ORGANIZATION PROFILE
AL-KAWTHAR (THE BLESSED) DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION -
ALDO is a young National, charitable and socio-economic Non-Governmental Organization, technically composed of responsible, focused, determined and committed personalities to fulfill and satisfy the expectations of partner development, donors and other stakeholders,
with experienced management of Community resources, well established structures of governance to meet the demand and dynamic of environment, nature and human desires.
ALDO is a legitimate and lawfully registered with the NGOs Coordination Board of Kenya under the newly Promulgated Constitution on 27th August 2010, Registration Certificate number Op.218/051/13-025/8855,Dated 23th May 2013 with mandates to carry out its activities, projects and programs in line with the new laws.
1. To promote dialogue and sharing of values that can be related to building a peaceful co-existence and just society in Kenya and the world at large.
2. To encourage and assist multiethnic communities in Kenya, their moral commitment that can be harnessed to a peace building nation.
3. To plan and implement collaborative advocacy programs based on these shared moral commitment.
4. To mobilize resources for capacitating ALDO to implement programs, projects and activities geared to achieving the moral and shared commitment for just and peaceful society.
5.To research and document the issues, problems, challenges, information and their causations that limit the full and just fulfillment of the life of Kenyan people.
ALDO has developed and came up with strategic plan 2015 / 2019 for effective and efficient implementation of her projects/activities to achieve her objectives in line with government vision 2030.
OUR BENEFICIARIES/CUSTOMERS
2. People living with HIV/AIDS, TB, CANCER, Drugs and Alcohol Addicts, etc.
3. Prisoners, ex-convicts and children on the streets.
4. Children, youth and women.
5. Elderly people.
6. Internally displaced persons.
7. Poor people.
8. Marginalized communities/ regions.
9. Conflicts prone areas communities.
OUR MAIN OBJECTIVES
The main objective of the Organization is to empower the needy and the less fortunate persons in the community through promotion of capacity building and improving resilience to increase democracy, human rights, equity & equality, integrity, good governance, constitutionalism, rule of law, effective & efficient service delivery, innovation, creativity, improved production, change of attitude and behaviour and more so provide dynamic and ideal interventions.
OUR SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
1. To provide integrated quality education to children, youth, adults and people with special needs through provision of sponsorship, scholarship, bursaries, grants, improving and developing and managing well equipped modern learning facilities close to or at the reach of the needy communities in the marginalized regions to make them easily access the basic fundamental human rights.
2. To recognize, promote and nurture both individual and community talents and potentialities through capacity building training, seminars, workshops, innovative rallies etc.
3. To create awareness/civic education, promote, contribute and support to the rehabilitation and the correction of inmates, children on the streets, alcohol, drugs and subsistence Abuse addicts.
4. To develop ALDO projects/properties, Masjid (mosque), Boreholes, integrated schools (primary and secondary schools for multi-ethnic communities), modern Referral hospitals, colleges, universities, fund generating activities etc.
5. To sensitize and empower the people living with HIV/AIDS, reduce stigmatization and support on socio-economic well-being, affordable health care and educate the public on Adultery, its negative effect and impact on human life.
6. To advocate for the preparedness and management of disaster and natural calamities in the country.
7. To conserve and promote a healthy environment, quality human health services, a forestation and wildlife conservation and good management of our natural resources.
8. To advocate, initiate, support and improve infrastructure in the marginalized regions through drilling of boreholes, rural electrification and rural roads development and maintenance.
9. Identify, advocate, support and enhance peace building, reconciliation, cohesion and integration initiatives in the conflict prone areas in the country.
10. To advocate, initiate and support human rights values, democracy, integrity, honest and sincere leadership and good governance, accountable and transparent government.
11. Initiate, support and promote fund generating projects/activities and also training of
individuals or groups to give theme skills to create self-employment and reduce poverty level. Also away of motivation especially youth and women to be productive, remove them from idleness and abstain them from being involved in alcohol, drugs and subsistence abuse and all other evil activities.
12. To identify, advocate and support people with special needs in the community.
DONATIONS
AL Kawthar (The Blessed )Development Organization
AL-KAWTHAR BANK DETAILS
1. Bank Name: First Community Bank
2. Account Name: AL Kawthar (The Blessed )Development Organization
3. Branch Name: Wabera Branch
4. Town: Nairobi
5. Country: Kenya
6. Euro Account Number: 0011567302
7. Kenya Shillings Account Number: 0011567301
8. Swift Code: IFCBKENA
9. Bank Code: 074
9. Branch Code: 001
Location
BIAFRA INTERGRATED EDUCATIONAL CENTER, EASTLEIGH NAIROBI, KENYA.
E-MAIL:info@alkawthar.or.ke, alkawtharorganisation@gmail.com
WEBSITE:www.alkawthar.or.ke
Amended version of this Blog: VISION: ALDO envisions empowered, resilient, equitable, and self-determining rural and Arid and Semi-Arid Land (ASAL) communities thriving through sustainable livelihoods, climate justice, inclusive governance, environmental integrity, and respect for human rights.
