We rely on volunteers as our key change makers in pursuing our objectives. Volunteers help us to implement, fundraise and make in-kind donations to our activities. In our work, volunteers are classified into three; youth volunteers (YVs), community volunteers (CVs) and friends of Busia youth volunteers (FoBYVs).
Youth volunteers are drawn from ABEDEV membership who are youths. Community volunteers consist of non-youth ABEDEV members who hail from Busia County. Friends of Busia youth consist of any willing contributors to ABEDEV’s mission, objectives and activities who come from outside Busia County.
Partners play an invaluable role in helping us achieve our vision. The four categories of partners that help advance our strategic objectives include those we hold joint activities with, those who offer us technical support, those we undertake joint resource mobilisation with and those who hold us accountable to our commitments.
Cognisant of the significance of visibility in achieving our mission, we strive to be visible. Being visible helps us communicate our work, and thereby increasing understanding, support and solidarity for our work.
We project that to fully and effectively implement our 5-year strategy 2025 -2029, we require a total of KES. 7.2 million. This translates to at least KES. 2 million annually. These constitute both programmatic and operational costs.
We seek to mobilise these resources from both institutional and individual donors. We do this by responding to proposal calls (for institutional donors) and reaching out directly to individual donors through physical and virtual conversations.
We believe that working with others, it is possible to achieve our desire of a Busia County where all indicators of human progress have improved and residents enjoy better living conditions