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Empowering Children. Empowering Families
HEALTHY CHILD OUTREACH ORGANISATION, (HECOO) is a Community Based Organization, located in Nambuku Location, Funyula/Samia Sub-county in Busia District of Kenya. The organization centers it’s activities and programs around children, youth, Mother’s, families and households.
Our Mission
Our mission is to protect & promote the quality of life of children and of their mothers and to advance the dignity of children to help children survive and succeed in socio and economically sustainable family settings.
Vision & Philosophy
The vision and philosophy of HECOO is to create a society where children and their mothers live & thrive in happy, vibrant, healthy, rewarding homes and families nourished by economically and socially sustainable families/households in enabling environments; to develop their abilities and talents to their full potential.
For children, the most important factors in the world are not political leaders and heads of development agencies, but the parents and care giver who make crucial household decisions each day.
Women / mother’s generally place a higher premium on welfare related goals and are more likely to use their influence and the resources they control to promote needs of families, particularly children.
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Our Goal
As a Community Based Organization, our goals are:
to promote the quality of life of mothers and their children
advance the dignity of children
to help children survive, thrive and succeed in socio and economically sustainable family settings.
At HECOO, our unique programmes will not only aim at helping protect children from domestic violence & feed hungry children and their families, and generally advance children’s health and welfare, they also help empower their mothers, and caregivers to be better placed to look after them well, and be able to generate sustainable incomes to enable them adequately support their children receive an education & skills that leads to employment.
To purse the aforementioned goals, HECOO is guided by key strategic objectives such as:
To alleviate hunger, ignorance, disease and poverty in households & families through self-help project interventions and through self reliance local initiatives and livelihoods for sustainable growth.
To skill and empower women members / mother’s of children so as to be able to undertake income generating micro-business enterprises so as to provide adequately & nurture their children; increase their household incomes and positively improve social, economic and cultural position of the members.
To contact us:
Phone: +254-794-709-815
E-mail:healthychildoutreach@gmail.com
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Facing the challenges of covid-19 pandemic
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Protect yourself and others from infection by washing your hands or using an alcohol-based rub frequently and not touching your face.
Practice physical distancing where possible, avoid unnecessary travel and stay away from large groups of people.
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World Health Organization.
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HOW ARE CHILDREN AFFECTED BY CORONAVIRUS?
Disease outbreaks affect girls and boys, women and men differently. While children’s health appears less impacted by COVID-19 than older adults, children’s education will be interrupted, protective structures disrupted and their families and communities placed under stress by health and economic burdens.
Children are also at risk of psychological distress at times of crisis as well as increased risk of violence, abuse exploitation and neglect.
• Education and coronavirus
Groups that are already disadvantaged, such as adolescent girls, experience the greatest risks and impacts when their education is interrupted.
Governments must take steps to mitigate the effects of school closures on girls, boys and their families by ensuring education continues.
Schools should be supported to prevent and control the spread of COVID-19, with attention paid to protecting students and staff from discrimination and stigma associated with infection.
Governments must ensure education response plans are gender and age responsive and reflect the lived realities of girls, children with disabilities and other marginalised children throughout the life cycle of education.
• Child protection and coronavirus
Disease outbreaks and the measures taken to control them can increase children’s risk of violence, abuse, exploitation or neglect. Essential ongoing support and case management for vulnerable and at-risk children may be blocked by social distancing measures.
National and local responses must assess and address those risks, including in quarantine situations and in communities facing restrictions on movement.
It is vital that governments prioritise services preventing and responding to violence and deem them essential services.
HOW ARE GIRLS AND WOMEN AFFECTED BY CORONAVIRUS?
Disease outbreaks increase girls’ and young women’s duties caring for elderly and ill family members, as well as for siblings who are out of school.
Girls, especially those from marginalised communities and with disabilities, may be particularly affected by the secondary impacts of the outbreak.
• Gender-based violence and coronavirus
Economic stress on families due to the outbreak can put children, and in particular girls, at greater risk of exploitation, child labour and gender-based violence. Quarantine measures should be accompanied by support for affected households.
Governments must include measures to address gender-based violence (GBV) and child protection in COVID-19 response and recovery plans and ensure that plans are gender and age responsive and multi-sectoral.
Girl- and youth-led groups should be safely and meaningfully involved in the development of plans, and plans should assess and monitor the risk and prevalence of violence.
CHILDREN WE SUPPORT
