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Community Advocacy Development and Empowerment Organization (CADEO) is a registered Community Based Organization in Samburu County – Kenya.We are a non-profit, non-political organization whose main aim is to empower the vulnerable community, to discover their full potential and transform their lives. We mobilize community members to work for the welfare of the community by formulating and developing projects that improve their livelihoods.We educate the community to achieve sustainable economic development, advocate for their rights, and fight against harmful cultural practices.
We also advocate for environmental protection, educate the community on social, economic and poverty alleviation programs.We provide victuals to the needy, aged, orphans, widows and people living with disability. We provide learning materials to underprivileged children and sanitary towels to needy girls/women.So far, we have impacted over 1000 community members from our humble means. With your help we can support more and assure them a better future.
Born and raised in the Northern Part of Kenya – Samburu County. Magdaline Ayanai squarely faced the incredible challenges affecting the nomadic pastoralists in that region. The harsh climatic conditions with prolonged drought and famine was so extreme, wreaking havoc to her community and leaving them with little or no access to basic human needs. They highly depended on relief food for survival, which was not always guaranteed. Cattle rustling and insecurity were the order of the day, her neighborhood was crime-ridden and almost every single day, they woke up to the sounds of gunshots and news of losing loved ones to banditry or drug abuse. She lived in a society where she experienced overwhelming odds, her life was shuttered, her dream was blurry. She didn’t feel like the goals she had would ever be within reach.The mantra among many was the hope to live a day at a time, as tomorrow was never promised.
Luckily enough, she was blessed to be among the very few who managed to get formal education, despite the fact that education in her community was not a necessity especially for a girl child. Early marriages and harmful cultural practices such as Female Genital Mutilation was the order of the day: cutting short the dreams of many young girls. Her education came with a myriad of challenges; Some days she could go to school starved and barefoot for several kilometers. Her parents could not afford school fees and she was maintained in school by well-wishers.
At the backdrop of all these setbacks, she was able to sail though to becoming a director in an Aviation consultancy firm, a Successful entrepreneur, a Youth leader, a Mentor and Inspirational speaker.