Capacity Building, Retention & Re-Entry
At RHD, we believe that education is the most powerful equalizer in breaking cycles of poverty and inequality. Yet, in Kenya’s marginalized rural and slum communities, many children—especially girls, orphans, and vulnerable youth—face barriers such as poverty, early marriages, child labor, disability stigma, and lack of resources. Our Capacity Building in Education; Retention & Re-Entry Program is designed to ensure that no child is left behind, and every young learner has the chance to fulfill their potential. We have a target of (approximately 200,000) out-of-school children (OOSC) and children at-risk (ARC) of dropping out of school due to poverty, social and cultural aspects, and those who are in tough environments in 15 Counties in Western Kenya and North Rift.
- Through community enrolment drives, re-entry pathways, and retention support systems, RHD identifies and reintegrates children who have dropped out of school due to economic hardships, social barriers, or emergencies such as conflict and famine. This program also provides sponsorship for bright but needy students, including payment of school fees, provision of scholastic materials, uniforms, and other essential support. By focusing on orphans and marginalized children from poor backgrounds, we open doors for those who would otherwise be excluded from education.
- Our capacity-building initiatives extend to teachers, school boards, and youth mentors, equipping them with inclusive pedagogical skills, digital literacy, and tools to foster intercultural learning. By strengthening the education ecosystem, we ensure schools are safe, inclusive, and adaptable spaces that empower marginalized learners, including children with disabilities.
- This program directly contributes to SDG 4 (Quality Education) by driving equitable access while also advancing gender equality, reduced inequalities, and resilience. For donors and partners, investing in this initiative means catalyzing generational change—empowering vulnerable children and youth to break free from cycles of poverty, and equipping them with the skills and opportunities to shape brighter futures for themselves, their families, and their communities.
Strategy
In order to eliminate obstacles facing children and help them to realize their education right, RHD adopted a rights-based approach to community work related to child education, protection and development. We put more emphasis on Child rights programming that involves the practical application of the UN CRC to bring about real changes in the lives of all children. Essentially, a child rights-based approach integrates the norms, standards & principles of the international human rights system into the plans, policies & processes of programme development for children. RHD approaches and interventions on education are child centered, scalable, and sustainable and innovation friendly. We employ well proven strategies to address different barriers that faced by children in marginalized areas, and hardest to reach children and families. We do so by establishing 21st Century approaches and interventions within communities aimed at enabling every needy child to fulfill their right to education by helping them access and complete education. RHD approach to School drop-out relationship diagram (OOSC and At-Risk Children-ARC).
Factors leading to school drop-out among girls
Sponsor a Child, Transform a Future
Kindly join us today and become a Child Education Sponsor.
For just $50 per month, you can keep a bright but needy child in school.
Your support covers school fees, uniforms, scholastic materials, home-based care kits, medical supplies, and mentorship—giving orphans and marginalized children the chance to learn, grow, and thrive.
✅ Keep a child in school
✅ Break cycles of poverty
✅ Empower the next generation of leaders
You can also consider giving your support in the following areas:
- Equipment donations for OVC support sites and Schools.
- Construction and Rehabilitation of learning institutions
- Providing sanitary pads to adolescent girls and upgrading sanitation facilities, or water projects for schools or clinics in rural areas with a high prevalence rate of diseases.
- School feeding programs in hunger-stricken areas to help keep children in schools.
- Establishing gender-friendly school environments in schools.
- Developing local language audio-visual resources and supplementary readers for use in schools.
- Provide training in life skills covering health, hygiene, reproductive health, pregnancy and marriage, and sexual abuse
- Support children living with disability and HIV/AIDS Circles.
- Supporting extra-curricular clubs e.g. inter school debate contests, drama, arts, female learners’ forums, Girls reading clubs), football or sport in general.
- Stop violence, exclusion and discrimination against children.
- Legal support for abused children.
- Relief of poverty among children.
- Advocating for the rights of all children through Child Right-Bases Approach
- Elimination of outdated cultural practices like FGM and Forced Early Marriage
About RHD
RESOURCE HUB FOR DEVELOPMENT (RHD) is a registered national, non-governmental, non-profit, non religious, non-political, humanitarian and development Organization.
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Resource Hub for Development Makogilo road, off Kisumu Northern bypass Box 1425 – 40100 Kisumu, Kenya
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