TOP Kenya Founding Members are 6 NGOs and companies that have gone through Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) training and wish to continue their efforts. They provide solutions to challenges such as unemployment, hunger, water, violence, une prisoners’ reinsertion, microfinancing and more. Here is a very short sample of their activities and below more details.
- RODI (Resource Oriented Development Initiative): works with schools and prisons: prisoners grow their own food, and become permaculture specialists, They become leaders in their community when they leave prison,
- YARD: works with young girls at risk / prostitutes and teaches them to work in cosmetic salons/hairdressers.
- SHOPHAR: a former headmaster whose school and water purification system was visited by the President of Kenya. James Otieno presented ESD at the UN in 2016.
- ELIMU TV: broadcasts educational content to children who can’t afford to go to school
- SCOPE: a network of 18 NGOs introducing permaculture in schools
- KWEN: a network of 4000 women entrepreneurs with table banking and micro financing.
See main website of TOP: www.technologyofpeace.net