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  • East Africa Food Crisis:
    East Africa Food Crisis:
    ACV aims to reach approximately 25,000 people with water, sanitation and food. Kindly support our efforts in helping these communities build resilience towards future occurences of drought.
  • Fighting Malnutrition:
    Fighting Malnutrition:
    An ACV supported health facility in Ijara, Kenya is making sure that children under the age of five, and pregnant and lactating mothers can get quality nutritional care. ACV will continue to work with additional government health facilities in Kenya towards a significant reduction in the rates of acute malnitrition.
  • Education in Emergencies:
    Education in Emergencies:
    ACV’s humanitarian response seeks to integrate an education program to respond not only through scholarships, but also by supporting safe and supportive learning environments for the girls. Support our education campaign: “100girls in 100 days”
  • Linking and Learning:
    Linking and Learning:
    Our Volunteer program links the need for skills within various community projects (in Kenya and Northern Uganda) to the availability of such skills from individuals locally and internationally. Volunteer Teachers, Nurses, Medical doctors, and Social workers have become a critical part of ACVs identity.
  • Investing in generations:
    Investing in generations:
    The quality of leadership communities will have in future depends on the quality of investment we dedicate to that future leadership. We engage with schools to create an environment supportive of learning and psychosocial growth
  • Engaging Communities:
    Engaging Communities:
    Communities need to proactively involve in finding solutions to the development challenges they face. Helping them build resilience is our core business.
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Hunger and Relief

According to the United Nations, the worst drought in 60 years in the Horn of Africa has sparked a severe food crisis and high malnutrition rates, with parts of Kenya and Somalia experiencing pre-famine conditions. More than 10 million people are now affected in drought-stricken areas of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda and the situation...
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Education

Children in marginalized rural areas, particularly girls and orphans are still denied the right to education. The provision of education resources...
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Training & Capacity Development

We organize a series of interactive workshops, seminars, conferences, and forums that provide opportunities for Civil Society Organizations to...
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Health & HIV / AIDs

Every year, more children succumb to preventable diseases such as diarrhea diseases, respiratory tract infections and malnutrition. This is...
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Democratization & Governance

Unjust systems of governance perpetrate inequality and poverty. The poor and disadvantaged, especially women and youth, have had little room to...
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Big 5 Breweries | ACV Scholarship Fund

The Scholarship Fund supports high school education for children from slum communities of Nairobi. Founded in August 2012, the fund provides children in need (and of exemplary academic, disciplinary and leadership profiles) with the financial and educational resources they need to achieve in high school education and improve their opportunities for a better life.

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P.O. Box 35050 - 00100 Nairobi

Phone: 0202631420

Mobile: 0731 815 715

Email: info@acvkenya.org

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31 Jan 2013 We are privileged to be part of #NYS2013 with @nysa_kenya @cewarn @Emmanueldennis @cwakoli @bon ..... Now on: #SirMancham
23 Jan 2013 "@EnoughFoodIF: So #IF is well and truly underway – join us and add your voice to the campaign. http://t.co/y3fypJ74"
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26 Oct 2012 Our hats off to Big Five Breweries and Oktoberfest for Supporting our Scholarship Fund. Video: https://t.co/ykLhvWg2
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