THANK YOU FOR DONATION

I wish to thank Cathrine Wambua who is an advocate who visited the Cecilkindergatten during the last holiday and saw the need for book shelf in each class and she donated 200 dolars to purchase the timber to make 4 bookshelves. so baby class, kg 1, kg 2, kg 3 now the four classes will enjoy keeping their books in their respective classes. she added the books for reading and writing. I want to appreciate all who donated towards this needy children"s books to make their education worthwhile in their lives. 

THANK YOU FOR DONATION

I sincerely wish thank all my donors and not only thanking but to really appreciate all who  donated so generously towards the teacher"s salaries, it was a great supprise because i was expecting to recieve the dononation in 14 days, from the day which it was transferred last week, but i recieved today morning. the cecilkids teachers could not hide the joy after recieving the two months salary each. Teacher Teresia said that she had not paid her house rent for 2 months and she had to excuse herself to rush and pay to her.land lord. So on behalf of the Teachers may i take this opportunity to assure the donors that each and every donation given is highly appreciated because it helps the needy and it really motivates the performance in the class and working in a conducive  atmosphere. God bless you all. 

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RE. DONATIONS

We cecilkids from Bombolulu, Kenya. wants to thank all the donors who donated the money to buy us reading books, exercises, colours, paints for printing and the new charts which has really decorated our classes and looks colourful.

RE; APPRECIATION

I thank all the donors and appreciate each and everyone of them for assisting the children who will be the future leaders, teacher"s salaries, books. Community appreciates the donations  given from betterplace org which has contributed a great change within the environment. the children did not have electricity nor a conducive learning environment, all these, helps the really needy and orphans who do not have anything that could have been proud off, but now children are healthy, happy and bright. May i take this opportunity to thank Leo for his comittment to see the children get borehole water which is a big challenge in our locality. I also want to assure all the donors that every donations given is utilized for its intended purpose. Thks

Thankyou and God bls you.

Anna

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THANK YOU FOR DONATION

We sincerely wish to thank all donors and particularly Stephen Brockhausen and Leo who have donated generousily towards the teacher"s salaries, this will boost and motivate the teacher"s moral particulary for their own needs in life, it was sad during the Easter Festive they did not have money at all but they are always patient and dedicated to the children.

THANK YOU FOR DONATION

On behalf of cecilkids,teachers, widows and myself wish to thank all our donors and friends for the donation which has been donated towards the project. May i take this opportunity also thank each and everyone who donated generously for chairs, tables, salaries for teachers.All what has been given is really a help not only for the children but to entire community and development of area.

God bls you all for helping the children.

RE. MY NEW DONOR

On behalf of the cecilkids for orphan and widows in Bombolulu, Kenya, wish to thank the new donor and all the donors who made the project a success for the better life of the children, by donating for the children education facilities,payment of teacher"s salaries, uniforms.and donation which made  conducive environment for learning. All these i want to assure the donors that every donation given is ulitilized for the intended purpose. God bless you all.

RE. DONATIONS

On behalf of the cecilkids and its full Kindergatten, with now having two extra classrooms for the babies from the single parents and the needy, which the money were donated generously for the extra chairs, we really apprecitiate the donations because the donations received make a lot of difference to the school and the community see the tremendors change within the locality. Children went on education tour to the Bombolulu Cultural and enjoyed the tradition dances and tradition huts from various tribes in Kenya photos will be posted soon for our donors to see the progress. All these changes are brought about by ALL donors from www betterplace org. to better our children from the slums of Bombolulu Ziwa la Ngombe. 

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THANK YOU FOR DONATION

THANKYOU FOR THE DONATION FOR THE HAWAA AND RIZIKI SCHOOL FEES. LEO THANK YOU FOR YOUR QUICK INTERVENTION NOW THEY WILL GO BACK TO SCHOOL, THESE CHILDREN HAS DONE SO WELL THEY HAVE BEEN TOPPING IN CLASS, I SINCERELY APPRECIATE YOUR CONCERN FOR CECILKIDS. TODAY THEY ENJOYED THE TRIP AT BOMBOLULU CULTURAL WORKSHOP THEY DANCED TRADITIONAL SONGS AND I WILL PUT THE FOTOS ON THE WEB SOON THEY ARE READY.

VIDEO FOR THE GRADUATION

I would like to appreciate all the donors who made the graduation for cecilkids a success and am sure you must have taken a minute to view the video.

