About Us: Refugees And Marginalized Locals Association (RAMLA)
The Refugees And Marginalized Locals Association (RAMLA) is a foundation in Kakuma, Turkana West Sub County of Kenya. RAMLA was founded by and for the out-of-school children (OOSC), Children with Disabilities (CWDs), and Vulnerable groups of Women and Girls (VWGs) from the refugee and marginalized host communities in Kenya. The RAMLA Foundation is committed to returning the OOSC to school and supporting CWDs, and VWGs to lead fulfilling lives. We raise awareness about the plight of at-risk children and their families and capacitate them through education, entrepreneurship, psychosocial support, and life skills training.
RAMLA is a unique initiative for OOSC, VWGs, and CWDs, their families, and communities because it provides an enabling environment for at-risk girls and children with different disability types to thrive with those without disabilities in mainstream and special schools in Kenya.
Our Mission: Empowerment, Support, and Community:
To enable out-of-school children, children with disabilities, and vulnerable women and girls to lead fulfilling lives.
Our Vision: Empowering Lives, Building Futures:
To be a benchmark foundation of empowered families and educated refugee and host
community children leading fulfilling lives.
The RAMLA Objectives : Collaboration and Compassion:
The foundation acts in the overall interests of the refugee and host communities in Kakuma to:
a.Provide safe spaces and basic needs to OOSC, VWGs, and CWDs from poor and vulnerable
families.
b. Promote awareness about the plight of at-risk children and vulnerable groups of women
and girls through community sensitization and training programs.
c. Provide financial and material support to mainstream at-risk CWDs, OOSC, and girls to
access and complete education and training programs.
d. Promote environmental education through active participation of OOSC, CWDs, and
VWGs in hands-on community services to establish green safe havens.
e. Provide psychosocial support services to VWGs, OOSC, and CWDs and their families.
Our Value :
Our core values follow the acronym MANA.
We are intentional with CWDs, VWGs, and OOSC to lead fulfilling lives and raise their community awareness in embracing vulnerable and disabled children.
We selflessly serve the OOSC, CWDs, VWGs, and their communities.
We build diversity networks that promote the rights of all.
We accept responsibility for serving CWDs, OOSC, and VWGs by ensuring value for money for resources entrusted to the RAMLA foundation.