Moving Mountains Kenya Social Welfare Policy Moving Mountains Kenya requests that all sponsored beneficiaries read and understand the principles by which we operate, and that they and their parents or guardians agree to the conditions. Circumstances taken into account for support from Moving Mountains

The parent or guardian income in relation to the family expenditure and poverty level and their background

Young mother who is in a young family situation (e.g. cases of teenage pregnancy)

Support will be given to a guardian /Parent who has a medical condition that can’t allow them to work at all.

Orphan staying alone and in college or school

Good will of the guardian towards an orphan and especially providing the child with shelter

The guardian being in old age and looking after a sponsored orphan

The guardian income in relation to the family poverty level also number of dependants living under same roof.

Students Responsibilities

The student is expected to uphold a great level of discipline in and out of school for the support to continue

Students must work together with others sponsored especial in school holidays when MM organises meetings and lectures for them.

After college and one is working a grace period of 3 months given then one can now support his / her own family

Parents or Guardians Responsibilities

Participate fully in their children’s future and co-operate with MM in relation to housing and integrity with finances

If able work and support the family one is ready to inform the charity for the support to be extended to another needy family.

Look after the orphans with their safety, health and care well catered for by them

Moving Mountains Responsibilities

Support the family towards purchasing of food for the house and rent depending on the locality

Give advice on house search and location where applicable

This food and rent support policy will be reviewed every year

We believe in issue-specific interventions in certain circumstances where we have an established relationship with the applicant and where any support forms part of a holistic approach to the development of an individual, for example supporting a family while their child is in school. We work on a system of providing counselling and mentoring alongside any financial assistance, trying to ensure that money is not seen as the only trigger for development, but also values and collaboration and changing stereotypes. This is particularly true in certain cases where gender and religion may be discriminatory factors. We believe in enabling a ‘bottom up democracy’ where the state does not offer a social welfare net for people entrapped by poverty and poor living conditions, or where their human rights have been denied them. In this respect we stand for pluralism and the development of a civil society. From an economic point of view we can use the funds of Moving Mountains to provide social welfare services to the most vulnerable at low cost and higher standards of quality than government. We see this process as collaborative and equitable, enabling people to express their rights and views and help us with our work. This is very much a journey and we work hard to create authorising environments with many committees and groups of people who live and work in the areas where we assist. We act as an operational hub for the projects and programmes that are funded by Moving Mountains UK, and we are the body that defines the need and the policy and the solution in collaboration with local stakeholders. Thus the charity avoids the trap of a foreign NGO or charity imposing external policies on a dependant beneficiary, because we are in the position to determine the legitimacy of the funding and the needs that it addresses.