Household Foodbank & Environment Conservation Food and Nutritional Security (Household Foodbank).
Families have many challenges pertaining food security as many families sometimes goes without food due to various reasons that include poverty. The cost of food has increased whereas most households can not afford nutritional food. 8 out of 10 families within Rusinga Island cannot afford nutritional food. Access to traditional vegetables and anti acid kales is proving to be a challenge today.
MBCC therefore builds the capacity of communities to help establish smallholders communities that are actively involved in conservation agriculture and climate friendly farming to help improve on food security, nutritional security and sustainable food systems within rural family set-up and in smaller urban centre. The target is to use the available space well for valuable production of food for subsistence purposes.
Through smallholders communities MBCC will train the community members and equip them with the necessary skills and take them through an intensive practical processes before supporting the smallholders farmers to initiate the projects at their homes. The approach will be based on the MBCC SCALII Model and will ensure the use of family labour to work on the kitchen gardens for those in the villages and urban farming for those in smaller urban set-up and fishing beaches along lake Victoria.
The smallholders communities are trained to pool their food products together especially the cereals to help in the events of food shortages. This will help to enhance a 365 days available of food for the majority of the families.
Aim of this program:
To improve on the nutritional security within the families in the rural set-up along the fishing beaches of lake victoria.
To provide adequate food for families for subsistence purpose ensuring no child goes hungry or misses a meal
To contribute to the global food security and sustainable food systems by addressing the productivity and financial sustainability of smallholders as an international priority measured by indicator 2.3 of Sustainable Development Goal number 2
Family Mini – Forests
As we ensure that families are nutritionally and well fed. MBCC walk along with families to ensure that each homestead has a forest within their compounds. We support sustainable forests initiatives within homes whereas families are trained and supported to plant various species of trees and fruit trees that will add value to their lives.
Aim of this program
To create green homes balanced with indigenous trees, fruit trees and other species.
To ensure each homestead has at least 5 assorted fruit trees that they can easily manage.
To improve on the global forest coverage by ensuring that each homestead within Rusinga Island and along the fishing beaches have planted at least 100 trees by 2027. Targeting successful 20 trees per year and one fruit tree per year.
Capacity Building (Entrepreneurship & Community Empowerment)
To achieve all our objectives we have to empower our communities through training and development in all the key areas that will make our communities secure and sustainable. MBCC has continued to train various community members and institutions on selected relevant topics and issues that directly challenges the well being of community members. The focus capacity building areas are:
Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy Training
Smallholder farming (Kitchen gardening and urban farming)
Talent Identification, development and turning talents to sources of income.
Health Education and Support
A healthy community is a stable community. A healthy community is a community full of compassion and care. Under the health education and support MBCC intends to:
WASH (Water Sanitation and Hygiene)
To provide clean drinking water for the people of Rusinga Island
To provide safe drinking water to 50% of the schools and Fishing beaches within Rusinga Island
To ensure that 90% of the people of Rusinga has toilets. 100% of all fishing beaches along Rusinga has toilet and community Bathrooms
To build community toilets in all the fishing beaches along the shores of Rusinga Island by the end of 2027.
To train communities and the learning institutions on all WASH programs.
Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Rights ( SRH&R) and Preventive Health
Train all primary schools and secondary school students within Rusinga Island on SRH&R).
Train 200 Youths annually on SRH&R
PSEAH (Protection from Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harm)
To train all the residents living along the fishing beaches about PSEAH
To train 100 families per year about PSEAH and targeting 1000 families within Rusinga Island and Mbita town by the end of 2027.
Mental Health
To support community members by providing a safe centre where all the mental health trainings and support services can be accessed to easily. We therefore intend to provide trainings on:
Mental Health Awareness
Sexual Harasment at workplace
Managing Addiction Challenges
Family/Community Unity and Togetherness
Literacy and Mentorship Program, ICT and Safe Space.
The reading culture of Kenyans is poor. 2 out of 100 Kenyans can read a chapter of a book day. This is worrying and such habit should not be passed to the coming genrations. MBCC is filling this gap by providing Libracy Services and encouraging the reading culture amongst the school going students.
Literacy Program:
To provide a well equipped library with relevant reading materials that is appropriate for Primary and Secondary going students
To partner with organizations that can help to establish a digital Library that will double up as the ICT centre
Mentorship Program
To establish a working mentorship programs for all school going students working closely with the institution, teachers and parents to help bring up a responsible society.
Safe Space
MBCC centre will be our main safe space for all the youths where they can meet and discuss about their personal progress and things affecting them. It will also be a centre for indoors games that can help improve on the cognitive well-being of the youths along the fishing beaches of Rusinga Island.