ReplyDeleteMission: The mission of ALDO is to strengthen integrated and sustainable capacities of rural and ASAL communities through inclusive, rights-based, and community-driven development interventions that promote resilience, livelihoods, environmental stewardship, democratic governance, social inclusion, and accountable partnerships.
Core Values: The Organization shall be guided by the core values of equity and social justice; transparency and accountability; integrity and professionalism; participation and community ownership; gender equality and social inclusion; environmental stewardship and climate responsibility; and learning, innovation, and partnership.
Guiding Principles: All actions of ALDO shall adhere to a human rights–based approach; community participation and consent; do-no-harm and safeguarding; accountability and results orientation; environmental sustainability and climate sensitivity; and compliance with law and ethical conduct.
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ReplyDeleteAl-kawthar (the blessed) Development Organization-ALDO (ASALs Rural Communities Integrated Development Response Initiative) Kenya
ReplyDeleteA CALL TO HUMANITY
Sheikh Siat Kedie Salat-Executive Director
An Open Message to Presidents, Prime Ministers, Billionaires, Philanthropists, Business Leaders and Global Institutions.
To those who hold power, To those who command wealth, To those who shape economies, technology and global decisions, and To those whose choices can change the destiny of millions?
Where are we taking humanity?
We live in a remarkable world capable of putting satellites into space, connecting billions of people instantly, creating extraordinary technologies, generating unprecedented wealth and developing weapons powerful enough to destroy civilizations.
Yet, in the same world, a child still goes to sleep hungry.
A mother still watches her family struggle for food, water and dignity, A pastoralist loses livelihoods to drought, A community remains without adequate healthcare, education, clean water or economic opportunity, A young person grows up without meaningful prospects, A person with a disability remains invisible, and A vulnerable community is heard only when disaster strikes.
How can humanity possess so much and still allow so many to live with so little?
While nations compete for geopolitical influence, accumulate sophisticated weapons and defend competing interests, millions of people remain trapped beneath the weight of poverty, hunger, displacement, climate shocks, inequality and exclusion.
While some of the world's wealthiest individuals can dine from gold and silver and live in extraordinary luxury, others struggle to secure their next meal.
This is not an argument against wealth, but It is a question about responsibility?
Wealth is not wrong. Power is not wrong. Innovation is not wrong. Ambition is not wrong.
But when wealth exists without responsibility, power without compassion, innovation without inclusion and ambition without humanity, progress itself becomes dangerously incomplete.
The world does not lack resources alone. It lacks sufficient solidarity.
We are allowing poverty to deepen into destitution, hunger to deteriorate into malnutrition, suffering to become trauma, lament to become desperate cries for help, inequality to become exclusion, and human rights to be weakened by human injustice and abuse.
And yet we continue to ask:
Where are the resources?
Perhaps the more important question is:
Where is the political courage? Where is the moral imagination? Where is the empathy? And Where is the leadership?
To the World’s Billionaires
ReplyDeleteYour wealth gives you extraordinary freedom to shape the future.
You can build companies, You can finance innovation, You can influence markets, and You can transform entire sectors.
But imagine if even a fraction of the world's greatest private fortunes were systematically directed toward solving humanity's most persistent challenges—not through charity alone, but through dignified opportunity, inclusive enterprise, education, climate resilience, health, food security, water, innovation and community-led development.
Do not merely leave fortunes behind.
Leave possibilities behind, Leave institutions that empower people, Leave knowledge that multiplies, Leave opportunities that outlive you and, Leave a world in which a child's future is determined less by the poverty into which they were born and more by the opportunities humanity was willing to create.
To Presidents and Prime Ministers
History will remember more than the speeches you delivered and the power you exercised.
It will remember what happened to the people you governed.
Leadership should not be measured only by economic growth, military strength, infrastructure or geopolitical influence.
It must also be measured by whether the poorest citizen can live with dignity; whether women and young people have opportunity; whether vulnerable communities have a voice; whether children can learn; whether families can eat; whether communities can survive climate shocks; and whether justice is accessible to those without power.
A nation is not truly prosperous when its wealth rises while its most vulnerable citizens remain invisible.
To Philanthropists and Global Foundations
Philanthropy must become more than the transfer of money.
It can become the transfer of power, opportunity, knowledge, voice and agency.
Invest in communities not merely as recipients, but as partners.
Listen before designing, Trust before controlling, Invest in local institutions, Finance women and youth, Support locally led solutions.
Strengthen organizations that already understand the realities of the communities they serve.
Because the people closest to a problem are often closest to its solution.
To Global Institutions
The United Nations, international financial institutions, development agencies, corporations, foundations and multilateral organizations possess enormous collective influence.
Use that influence to build bridges rather than bureaucratic walls.
Make development finance more accessible to communities and locally rooted organizations.
