Beyond the Vision Initiative

Our Vision is to create self-reliant, self-sufficient, and self-sustaining communities with the capacity to identify and lead their own development strategies.

Our mission is to break the cycle of generational poverty within the urban and rural poor by initiating and implementing participatory programs that give communities tools for Self-sustaining livelihoods.

OUR VALUES – IMPACT

• Integrity
• Moral Values
• Partnerships and stewardship
• Accountability
• Creativity and Innovation
• Transformation

Jackline Musyoka is the Founder and Executive Director of Beyond the Vision Initiative. It is her role to lead effective teams in order to ensure that programs are designed, implemented, monitored, and evaluated effectively. In addition, she ensures that programs are rolled out and implemented in a timely and effective manner. In addition to being the team's liaison with the government of Kenya, she is a visionary leader and well qualified to manage the organization.

The team lead and supporting team members wills set aside time to participate in in the LEAP project, as a part of their duties and workplan.

Bringing up a slum child that can fit into any social setting.

Children growing up in informal settlements are exposed to abject poverty and environment not fit for an optimal growth. Behavioural implications have kept such children from being accepted in other social settings away from the slum. This has deterred their success in educational institutions and settings outside the slum.

Our solution is to offer education to children growing up in the slums through a community school that supports their academic, mental health and offers guidance on acceptable behaviour.

• Our work targets children from poor backgrounds, whose background is full of oppression. We established a mentorship program and a mental health program that strengthens trust amongst learners and educators. the skills learnt are applied in and out of the classroom.
• We have established music, dance and chess clubs. This supports their memory and fosters their confidence.
• We have provided the learners with games kits and have made Physical Education part and parcel of the timetable.
• fostering relations through parents meetings, community engagement and stakeholder engagement.
• Drop Everything And Read program (DEAR) has encouraged a reading culture boosting vocabulary and math skills.
• Use of visual representation in classrooms.

Foundational research

• Our school population comes from informal settlements. They identify with repurcation and punishment. Research informed our program on the importance of awarding learners in all levels and disciplines.
• Social and emotional learning for mental and well-being; change of mindset from victim mentality to potential mentality.  This informed our mentorship program at the school.
• Effects of parental involvement on student behaviour: parental participation increases attendance, leads to better grades and increases the learning motivation of child and reduces behavioral issues of the child.

Taking into account all the available scientific evidence, as well as tradition, judgement, or any other influence, is the best way to guide our interventions in order to make the most effective decisions possible. There has been some success so far in establishing a successful intervention, we are seeing impacts, but we have identified the need to incorporate evidence-based practices into our classrooms and interventions in the future. A well-established team of researchers and professionals is needed in order to develop evidence-based practices that are implemented effectively.

1. What is the effectiveness and social impact of our education program?
2. Will incorporating evidence-based practices bring more impact to our solution? 

- Research skills

- Evidence based strategies

- Pool of research studies

The organisation will incorporate the outputs to the current intervention in order to improve efficacy, and delivery of our services. 

Short term outcomes

• Research skills
• Collaborations
• Evidence based approach

Long term outcomes

• Incorporation of evidence-based strategies in our intervention.
• Conduct research on the intervention.