Madhis Orphanage is supporting over 40 children like Monica (picture), most of them in the range of 0-5 years, without any stable source of income and challenged to obtain the basic food requirements for the children every day. We are trying to support them through fundraising in our main project, but they also need tools to support themselves. With this micro-project you can fund a fishpond that will provide a stable source of both food and income to the orphanage.
Street children are abundant in Kumba, Madhis Orphanage keep on increasing the number of children under care but their feeding, sleeping conditions and education requirements are not properly met by far (see parent project for more details). Not enough orphanages are addressing this situation in Kumba and Madhis is the last hope of too many, but we are afraid that if a solid structure is not put in place the situation might collapse.
First of all the fish will be a cheap source to meet the protein requirements of the children and teenagers in the orphanage. Second, fish will be marketed to provide the orphanage with a source of income, a promising business in Kumba (a landlocked city, where fishponds are not really the tradition). It is not expected that this will solve all problems of Madhis orphanage, but this, other ventures, more fundraising and joint projects might transform this humble house into the place they deserve
The pond will provide basic nutrition requirements for over 40 children, most of them from 0 to 5, a capital age for mental and physical development. It will make the orphanage more sustainable and less dependent on external help, with revenues from the excess of fish. Finally the orphans will learn how to tend for the pond, a useful skill since it is not only a business skill that they can pursue further, but a new one in the region.
