Wildlife Rangers
Tag, in conjunction with MDA and Israel’s Department for International Development, delivered provided first aid training to wildlife rangers who protect endangered species in Kenya from violent poachers. We also provided the rangers with special first aid pouches. Subsequently, a group came from Kenya to Israel a two-week train the trainer course. 12 participants arrived from E+ Emergency Medical Services of The Kenya Red Cross, 12 from the Kenya Wildlife Service, and a doctor and a nurse from Kisumu district hospital.
Water Works for Girls
Tag leveraged water to improve education for girls in Homa Bay, Lake Victoria region of Kenya. This was a multi-pronged project, approaching the empowerment of girls formal education, improved nutrition, enhanced hygiene and psychosocial support. Over a period of several years, WE worked across four communities and three schools in partnership with Team Kenya, and in collaboration with Ndhiwa Community Empowerment and Development Project (NCDEP).
The project had three focus areas:
Educational— Providing clean water and sanitation facilities to enable a physically supportive learning environment, as well as improving food access in the schools.
Gender—Sharing tools to reduce Gender Based Violence and empower victims.
Economic—Increasing the income of farmers in the community to reduce the pressure on the girls to leave school early.
Hoops for Kids
Tag established Hoops for Kids (HFK), a youth empowerment project combining life-skills education and basketball training, in multiple locations in the slums and communities of two major cities in Kenya — Nairobi and Kisumu —to instill vital life skills in at-risk and vulnerable youth.
The project featured after-school centers, educational basketball clinics and youth mentoring, along with providing athletic equipment and coaching. We also ran basketball academies during school breaks and several weekend clinics, as well as multiple basketball tournaments. Tag also provided a wide range of basketball equipment and undertook ongoing Infrastructural Improvements and renovations.
Vocational Skills
Tag ran i-tek, a project to grant help youth from remote and marginalized communities to gain access to information and communications technology (ICT). We established an IT lab in Homa Bay focused on teaching computer skills to adolescent girls. Another initiative was Hey-Kenya, helping youth with career guidance, employability skills, and linkages to job and education training.
Rice to Top
We are delivering a rice growing initiative in Western Kenya, addressing the barriers farmers face to succeed at growing rice, such as access to water, farming inputs, finance, training and markets. Our assistance with irrigation support and systematic training in good agriculture practices enabled farmers to increase the quantity and quality of their rice, significantly increasing their income from rice growing.
Farmers were assisted in gaining access to mechanization, quality seeds, post-harvest storage, as well as rice milling facilities, all of which help to enable profitable rice growing in the region. We helped build organizational and technical capacity, supporting farmers to acquire the knowledge, skills and organizational capability to manage the rice value chain.
Surprise You Good
Tag is developing an interesting initiative to show recognition to outstanding children and adults who have outshone themselves and are an inspiration to those around them. For example, by celebrating a dedicated mother who is struggling mightily to prevent their youth from descending into a life of crime, or the teenage boy who is tending to his mother who is dying from AIDS, whilst refusing to fall behind in school. We do this by surprising them with a generous gift, and also include their peers in the occasion.
