Catherine Miano

Addressing households immediate needs – food and educational resources

Many families in Kenya have lost their sources of income due to the national lockdown and the economic impact of the crisis. Which is why Pitch A Dream decided to provide Family packs – which include reading materials and educational resources for children – to family household heads who have lost their sources of income owing to COVID-19 caused lay-offs.

Catherine Miano

Entrepreneur Name: Catherine Miano, Young Changemaker

Organization: Pitch a Dream Organisation

Website: pitchadream.org

Field of action: Protecting Vulnerable Groups

Needs support to achieve greater impact in: Fundraising, Business Development  

The mission of the social enterprise before and after Coronavirus

Pitch A Dream supports children in Kenya who do not have access to books. They aim to provide sustainable reading and skill development workshops that enhance global awareness, cultivate a reading culture and provide an artistic skill development platform to children. They donate books and a bookshelf to the schools that they work with to facilitate a sustainable reading culture.

Many families in Kenya lost their sources of income due to the national lockdown. Families are currently on survival mode, making educational resources a luxury. There was a need to look at families wholesomely and address their immediate food needs even as we work to provide them with educational resources.

Pitch a Dream aims to provide household heads with monthly ‘Family Packs’ that will provide a wholesome approach to intervention during COVID-19 period. They aim to help the community by providing access to food parcels, providing cash-based interventions, and providing reading and educational resources for children. Pitch a Dream has been able to donate food parcels to a total of 500 beneficiaries across peri-urban Nairobi families and children homes so far. They hope to expand their reach to more households.

Create the post-COVID world. 

Help Catherine and her team develop their solution!

Pitch a Dream’s concrete needs facing Covid-19:

  • Business Planning: Identification and recruitment of volunteers to assist with creation and review of needs assessment survey, engage in identification of the 100 Household Heads on a needs basis and delivery of donations to House Hold Heads.
  • Funding and Financing: to provide ‘Family Packs’ as interventions for 100 families whose Household Heads (HHHs) have been laid off owing to COVID-19. Each ‘Family Pack’ costs around 37 USD and includes food and educational resources.
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