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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future.
 
Co-founder Victoria Martin is pleased to see this work continue under Wits' leadership. Victoria knows that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction.
 
We honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades. Meanwhile, La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA) continues independently at cila.comminitcila.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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Learning and Development Kenya (LDK) - Kenya

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Learning and Development Kenya (LDK) is a national non-governmental, non-profit, non-sectarian development organization founded in June 1998. LDK is a member of the NGO Council of Kenya and Nakuru NGO Network. It implements its programmes together with other NGOs and Government ministries concerned with alleviation of extreme poverty, gender equality and technology integration.
Communication Strategies

Rhonda Children's Home and Learning Center - In March 2000 LDK initiated this rehabilitation project in the Rhonda slums of Nakuru but has been faced with the challenge to raise funds for the project. This area has a large percentage of families living below the poverty line. Families have an average of six children with none of the children attending school. They live in a state of subsistence. Parents in this area cannot afford a decent meal a day for their children and are unable to send their children to school. A high number of school dropouts in Nakuru come from this area as well as an increasing number of children on the streets. With no chance left for them to lead a normal life, most of them start drug trafficking on the streets while girls are employed (child labour) in the homes of those that are slightly better off, or worse, engage in commercial sex to earn their daily living, taking on the risks of contracting sexually transmitted diseases. With lack of food, shelter, education and adequate health care, these children are vulnerable to crime, hunger and diseases, including AIDS. It was upon this background that LDK initiated this project with the following overall objectives:
  • Find resources and provide basic needs (shelter, food, education and medical care) to the street children, orphans and children from very poor families to motivate them reach beyond obstacles to a hope-filled direction.
  • Help fight drug abuse among children.
  • Contribute in the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS among young teenagers (especially girls) who contract the disease while practicing commercial sex for survival, in the absence of the parents or due to poverty within the families.
Development Issues

Economic development, education.
Key Points

Other project by LDK include: Micro-credit Project, Child Sponsorship Programme (CSP), Youth Sponsorship Programme (YSP), Group Sponsorship Programme (GSP), Water and Sanitation Programme, Environmental Protection Programme, Medical Programme.
Partners



Currently, in partnership with CO-OPERAID, a charitable, humanitarian Swiss Organization, LDK implements development projects in eight (8) primary schools and scattered in five different Districts (Nakuru, Baringo, Koibatek, Laikipia and Machakos) in Kenya.

Sources

Letter from Philip Ndeta to The Communication Initiative August 9 2001.