OSIENALA (Friends of Lake Victoria) was established in 1992 as a national NGO with its head office in Kisumu City in Nyanza province, Western Kenya. It started as a membership organization by local communities who live and drive their livelihoods from the resources of Lake Victoria and its environs. It was also to provide a forum for addressing various environmental problems facing Lake Victoria. Read more....

OSIENALA has acquired new buses to add into the exsiting two that are available for hire to ply east african routes mainly Kampala, Kisumu and Mwanza. The buses are registered under the name Lake Victoria Links

RLV has been a key vehicle for information, dialogue and analysis within the Lake Victoria basin. RLV provides direct and very significant improvements to the lives of its listeners, by dispersing credible and updated information on a large range of community relevant issues such as health and HIV/AIDs, education, environment, agriculture, civic rights, business matters, news and weather. RLV’s key constituency is the fisherfolks, the lake basin farmers and natural Read more...

OSIENALA’s environmental education department has embarked on a critical role of positively changing the behavior towards environmental issues. While the department acknowledges the fact that such environmental education should be made available to all generations, education targeted at the young generation is undoubtedly the most important and the most effective.

Objectives of the department are Read more....

This is a Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) supported programme being implemented by OSIENALA in partnership with Organizations from East Africa Community: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi. The programme has been in operation from 2005 and now is in its second phase that has been implemented for a period of three years between 2008 and 2012. The overall goal of the programme is to reduce environmental degradation and promote sustainable management of resources by empowering people to effectively participate and assert their rights in all issues that affect them. Read more....

In 2008, Stichting Het-Groene Woudt (SHGW) and ICS came up with an integrated model combining; a commercial tree farming enterprise and a social initiative focusing on promoting small-holder tree farming, community livelihood projects and civic driven child development. The commercial and smallholder interventions will use “state of the art” technology that aims at increasing the forest cover of the areas while reducing poverty through generation of income. For these purposes, the Green Forest Social Investment (GFSI) Ltd. Read more....