New video from Cecil Kids in Mombasa (Kenya)

RE; CHRISTMAS AND GRADUATION FOR CECILKIDS

ON BEHALF ON THE CECILKIDS, TEACHERS, COMMUNITY WISH TO THANK AND APPRECIATE ALL THE DONORS WHO REALLY MADE THIS 2011 GRADUATION, CHRISTMAS WORTH TO REMEMBER, CHILDREN HAD MUSIC, PLENTY TO EACH AND PLAY, WIDOWS EVEN TOOK SOME GIFTS AT HOME FOR FURTHER CELEBRATION.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy New Year! We are very grateful for all donations. You all make the cecil kids happy and you give them a good future!

New Tables and Chairs!

While the Cecil kids are enjoying their Christmas holidays, we have been working hard on preparing a new classroom. Since last year we have had a new classroom but there were no tables and chairs yet. By selling handmade Christmas cards, and because we received generous donations, we have been able to collect money for tables and chairs. We have hired a carpenter to make nice wooden furniture. We put it in the new classroom which will now be the classroom for KG3, so they don’t need to share a classroom with the smaller children any more. When the Cecil Kids come back to school in the new year, they will be very happy to see this Christmas present!

Cecil Kids Christmas cards sold out

It was a great success to sell handmade Christmas cards to raise funds for Cecil Kids. It was a nice creative activity, the children had a lot of fun making the cards and all the cards have been sold within a week.

You can still order regular postcards on www.cecilkids.org

To order a single card, click here. To order a set of cards, click here.

Christmas Cards

It was a lot of work for our children and teachers, but the Cecil Kids handmade Christmas Cards are now on our website www.cecilkids.org and ready to be ordered. The children and teachers of Cecil Kids made these cards to raise funds for their school. Teacher Anna and teacher Louis made the drawings and the children of KG3 did the colouring. By ordering these cards you support Cecil Kids!

Have a look at our new cards! You can order a single card or a set of cards.

THANK YOU FOR DONATION

ON BEHALF OF CECILKIDS AND MYSELF WE THANK ALL THE DONORS WHO CONTRIBUTED GENEROUSLY TOWARDS THE PROJECT. THIS DONATION IS HIGHLY APPRECIATED TO THE CHILDREN"S WELL BEING AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT. I WANT TO ASSURE THE DONORS THAT THE MONEY WILL BE UTILIZED AS INTENDED PURPOSE.

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HORSE RIDING AS PART OF THE TRIP FUN

VISIT OUR PLATFORM AND SEE THE CHILDREN FROM THE SLUM OF BOMBOLULU RIDING THE HORSE YOU MIGHT THINK THEY COME FROM TEXAS USA. BUT  THESE IS TAKEN AROUND THE CROCODILE FARM IN NORTH COAST OF MOMBASA. BY THE WAY ASHLEY AND MARIAM EMERGED TO BE WINNERS  WOULD YOU MIND TO CLAP FOR THEM AND SEND A EURO TO THESE WONDERFUL KIDS.

RE; CHILDREN TRIP.

CECILKIDS HAVE BEEN SPONSORED BY ANNE WAMBUA TO GO ON A TRIP TO CROCODILE FARM CALLED MAMBA WHERE THE FARM HAS ALSO HORSE RIDING. ON THURSDAY THEY WILL HAVE FUN TO SEE MAMBA(CROCODILE) BEING FED. SO WE ARE PREPAIRING FOR EXCITEMENT NEXT THURSDAY.

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New visitor

Cecil Kids received gifts from Mr. Hannes from Austria on the 24th of September 2011. He came to the Cecil Kids after hearing about them from Christin. The children are still enjoying watching children programmes, movies and videos. They really appreciate the installation of the electricity!

Support for home for abandoned babies

We added a new need to our project because we want to support a home for abandoned babies in our neighbourhood. These babies were abandoned by their parents and brought to the home by the police. There are three women in the home who care for these babies voluntarily. We think that they are doing wonderful work and deserve some support. They have enough beds, clothes and toys but lack the money to buy enough food. We want to buy food for them so the babies will have enough to eat. Another problem is that they cook on charcoal. This is cheap but the carbondioxide is dangerous for young children. If we collect enough money, we can buy a gas cooker for them.

Let's support these women to continue caring for these babies nobody else cares about.

