Cities around the world face many challenges to their cleanliness and environmental sustainability, including rising greenhouse gas emissions, unsanitary public spaces, foul odors, growing energy demand, low recycling rates, and limited space.
Taka ni Pato program's overall goal is to build capacity for effective, environmentally friendly
and profitable community-managed solid waste management systems in Nairobi's informal
settlements
To demonstrate the important links that can be made between environmental management,
income generation and community development
FOAD joined the program in 2007 and it continues to be a key component of our work to date. The program has achieved the following:
Providing access to safe water and adequate sanitation .
Building assets and diversifying income is a fundemental step.
Our guiding is The World Health Organization's definition of health
Focus on Africa Development Inc. (FOAD) is a regional non-governmental organization that was established in 2006 by a Somali Physician and Public Health Expert Dr. Said Aden and later registered in Somalia, Rwanda and South Sudan and has affiliate office in Australia.
