About Us
Community Initiatives for Rural Development (CIFORD Kenya) is a community based organization working in Meru North District of Eastern Province, Kenya. The organization was formed in July 2002 and registered with the Ministry of Sports, Gender and Social Services. The community-based organization was formed to tackle socio-economic problems facing the residents of Meru North District and more so the issues affecting women and children. The organizations main focus is in areas of community capacity building, sustainable agriculture, and community health with emphasis on formation of new, safe, empowering coming-of-age rituals which place strong emphasis on girls staying in school rather than early marriage.
CIFORD VISION
A self-reliant rural community that is able to evolve a sustainable community development by involving women and children in development process.
CIFORD MISSION
CIFORD exists to empower women, youth and men in how to build and maintain a sustainable community so that every person has food security, health information, clean water and access to an education
Our Activities
Sustainable Agriculture
we encourage the farmers to use the locally available resources for food production. These skills trained are economically viable, environmentally friendly, and culturally acceptable and socially just for sustainable development.
Community capacity building
This is aimed at enabling the community realize their full potential and be able to voice and deal with issues which are anti- developmental in the society.
Community Health
The community health is aimed at training the women and their families the basic hygiene and nutrition, Sexual reproductive health and rights for youth in school and out of school
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WE STARTED 7 YEARS AGO AND WE ARE STILL TOGETHER
‘’My greatest achievement as the chairlady is the fact that we are able to pay the school fees of our children from our table banking without going for bank loans or debts from our friends. Since we started, there is no single case of one of our members who has failed to educate her children because of lack of money. We always come to the aid of every member.’’ Susan Mwonjaru, chairlady