{"id":1956,"date":"2024-01-02T15:32:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T15:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcdmvision.org\/?page_id=1956"},"modified":"2024-05-27T07:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T07:22:24","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tcdmvision.org\/?page_id=1956","title":{"rendered":"Who We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Our Vision<\/h3>
Empower communities through\nsustainable development\ninitiatives In Education, Health\nServices, Water & Sanitation\nand Relief of Poverty<\/div>
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Our Mission<\/h3>
Professional and unique actions in\nservice to those in humanitarian and\ndevelopment need<\/div>
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Our Core Values<\/h3>
Faith in God, Stewardship, Transparency, Accountability, Sustainability of Service<\/div>
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Welcome to Turkana Christian Development Mission<\/span><\/div> \r\n \r\n

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TCDM is nonprofit organization. Turkana Christian Development Mission is a local organization based in Lodwar, Loima and Kakuma in Turkana County, it was founded in 2013 as CBO and legally registered as NGO in 2018 to respond to ever rising social economic needs of youth and young poor mothers in rural Turkana. TCDM, for the last five years has been implementing projects focused on livelihoods aspects such as social economic resilience, financial inclusion and youth empowerment and entrepreneurship. The organization has been working with partners like Dan Church Aid (DCA), Swiss contact, GIZ and Xavier project. The objectives of the projects were:\n1. Skilling of youths - equipping youth with skills in entrepreneurship, financial literacy, life skills, ICT, social, soft and hard skills.\n2. Increasing employability of youth through career guidance, Mentorship, market smart literacy, linkage to Business Development Services (BDS) and digital freelancing services.\t\n3. Promoting financial inclusion of youth through training youth on Village saving and loan Association (VSLA), formation of VSLA groups and linkages to money lending organizations like Farm Africa, in KOMOKO and GIZ. TCDM has trained over 3,000 youths in Kakuma and Kalobeyei on ICT, life skills, entrepreneurship and VSLA activities\nTurkana Christian Development Mission has demonstrated an established record of achievements in Turkana West Sub County and in particular delivering ICT and Life skills to the Host and refugee population in Kakuma and Kalobeyei. Our organization has a sound organizational structure and defined processes within which it works and documented evidence of internal governing structure and decision-making process.<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\r\n Humble beginnings<\/span>\r\n <\/h2>\r\n \r\n
TCDM started in 2013 with members being drawn together to address the Poverty, Water and Sanitation, Health and education crises in Turkana and later in 2014 it submitted its constitution to NGO Coordination Board for registration and finally on 24 January, 2018 TCDM was fully confirmed as legal entity under this registration details OP.218\/051\/14-028\/10986. This Faith Based Organization (FBO) was founded by Peter ELIM, <\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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the CEO and after serving as ministry and community worker in the county for many years. God gave the CEO the burden in relation to human & economic suffering of local people, which prompted him to put his over 16 years of humanitarian experience into dynamic action by initiating youth activities and a variety of Christian education activities. He has so far united a strong team of like-minded professionals. The professionals, friends and well-wishers have continued to supported the Mission\u00b4s work as volunteers\u2019 since 2013 to-date.<\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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