Anne

Helping a widow to live a decent life

Last month I was shocked when I visited one of the widows in our community. Not only because she was living with her baby in a very small house, consisting of a single room and no kitchen or bathroom. But also because the roof of this room was so bad that it was raining on her. There was no space in the room for anything but a mattress with some clothes tucked below it. Whenever it rained, she and her baby were getting wet. We immediately decided to help her to renovate her house. We repaired the roof and made a small veranda where she can cook. The woman was very thankful. Her house is still extremely small, but at least she can live there without getting wet and she has some space for cooking. Now we are discussing with her in which way she would be able to earn money. We want to help her to earn some money so she and her child can live in better circumstances.

I want to thank Amani, Louis and the Cecil Mkunguni Youth group for renovating the house.

Please have a look at the pictures.

Anne Wambua

Today Jona is so proud

We only just started selling postcards to raise funds for Cecil Kids, and the first postcard has already been sold. We told Jona, the little boy who made it, and he was so proud that his postcard was the first to be sold. We wrote the postcard and posted it, so it's now on its way by plane from Kenya to Germany. If you would also like to send a postcard, you can choose one on:

http://www.cecilkids.org/?page_id=281

Thanks,

Anne

Achievement and success at Cecil Kids!

I had my visitor and advocate Leo who is also a darling to the Cecil children. The children had fun. They had some activities and sports. He was teaching KG3 mathematics and donated a second laptop. On the laptop he taught them mathematics, typing, reading and drawing and they watched movies. They understood and can now opperate computers by themselves and teach the KG2 children. Even during the holidays the children were coming to school and continueing to study and play with the computers. They even came to Anne's house to play with the computers after school. The children were very sad when Leo said he was leaving, but he promised to come back again. At the same time, he has paid for the school fees of two children who have finished Cecil Kindergarten and are now going to a primary school. The current year of school fees have now been completed. Also the coming years we want to sponsor all children who have completed Cecil Kindergarten and are going to primary school. Because the parents or gardians of these children don't have the means to pay tuition fees, uniforms, etc. I will miss Leo dearly.

Anne

Send a postcard made by our kids

We made postcards with our kids in order to raise funds for our school. You can now order these postcards on our website:

http://www.cecilkids.org/?page_id=281

You can send a postcard to your family and friends anywhere in the world, if you make a donation of at least 5 euro to our project. So you can send someone a very original postcard and at the same time support a school for underprivilidged children in Kenya. Please have a look on our website!

Thanks!

Anne

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Children are enjoying electricity!

The children of Cecil Kids Centre are so happy this week. Finally there is electricity in the centre. They are using the donated laptops to play mathematics games, typing, drawing, enjoying movies, etc. using their own electricity. Thank you so much for the donations. It has completely made a change in the school and the community.

The number of children is increasing every year. So we are making two new classrooms. One has already been completed, the other one still needs plastering and a blackboard. We also need tables and chairs for the new classrooms. We added new needs to Betterplace.

God bless all our supporters!

Electricity in Cecil Kindergarten

Yesterday, Cecil Kindergarten was connected to the power line. Sockets and lightbulbs are completed. Next week, we will get the meter and then the school will finally be able to use electricity. The children are very excited because then they'll be able to use the computers (at the moment we can only use them for as long as the batteries last) and later we hope to get a tv and cd player. Also, we can then use lights in the evening and when it's dark because it's raining. We are very grateful to all supporters who helped us to finance this electricity connection of our school.

On behalf of the children and me, we thank Leo for the computers and for volunteering and working tirelessly with the children, cooking and feeding them sometimes, playing with them and teaching KG 3, who are preparing to go to standard 1 next year. Also we want to thank all donors who made this project a success!

We uploaded new pictures on which you can see how the technicians are connecting the school to the power line.

RE; APPRECIATION FOR THE DONATION

I wish to thank all the donors who donated towards my project and i want to assure all of them that the donation you give is highly appreciated and is used as is intended to. Also may i take this opportunity to inform all the donors how happy and proud to have been associated to  betterplace org. which is a connector and have made this project a success.  When we imaging how it was and now how it looks like IT IS AMAZING.!!

