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Awelo Village in Siaya County, Kenya faces several community challenges, yet it remains united through compassion, resilience, and a strong commitment to peace and wellbeing. Through the Ndege Amazing Love For All (NALFA) Community Based Organization, local residents have come together to solve real problems affecting children, youth, and families. One of the major issues in the community is jigger infestation, which affects school-going children, the elderly, and vulnerable households. NALFA coordinates regular anti-jigger treatment campaigns, providing medical care, home visits, and community education. These efforts restore dignity, reduce pain and disability, and empower affected families to live healthier, more confident lives. Youth engagement is another cornerstone of our peacebuilding work. Every December, NALFA organizes the Ndege Annual Football Tournament, now in its 3rd edition. This event unites hundreds of young people, builds discipline, reduces idleness, prevents drug abuse, and promotes peaceful coexistence across villages. The tournament is a safe platform for talent development, community bonding, and promoting peace through sports. NALFA also works to address challenges faced by girls in schools. Many girls miss classes or drop out due to lack of menstrual products. To restore dignity and keep them in school, the organization provides free sanitary pads to girls across the community. This support helps reduce absenteeism, empowers young women, and promotes gender equality. Together, these activities—jigger treatment, sports for peace, and menstrual dignity support—form the foundation of a strong local peace initiative that uplifts lives and strengthens harmony in Awelo Village. By joining the International Cities of Peace network, the community aims to expand these programs, attract partners, and inspire long-term peace and development. A PDF with detailed descriptions, photos, and an action plan will be uploaded to accompany this overview.
VISION To build a healthy, empowered, and peaceful community where every child, youth, and family thrives—free from jiggers, strengthened through sports, and supported with essential needs such as sanitary pads, dignity, and equal opportunities. MISSION To uplift vulnerable families through community-driven health outreach, especially jigger treatment and prevention; empower young people through sports and talent development; promote dignity for girls by providing free sanitary pads; and unite the community through partnerships, education, and peace-building initiatives.
Our goal is to improve the well-being, dignity, and opportunities of vulnerable community members through health outreach, youth empowerment, and peace-building. We aim to eliminate jigger infestation by providing regular treatment, education, and preventive support; promote youth talent and unity through the annual Ndege Sports Tournament; enhance girls’ dignity by distributing free sanitary pads and menstrual health education; strengthen community cohesion through peaceful initiatives; and build partnerships that support sustainable development and long-term impact.
The Liaison has a solid background in community leadership, humanitarian service, and youth empowerment. Through NALFA CBO, he has led impactful peace-centered initiatives, including jigger treatment campaigns that restore dignity to affected families, annual sports tournaments that promote unity among youth, and programs providing free sanitary pads to support girls’ wellbeing. His work focuses on reducing harm, building harmony, and creating safe spaces for dialogue and collaboration. With experience mobilizing volunteers, engaging local leaders, and coordinating community outreach, he continually promotes peaceful relationships, inclusion, and equal opportunity. His commitment is to strengthen community resilience and inspire a culture of peace through practical action.
Yes, I approve the guidelines for an International City of Peace and will provide four or more additional approved signatures of community Peace Team members (see next registration field). "A culture of peace is a set of values, attitudes, traditions and modes of behavior and ways of life based on respect for life, ending of violence and promotion and practice of non-violence through education, dialogue and cooperation. Tenets include: Full respect for and promotion of all human rights and fundamental freedoms; Commitment to peaceful settlement of conflicts; Efforts to meet the developmental and environmental needs of present and future generations; Respect for and promotion of the right to development; Respect for and promotion of equal rights and opportunities for women and men; Respect for and promotion of the right of everyone to freedom of expression, opinion and information; Adherence to the principles of freedom, justice, democracy, tolerance, solidarity, cooperation, pluralism, cultural diversity, dialogue and understanding at all levels of society and among nations; and fostered by an enabling national and international environment conducive to peace." In addition, the Golden Rule - "Do for others as you would have them do for you" -- provides a unity proposition for personal, local and global peace.
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