HACOEDFU: Hamisi Community Development Fund


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Background

Hamisi is a District in Western Kenya. Most of the inhabitants of this district are peasant farmers. The District continues to be one of the poorest and least developed districts. Families struggle to meet basic needs while confronting obstacles such as, high levels of unemployment, high birth rates, low life expectancy, and increasing natural resource degradation. The region deserves special attention due to its high rates of malnourished children, poor dietary diversity, and low incomes, unemployment and low standards of education. The lack of access to health services is somewhat due to the difficulty of the terrain, as it is one of the more rugged areas of the country. Most people earn incomes through day labor with low wages, no benefits and no job security. Due to this unemployment and underemployment, most people especially the youth have resorted to ‘Boda Boda’ business which in the local lingo translates to Motorcycle and Bicycle taxi services.

Hamisi Community Development Fund, Inc. (HACODEFU) is a development initiative that strives to empower the disempowered, support equal opportunities among the residents of Hamisi District. The target area of operation of the Fund is exclusively working in Hamisi District. There is no doubt that Hamisi is well endowed with natural resources that, if well utilized, can form the backbone development and thereby solve the perennial cycle of poverty in the District. There are significant wealth features embodied in the corrugated landscape, forests, rivers, agro-forestry products, rich soils for tea and coffee farming, dairy, poultry farming and pottery.

HACODEFU believes in summoning people to match their talent and labor with small amounts of credit, microenterprise development to meet low-income communities where they are, introducing new opportunities to create work, income and assets, and thereby affirming human worth and dignity.

HACODEFU therefore, was created as the steward of the Hamisi District Dream for development to cushion the high rate of poverty and underdevelopment in general. The vision embodied in the dream is about living and prospering in a secure, lawful, hopeful, and safe democratic society where resources are well shared. It is a dream that for many years will be protected in large part by the actions and the activities of men and women just like you. The objectives of HACODEFU are aligned with Kenya Vision 2030 development objectives.