RE; PROGRESS OF THE PROJECT

ALMOST EVERYONE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY AND THE CHILDREN ARE EXCITED TO SEE THE PROGRESS OF ELECTRICITY WHICH IS IN PROGRESS AND WE HAVE APPLIED TO THE KENYA POWER AND LIGHTING TO COME AND INSTALL THE POWER. REALLY WHAT A JOY ANNE HAS BECAUSE THAT IS REALLY A GREAT CHANGE OF ENVIRONMENT. THIS WILL ENABLE EVEN THE CHILDREN OF THE COMMUNITY TO STUDY IN THE EVENINGS INSTEAD OF LIGHTING THE CANDLES.I EVEN WISH JOANA AND THE FAMILY COULD COME  AND SEE THE CHANGE BECAUSE THEY VISITED WHILE THERE WAS NO ELECTRICITY. AM PROUD OF THE BETTERPLACE ORG AND THE DONORS FOR THE CONCERN. HONESTY WE ARE GRATEFUL.

RE; APPRECIATION FOR THE DONATION

ON BEHALF OF THE COOK WHO HAS BEEN VOLUNTEERING TO COOK FOR THE CHILDREN HAS EVERY REASON TO SMILE AND THANKING ALL THE DONORNERS WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED GENEROUSLY TOWARDS HER SALARY. SHE SAID THAT THE MONEY WILL HELP HER PUT THE IRON SHEET FOR HER VERY SMALL HOUSE WHERE IF THE RAIN FALLS SHE DOES NOT SLEEP AS SHE TAKES CARE OF HER TWO GRANDCHILDREN WHO ARE SMALL ALMOST THE WHO NIGHT.

RE; APPRECIATION FOR THE DONATION

ON BEHALF OF THE CHILDREN, WIDOWS AND ENTIRE COMMUNITY WANT TO THANK ALL OUR SUPPORTERS WHO DONATED GENEROUSLY TOWARDS OUR PROJECT.THIS WILL COMPLETELY CHANGE THE  ENVIRONMENT TO THE BEST EVER,  NO CANDLE LIGHTING ANYMORE AND AM SURE THAT INCASE MY VISITORS COMES AGAIN  OR ANYONE WHO WILL VISIT THE PROJECT WILL REALLY BE HAPPY TO  SEE WHAT CHANGE BETTERPLACE ORG HAS CONTRIBUTED TOWARDS THE PROJECT. ABOVE ALL CHILDREN WILL BE ABLE TO SEE CARTOON, VIDEOS OF THEIR PERFORMANCES. HONESTLY I DO NOT HAVE WORDS BUT THANK EACH AND EVERYONE WHO HAS DONATED AND MAY GOD BLESS THEM. TO ME I ASSURE YOU THAT THE DONATION WILL DO EXACTLY AS INTENTED.

RE; APPRETION FOR THE DONORS AND SUPPORTERS

On behalf of  orphan cecilkids and the widows wish to appreciate all the donors who donated generasily towards the project especially at a time like this whereby life and commodates have really gone up.. So we are really gratefuly.May i also take this opportunity to inform all the donors that every donation made will utilized as intended. Otherwise children have increased in the school and the demand is so high. All this is because of Betterplace org. donors and generasity.

SALARY DONATION FOR TEACHERS

Teachers of the orphan cecilkids Bombolulu, have every reason to smile after recieving April 2011 salary donation  from Anne. Now its our prayer if we could get a donor for end of May 2011 salary. Children and widows also recieved foodstuff and clothing from catholic women, Mombasa.

EASTER GREETINGS TO THE DONORS

Children and  widows today remembered all the donors and giving thanks to betterplace org. for continuing helping them. The teachers also had a word to say "if it was not for betterplace and the family of Joana who came all the way from Berlin to come and see them what a agreat love" ! so, we,give   our special  greeting  during  this  Easter  Holiday and  wish  all  the  donors  HAPPY EASTER.

RE; DONATION OF FOODSTUFF

CHILDREN HAS RECIEVED THE DONATION  FROM THE UMOJA RUBBER LIMITED WHO HAVE BEEN DONATING FOOD TO CHILDREN AND NOW FOR THE EASTER FESTIVE HAVE DONATED CAKES, COOKIES, MILK, SWEETS, MAIZE, JUICES AND RICE. SO CHILDREN HAVE EVERYTHING REASON TO CELEBRATE ON FRIDAY THE 8TH APRIL 2011. ANNE HAS DONATED COOKING OIL FOR MAKING PILAU FOR  ALL TO CELEBRATE.

Teachers Salary

Teachers cannot believe that they are getting a salary now for 3months consequtivelly they are estreemly happy .They have the vision of what they want to do with the salary, Teresia wants to do her diploma in teaching, Luice wants to repair his house which his late mother left and Elly want to rent his house. So it there is need to accomplish their goal.

