1. Social Development and financial research

Through research we hope to understand better the causes of poverty in the areas where we work. We hope to better understand how individuals and families can break the cycle of poverty and join the financial mainstream of their societies.

Our research findings will be freely available to individuals, families and communities through our website. The research findings inform our community training activities.

2. Community Trainings & Barazas

KFSE also holds community meetings and trainings to sensitize the people on how they can improve the quality of their lives especially in poverty eradication. During these meetings we discuss with the communities findings of our cutting edge research and how such can be translated into practical tools for poverty eradication. During these meetings we also include the topic of discrimination as an important cause of poverty. Our trainings adopt a human rights based approach.

These trainings are open to all community members willing to attend.

3. Addressing Structural Barriers to HIV/AIDS Services

There are many organizations working in providing HIV/AIDS biomedical and preventative services. There are very few though, addressing the structural barriers especially for key populations - these include MSM, PWIDs and CSW. There is now adequate documentation on structural barriers including --- What is remaining is a publicly and constantly visible champion educating the people on this issue.

The structural barriers especially the discriminatory legal, policy and social environment acts as a major but not readily perceptible deterrent to access. We shall challenge these structural barriers through advocacy, partnership with organizations with similar missions and empowerment of members of the Key populations.

4. Supporting LGBT Activists

Equality and non-discrimination are very important values for KFSE. As it often happens, LGBT activists generally have good academic qualifications but are rejected in the job market due to their history in activism. Supporting them build on their current skills but also add idiosyncratic qualifications will create a platform for their future employability. KFSE envisages supporting outstanding activists rejected in the job market build on scarce skills. This will make the same job market shy of continued rejection.

It is our belief, if LGBT same candidates possess scarce skills, they are more likely to secure employment even in a less open job market.

5. Supporting anti-poverty interventions

KFSE will support individuals and families break from the cycle of poverty. These we shall do through capital injection into micro-enterprises, but more importantly through social and financial counselling. KFSE’s anti poverty interventions are focused at individual and family levels, where mainstream organizations find it difficult to engage.

KFSE acknowledges that for many people caught in the cycle of abject poverty, it may require external input and support to break the cycle. Our interventions however are geared towards leading the people to join the mainstream anti-poverty programs rather than creating dependence on us.

6. Anti-poverty Think Tank

Ultimately we hope to create an independent Think Tank to generate knowledge and policy advisory program on poverty alleviation and wealth creation for individuals, families and communities using locally available resources.

Our approach will be to focus on available resources in a particular community and explore how individuals, families and communities in that setting, can generate optimal return on their investments. This we hope will inform local and national government policies for the development of her people