OCA
Vision
An empowered and poverty free community
Mission
"To improve community well-being through multi-sectoral intervention for sustainable livelihood"
Goal
To raise the social and economic status of the poor marginalised communities
Our story
In 2001, Obaya Community Association (OCA), started working in three villages in Apala Sub-County. The founder had mobilised the three villages to organise themselves into an association so that they could raise the little resources they had to start a day care for children below primary school-going age. The children would gather in a local church where some volunteer caregivers engage them in plays while their parents concentrated on farming.
OCA’s work suffered a setback in the same year when the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) intensified its attacks in the villages. All OCA activities stalled. However, in 2008, the association resumed its work and later registered at the district level as a bigger organisation looking at district-wide activities.
OCA then received funding in 2009, a support from International Refugee Trust (IRT-UK) to support resettlement of the communities in Aloi Sub-County. In 2010, the organisation also received funding from the Commonwealth Foundation to resettle communities in Apala Sub County.
In 2011, the organisation changed its focus from relief and rehabilitation to sustainable development programme using an approach then called Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) which was then renamed to StepUP in 2014, a programme that has brought OCA onto the map with continued support from IRT-UK. In the same year, the organisation rebranded itself from Obaya Community Association to Organisation for Community Action (OCA). In 2016, the organisation registered with NGO Board as an indigenous organisation.
Our core values
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