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To empower the girl child while keeping the boy child informed,

Can remote villages have the same opportunities as urban centres? Can rural residents have access to careers, clean water, healthcare, education, productive agriculture and communication-without leaving their villages? Smart Villages believes that people in remote villages deserve the same opportunities as everyone else. Remote villages are often "off the grid" and do not have a reliable supply of energy for lighting homes, cooking, charging mobile phones, or powering businesses. The energy sources they do have, such as kerosene lamps, are often harmful to their health. The national grid may never reach many of these remote villages, but other solutions exist. We believe that energy access in off-grid communities is one of the services that can change lives-but only if it is implemented for the long-term and includes community involvement and training. And for development to happen sustainably, energy and other technologies must be harnessed for productive use, and for the innovative provision of community-level services (for example health and education), so that community residents are able to access all the basic services they need, despite their physical remoteness. Every village can be a "smart village." Smart Villages has provided policy makers, donors and development agencies concerned with rural energy access with new insights on the real barriers to energy access and innovation-driven rural development in villages in developing countries - technological, financial and political - and how they can be overcome. We are focusing more on remote off-grid villages, where local solutions (home- or institution-based systems, and mini-grids) are both more realistic and cheaper than national grid extension. But our approach is equally valid in other situations. Our concern is to ensure that energy access goes hand in hand with smarter, more integrated thinking about rural communities, and results in development and the creation of 'smart villages' in which many of the benefits of life in modern societies are available. In our ongoing work, we aim to demonstrate how Smart Villages and integrated rural development initiatives can be created in a sustainable and community-driven manner, and to evidence how this new holistic rural development paradigm can yield superior, lasting development impacts. We are also committed to investigating innovative technologies that can help deliver some of these integrated development objectives - for example innovative agricultural technology, cold storage, ICT access, remote education and telemedicine. We aim to win grant funding, and raise charitable funding, to implement projects to help catalyse sustainable community-led and focussed rural development worldwide, but particularly in Africa, where we already have a number of active projects.

To promote Public Health through physical activity, physical education, healthy diets as well as Provide cutting edge physical health and fitness services by encouraging positive behavioral change to improve the lives and wellbeing of the Kenyan public from a tender age.

Our mission is to work in partnership with communities, to deliver programmes that enrich their lives and help create better futures for them and their families.

To promote, in close co-operation with other organisations and local communities, the conservation, preservation and protection of primates, in particular the Angolan colobus monkey (Colobus angolensis palliatus) and its associated coastal forest habitat in Kenya

Rotary International and, within it, the Rotary Club of Billericay has the ethos of Service above Self, and seeks to serve others, both in its local community and worldwide, by undertaking or funding projects which materially improve their well-being.

Design and implement long and medium-term interventions in the agricultural, environment, health and social sectors that promote the active participation of the beneficiaries through a cost-sharing approach, the democratic organization of the communities and the identification and development of a local counterpart that guarantees the sustainability of the projects.

Educateurs sans Frontieres (EsF), a division of the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI), is a network of Montessori practitioners, working with communities, governments and other partners to advance human development from the prenatal stage to early childhood care and education, continuing through to elementary, adolescence, adulthood and the elderly.

Our Mission To bring hope and lifeline to a hopeless and vulnerable Kenyan child, to mold, build and nurture him/her to fit into the normal society life so as to equally compete for opportunities with not only other Kenyan children but world over.

To restore unique Kenyan ecosystems while providing environmentally sustainable livelihood support opportunities to surrounding communities.

Promote the well-being of children, youth, and their families, within Kibera informal Settlement with a primary focus on those socioeconomically challenged.

Our mission is to involve entire communities in gender equality, so that girls in rural Kenya can create their own bright futures.