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GRANT APPLICATION
The purpose of this application is to apply for funding from the Global Philanthropy
Alliance. We fund organizations working in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa on issues of
community and economic development and youth empowerment.
Instructions: Please complete the form in English and submit it to
grants@globalphilanthropyalliance.org. The application may also be mailed or faxed to the
address/number above.
I. Contact Information
Official name of Organization: Njia Panda Ya Tumaini (NPYT)
Other names used by the Organization: NONE
Mailing Address: BOX 945-30200 Kitale
Country: Kenya
Telephone Number: +254 054 31323
Fax Number:
Website (if available): www.npyt.org
Email: info@npyt.org
Name of Organization’s Director: Oliver Lynton
Title of Organization’s Director: Director
Email address of director: info@npyt.org
Name of person completing the proposal (if different): Janet Kariuki
Title of person completing the proposal: Program officer
Email of person completing the proposal: jkariuki1978@yahoo.com
II. Project Purpose, Vision and Goals
What is your vision for the project?
Project purpose
Bridge the gap created by lack of formal education, and generational cycle of poverty by
providing an alternative route/support to youths.
Project vision
Youths, exercising their potential and engaging in gainful economic activities to better their
lives, hence impacting the next generations positively to reduce generational poverty cycles.
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What change or transformation in your community would GPA funds enable?
1. Self reliant youths: - The funds will empower youths by enabling them to start
their income generating activities ( IGA), after acquiring skills and knowledge
from the vocational training.
2. Talents discovered and natured:- Through vocational training program, many of
the youths will discover their talents, maximizes them and potentially give back
to the community.
What goals/outcomes do you hope to achieve?
1. 20 vulnerable and street youths will have skills on tailoring and dress making
hence become self reliant.
2. 10 youths will have skills on shoemaking and polishing within 3 months, thus 30
youths will graduate and be empowered annually.
3. 20 youths will have skills on hair dressing, and cutting within three months thus
60 youths will graduate and be empowered annually.
4. Within one year 800 dependants will be raised from the cycle of poverty and
children attending formal schools without difficulties financial difficulties
How does your organization engage or get feedback from those you intend to serve or
benefit? (For example: community participation in decision making or project
planning, beneficiary evaluations)
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Through formation of youth support groups of the beneficiaries who will be
submitting monthly returns to the organization through the project field officer
concerning the progress and challenges they encounter on ground
The organization will also get its feedback through weekly reports from the field
officer working with the groups.
Records from training institutions.
Timeline of the project (start date, end date, any significant milestones)
1. The project is on going it started in the year 2006
2. The project has been admitting 10 students per year in the school of tailoring and
dress making, 40 graduates from the school of tailoring have graduated from the last
four years.
3. field work reports are submitted on weekly basis
4. Monitoring Evaluation and follow up done immediately after graduation. Reports
are submitted monthly and quarterly,
5. Impact assessment is done annually
III. Project Description
How will the project be implemented? (What will you do? Project plan/strategy and
tactics)
1. Conduct baseline survey to know the number of the vulnerable youths who are in
need of support for the vocational training.
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2. Carry out sensitization and mobilization to the youths to enhance them form groups
according to the their area of interest, such as those interested in tailoring dress
making, and shoemaking and polishing and hair dressing.
3. Admit 10 vulnerable youths into training centre to train in tailoring and dress
making, 10 for hair dressing, 10 for hair cutting 10 for shoemaking at the centre
4. Organize local workshops for those youths who have completed the training to
encourage them come up with support groups for development.
5. Provide the support groups of those who have finalized their training with
equipments to empower them economically to enable them give back to the
community.
6. Strictly monitor and evaluate the progress and challenge on weekly, quarterly, and
annually and reports/ returns be submitted to organization.
Who will benefit from the project?
1. Youths aged 15 – 30 gender parity.
2. children aged 6 – 12 gender parity and school going ages
3. The community as a whole as beneficiaries will support their families.
How will you know whether or not your goals are achieved? What indicators will you
use?
1. More enrolment of nursery school and lower primary school children
2. Empowered youth groups actively participating in production of productive
activities which finally reduce the poverty level in the community
3. More enrollment of the youths to the vocational training center
4. Fewer youths found idling around the trading canters
5. Increased household income
6. Reduced malnutrition in young children and pregnant women.
7. More families can be able to have two – three meals a day
IV. Project Budget
Expenses:
Salaries for vocational trainer, field officer and
monitoring officer for 2 hours per day.
Training fee for the hair dressing, hair cutting and
shoe shining for 40 youths * 1000 each
Equipment as start up kits for trained students.
Project Supplies material during training for 40
students * 300 each
Traveling expenses during monitoring.
2,368
Total Project
Budget (in
USD)
11,526
526
1,895
1,842
157
1118
789
105
237
Total:
USD = 76 Kenya shillings.
5,000
15,566
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Requested from
GPA (in USD)
V. Organizational Information
Mission/Vision of organization
Mission
To reach out to vulnerable youths with knowledge and skills that can transform their lives
for an independent generation tomorrow free of diseases and poverty.
Project vision
Youths, young and single mothers exercising their potential, engaged in gainful economic
activities to better their lives, impacting the next generations positively to reduce
generational poverty cycles.
Goals of organization:
 To reach out to vulnerable children and young persons
 Encourage the discouraged children and young persons to get involved with
activities that have more benefits.
 Support and encourage young mother to better take care of young ones.
 Enhance Family relationships for a consolidated society
Major organizational activities:
 A residential home to destitute, orphans, and vulnerable children
 A rescue center for children who need immediate care or are in danger
 Operates two clinics in both projects that treat the community at a subsidized fee
and the projects children.
 A tailoring school that admits youths who have missed an opportunity in the formal
schools due to financial and social problems.
 A street smart program that provide continuous counseling and care to young street
children and refers them to the rescue center for further help.
 An Association Model program that that works with street youths through
mobilizing them and engaging them on productive activities that leads to them
abandoning their bad habits.
 A Bio-intensive program which act as farmers training centre where people come to
learn and practice the production of vegetable and other horticultural crops in a very
small piece of land to improve and sustain their livelihood.
Organizational Budget for current fiscal year (can be a separate document):
Find attached.
What would it take to make your organization sustainable (not the reliant on outside
funds?) Does the organization have a plan for this? [Yes]
 The organization is running a business of hiring out plastic chairs and function tents
 The bio-intensive program is already a sustainable program since vegetables and
other horticultural products and sold for cash.
 The two clinics at both projects also generate cash for self sustainable and self
reliant of the organization.
 With the help of GPA Funds, we look forward to establish a vocational training
center to be a sustainable entity.
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Has the organization ever received funds from a U.S. based funder? [No]
If yes, List major funding sources and how much received.
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