Agape CBO Holds First Widows' Support Circle in Kasarani

A new monthly gathering gives Kasarani widows a space to share support, practical advice and simple companionship.

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Why We Call It Agape: What Selfless Love Looks Like in Practice

Agape, love that expects nothing in return, is more than a name. It shapes how we choose who to help and how we show up.

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One Year Since Registration: Agape CBO Looks Back

Registered on 9 March 2024, Agape CBO has spent its first year building health, education and livelihoods programmes across Kasarani.

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Free Health Screening Reaches 120 Kasarani Residents

A community health day brought free blood pressure and basic screening, plus nutrition advice, to 120 Kasarani residents in a single morning.

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Meet the Women's Merry-Go-Round Group Funding School Fees

A group of Kasarani women pooling small weekly contributions has helped several members cover school fees they couldn't have raised alone.

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A Beginner's Guide to Starting a Merry-Go-Round Savings Group

A merry-go-round is simple in principle but easy to get wrong without a little structure. Here's what we walk every new group through.

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Why We Visit Widows at Home, Not Just at Church or Events

Widows who can't attend a group event are often the ones who need support most. Home visits reach exactly the people an event-based model misses.

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Hygiene Basics: What We Teach at Our Community Health Days

Handwashing and basic hygiene remain some of the cheapest, most effective health interventions we can teach at community level.

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Partnering With a Local Dispensary on Maternal Health

A partnership with a Kasarani-area dispensary now brings maternal health awareness directly into our community gatherings.

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Understanding Elder Abuse: What Neighbours Can Watch For

Elder abuse and neglect are often invisible to outsiders. A short guide to the signs a concerned neighbour can watch for.

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Five Ways Kasarani Households Can Support a Grieving Neighbour

Formal support programmes matter, but so does the everyday willingness of neighbours to show up. Five practical starting points.

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Our After-School Mentorship Club: What a Session Looks Like

A typical mentorship session mixes homework support, life-skills conversation and simply consistent, reliable adult attention.

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Orphans in Kasarani: How We Identify Families Who Need Support

Supporting orphaned children well starts with accurately identifying which households are carrying that responsibility.

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Small Business Basics: What We Teach Before a Table-Banking Loan

A loan without basic planning support often doesn't last. We cover the fundamentals first, funding second.

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Zimmerman Residents Join Our Monthly Clean-Up Day

Zimmerman becomes the latest area to join our monthly community clean-up rotation, extending our reach beyond Kasarani's core.

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Persons With Disability: Making Our Programmes Actually Accessible

Accessibility is often discussed in abstract terms. In practice, it comes down to specific, practical adjustments most events overlook.

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Youth Mentorship: Why We Meet the Same Group Every Month

Consistency, not novelty, is what makes youth mentorship actually work. We deliberately keep the same mentor with the same group.

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Why We Keep a Household Register, Not Just a Visitor Count

A simple household register, kept properly, is one of the least visible but most important things Agape CBO does.

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Environmental Cleanliness as an Act of Care, Not Just Tidiness

Our Constitution frames environmental cleanliness as part of caring for the community, not a separate, cosmetic concern.

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Reflecting on Our First Community Baraza in Kasarani

Before any programme existed, our first community baraza simply asked Kasarani residents what support was actually missing.

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How Roysambu Became Our Second Outreach Area

Roysambu joined our outreach programme after residents there organised themselves and reached out, a pattern that has repeated since.

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Lessons From a Widows' Fund That Didn't Work the First Time

Our first attempt at a shared emergency fund for widows didn't work as designed, and the reasons shaped the model we use today.

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Why We Adopted a Formal Constitution in February 2024

Before registration, Agape CBO operated informally. Adopting a Constitution on 20 February 2024 gave the organization structure, accountability and legal standing.

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Looking Back: The Founding Story of Agape CBO

From a group of concerned Kasarani residents to a registered CBO: how Agape came together around a shared belief in selfless love as practice, not just sentiment.

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