RE; DONATION TO THE WIDOWS

IT IS REALLY ENCOURAGING TO SEE THESE WOMEN DOING SOMETHING THEY EJOY, I VISITED SOME AND EVEN WE HAD BREAKFAST IN THE BUSINESS BETTERPLACE INITIATED AND IT WAS  UNBELIVABLE FOR THE HARD WORK THEY ARE PUTTING IN THEIR BUSINESS. NOW THIS WOULD REALLY BOOST THEM. ON THEIR BEHALF I CAN ONLY SAY GOD BLESS EACH AND EVERYONE WHO HAS DONATED AND EVEN THE ONES WHO WILL DONATE.

RE; CARDS

Children are in progress making the cards, they have started with "cutting and sticking"  i dont know what they will make next week, hopefully we will wait and see.

RE; DONATION

We have introduced the poringe during the break, so i though to donate 3 carpets the children are holding for the exitement. and Anne enjoyed taking the porage together with the children. Also Anne visited the widows after breakfast and very much encouraged by the business they are making.

BREAKFAST

On Thursday Teacher Teresia and Anne thought of going to have the breakfast at Mama Kazungu Cafe which was funded by betterplace org. where we really enjoyed the Tea and the Donats (Mahamri) in Kiswahili. I was proud to see the progress in her business.

RE; CECILKIDS ACCOUNT

Cecilkids have an account in Kenya only and betterplace org. knows the account well.

RE; TEACHERS SALARIES DONATION

We thank all our donors for teachers salaries . Teacher Yusuf opened the Account with the Equity Bank and saved half of the first salary  ever received  in his life from betterplace org he says.  Yusuf"s mother died while he was only ten years and left an old house at Shimbahills, which he feels the salary will ables him to  repair the roof slowly, by buying two iron sheets a month. Teacher, Teresia says she will pursue her Diploma Course during the holidays, Teacher Elly says he is happy because now he has the money to be able to rent a house and be able to pay rent.So Cecilkindergatten teachers are extremely happy as each of them has a vision of change in the life. Anne feels so happy because all these is motivation to bring change in peoples lives and children of Cecilkindergatten. 

Income generation for HIV/AIDS widows!

The newly-uploaded pictures show two examples of our small but successful income-generation projects. One widow started making makuti, mats made from leaves of the coconut tree used for roofs, and sustains herself and her children by selling these makuti. Another widow started a kiosk where she sells tea, fruits and vegetables.

There are more widows who would like to start their own business and you can help them to do so by donating to the new need.

Thank you!Anne and Leo

Website for Cecil Kids

The Cecil Kids now have their own website:

http://www.cecilkids.org/

Please have a look!Anne 

FOOD PREPARATION FOR CECILKIDS

Cecilkids enjoy good food and teachers alternate the days to cook. you can see from the newly-uploaded pictures how we cook for children. Anne and a visitor who had a recipe from Zanzibar was showing us how to make pilau while Anne was peeling the potatoes and the visitor was stirring the meat stew and mixing the rise to blend. So anyone is welcome to Cecilkids, Kenya, Mombasa and have fun with them.

Cecil Kids Learning the Computer

Cecil kids have every reason to appreciate the learning of computer maths, language and of course operating the computer. You can imagine a 3-year-old child pressing 1 + 1, after that she feels so happy and this has changed the children. This computer was donated by Leo who stayed with the children for over a month.

DONATION TO WOMEN

 The Women widows who benefitted from the betterplace org. donations are extreemly happy and are doing well I visited a few during the openning of the school and foundout the progress which were encouraging.

RE TEACHERS SALARY

On behalf of  Teachers of Cecilkids Bombolulu, Mombasa. wish to thank all the donors who donated generasily towards the salary which was the first time to receive money, actually we volunteers but we thank God to have used the betterplace org. for our upkeep for this month.

RE; DONATION FOR TEACHERS.

I appreciate the donation which we recived for teachers and they have someting to smile about since this is their first  time we have ever recived salaries for Cecilkids. This has encouraged the teachers and they feel soo thankful for all donation made in their favour. One said he will buy himself a precious item to remember his first salary and hope this will continue.

Anne

RE; DONATION

On behalf of the Cecilkids teachers and i wish to thank all the donors who donated generoursly towards teachers salary. I want to assure all of donors that teachers will smile because they have never recieved the salaries. This will motivate them to be able to perform the duty effectively and also to feel appreciated. Sincere thanks to All of them.

