Our Story
Justice and Mercy (JAM) Community Integrated Project is a community Based organization founded in 1995 by two British ladies who had a passion for the less fortunate in the society thus they yearned to empower them to take charge of their future.
It promotes people-driven sustainable rural development through Food security and livelihoods, Integrated health, education and psycho-social support. The organization facilitates implementation, learning, networking and advocacy on sustainable agriculture and organic farming for improved livelihoods. Beneficiaries of JAM are drawn from rural poor farmers, women/widows and widowers, people living with HIV and AIDS, Various Key Populations, Youths and orphans drawn from currently 4 sub-counties of Homa Bay County (Rachuonyo North, Rachuonyo South, Rachuonyo East and Rangwe).
The organization has since grown from a holiday club for the children orphaned by HIV and AIDS to be a holistic change facilitator serving the orphans, widows, their guardians and other vulnerable populations in the community. JAM is a community development organization. It’s a non-government, not-for-profit and non-sectarian, non-partisan organization working for socio-economic growth and advancement of vulnerable and less developed. It’s a people- centered development organization. JAM can also be referred to as an implementing organization which designs and implements various developmental projects with financial and technical support of local and international partners/donor agencies and the Government. The expansion has seen the rise of services in our thematic areas such as; food security, education and psychosocial support, integrated health, advocacy and peace building, and economic empowerment.
Our broad objectives include the following:
I. To build and strengthen the capacity of support groups on sustainable Agro-ecological agriculture (organic) and sustainable economic interventions in Homa Bay County.
II. To promote and increase access to integrated HIV/AIDS, preventive and curative health services to the people of Homa Bay County.
III. To increase access to education opportunities to the target project beneficiaries in Homa Bay County.
IV. To engage in operational research for evidenced-based programming and policy-advocacy to influence integration of organizational best practices and lessons learnt.
V. To enhance robust monitoring and evaluation of all the program activities towards effective documentation of the interventions.
VI. To expand resource mobilization through increasing the current budget base, attracting and retaining qualified personnel, facilitating efficient procurement systems with a view to expanding effective implementation of programs.
VII. To provide institutional strengthening to ensure effective/efficient organizational systems