KTDP Annual audit

The KTDP administration has been busy this month in preparation for the audit which will be conducted from Monday next week. Phylis Njuguna( Left) is overall incharge of the KTDP Finanacial reporting. She is charged with the supervision of funds recieved by KTDP and the preparation of final accounts. Our accounts must be audited in order to comply with requirements of the goverment and the Ngo council of Kenya . KTDP is proud to have consistently had audited accounts by registered professional auditors for the last 9 years . This has helped to ensure accountability of the funds we receive from our donors.
One of the challenges most donors have in Africa is the lack of accountability for the millions given to NGO's. We hope that our partners and donors shall continue to support the work in KTDP, resting in the assurance that we are utilizing the resources entrusted to us by you in a transparent manner.

Academy reopens today from Mid term,

The Academy students returned from their 3 day mid term break today. This is after completing the mid term exams. Most of the kids are glad to be back to school and join their friends and teachers. The teachers will be expecting the parents to come in the coming week and see their child's performance in the mid term exams.The first term session will continue until the end of March when the children will break for the April holidays.

KTDP Academy kids hit the runway

Kibera can be a depressing place and it is easy to give in to despair. The needs are so many and the means to meet them so few. The rate of HIV Aids prevalence is high, Typhoid, TB and other communicable diseases are rampart. Add the high levels of unemployment , the endemic poverty and the consequent rise in crime, and you have a very difficult environment. Our logo is a dancing child, a symbol of hope for the Kibera child and we do our best to give the children a feel of change at the KTDP centre.
However once in a while we come across some memorable event that makes us smile and feel the work is not in vain. Recently, we held the Academy annual graduation and here is a video of the young kids of KTDP Academy showing their budding catwalk skills.

Hairdressing Practical lessons.

Hairdressing project has started picking well from this month. The turnup of the students is improving. Students has started on with the practical lessons after a month of theory lessons and practising on dummy heads.Every student is required to get the cliets on their own within kibera to offer the services on the practical lessons they are covering.Each practical lessons require the students to have atleast 5clients who they give the service while the teacher watches, to ensure the students has gained the skills.

This help the students to have the confident to approach clients and know the way to handle them in a good way,so that by the time they are finishing their course they are fully ready to start their own business.

Success Stories; Teresia Kioko

Teresia is among who make our many success stories. She joined ktdp as a hardressing student in 2005, after succefully finishing her course,she was taken in as assistance trainer for hairdressing. Teresia wanted to be better in that field. Under the sponsorship programme she applied for more training in a higher Institution in this field which train the trainers in 2007 She was sponsored for a diploma in hairdressing and beauty therapy in Classics college.

After that she was employed in ktdp as a full trainer in our hairdressing and beauty college.She has made our training to be more proffessional,before we used to offer certificate only but through the skills she gained we now offer also diploma in hairdressing and beauty therapy.

Teresia is a determined lady and she want to utilize the opportunity available to become better,this year she is one of our staffs under sponsorship program .

Sponsorship Program

Ann has joined her new school today in form one.
Ann is very bright and she always toped her class in primary school,we believe she is going to become even better in this level.
We wish her all the best as she start this 4years journey of secondary school

Sponsorship Program

Today was a great day for Ann.
Ann is one of the students under sponsorship program,she has completed her primary level last year and she is joining high school from this month. Today they did the shoppings of uniforms and school books in preparations of joining school.

His dad is very happy his daughter is able to join high school and he appreciates everyone who contributes towards KTDP Sponsorship Program.

Beauty school

Beauty school is part of the Vocational training short courses. The goals of the project is to equip the young people of Kibera with the knowledge and skills to excell in the beauty industry in the country.

In spite of the recent economic hardships that have faced Kenya, the beauty industry has continued to grow.

The industry also has the advantage of not being capital intensive at the beginning, therefore young people in the slums can be able to start from where they are, even without being stationed in one particular place. The beautician can move from house to house offering their services .

Project meetings

Every First Friday of the month like today the project team meet to discuss the progress and performance of the project in the previous month. In this meeting they go through the plans and the budgets and compare them with actual performance, they also do variance analysis.

The challenges faced during the month are also discussed and how to handle them in the coming month. Those challenges that are beyond the project team members are forwarded to the administration, this is done in form of project Progress report. In this report they include the status of the projects, activities done in the month, activities for the next month, budgets and plans versus actual performance and any other thing that affected the projects.