APPRECIATION

On behalf of the Cecilkids Orphan children, widows and Cecil you Group wish to extend our appreciation to Mr. Leo who visited the children as a volunteer for over a month and participated in children sports, also visited the widows and at one time visited one who was critically sick she could not even speak or sit.  But Leo had the courage to help the sick widows as do the home base care to her  . Leo was loved by the children and almost everybody around the community because he could go anywhere to visit children, widows also donate some maize floor to the widows. Sincerely children misses him the most, they keep on asking where  "Teacher Leo," is because he left Mombasa to Arusha on 2nd January, 2011. 

Happy New Year from Cecil Kindergarten

Dear supporters, sponsors and friends of the Cecil kids,

On behalf of the staff and children of Cecil Kindergarten, I wish to extend our gratitute for everything you have donated towards the project. We wish you a happy new year and a prosperous 2011.

It is school holiday at the moment but we have been busy anyway. We have had a sports day to celebrate the 5th anniversary of our school, which was a great success. The children enjoyed and competed in a sack race, a potato race and a skippy race. Also the parents, teachers and our visitor Leo competed, but our visitor Leo was very slow and couldn't keep up with the faster Kenyans. Pole sana, Mr. Leo. He is not yet used to the Kenyan heat. After sporting we enjoyed the biscuits, juice, water, soda and Mr. Berry Bubble Gum and Christmas gifts, all donated by Sunil Shah, director of Umoja Rubber Kenya.

We also celebrated Christmas at the school. Visitors from the Nakumatt supermarket came to pray with us, to sing songs and to donate food, cloths, juice and biscuits. The children sang the song:

Betterplace betterplaceOpen the windowFly me, fly meUp to the skyOver the mountainOver the seaCan you take me there?Can you take me there?

We also received 100KGs of rice and 50KGs of maize from the Kenyan government through district commisioners office Bamburi. We also received books from Mr. Leo and a laptop containing lots of educational software, which the children enjoy a lot. They already learned how to operate the computer and found this very interesting. Mr. Leo also cooked for the children and served the children and was playing with the children. He was a darling to the kids and they really possessed him. They didn't give him the opportunity to play with other children or to do anything else. Leo is a unique person where children are concerned. He spent a lot on the children and even bought them an African board game called Bao and a Christmas cake.

We thank all the new supporters who donated for teacher salaries and electricity connection. The teachers are very thankful and paying them salary is essential in order to keep our staff motivated.

God bless you,

Anne Wambua

Cecil Kindergarten 5th Anniversary: New Videos

Video from Cecil Kindergarten

First of all I would like to thank all the new supporters and visitors and even the future donors and especially Leo who has work tirelessly for the children, running up and down and singing. Here is a movie he made of our kids when they sing about Betterplace.

We have also been to Haller Park with the children. They really loved to see the crocodiles, tortoises, fishes, snakes, monkeys and to feed the giraffes. They were also very excited that Leo was there to guide them and to lift the small children so they could see the snakes and fishes. It was fun! I'm sure Leo experienced how African children behave. He became like one of them, apart from the colour.

We should also not forget Joana's family, who came and enjoyed the candle-lighted poems and songs from the children and also went to visit the widows, but unfortunately there was no candle light there, it was just dark, with a bit of light from a small lamp and our mobiles. We were happy and excited that the widows appreciated Joana's nightly visit. Have a look at Joana's visitors report!

With Leo I also visited several of the widows. One of them is very sick because she is suffering from AIDS. I was scared when I saw here because she was so weak. We also visited Mama Kazungu who is now selling tea and fruit in a small kiosk. I helped her to start this up and also this time be bought a big kettle for her so she can also make ginger tea.

Thanks again for all the support!Anne

RE; THANK GIVING ON WIDOWS DONATION

On behalf of the widows who benefited from the income generating activities wish to extend their gratitude and appreciation to the donors who made their life easy  and change in financily. Also wish to thank Mr. and Mrs Breidenbach family who visited the area and saw what is taking place in our Bombolulu area and its environs. May i take this opportunity to assure the donors that each and every donation is utilized effectively for the intended purpose.

RE; ACHIEVEMENT AND SUCESS .

On behalf of the orphan children of Bombolulu  cecilkids and myself wish to thank all the donors who donated generously towards my project and most to Mr and Mrs Joana and family who came to witness the sucess and the needs of the project which most you have donated 100% to well being and appreciated and making a change in the community. I take this opportunity to welcome any of my donors and even well wishers to come and see what work is being done for the donation to provided to these future leaders.

