Greencard Mtaani (GCM)

About us

Greencard Mtaani (GCM) is a non-partisan, non-religious, and a non-discriminating social change vessel, registered in 2011 as a Community Based Organization, that aims to nurture, educate, protect and empower children, youths and women through sports and art for social change in Kibera (Kenya).

Vision
Empowered families for peace, health and development

Mission
We pursue a holistic, educated, healthy, economically independent, safe and environmentally friendly family for socially responsible community.

Objectives:
• Fight crime and abusive drugs: Reach out to youths in the community through soccer clinics/tournaments, mentor ship in school/community clubs, forums and workshops.
• Provide education: Assist the needy and marginalized to access quality education and promote health services by identifying and connecting to the readily available sources and beyond.
• Provide campaign for social activities through awareness and sensitization to create a healthy, safe, child-friendly environment to protect all children´s right.
• Foster promote social development of youth/women through economic empowerment trainings, reproductive health, capacity building, and income generating projects.
• Engage encourage youths in sports and art to build up leadership through mentorship training, soccer programs and advocacy campaigns that promote peace, health, and talent for a better community.

What we do
Education
• Sponsor a child: Sponsor needy kids to access education by paying school fees buying scholastic materials (uniforms, shoes, backpack and also books), food at school and at home in every vacation 3 times a year, medical cover, one week camping and learning Bible classes in December.
• Zelyn Academy: A school to support needy children and families to access quality education by offering education & feeding program, and any school learning materials to all the children.
Youth/Women empowerment:
• Reproductive health, environmental practices, and entrepreneurial training on group savings and also linking them to micro finance institutions for economic empowerment, future ICT and a tailoring class for youth and women
• Teenage mothers education: We believe in education and education has no boundaries nor age, we have teenage mothers education classes whereby we target school drop outs from the age of 14-17 mostly women, as we take them back to school and also take care of their children through the baby care.
Sports for development: Use sports to fight drugs and crime, behaviour change, offer HIV/AIDS training as we nurture talents in our own Greencard FC and other community clubs.

Fredrick Juma Otanga is the C.E.O of the Greencard Mtaani Organisation (GCM).

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