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Support for AIDS Orphans & Widows in Bombolulu

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Support for AIDS Orphans & Widows in Bombolulu
Location:

Bombolulu Village, Mombasa, Kenya
Category:

Education
Published: 19 November 2007
Progress:
48% funded
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32 Ratings
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)

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Incomplete (2):

  • capital for small scale business

    2000 Euro. • Still needed: 1690 Euro • Published 18 November 2009
    capital for the widows who need to start small scale business for income generation than sitting idle waiting for relief food from friends. Sometimes they sleep without food. Povery make the widow's life more worst than HIV/AIDS.

  • 4 volunteers

Still needed: 4 • Published 18 November 2009
cecil kids center a home for orphans and widows most activities like teaching, counselling, cooking and companionship involve volunteerig. They help in giving moral, physical, social and spiritual support to those inffected with HIV/Aids.

Completed (7):

  • 3 lorries of sand

    203 Euro. • Published 19 November 2007
    In order to improve the school and nursery, we need 3 lorries of sand

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English (4):

    A. Wambua
    A. Wambua

    APPRECIATION

    by A. Wambua, posted 5 days ago

    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 CHAIR

    ...

    …more

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  • L. van Iersel

    L. van Iersel

    28/M • Christchurch, New Zealand

    Ann is a wonderful and admirable person, who fights against the HIV epidemic by encouraging people to get HIV tests and to help them to get ARV medication if necessary. She demonstrates against drug abuse. She supports women who have lost their husband and children who have lost their parents, because of AIDS. These children now get education, because of the work of Ann together with other women. It’s great to see on the pictures how much they have done with the money they collected on betterplace. On the first photo you see the old mud classroom and on the other pictures the great new stone building. It is also great that the school now has proper toilets, writing materials and uniforms. I think this is a very good project, because of the results that have been obtained, and because we hear and see on betterplace what is being done with the money. I hope Ann will receive enough money to help widows to start their own businesses. It would also be great if one or more volunteers would go to Bombolulu to care for the small children and to teach them. This is definitely a project worth supporting!

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