RE; DONATION

AM WRITING TO APPRECIATE ALL MY SUPPORTERS AND DONORS WHO HAVE CONTRITIBUTED GENERALLY TOWARDS MY PROJECT AND I WANT TO ASSURE THEM THAT THE FUNDS DONATED WILL BE UTILIZED AS INTENDED AND MAY GOD BLESS THEM. MY VISION ON THIS PROJECT IS TO HAVE A CHANGE WHERE THE EDUCATION OF ORPHANS IS CONCERNED.AND TO DO THESE  MY PRAYER TO ACQUIRE  A COMPLETE PRIMARY SCHOOL WHEREBY THE LAND IS NEED. BUT I  BELIEVE GOD USES PEOPLE WHO DIRECTED US TO BETTERPLACE PLATFORM. ALSO TO SEE THE WIDOWS HAVE SOMETHING THEY ARE DOING FOR THEIR INCOME GENERATING WHICH WE HAVE ALREADY IDENTIFIED WITH THEM, SOME WILL BE FRYING FISH FOR SELLING, OTHERS WISH TO SELL VEGETABLES, AND OTHERS WISH TO SELL COCONUT. SO I FEEL ENCOURAGED.

Sarova whitesand's international Hotel mattress d

Dear friends,

We wish to appreciate for the Kind donations of 250 mattresses donated to the children for sleeping. The donations we handed to us by the managers and CEOs of the international hotel Sarova Whitesands Mombasa. During the ceremony they recomended the Centre for the Great work we are doing in the community. They promised to endevour  continue to support the children so as they can be comfortable each day while in the Center.

We recommend and thank all our supporters for your endless support towards us and may God bless you as give your donations to meet the needs in the centre.

Thank you

Kindest Anne

RE: Government food donations

Dear friends,

I wish to appreciate that today we received food donations from the local area chief for the children, The government donated 20 kg rice, 20kg beans and a carton of cooking oil. The children are enjoying the food and we very much appreciate,

Last week the football competition between cecils kids and Zion academy ended well and we managed to defeat our competitors by 2-0. The area chief was the guest of honour and recommmended the good work we are doing for the community. Our challenge is lack of playing skits and shoe. I request a compassionate support to acquire those things from any well wisher.

Thank you

Kindest Anne

ouch! its a football competition this week

Indeed we have been on practice this weekend seriousily for the football competition to be held this week between Cecil kids and the neighbouring academy Zion. Our team is well trained and prepared to face our opponents though we dont have the football shoe neither skits but we belief we are going to mess on their territory the way German did to Argentina, please dont miss to attend  our fixture live live on our nearby school pitch, come with your vuvuzelas.

Kindest

Anne

APRECIATIONS

Dear better place friends,

I wish to appreaciate for all your donnations to the orphans and widows in Bombolulu, life would not be easy without your kind donations to this project, your donations have lifted the stands of living and may God bless you as you donate also for the widows so as they can start small scale income generating activities than being idle. Thank you for your continued support.Last week the Orphans sat for their mid term exam tests and really their results have improved since we acquired reading materials for them.

Kindest

Anne

RE: LOCAL MILK DONATION

We take this opportunity to thank all our supporters for your contributions towards our project.Today at 9:00 am Kenyan time a friend donated a 20 litre milk to the children to drink. Indeed they were happy and they really drank to satisfaction and the remaining we prepared tea for them,

The orphans has increased in the recent past and we are asking our supporters to continue donating kindly so as we can meet their needs.The widows are also expectant to start their small scale business therefore we also requst for your donation towards this need so that we can see these women making ends meet also in our community.

Kindest

Anne

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RE; LOCAL DONATIONS

THE PROJECT RECIVED SOME FOOD DONATION FROM A LOCAL CHURCH CALLED ST.PETER NEAR NYALI BEACH HOTEL WE RECEIVED ONE BAIL OF MAIZE FLOOR AND WE HAVE INTRODUCED BETTERPLACE ORG. SO THAT THEY MAY USE THE WEBSITE AND THE ORPHAN CHILDREN HAVE INCREASED EIGHT MORE SO THE SPACE HAS BECOME SMALLER BUT SOON WE INTEND TO EXPAND.

