NICHOLAS KWENGA

1.Overseeing a ksh40,000,000 budget between 2022 and 2024 from which the following impact has been realized:

- Ensured 100% transition of all children who did KCPE and KCSE between 2022 and 2023 to secondary schools,polytechnics,technical institutes, colleges KMTC and universities

-Advocating for quality education for the less fortunate in the community whereby 163 children are in Secondary schools ,114 children are in secondary schools ,108 youth are in various technical institutes ,colleges and universities.

2. Strengthened and promoted economic empowerment of 400 households through Saving Group ministries by chicken rearing,livestock farming and kitchen gardening.This increased there income from ksh 250 daily to ksh400 daily per household

3. strengthened partnerships with Compassion Kenya through Smart village initiative offering 60 families with clean water,establishing 100,000 trees nursery bed to promote afforestation and fruit farming as a IGA to the families and kitchen gardening to promote food security

• Supervised elections successfully with no incidences of electoral malpractices in the polling stations I supervised.

• Worked with NGOs like Compassion international Kenya and Churches like African Inland Churches with annual budget of approximately Ksh20M, equivalent to over Ksh, 160M
• For the 7 years of my administration, I have turned around lives of more than 7000 households through:
  i. Paying of school fees to children in schools
  ii. Paying NHIF for chronically affected families.
  iii. Buying of more 1000 goats for families through sponsor gifts.
  iv. Construction of houses for highly vulnerable families
  v. Providing families with water storage tanks, mattress, beds and mosquito nets
  
  • Through my strong partnerships strategy I a partnered with Compassion Kenya and Received ksh 3,100,000 through proposal to finance bee hive project that I initiated in 2021. 310
  families benefited. Today these households are making a lot of money through selling of honey
  harvested. Over 700 households have greatly been empowered economically through this project
• Between 2021-2022. As a project Director, was able to partner with social services offices in Marsabit and
  Meru to register over 30 self-help groups and currently these groups have of ksh15,000,000
  revolving funds for loans through table blanking, community saving and loans(COSALO) and saving
  group ministries(SGMs). This has helped parents in these groups to do much in poverty
  eradication. Many parents have started businesses that earning them living. This has been one of
  my best success stories as an administrator
  2020. COVID-19 RELIEF FUNDS
  
  From 2015 to date, I strenthened caregiver empowerment by imroving livelihoods of over 7000 households in Marsabit County
  
  In AUGUST 2018 ,my project becoame position 1 during Compassion PARTNER OF THE YEAR AWARD (POYA)
  • Through series of stakeholder meeting with community elders, Marsabit county Education
  department, Saku District Education officer and 300 parents, I was able to pioneer AIC KARARE
  JUNIOR ACADEMY. This is after realized need for quality education after conducting a baseline
  survey in all ECDE centers in the area. The school started with 70 pupils but now has 420 pupils. It
  is one of the best schools in Marsabit County offering the best quality of learning. It has changed
  the picture of the area.
• In 2017 ,I PIONEERED AIC KARARE JUNIOR ACADEMY
  Through series of stakeholder meeting with community elders, Marsabit county Education
  department, Saku District Education officer and 300 parents, I was able to pioneer AIC KARARE
  JUNIOR ACADEMY. This is after realized need for quality education after conducting a baseline
  survey in all ECDE centers in the area. The school started with 70 pupils but now has 420 pupils. It
  is one of the best schools in Marsabit County offering the best quality of learning.