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KADAM Support Initiative

Dear Friends, Citizens of Kyrgyzstan and

All Who Are Not Indifferent to the Fate of the People of Kyrgyzstan!

Horrific violence and instability have struck the multi-ethnic people of Kyrgyzstan. The Rural Development Fund (RDF), a nonpartisan, non-profit nongovernmental organization which has worked in all parts of Kyrgyzstan, seeked to address the troubles that have befallen the country and brought help in ways that were most needed at that time through "I Take a Step to Rebuild Houses in Communities in the Devastated South" initiative in the frame of KADAM - Emergency Program.

"I Take a Step to Rebuild Houses in the Southern Kyrgyzstan" initiative

The Rural Development Fund has the KADAM Program, where we have in the past provided small start-up grants to single-mother families for low-level income generation activities across the country. Kadam means "I take a step" in both Kyrgyz and Uzbek. Due to last tragic events taken place in the South of the Republic, RDF has initiated KADAM - Emergency Program to help suffered people in Osh and Djalal-Abad oblasts. Using this network RDF organized the provision of assistance for families suffered in the strife in the violence-afflicted Osh oblast. While the anguish of those who have suffered and lost loved ones these past days cannot be removed, RDF was committed to helping our people in the South - both Uzbeks and Kyrgyz - start rebuilding their communities, one step at a time. In the frame of this initiative we are providing help to families with female heads of households lacking strong family support networks.

First Results of The Initiative

With no specific ethnic criterion RDF provided asistance in home rebuilding to family of Zuhra Khakimova in Osh. In that way, the main stage of the Initiative was finally finished, information on which you can find on our website. However, collection of donations, as well as their perposeful use, is still going on, as for maintaing sufficient life standards it is extremely crusial not only walls of the home, but also vitally important things like household items and goods - everything that was destroyes, stolen and burn.

Now the process of collecting of information on families and their needs is actively taking place, and depending on the amount of funding financial the support will be provided to families of real need of it. The more funds we will gather, the more families will have a chance to get an assistance. Support will be in the form of construction materials and labor procured, which will be provided and monitored entirely by members of the RDF initiative group.

Creterias of selection of needy families

- levels of poverty

- degree of neediness measured by families ability to restore on its own

- the lack of breadwinners (which tend to be a male) in the given household (often multiple families live in the same house).

These are families headed by women with four or more small children whose homes and small adjacent farm plots were completely destroyed. They had no one to turn to in this time of need. Here you can find more information about a family that has already received a new built house and a family that needs in additional support. RDF experts went several times to talk to these families, their neighbors, local authorities and constantly keep in touch with families.

Although we can't address in scale the huge needs in destroyed areas, but we hope through a concrete contribution to specific families that we will do a part to help the cities rebuild. The needs remain enormous, and we still ask you, friends of Kyrgyzstan, for help. If you wish to support the families in the South, here is a bank account for financial transferring. RDF is organizing a way to allow for an easier payment system from the U.S., but in the meantime we ask those who would consider donating funds to transfer to the above bank accounts. You can also direct any questions to us at general@rdf.in.kg  or call us at +996770 330106, the contact person is Aizhan Kochonova.

Having partnered with community, national, and international organizations on finding local solutions to local problems since 2003, RDF is committed in these difficult times to put its skills and resources to the service of stabilizing and rebuilding Kyrgyzstan. Let us all come together to bring safety and succor to our people!

With immeasurable hope for the safety of all those in Kyrgyzstan,

RDF Team

Last information update: November 10, 2011

Rural Development Fund

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Bishkek, 720040, Kyrgyz Republic 

Phone: +996 (312) 976 100

Fax: +996 (312) 976 103

E-mail: general@rdf.in.kg

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