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Industrial Centers of HOPE (ICOH) program

last updated Sep 27, 2011

Overview

Implementing organization: 
HOPE World Wide Kenya
Implementation Partner(s): 
Wal-Mart Foundation
Legal Status: 
Private (not-for-profit)
Year Launched: 
2007
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
20-60% (lower to lower-middle)

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Donor
Additional Source(s) of Funding: 
Donor
Funders: 
Wal-Mart Foundation

Scale

Number of Facilities Operated/Networked: 
7
Summary: 

The issue of poverty is compounded by HIV/AIDS. The unique nature of the Wal-Mart funded program has enabled the ‘triple-crisis’ of HIV/AIDS, poverty and unemployment to be addressed at the same time among the target populations.

Key program components: 

Industrial Centers of HOPE (ICOH) program is implemented with three Strategic Objectives: 1. Improve the capacity of management and staff in factories to implement HIV/AID programs at their workplaces 2. Improve the entrepreneurial and vocational aptitude of communities around the factories targeting mostly workers’ families 3. Equip & educate youths and adults in the communities with HIV prevention and life-skills, improve care and support for children orphaned and/or vulnerable The Industrial Centers of HOPE are established where most of the workers live to facilitate their access to services such as: • Voluntary Counseling & Testing • Vocational and entrepreneurship skills training • Community Resource Center

The overriding goal of the program is to improve the welfare of factory workers especially in Wal-Mart supplying factories, and also uplift the standard of living for the workers dependents. Partners, Wal-Mart, HOPE worldwide Kenya, and the factories have been contributing to the attainment of 5 out of the 8 global millennium development goals:

* Eradicating extreme poverty
* Promoting gender equality
* Combating HIV/AIDS
* Promoting environmental sustainability
* Global partnership for development.
Program history: 

In October 2007, HOPE worldwide Kenya (HWWK) obtained a three- year funding from Wal-Mart Foundation to implement the Industrial Centers of HOPE (ICOH) program. The overriding goal of the program is to improve the welfare of factory workers.

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