Education

Education support, capacity building, and training form part of ADRA Kenya’s integrated programming and holistic well-being philosophy. Over the last four years, ADRA Kenya, through the Child Education Support and Development (CESaD) Program, has provided financial and psychosocial support to ensure the well-being of over 1,000 school-going children living in poverty and distress. CESaD project contributes to Sustainable Development Goal number 4 (SDG4) on the provision of quality education. The strategy involved a school feeding program for some 25 primary schools and support to vulnerable and orphaned secondary school students with school fees. These target schools have been supported with income-generating activities that generate resources and food production for the school feeding program. The caretakers of OVCs are also supported with inputs for initiating income-generating projects to increase the food supplies at the household level. Over time, the project has concentrated its efforts on paying fees for the vulnerable/orphaned children in secondary schools. The uniqueness of this project is the involvement of the SDA Church in supporting part of the school fees. ADRA Kenya initiated the Child Education Support & Development (CESaD) Project in 2000 with support from Lakarmissionen, Sweden, and later by ADRA Poland and the SDA Church. It’s a national project because it covers all the conferences of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Kenya. The project’s main objective is to contribute to access to inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning opportunities through education support for children living in distress and poverty in Kenya.