MARAGOLI

The Maragoli Community Development Foundation, or MACODEF, is a non-profit organization that supports poverty reduction and sustainable development projects in the Maragoli region of Western Kenya. Our grassroots approach to sustainable development rests on the idea that the most effective projects are locally driven and adapted, holistic and small-scale in nature, and financially accountable.We support projects in education, health care, environment, agriculture, and micro-enterprise that are conceived and implemented by community members themselves. Our project coordinator and local board of governors, representing a cross-section of community members, play a crucial role in approving projects and partnering with groups that are funded. They insist on local contributions and sustainable goals as a way of ensuring that community members have ownership of projects and their outcomes... In addition, we support sustainable development proposals that demonstrate steps already taken to..

Primary location: Gambier United States