George Onyango
Executive Director at DEVELOPMENT ACTION DEVOLVED REGENERATION GROUP- DADREG- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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Philanthropy
The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University
Experience
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DEVELOPMENT ACTION DEVOLVED REGENERATION GROUP- DADREG
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Kenya
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Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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Executive Director
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Jan 2010 - Present
Dandora Dumpsite Rehabilitation Group (DADREG) is a community based organisation that uses sports as a tool to reach out to children working and scavenging in the dumpsite with a view of taking them back to school. Through sports, over 900 children have been rehabilitated from the dumpsite and taken back to school. Through my work, DADREG has been able to initiate scholarship programme for bright children who were taken off the dumpsite and sent back to school. As a result of this, DADREG as an institution is providing direct sponsorship to 28 bright students who joined some of the prestigious high schools in Kenya, while our partners are supporting further 20 students with bursaries to pursue high schools education. DADREG is currently constructing its own Primary School to allow for more children who could not access education due to poverty and lack of spaces in partner schools that DADREG has used to send in children rehabilitated from the dumpsite. My organisation also has a vocational training centre and a Pre-School. The vocational training centre provides women and young girls with various skills so that they are not only able to become competitive in the job market, but also creators of wealth. The pre-school offers them with a space where they could have their children taken care of and learn away from the toxic environment that has affected their health. Show less
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Commonwealth HIV/AIDS Action Group (CHAAG)
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Brighton, United Kingdom, Nairobi, Kenya
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Liaison Officer
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Sep 2010 - Present
Commonwealth HIV/AIDS Action Group (CHAAG) The CHAAG network (originally ‘Para 55’) was established in 2000 to promote and monitor the implementation of Paragraph 55 in the Communiqué issued at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in South Africa in 1999. Paragraph 55 called upon the Heads of Commonwealth states to give personal leadership to combating HIV/AIDS. We are a multidisciplinary group of Commonwealth Associations and Civil Society Organisations with an interest in promoting the Commonwealth response to HIV and AIDS. Our Purpose: The purpose of CHAAG is to promote and undertake a multi-sectoral and multi-disciplinary approach to combating HIV and AIDS in Commonwealth Countries Our Objectives: • To influence Commonwealth Heads of Governments and Ministers to focus more resources and attention on HIV and AIDS • To urge the public and private sectors and international organisations to address the challenges presented by HIV and AIDS. • To work together to improve the HIV and AIDS situation in Commonwealth countries. • To lobby and advocate at every opportunity in international forums for improvement and change. Show less
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Slums Information Development & Resource Centres (SIDAREC)
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Nairobi, Kenya
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Deputy Director
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Apr 1996 - Mar 2012
SIDAREC is an acronym that stands for Slums Information Development and Resource Centres. The Organization started off as a youth group in 1996 but later developed and changed status to a Community Based NGO in 1997. SIDAREC is a youth development project operating in the slums of Nairobi. The organization aims at tapping and consolidating skills & talents existing among the youths in the community for the common benefit of the slum dwellers. The wisdom behind this reasoning was that, a lot of untapped resources existed in the communities and if acknowledged and harnessed, would be useful in bringing the much needed positive development change under the concept 'Community problems need community solutions'. Show less
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Education
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2009 - 2010
The Wharton School
Certificate, StrategicManagement in Leadership and Business -
2004 - 2005
The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University
Certificate in Philanthropy, Philanthropy
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