The Society's vision:

To be a society of excellence in improving humanity through participatory planning, implementation and evaluation of community development and environmental protection activities on the basis of applied and culturally acceptable research based knowledge. [ view more ]

The Society's vision:

To be a society of excellence in improving humanity through participatory planning, implementation and evaluation of community development and environmental protection activities on the basis of applied and culturally acceptable research based knowledge.

The Society's mission:

To develop and maintain a district based society competent in participatory planning, implementation and evaluation of community development and environmental protection activities based on sound re-search evidence and relevant indigenous knowledge.
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Objectives:

The goal will be attained by implementing the following specific objectives:

1. To build a society committed to and capable of taking the lead in environmental protection and community development activities.
2. To gather, use and disseminate...
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Objectives:

The goal will be attained by implementing the following specific objectives:

1. To build a society committed to and capable of taking the lead in environmental protection and community development activities.
2. To gather, use and disseminate relevant indigenous and research based knowledge of all aspects of environmental and community development through research, training, communication of results and documentation.
3. To sensitize and educate by participation household members, decision makers, community opinion leaders and the general public at district level about existing community development problems (specifically, poverty, ignorance and disease) and their effect on the environment.
4. To enable the poor farmer through participation to improve the standard of living whilst conserving the environment.
5. To provide forum and resources for OKOA members, other persons and institutions with interest or training in environmental protection and community development to realize their interests and or earn in-come through joint activities, networking, visits and exchange of knowledge and information.
6. To make possible the development and dissemination of culturally acceptable environmental and community development information to ALL populations and individuals affected by poverty, ignorance and diseases.
7. To undertake applied research and consultancies in environmental protection and community development with the aim of implementing or facilitating the implementation of specific interventions against poverty, ignorance and disease.
8. To co-ordinate, assist and promote the work of its members, collaborators and friends throughout Kenya and ALL over the world in promoting environmental and community development.
9. To establish rural credit financing services which will directly help the active rural poor to undertake effective income generation activities such as agro-business.
10. To influence government policy and implementation in favour of environmental protection and community development.
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Membership and structure
Membership to the society is open to ALL upon fulfilling required conditions. OKOA has a General Assembly, Board of Members and Board of Trustees. The day-to-day activities are directed by The Society Director and a management committee.

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Membership and structure
Membership to the society is open to ALL upon fulfilling required conditions. OKOA has a General Assembly, Board of Members and Board of Trustees. The day-to-day activities are directed by The Society Director and a management committee.

OKOA Society for Youth Enterprise Development
The society is interested in the following areas:

1. OKOA improved cooking stoves strategy

Funds are being sought. The society wishes to address the ill-side effects of passive smoking by rural housewives and their children at the cooking place. It is the belief of the society that positive anti-tobacco campaigns in the sub-Saharan region should address the possible health hazards on women due to passive smoking at the cooking place as a priority.

Efforts should be geared towards improving the cooking technologies to these places. These appropriate cooking technologies already exist in many parts of the world. What should be done, in our understanding is to mobilize resources for the acquisition of the technologies in the less developed regions like Kenya and sensitizing people on their presence. Efforts need to focus also on promoting their wider use among the target population.

2. OKOA green charcoal initiative

The initiative is about the possibilities of making artificial charcoal from the re-mains of household charcoal, clay and vegetable glue very good results
The charcoal has been termed "GREEN CHARCOAL" because of its many green vegetation ingredients.
A proposal is being developed to address more technical aspects of the green charcoal. These will include assessment of its efficiency as a source of household cooking fuel, its consistency, acceptability and promotion issues, costs, and bulk production.

3. OKOA Tree and flowerbeds activity

The society intends to have tree and flower bends in designated areas with the members of the community.

4. Income generation activities

One of them is baking & bricks making This activity will be widely practiced after successfully training of youths in the art by OKOA society.

A proposal is also being written to devise measures to centralize brick making and baking, activities which are highly prone to environmental damage and a potential health hazard. Brick making obtains earth/soil from digging pothole on the surface. These accumulate alot of water during the rain season and form water ponds.

5. School health, environmental and educational promotion and de-worming activities.

School health, environmental, educational promotion and de-worming The activity focuses on promoting good health among the school aged, better environmental protection and higher academic performance. It involves the use of novel teaching and learning strategies like the action based peer-to-peer method.

The de-worming activity will be integrated into the mainstream school health activity by adopting the WHO/TDR strategy.

6. Communication and networking.
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