An empowered and poverty free healthy society of youths, women, men and children which is able to economically sustain itself, uphold and fulfill their rights, and live in harmony within the natural and sustained environment.
CSD Kisumu exists to champion Peace building by promoting efforts that empower the youth community with focus on capacity building in food security, health, human rights, education, environment and advocacy for multi-sectoral approaches to youths/women socio-economic development.
Community Support for Development in Kisumu (CSD Kisumu) is women and youth led Community Based Organization (CBO) registered with the Ministry of Gender and Social Development – Kenya, Kisumu Central Constituency. It is a non-political, non-discriminatory and non religious civil society organization (CSO) formed by youth and women sections of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of 2007/2008 post-election violence in Kenya who were rescued and taken to a camp in Kisumu.
CSD Kisumu therefore engages youths and women in raises awareness on key peace building (political and resource based conflicts), advocacy, education, governance, livelihood and cohesion concerns. We have 4 programmes of Governance, Peace & Advocacy; Women; Trainings & Capacity building for youths and Education. We also do capacity building trainings and support to other smaller women and youth groups, peace committees and county government departments, support education through sponsoring needy cases, clean and safe water in schools, feeding in schools and extending support to the parents to cushion school drop outs among the child headed households. We are supporting Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVCs) as well.
CSD Kisumu mainly targets youth and women prone to conflict: Youths, Orphans, vulnerable children, adolescents, persons with disabilities, people living with HIV/AIDS and entire community populace with needs in line with our set programmes.
