COmmunity Road Empowerment (CORE)
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Our successful approach to empower the rural communities consists of
1) Conducting a rural access road maintenance training where farmers are trained on How to Use Do-nou technology to Maintain the Road by Themselves
[Physical Links to Markets]
 2) Training the farmers on Market Oriented Horticulture Production and How to Market their produce
[Commercial Links to Markets]

Topics

4th January (Kenya)
On-site review of Do-nou road by the Road Secretary of the Ministry of Road.
Do-nou roads' advantages are recognized.
6th January (Kenya)
Chairman of CORE Japan, Professor Kimura's courtesy visit to Ambassador Takada
in Kenya, asking for his support for CORE's Do-nou project in Kenya.

7th January (Kenya)
Road Secretary Engineer Kilimo and Professor Kimura shake hands.
Do-nou technology will be adopted in the Kenyan government's Road 2000 policy.

News
23rd May Annual meeting of CORE Japan was held (Japan).
1st May Start road maintenance using "Do-nou" technology in collaboration with CARE International (Papua New Guinea).
28th April Official opening of maintained road at Tuiyoluk Sublocation in Eldoret East by the Kokwoluk Youth Group (Kenya).
31st March The project for building the embankment of the fish pond at MMSU (Mariano Marcos State University) was launched (the Philippines).
27th March Chairman of CORE Japan, Prof. Kimura gave a talk on road maintenance using "Do-nou" technology at Asian Development Bank in Manila, the Philippines.
10th March Chairman of CORE Japan, Prof. Kimura presented on road maintenance using "Do-nou" technology at the workshop held by ILO and JICA in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
28th February Demonstration of road maintenance using "Do-nou" technology was done at Lemoru School in Eldoret North to Minister for Agriculture Hon. Wiiliam Ruto (Kenya).



Mission
Empower farmers
  • To be self reliant
  • To self develop
  • To self market


Road maintance using "Do-nou" technology

  • Use locally available materials
  • Manual labour based
  • Easy to implement
  • Effective

Motivates and builds farmers confidence in initiating their own development

Farmers maintained the bridge by themselves after they was introduced to the "Do-nou" technology.


(A rural area in Japan, 50 years ago)
In Japan, the community maintained the bridge voluntrarily by themselves.