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Welcome.to Cesst Foundation

Welcome to Cesst foundation

Introduction

The Center for Social Support and Training Foundation is non-profit organization founded in Kenya in 2007 to, for a start, to provide capacity through seminars, conferences, and training to the youth and women. Our specific areas of interest are the Kenyan rural community and those who are marginalized by socio-health challenges such as unemployment, poverty, HIV/AIDS pandemic, natural disaster, limited access to Medicare and health facilities, lack of pure water and sanitation among others.

The foundation plays a unique and vital role in encouraging systematic, harmonious and sustainable growth of the rural community and socially and economically marginalized members of Kisumu town through the programs that it organizes.

OurGoals and Vision

Organization Goals

The CESST foundation envisages a goal of providing efficient and professional training that will address the negative social, health and economic impact on the members of the Kenyan rural community and those who are marginalized by the socio-health challenges.

In light of the above, the following are the foundation’s specific goals:

To research and document positive African cultural values for prosperity
To facilitate the social health growth of the socially and economically marginalized members of the community.
To influence cultural and social practices that can promote economic, social and cultural growth among the rural community
To advance social, scientific and traditional socio-health research
To promote formal and informal learning
To strengthen democratic and human values

Organization Vision

To develop a society, that cares for the socially and economically marginalized using preventive measures while focusing on the person.

Organization Values

The Center for Social Support and Training foundation upholds the following values

Principles of integrity and honesty
Cherish moral uprightness
Maintain transparency and accountability in all the dealings of the foundation
To inculcate commitment and dedication to duty in the foundation programs
To promote professionalism in capacity building service delivery and personal conduct

Our Currewnt projects

Strategic Information and Communication Center Program

This is A project in partnership with Cadifkenya(www.cadifkenya.interconnection.org and it situated in Mlimani areas in kisumu targeting both vulnerable youths and women-contact cadifkenya@gmail.com

Information Background

Information, Communication and Technology and research are major components in community development. ICT can sustain or deepen the process of development within a community and for this reason there is an urgent need to offer scale up training in ICT and do developmental and socio-economic research.

The main aim of the SICC program is to provide ICT training for development and to carry out research, documentaries, documentation and dissemination of information thus publicizing specific aspects of cultural practices, which promote negative social and health trends, and on positive practices which need to be retained. This program also provides information on various socio-health challenges issues to empower the socially and economically marginalized members of the community to participate in various economic and development activities. The SICC program also intends to have a community based radio frequency.

The program also intends to have a community resource center and a community library

New brief

The Trieste Science Prize
TWAS and illycaffè <http://www.illy.com> s.p.a. have instituted high-level
prizes to honour distinguished scientists from developing countries. The
Trieste Town Council and the Trieste International Foundation for Scientific Progress and Freedom are collaborating in this effort.
The prize has been named Trieste Science Prize in recognition of the unique
and fundamental role that the Trieste System of scientific institutions
plays in promoting science and technology in the developing world.
It has been established to give international recognition and visibility to
outstanding scientific achievements made by individual scientists in
developing countries.

Nature

The prizes are awarded annually and rotate among the various fields of
science. In 2008, prizes will be awarded in Earth, Space, Ocean and
Atmospheric Sciences and Engineering Sciences.
The first two prizes were awarded in 2005 in the fields of biological
<http://www.ictp.trieste.it/%7Etwas/publ/2005-05-25_TSP.html> sciences and
physics & astronomy. In 2006 the prizes were awarded in the fields of
mathematics and medical sciences
<http://www.ictp.trieste.it/%7Etwas/publ/2006-07-11_TSP06.html> , and in
2007 in agricultural sciences and chemical sciences
<http://www.ictp.trieste.it/%7Etwas/publ/2007-05-03_TSP2007.html> .
Trieste Science Prize trophyEach prize carries a monetary award of US$50,000
generously contributed by illycaffè, a trophy and a certificate bearing a
citation highlighting the major contributions for which the prize is
awarded.
The prizes will be presented to the recipients at a special occasion
arranged by TWAS, illycaffè, and the Trieste Town Council.

Eligibility

Candidates must be nationals of developing countries, working and living in
the South.
The prizes will only be awarded to individuals for scientific research of
outstanding international merit carried out at institutions in developing
countries.
Individuals who have received the Nobel Prize, the Tokyo/Kyoto Prize, the
Crafoord Prize or the Abel Prize are not eligible for the Trieste Science
Prize.

International Jury

A jury of internationally renowned scientists chaired by the president of
TWAS is charged with the selection of awardees. Jury members are not
eligible for the Trieste Science Prize.

Nominations

Nominations are invited from TWAS members, selected individuals, as well as
>from science academies, national research councils, universities and
scientific institutions. Self-nominations will not be accepted.
Nominations should be accompanied by a 5-6 page biographical sketch of the
nominee including his/her major scientific accomplishments, pre-prints of
not more than 20 of the candidate's most significant publications and a
complete list of publications. A brief professional C.V. of the candidate
may also be included.
The deadline for receiving nominations for the 2008 prizes (in Earth, Space,
Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences and in Engineering Sciences) is 31 January
2008.
Nomination forms are available for download here:

* Nomination
<http://www.ictp.trieste.it/%7Etwas/docs/TSP_NomForm2008_e.doc> form for
the 2008 Trieste Science Prizes (MS Word file)
* General
<http://www.ictp.trieste.it/%7Etwas/docs/TSP_2008_NomInfo.doc> Information
on the 2008 Trieste Science Prize (MS Word file)

Contact

Prof. Mohamed H.A. Hassan
Executive Director, TWAS
Trieste Science Prize
ICTP Campus, Strada Costiera 11
34014 Trieste, Italy
fax: +39 040 2240689
e-mail: prizes@twas.org