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Our Current Project
The village is called Kididima and it is near to Mtwapa about 1/2 hour from Mombasa City and lies in farming country. There are approximately 5000 people living in mud made homes and have nothing, no water or electricity, just a school building which the rains are swiftly washing away, but they have hearts as big as mountains.
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These proud people do not want us to come in and take over their lives and order it, they simply want a helping hand to become self sufficient and to give the children a future. Illness is rife because of the lack of water and hygiene and this has accounted for the deaths of parents who had HIV and Aids resulting in the number of orphans. This will continue unless help is given. |
To enable the project to succeed and give the children, a school, the community, a health centre and a meeting place for activity and worship we need to raise
£60,000
This will allow a team of 26, 15 girls aged between 14yrs & 18yrs and 11 Adult Leaders to travel to Kididima and have the opportunity to make a difference and change the lives of a whole community.
We had sufficient funds and a donation to put water into the village in November 2009 and this has made a huge difference to their lives.
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This is an ambitious plan and the community would need to sustain it once it was complete. Initial discussions have shown that this is possible.
I am very aware that none of this could happen if we did not have such a lot of support from the local community and the new team of girls and leaders will be prepared to work hard to make this become a reality, it is all achievable. |
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