and suitable sanitation facilities.
Advocate for the mandatory inclusion of Menstrual Health and Child Rights education in the Kenya Primary School Curricula

03

Climate change & Environment

Climate change, environmental degradation, water scarcity, disease, rapid population growth, unplanned urbanization: in today’s world, heightened risk and fragility are threatening to reverse major development gains.

Shocks and stressors such as conflict, natural hazards and political instability can have a devastating impact. Children who are malnourished in their first 1,000 days of life may suffer cognitive and physical impairment. In times of war or disaster, schools are the first to close. Historically, humanitarian interventions have saved countless lives and restored the livelihoods of millions. But they have rarely tackled underlying vulnerabilities.

It is true that development programmes are hard to implement in fragile or deeply impoverished contexts, prone to recurrent crises. But evidence suggests that by embedding resilience in their interventions, development actors can lessen the effects of shocks and stressors, and thus more durably relieve human suffering. For its part, by adopting a resilience perspective, the humanitarian community can ensure that people rebuild better after disasters. Resilience measures, in fact, are cost-effective on two counts: they reduce the need to spend on cyclical crisis response, while helping overcome a legacy of development gaps.

04

Agriculture

GVEF Agricultural interventions reduces poverty and improves livelihoods through innovative solutions that address food & nutrition security, sustainable markets, climate smart agriculture, and equality of opportunity for women and youth in employment and business by increasing income for communities through training and market linkages

05

Disaster, Risk reduction & Control

Natural and man-made disasters are among the main drivers of hunger and malnutrition. They cause the loss of lives and livelihoods, destroy homes, productive assets and infrastructure, and affect the availability of food and water. The strategies people adopt to cope – including selling cattle and tools for food and taking children out of school to work – can have long-lasting effects, trapping them in a cycle of hunger and poverty.

For the GVEF, working to prevent, mitigate and prepare for disasters is an essential part of its mandate to combat hunger. As many as half of GVEF address the risks of natural disasters and their repercussions on food security, reaching approximately 1 million people each year. GVEF works with the county governments to strengthen their capacity to prepare for, assess and respond to hunger caused by disasters, and to develop county policies and plans that address the impact of disasters on nutrition.

To enhance the ability of communities to mitigate disaster risks and cope when disasters strike, we support activities that reduce disaster risk while improving food security: soil and water conservation, the development of flood protection infrastructure, and the rehabilitation of roads. In Tana River County, GVEF project addressing deforestation through the creation of tree nurseries and increase d tree planting is providing the local community with better nutrition and increased resilience in the face of environmental shocks.

GVEF also works to improve emergency preparedness and planning, and to ensure readiness to respond to disasters and reduce their impact on vulnerable populations. Examples can be seen in some of the most disaster-prone sub-counties in the Tana River county, where GVEF is providing emergency response training and equipment to local government units.

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