Currently Approved Partners:
CPDA started as a relief organization during the 1985 drought that led to widespread famine in the whole of Kenya. On its inception the organization immediately intervened to the emergency situation by coordinating the efforts of Christians from different churches and denominations in contributing money, food, clothes and other essential items to be distributed to the famine victims. The great success of CPDA in this operation made the community to request the organization to continue with its efforts in helping them out of the many problems that they had. Now that the emergency situation was over, CPDA was to change its objectives so as to look for permanent solutions to the perennial problems that the communities were facing.
As a result of this, in 1992 CPDA changed its mandate from relief to development so as to continue with its charitable activities. In 1993, CPDA was registered in Kenya as a NGO under the NGO registration Act (1990). Since then, CPDA has grown very fast by putting emphasis on expansion of activities and has an ambitious programme both in quality and quantity with different types of activities.
Currently CPDAs programmes are coordinated from the Head Office in Nairobi. The core project areas are Vihiga District in Western Province, Makueni District in Eastern province and Narok District in Rift Valley Province in Kenya. Our goal is to expand to the National, Regional and eventually to the International level.
The major milestones in CPDA’s development since its inception are as follows:
- Building the capacities of grassroots communities to participate meaningfully in governance and demand for their rights
- Assisting communities improve food security and food sovereignty
- Broadening programmes support to include HIV/AIDS, gender and human rights as cross-cutting themes in all CPDA programme
- Strengthening partnership and collaboration frameworks with diverse Stakeholders for effective programme delivery and visibility
- Continuously strengthening CPDA’s accountability standards and improving her resource base.
Adoption Advocates International (AAI) was established in 1983 in Port Angeles, Washington. The founders envisioned an adoption agency that would serve children in need of adoptive families. Emphasis was to be given to geographic areas of the world that were underserved and to assist children who needed extra help in finding families because of disabilities, age, or the need to be placed in sibling groups.
AAI has placed children from many different countries. At this time AAI has programs in China, Thailand and Ethiopia and is also placing children from the foster care system in Washington State with families located within the state.
AAI is staffed by experienced people who have been involved in the processing of hundreds of adoptions. AAI believes that prospective adoptive families should be treated with dignity and respect. They should be provided with detailed information on the process, fees, country of origin and the child; and staff should be available to answer questions as completely as possible during the process.
In addition to providing adoption services, AAI believes that the agency -- and adoptive parents -- have a responsibility to help in the country of the origin of the children by providing supplies and financial assistance to assure that orphan children who may or may not be adopted are served. To satisfy this, AAI provides numerous sponsorship programs designed to keep orphan children in school and living with extended family.
The Nazret Orphan Student Scholarship program began in early 2005, when a school official approached AAI’s attorney in Ethiopia suggesting that AAI could help to assist those orphan children not available (for a variety of reasons) for adoption by helping them stay in school and off the streets. AAI committed to sponsoring 75 students that first year, and the number has been steadily growing ever since.
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