Reduce unnecessary barriers that prevent small but capable organizations from accessing resources.
Measure success not only by money disbursed, projects completed or reports produced—but by lives transformed, dignity restored, voices heard and opportunities created.
To the Business and Technology Leaders
The greatest innovation of the twenty-first century should not simply be faster machines, smarter algorithms or larger markets.
It should be the ability to use innovation to make human dignity scalable.
Let artificial intelligence help educate the excluded, Let technology strengthen healthcare, Let innovation improve food systems, Let finance reach underserved communities, Let renewable energy reach places left behind and Let digital connectivity become a bridge to opportunity rather than another instrument of exclusion.
The question is not only what technology can do. The question is:
What will we choose to do with it?
To All of Us.
ReplyDeleteWe cannot build a peaceful world while ignoring injustice.
We cannot build resilient societies while leaving communities behind.
We cannot speak about human rights while tolerating human suffering.
We cannot celebrate global prosperity while millions remain unable to participate in it.
We cannot build a sustainable future on a foundation of exclusion.
And we cannot continue believing that someone else will solve the problems that we collectively created.
The world needs a new social contract—one in which power carries responsibility, wealth carries purpose, innovation carries conscience, and leadership carries humanity.
Let us move from competition for dominance to cooperation for survival.
From wealth accumulation to wealth with purpose, From charity alone to empowerment, From speaking for communities to listening to communities.
From short-term interventions to long-term resilience, From development done to people to development done with people and, From global promises to local action.
A Different Race: Perhaps humanity needs a new race.
Not an arms race, Not a race for supremacy, Not a race to accumulate the most wealth, Not a race to control the most resources.
But a race to end hunger.
A race to restore ecosystems, A race to educate every child, A race to empower women, A race to create dignified livelihoods, A race to protect human rights, A race to build peaceful communities, A race to ensure that no vulnerable person becomes invisible.
Let the world's greatest leaders compete not over who can possess the most, but over who can contribute the most to humanity.
Let billionaires compete in generosity and impact, Let governments compete in human development, Let corporations compete in responsible innovation, Let philanthropists compete in trust and transformation, Let institutions compete in reaching the hardest-to-reach communities.
And let every generation ask not merely: How much did we accumulate?” but:
How much suffering did we prevent? How many lives did we improve? How many voices did we amplify? How many opportunities did we create? And How much dignity did we restore?
Before It Is Too Late
The world is not waiting for another declaration.
It is waiting for courageous action.
The vulnerable are not asking for pity.
They are asking for dignity, opportunity, justice, inclusion and a meaningful voice in the decisions that shape their lives.
Humanity does not need saviours who stand above the people.
It needs leaders who stand with the people.
So, to those who possess the power to influence the direction of our world, Rise above the narrow interests of today.
Look beyond borders, Look beyond markets, Look beyond political cycles, Look beyond personal fortunes, Look beyond institutional comfort, Look toward the child who is hungry, The woman excluded from opportunity, The young person searching for hope, The farmer facing a changing climate, The pastoralist losing a livelihood, The displaced family seeking safety, The community without clean water, The person whose voice has never reached the corridors of power.
That is where the future of humanity is being decided.
The greatest legacy of our generation will not be the skyscrapers we built, the fortunes we accumulated, the weapons we developed or the technologies we invented.
It will be whether, when humanity had the knowledge, resources and power to act, we chose to act.
The question before the world is therefore not:
Who is powerful enough to save humanity?
The question is:
Who is courageous enough to serve humanity?
Because the world does not need more power without purpose, It needs power with conscience.
It does not need more wealth without responsibility, It needs prosperity with humanity.
It does not need more innovation without inclusion, It needs innovation that leaves no one behind.
And it does not need leaders who merely inherit the world (status quo) but It needs leaders courageous enough to repair it, renew it and pass it forward, better than they found it.
The Time Is Now, The time for empathy is now, The time for solidarity is now, The time for responsible leadership is now
ReplyDeleteBefore poverty becomes permanent, Before hunger becomes normalized, Before inequality becomes irreversible, Before conflict consumes another generation, Before climate shocks overwhelm another community, Before the unheard become completely voiceless, Before the world falls apart while we debate who should act first.
Let us act. Not tomorrow. Now. Not alone. Together. Not for ourselves alone.
For humanity, For the vulnerable, For the excluded, For the underserved, For those without a seat at the table, For the children yet unborn, For the future of our common home.
The world has enough wealth, The world has enough knowledge, The world has enough technology.
What the world urgently needs is enough humanity.
Let history say that when humanity stood at the crossroads, we chose compassion over indifference, cooperation over confrontation, dignity over deprivation, and service over self-interest.
Let us not wait for the world to fall apart before we discover that we had the power and courageous to hold it together.
Sheikh Siat Kedie Salat-Executive Director – ALDO
alkawtharorganisation@gmail.com/sheikhsiatsalat@gmail.com
+254 722 301 018/ +254 731 859 100/ +254 722 479 272.