A. Wambua
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Mombasa, Kenya
| Location: | Bombolulu Village, Mombasa, Kenya |
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| Category: | Education |
| Published: | 19 November 2007 |
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Six years ago I founded, together with 10 women, Cecil Kids Center in a village near Mombasa. In the village are many small children who are being taken care of by their single mothers or grandmothers, because the rest of the family died of AIDS.
My daughter Catherine helped me to buy a plot of land with a mud house on it which we use to look after the children and give support to the widows. In the Center we aim at raising awareness on HIV/AIDS, we provide councelling to people living with the illness, encourage voluntary testing, and provide food, shelter and education to orphans and vulnerable children.
So far our campaign against drug abuse, alcoholosim and prevention of HIV/AIDS has reached 139 men, 116 women and 160 youth. We have counseled over 100 people and reffered them to Coast General Hospital Mombasa. We also run a school and a nursery at Ziwa La Ng'ombe and Bombolulu.
We pay for all our work ourselves (with some additions from family and friends) and the only external funds we ever received, 1,500 Euro, came from Children for a better world, a German charity. With that money we are currently building two toilets.
We could work much more efficiently and effectively if we were to have some more resources. We especially need fund to complete our children center. On the photos I have uploaded you can see that the school and nursery need plastering, painting and roofing.
(English translation by betterplace member Hannelore Knott; 2007-11-20)
My daughter Catherine helped me to buy a plot of land with a mud house on it which we use to look after the children and give support to the widows. In the Center we aim at raising awareness on HIV/AIDS, we provide councelling to people living with the illness, encourage voluntary testing, and provide food, shelter and education to orphans and vulnerable children.
So far our campaign against drug abuse, alcoholosim and prevention of HIV/AIDS has reached 139 men, 116 women and 160 youth. We have counseled over 100 people and reffered them to Coast General Hospital Mombasa. We also run a school and a nursery at Ziwa La Ng'ombe and Bombolulu.
We pay for all our work ourselves (with some additions from family and friends) and the only external funds we ever received, 1,500 Euro, came from Children for a better world, a German charity. With that money we are currently building two toilets.
We could work much more efficiently and effectively if we were to have some more resources. We especially need fund to complete our children center. On the photos I have uploaded you can see that the school and nursery need plastering, painting and roofing.
(English translation by betterplace member Hannelore Knott; 2007-11-20)