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It’s always a wonderful thing to see the online community come together and help bring some positive changes to the society, be it through fundraising or even advocating for something good. That is what took place on Friday, 11th May 2012 which was our first Fundraising Friday. The Fundraising Friday was set aside to help realize three community projects currently running on the One Percent Club platform. A complete list of well-wishers that came out to be counted is available via this link
Girls at the Maisha Mapya Programme sewing re-usable sanitary towels.
On twitter, we had the hash tag #FundraisingFriday and #my1pc trending in support of the ‘No Missing Periods coz of Periods’ initiative by the Maisha Mapya Foundation which aims at making sure no girl misses class during her menses. Their cause is raise funds to set up a factory to reproduce re-usable sanitary towels. Trust the interactive and active twitter community from Kenya to trend anything, be it funny or serious. You ask me and I will affirm to you that such a ‘gift’ is what most fundraisers would want on their team. A trend will get the world asking, “what are they talking about”….they click and see the conversation their next question is “how do I donate/become part of it”. A retweet can work wonders.
We say a massive THANK YOU to the Kenyan twitter community, and you too can help keep a girl in school by clicking on this link.
Let's go GREEN!
On Facebook, we had the Kwea Milele harnessing their energies and network to help meet their target. The Kwea Milele group plans to raise funds to buy tree seedlings for the Mt. Kenya forest, whose cover was destroyed by fire early this year. They have a great network of hikers and people that love the outdoors and their slogan is Going Green!
Fanya Mambo Foundation: Fanya Mambo means ‘Do Something’ in Swahili language is a group that educates school children on the importance of recycling plastics by having them collect them and take them to school for recycling. To date, Fanya Mambo works closely with over 300 school children to Make It Work! They plan to raise funds to use for the training of the school children.
Click on this link to see how you can support them.
Our next Fundraising Friday will take place on 8th June 2012 , and this time we shall make it BIGGER and BETTER… thanks to giveaways from well-wishers that have given their 1%,,,watch this space…
Ps: do you know, just by sharing this blog you have started giving your 1%? Hit the SHARE button, sharing is caring!
How do you normally feel about monitoring and evaluation (M&E)? A drag? Boring? Complicated? A ‘have to’? You wouldn’t be the only one. It’s part of the job though. But it can definitely be more simple and useful. That’s why we are excited to announce the development of something new: an M&E 2.0 toolkit, that adds a pragmatic and more fun dimension to existing methods. Because we believe you can make it work!
So what’s new? Let’s sketch some differences between current M&E and M&E 2.0 from our viewpoint:
M&E 1.0
M&E 2.0
Top down (led by project managers)
Bottom up (led by the participants)
Experts (experts provide opinion)
Crowd (target groups provide multiple opinions)
Transparency
Open
One time (after intervention finished)
Real time (continuously throughout project)
Accountability (to donors)
Open source (stakeholders use the data they need)
Broadcasting (one source sends)
Conversation (multiple sources are in dialogue)
Focus on institutions
Focus on people
Control (of people and project)
Trust (among people)
Justification (to donors)
Learning (continuous learning during intervention)
Single data entry
Multiple data linked to each other
Over the past years several M&E methods & tools have been developed that fully or partly adhere to the M&E 2.0 philosophy as described above. This is not to say that 1.0 is dead, it’s just time to add new dimensions and make it more bottom-up, fuelled by the crowd, real time and more a learning experience instead of a justification method.
1%CLUB and EyeOpener Works are in the process of selecting and testing new M&E 2.0 methodology. Additional criteria for this methodology, in addition to the ones mentioned above, are simplicity/applicability, scalability, open-source and multi-disciplinarily.
Three current M&E methods & tools that in our view best match these criteria for selection of M&E 2.0 methods & tools are:
Most significant change (MSC)
Participatory Video (PV)
Mobile reporting
We’ve chosen to undertake the pilot in Kenya with six 1%CLUB projects. In collaboration with other experts and relevant stakeholders we hope to come up with new methodology that aims to combine the best elements of already existing tools. The next four months will be a process of continuous reflection on our endeavours, which we’ll gladly share with you. Join our learning curve!
Kwea Milele is a group of friends who met online whilst they shared the same passion – hiking! They have scaled almost all the peak points in Kenya, from Ngong hills to conquering Mt. Kilimanjaro. Last month while on a hike to Mt. Kenya they passed through the Mt. Kenya forest whose cover was destroyed by fire, and being people who also take care of nature decided to do something. Here they go!
What is the name of your project: Kwea Miti Initiative
Why did you choose the project:We are a nature-loving group. Most of our excursions are in heavily forested places and therefore we strongly felt the need to give back and make Mount Kenya greener notably after the fire destroyed forest cover worth. In addition, Our group is known as Kwea (means hike) and since we are on a tree planting mission, the name Kwea Miti Initiative fit in perfectly.
How many people are in your team: We have five people who will be working together to fundraise, co-ordinate activities and bring the whole project to completion. But as a whole we shall be working with everyone who is willing to contribute their time, skills and money to the project.
How do you plan to Make It Work: Making the project known to everyone and anyone. This project in not only about us, as Kwea Milele group, but about all the nature lovers out there. We are giving people an opportunity to give back to nature in a big way. So we plan on spreading the word for people to help us fundraise. Read on…
Just as the project title reads, someone somewhere realized girls from poor backgrounds were missing lessons, simply because they could not afford Sanitary towels! Meet Florence Kamaitha and Evans Muriu, who have a cause to raise funds to set up a factory to reproduce re-usable sanitary towels. Here is their story
Why did you choose the project : We visited a school in Thika, and the head teacher shared the plight of the girls,. The school unblocks toilets every week, as the girls in the school use pieces of clothes, blankets and chunks of mattresses during their menses. This is very unhygienic, but the bitter part of the story is that most of them cannot not afford sanitary towels, and with everyone around the country trying to raise funds to buy the sanitary towels and donate to the girls, we thought we could come up with a better, economic and hygienic way to solve this problem….re-usable Sanitary towels. What is the inspiration behind the project: We were informed that some girls miss school during their menses 4 days every 28 days. The same girl will lose 13 days each term because of her menses. In a whole academic year, she will lose up to 39 days, which is 6 weeks of learning time. If we don’t help solve the situation now, we will have drop –outs while still in school and thus the name, No Missing Periods coz of Periods. Read on…
As we embark on the MY1PC campaign, we highlight the three projects that will be fundraised for online. We get to know more about why the project, who are behind the project…and who in that organization makes it a happy place!
Children recycling plastics is a project based in Nairobi that runs under the Fanya Mambo Foundation. The project was born after one Benjamin Odera realized no one was doing something about the environmental degradation in his neighborhood and together with his peers decided to take action.
Fanya Mambo means ‘Do Something’ in Swahili language and the group educates school children on the importance of recycling plastics by having them collect them and take them to school for recycling. To date, Fanya Mambo works closely with over 300 school children to Make It Work!
