Gucha Community Based Organization is a non-profit making Organization not prompted by any political, social and/or religious affiliation whatsoever. The CBO was founded in the year 2016 and has its head office at Gucha sub-county in Ogembo town Africa Kenya in Kisii County.
Gucha CBO was the brain child of the current Gucha CBO Director one Nicodemus Mogaka Ondieki whom the company of one Daniel now the Secretary General of the CBO, were having an afternoon walk around Mogonga market .They suddenly pumped into a lady carrying a baby in her hands and was feeding him. When they reached near her they were very much taken a back to realize that the lady was feeding her child with the left overs of the Kenyan local brew famously referred to as BUSAA.When they asked her why she was doing that, she only answered by saying that she was even lucky to have had those remains because she had slept hungry for the previous week and that to her was a great opportunity and wonderful food she had come across. This gave the duo more curiosity to find out more about that lady and at the end they found that her husband was a drunkard and that he never had any formal employment other than doing small contracts of digging shambas of other people and that is only when he gets luck and from his earnings, he only spent every penny on alcohol. Nicodemus and Peter sympathized with her situation and decided to buy some food for the lady and her child just for the day.
That very evening Nicodemus and Peter decided to come up with a way to help such situation and also go ahead to find out if the community had any of such people undergoing through the same economic predicament which they did to the affirmative.
This largely prompted them think further on how to come up with a permanent solution and the unanimously agreed to start a group which they register and use it to assist such cases through raising funds from well-wishers, community members and also the Government of the day both County and National hence the founding of Horizon Self Help Group in 2014.Through the group, the duo were now able to assist more vulnerable cases due to poverty and when the demand for their services grew bigger, they then decided to form a larger organization which they though could have power to address poverty and community related social and educational predicaments hence the founding of GUCHA COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATION ( GUCHA CBO)in the year 2016.
The CBO has its head office at Don bosco in Mogonga,Gucha sub-county. Its postal address is P.O BOX 100-40200 Kisii. It is headed by the Director and other 6 elected officials through secret ballot system who normally occupy office for five years being the period of one term. The term is renewable under a re-election system.
The CBO comprises 30 self-help groups affiliated to it and from which groups the CBO executive is formed. The CBO draws one member from each self-help group and that member is voted for by the respective registered members of the affiliate groups before their names are officially forwarded by the group secretary.
The CBO works in partnership with the County and Nation Government of Kenya and looks forward to bring on board likeminded organization, well-wishers, NGOs and Donors to assist raise funds to enable the CBO realize its aims and objectives for the community.