Our Objectives
Objective 1
- We mark and celebrate all older people international days.
- We do community gatherings, theaters and drummers.
- Print IEC materials e.g brochures, posters, T-shirts and banners etc.
- We use media means to reach the unreached.
- We do year ending parties and celebrate individual birthdays.
Objective 2
- We do a lot in lobbying the Government.
- We do forums and workshops on issues of older persons
- We do short messages
- Invites pro bono advocates, doctors, relevant Gok. Ministries, Researchers.
- We do collection of data’s, fact finding, case study, print information materials e.g. fliers, posters and banners among others.
- We do follow up on court cases.
Objective 3
- We do age friendly income generating activities e.g. detergents/soap making, bead works and weaving activities.
- We do resource mobilization, monitoring and Evaluation.
- We do table banking
- Group therapy, engage in story telling, singing and dancing. Educational tours,
- We hold meetings where we bring youths together with the older persons for social justice education and mentorship (bridging the intergenerational gap).
- One to one counseling and referrals.
Objective 4
- We network and collaborate with all likeminded, in terms of the welfare of the older persons.
- We host both local and international volunteers.
- We promote internship.
Objective 5
- We do basic home based care, nutritional support.
- Distribute clothes kitchen necessities e.g. jikos, cooking pots, plates, cups. e.t.c.
- We rescue and shelter the abused and abandoned older persons.
- When one dies without any family support, or no one to claim, we facilitate burial expenses.
- We promote educational support and memory book writing.
Objective 3
- We do age friendly income generating activities e.g. detergents/soap making, bead works and weaving activities.
- We do resource mobilization, monitoring and Evaluation.
- We do table banking
- Group therapy, engage in story telling, singing and dancing. Educational tours,
- We hold meetings where we bring youths together with the older persons for social justice education and mentorship (bridging the intergenerational gap).
- One to one counseling and referrals.
“My name is Susan Wambui Karanja. My age is 89 years now, my husband died long time ago. I am a beneficiary of Karika group. I got to know this group through a friend of mine who came to visit me in my house. She got me without food to eat and I had no tea to give her. As I was explaining her of my situation, she asked me if I know of a group that gives food to the older people at the chief’s camp. I said no then she directed me to go and find it myself. I joined the group in the year 2008 and I have benefited very much like the clothes that am wearing I got from the group. I have got blankets, food and when I fall sick they take me to the hospital.
Susan Wambui Karanja