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'Construction of a multi-purpose hall to support local peace initiatives'

Location: Parkati, Tuum
Year: 2025
Objectives: to build a multi-purpose hall in the Parkati community to support local initiatives that promote education, training, community development, cultural and spiritual values, and peace-building efforts between the Turkana and Samburu tribes, in line with Sustainable Development Goals 4, 5, 11 and 16.

Direct beneficiaries: 800 people, members of the local community (44% of the local population)
Total project budget: 18.038,90 €
GAM asbl funding: 9.824,09 € (55%)
SDG: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 16, 17

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'Training sessions on organic and ecological farming; building a larger space for chickens and ducks.'

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Location: Rongai, Nairobi
Year: 2024
Objectives:
- To ensure access to safe food, increasing sustainable agricultural productivity, empowering women and raising awareness among youth on the challenges of sustainable agriculture.
- Construction of a larger area for the chickens (in 2024).
- Construction of an area for the ducks (in 2025).

Direct beneficiaries: 60 women and 60 young people
Total budget: 9,920 €
Funding GAM asbl: 6,662.50 € (67%)
SDG: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17

'Empowerment workshops for Samburu women'

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Place: Lodoung’Okwe
Year: 2023 - 2025
Objectives:
- To provide Samburu women with spaces for human formation, empowerment and community growth, enabling them to organise themselves socially, show solidarity and initiate entrepreneurial projects that not only help them to finance themselves, but also to understand their important place in Samburu society.

Direct beneficiaries: 669 Samburu women
Total project budget: 17,723.29 €
GAM asbl funding: 14,145.55 € (80%)
SDG: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 13, 16, 17

'Construction and refurbishment of a bakery'

Place: Tuum
Year: 2023
Objectives:
- To reduce hunger in the Tuum community through bread production.
- To reduce the inequality gap and promote women's empowerment through the construction and refurbishment of a bakery.
- To raise awareness among women that they have the capacity to be independent leaders.

Direct beneficiaries: 3 women and their families (25 people)
Total project budget: 10,880 €
GAM asbl funding: 9,792 € (90%)
SDG: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 12

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'Refurbishment of the community multi-purpose hall'

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Location: Lodung’okwe
Year: 2022
Objectives:
- Equipping and repairing the facilities of the community multi-purpose hall for training and human promotion sessions, as well as to facilitate meetings of the local communities
- This is an unprecedented project in the region

Direct beneficiaries: 900 people
Total project budget: 7,218.73 €
GAM asbl funding: 6,616.03 € (92%)
SDG: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 13, 16, 17

'Provision of technical material for training sessions at the training center in Tuum (project supported by GAM asbl in 2014)'

Location: Tuum
Year: 2021
Objectives:
- To provide the Tuum training centre with the necessary technical equipment so that both the local population and people from more remote areas can benefit effectively and efficiently from the training sessions. This will therefore increase the number of beneficiaries.
- To promote the empowerment of the Samburu and Turkana communities, as well as their financial independence, through the establishment of new economic activities.
- To increase knowledge and the adoption of sustainable techniques and practices.
- To organise specific training courses for young people.
- To promote the empowerment of women in a patriarchal society.
- To encourage the participation of young professionals in training sessions to foster a more structured and egalitarian society.

Direct beneficiaries: 500 people
Total project budget: 33,434 €
GAM asbl funding: 4,179 € (12,5%)
Project manager: Gyaviira Katerega
SDG: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 13

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'Literacy programme for Samburu women'

Location: Lodungokwe
Year: 2020
Objectives:
- To provide women of the Samburu people with an education that will enable them to develop a family business and thus provide for the needs of their children.

Direct beneficiaries: 180 women from Samburu communities from the villages of Nkutuk Lmuget (16 km from Lodung’okue) and Nonkek (10 km)
Total project budget: 15,017.38 €
GAM asbl funding: 15.017,38 € (100%)
SDG: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 16

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'Solar water pump for the education centre'

Location: Barsaloi
Year: 2020
Objectives:
- Purchase of a solar water pump to ensure the provision of drinkable water to the education centre in Barsaloi.

