Supporting Local Projects

ICRI-Africa’s role is that of “building bridges" at the community, national and international levels. As we support grassroots organizations, we tell the world about it and ask for the international community to support those who work most closely in the community.

We see the hope for children and families lying in the hands of those who work most closely with the community. Our work is thus, to help grassroots organizations so that they can continue to provide their very important services and to help them improve the quality of their services. Our projects include:

The GAP Project supports the efforts of grassroots organizations by providing capacity building, training, infrastructure development and resource and information sharing.

Our program is founded on the principle of sustainable development from the ground up. We therefore believe that donors should support the efforts of grassroots organizations.

The Community Incubator Program is a dynamic program that nurtures and promotes the growth and development of a community of grassroots organizations working in one geographic area who share the vision of improving conditions for families and children in their community.

ICRI-Africa ECE program targets caregivers working with children 0-5 in low income areas and in the slum areas. We are also in the process of developing a training program for children of prisoners at the Langata Women’s Prison in Nairobi.

Forum for the Advancement of Reforms In Justice Institutions In 2002, when the newly formed National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) came to power, it initiated prison reforms. These included an open door policy where prison gates were opened to NGOs and other organizations to offer whatever programs they had to assist the prisoners and their dependents.

Since then, there have been a number of programs introduced in some prisons around the country. These programs have been initiated by individual NGOs and other groups interested in helping prisoners and their dependants.