WE ARE PRESSING ON

I TAKE THIS CHANCE ONCE MORE TO THANK BETTERPLACE AND ALL OUR SUPPORTERS FOR YOUR DONATIONS. THE CENTER IS RUNNING EFFECTIVELY AND ALL YOUR DONATIONS HAS BEEN USED EFFECTIVELY TO ACQUIRE THE NEEDS THAT WERE MISSING.

OUR ESTHER HOLIDAY WAS AMAZING WE GOT FOOD AND CLOTHS FROM FRIENDS AND WE GAVE TO THE ORPHANS AND WIDOWS, THEY WERE INDEED HAPPY.WE CELEBRATED IN A STYLE AND WENT TO BEACH AS A FAMILY AND ENJOYED ALOT.

WE HAVE ALSO RENOVATED THE CECIL HOUSE BY PAINTING AND PUTTING A TRANSPARENT IRON SHEET FOR LIGHT IN DAY AND NIGHT TIME. ALL WAS ACHIVED BY A KIND DONATION FROM A FRIEND TO MAKE THE SCHOOL LOOK MORE BEAUTIFUL.

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

kindest

ANNE

APPRECIATION

TO ALL MY PROJECT SUPPORTERS,

I WRITE TO THANK YOU FOR ALL THE SUPPORT YOU HAVE GIVEN TO MY PROJECT AND THE DONATIONS

AND I WANT TO ASSURE YOU THAT  THE MONEY WILL BE UTILISED EFFECTIVELY TO BENEFIT THE CHILDREN.

MY PROJECT HAS ATTRACTED THE CHAIRMAN  OF CONSTITUENCE AIDS CONTROL COUNCIL MR. MUIA WHO

VISITED MY PROJECT AND A GREAT CHANGE ALSO WAS COMMENDED BY MR. PATRICK MWAI, THE MANAGER, MOMBASA BRANCH AND THE CORDINATOR OF KENYA (KANCO) MOMBASA

RE' APPRECIATION

ON BEHALF OF THE ORPHAN CHILDREN AND WIDOWS OF MOMBASA, BOMBOLULU VILLAGE AND ENTIRE

COMMUNITY REALLY APPRECIATE TO SEE VERY SMART CHILDREN AND REALLY BEAUTIFUL SEATS

I ASSURE MY PROJECT DONORS AND SUPPORTERS THAT EACH AND CENTS IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED AS YOU CAN SEE THE PHOTO CAN TELL. GOD BLESS MY SUPPORTERS.

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ANNE

AIDS DAY CELEBRATION

THIS DAY MEANT ALOT ESPECIALY FOR THE INFECTED AND AFFECTED PEOPLE AND IT WAS SAD TO REMEMBER ABOUT OUR LOVED LIVED ONES AND HOW THEY DIED AND TO SEE PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV PARADING WITH A HOPE THAT ONE DAY THEY WILL DIE.THIS IS HARD TO BELIEVE BUT ACCEPTANCE AND COUNSELLING HAVE GIVEN HOPE TO MANY.SO WE CELEBRATED IN STYLE. AND TO GOD EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE.

ANNE

WE ARE PRESSING ON

US THE CECIL KIDS CENTRE HOME FOR ORPHANS AND WIDOWS WE TAKE THIS CHANCE TO THANK GOD AND OUR DONERS  FOR THE GREAT WORK WE HAVE MANAGED TO ACHIEVE BY DETERMINATION, VOLUNTEERING AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT AS  WE NEAR THE END OF THIS YEAR.

THE CHILDREN AND THE WIDOWS ARE DOING FINE, EACH NEW DAY IS BUT A BLESSING AND A FAVOUR FOR THEM TO BE ALIVE. ONE OF THE WIDOWS PASSED AWAY WHILE DELIVERING FEW WEEKS AGO AND LEFT BEHIND THREE ORPHANS, SHE IS BEING GIVEN FOOD BY ANNE ON THE PHOTO PRESENTATION.

OUR GREATEST CHALLENGE IS THAT THE WORK IS GREAT AND ONLY NEED PEOPLE WHO ARE WILLING TO VOLUNTEER AND MAKE OUR PROJECT TO HAPPEN. FOOD SHORTAGES AT TIMES FOR THE KIDS AND THE WIDOWS IS A SETBACK FOR US. FINANCIAL SUPORT TO THOSE WHO VOLUNTEER TO TEACH THE CHILDREN FOR THEIR BASIC NEED IS ALSO OUR CHALLENGE.

WE ARE HOPING TO ACHIEVE MORE BY DONATIONS FROM YOU OUR DONERS. MAY GOD BLESS YOU.