Direct benefitiaries: Users of the training centre
Total project budget: 10,190.96 €
GAM asbl funding: 9,784.59 € (96%)
SDG: 1, 2, 6, 13

'Sewing training project for women in Opiroï community'

Location: Opiroï
Year: 2020
Objectives:
- To promote, in a sustainable way, the empowerment of 22 women by providing them with comprehensive training in clothe making.
- Once trained, these women train other women who will then be integrated into the project.

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Direct beneficiaries: 22 women
Total project budget: 3,000 € (250 € par sewing machine (x12), including transport)
GAM asbl funding: 1,500 € (6 sewing machines)
Project partners: the 'Active Africa' Association. Mr. Diego Canga Fano and his wife, Mrs Pilar Rosa Manzano, are major benefactors of the project.
SDG: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10

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'Construction of housing for training sessions for development project agents'

Location: Tuum
Year: 2019
Objectives:
- To allow the inhabitants of Tuum and the surrounding villages to participate in long term training sessions (literacy, development management, etc.) for women and young villagers, in the Leaders Center built by GAM in 2014.
- The aim of the project is to have a suitable place for housing for those who offer training and those who receive it, as well as to have a place of reception for representatives of organizations that support development actions in the community.

Direct beneficiaries: 560 people, including 50 children (7 to 13 years old), 80 young people (13-18 years), 400 adults, 30 people (Samburu Language Translation and Study Committee)
Total project budget: 54,485 €
GAM asbl funding: 15,000 € (28%)
Link to other GAM projects: 'Village Group Leader Training Centre in Tuum, Kenya (2014)'
SDG: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 13, 17

'Support for the Samburu Women's Training Centre'

Location: Opiroï
Year: 2017
Objectives:
- Completion of the Samburu Women's Training Centre.
- Training of Samburu women in different fields, such as sewing, agriculture, hand crafting, etc.
- Complete the structure of the training centre: septic tank, pipes, water tank, glass for windows, floor slab, etc.

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Direct beneficiaries: 300 Samburu women
Total project budget: 7,000 €
GAM asbl funding: 2,300 € (33%)
SDG: 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 13

'Ad-hoc support of GAM asbl to students'

Location: Kenya
Year: 2017
Objectives:
- In addition to the annual projects, GAM asbl offers support to initiatives that are in line with the general objectives of the organization. These initiatives can arise during field visits, during a meeting or be organized by GAM asbl.
- Support for two students engaged in nursing studies in Nairobi, Kenya.

Direct beneficiaries: 2 students and schooled children in the Tuum region
Total project budget: 10,000 €
GAM asbl funding: 3,673 € (37%)
SDG: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

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'Training centre for leaders of village groups'

Location: Tuum
Year: 2014
Objectives:
- To support training programs for community leaders (livestock, agriculture) for better social development. The training program was aimed at potential leaders who were identified according to their abilities and charisma by leaders and members of family groups as well as by the community and local human promotion agents.
- To train leaders of a certain modern social framework at Tuum, with the firm conviction that local development must concern them all and come from the communities themselves.
- To have an adequate place to house those who provide training and those who receive it.
- To have a place of reception for representatives of organizations that support development actions in the community.
- To have an adequate infrastructure to train potential leaders of the region (and men and women occasionally) and for the work that will be developed by the Tuum Training Centre.

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Direct beneficiaries: 360 people
Total project budget: 10,000 €
GAM asbl funding: 10,000 €
Link to other GAM projects: 'Leadership Training Centre in Barsaloi, Kenya (2010)' and 'Construction of housing for training sessions in Tuum, Kenya (2019)'
SDG: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 16, 17

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'Community leaders training centre'

Location: Barsaloi
Year: 2010
Objectives:
- Construction of a training centre for leaders of village groups and construction and equipment (furniture and materials) of a suitable place for the housing of those who give the training and those who receive it.
- To have a place of reception for representatives of organisations that have supported development actions in the community.
- To have an adequate infrastructure to train potential leaders of the region (and men and women occasionally) and for the works that were subsequently developed by the Cultural Centre of the local ethnic group Samburu.

Direct beneficiaries: 360 people, including 50 children (7 – 13 years old), 80 youngsters (13 – 18 years old), 200 adults (helpers, committee members, teachers, leaders), 30 people from the Translation and Study Committee of the Samburu language.
Total project budget: 45,000 €
GAM asbl funding: 29,000 € (64%)
SDG: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 17

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