The Esiloya Masai community is made up of many tiny villages in a remote part of the Kajiado district of the Masai Mara. Long term droughts over the last 10 years have caused severe problems for the families in this region.
We have been supporting a wonderful project partnering with the local families and government, providing school buildings, education for school age children and and water for the wider community. Providing nutritious school meals for the children each school day guarantees most children will attend school. The boys who would normally be tending the animals and the girls who would normally be married off by 12 years are much more likely able to continue their education.
The first ever secondary school in the area, providing for 350 children between 14-18 years of age has been completed with Global Angels funding. The new water well providing for 6,000 in the wider catchment area is almost completed. Education gives a community and individuals so much more choice in how they live and a chance for a more sustainable way of life.
This project is outstanding in it’s respect of the local community and empowering families and children. We would love to encourage the families in this village by sponsoring their children in school and helping through the poverty that comes with long term drought.
Children’s Community Villages, Kamakwie & Freetown
Reaching out to vulnerable children who have been abandoned or orphaned, this project has created an environment with a more family based approach. Many of the children lost their families in the recent civil war and spent over 6 years living in desperate conditions on the streets of Sierra Leone before being welcomed into the community. By creating an Orphan Village that is a self sufficient community, long term benefits are brought to the futures of hundreds of children. Currently, over 100 children are provided with shelter, education, training opportunities, care and support.
Training in skills such as bee keeping, farming, sewing and small business management help the children learn and develop capabilities that will allow them to support themselves and their community in the future. Providing long term sustainable projects is a vital of the vision of the Community Villages and funds given are used towards that end.
We have been privileged to partner with Steve and his team as they have pioneered in Kamakwie and Freetown and have provided the funds to build their new school, solar panels for electricity, replace the home that burnt down, provide two vans, mattresses, rice for planting and more.
Last year, 117 children from Kamakwie were sponsored in our Feed A Child Programme. We have 180 kids to sponsor this year and next in both projects.
Step Up and be an Angel…Feed a Child for a Year in Kamakwie and Freetown!
The Sunshine Center is situated in the heart of Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital city.
Unschooled children who need to work to earn an income for their families can come to receive informal schooling and literacy training, health care, basic health education and a nutritious cooked daily meal. For many of these children it is the only meal they will receive each day.
Providers for poverty stricken families, they work long hours collecting rubbish to recycle, selling food and selling postcards.
Often with a small sibling to care for as they work the children are unable to attend regular school. Their families are dependent upon their meager incomes.
These children are extremely vulnerable to exploitation as they work on the streets and especially to pedophiles.
Founders of the project saw many children and teenagers working as scrap collectors around the market and on the streets, living a life of drudgery, hardship and danger. What started as an attempt to give these youngsters some relief from the heat and dirt of their day grew into the center offering bathing facilities, health care, nutritious food and basic literacy. By mid-2006, the program underwent some dramatic changes, which included moving to a more spacious venue away from the market and busy roads, enrolling the children into public school.
Today, the program has nearly 90 children, which includes about a dozen pre-school youngsters who stay at the center all day. When the children are not at school, they come to the center for help with homework and revision, and English lessons. Besides providing breakfast and lunch, it is also a safe place for the children to play and relax. The Center also works to introduce training and micro-enterprise programs to help these Cambodian families break the poverty cycle.
We are currently feeding 800 children every school day in three primary schools in the Guludo area. At the school, children learn how to grow their own fruit and vegetables through hands-on experience at an adjacent small farm. We believe the combination of feeding and educating children works effectively together with a visionary self-sustaining strategy to ensure long-term community development. When we started the school feeding program, less than 70 children went to the Guludo Primary School. The day we opened, nearly 200 children turned up and have continued to show up for lessons.
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Most children were malnourished when they started the school feeding program, and are now benefiting greatly, able to concentrate in lessons when their tummies are full.
All it costs is a one off gift of £50 or $80 to feed a child in the school feeding program, every school day for the school year. The nutritious meal provides 60% of their daily food requirement in this project.
The Esiloya Masai community is made up of many tiny villages in a remote part of the Kajiado district of the Masai Mara. Long term droughts over the last 10 years have caused severe problems for the families in this region.
