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Educate 250 poor children in schooling and sports

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Summary

This project provides orphaned and vulnerable children from the slums of Kisumu, Kenya with education and sports (tennis and football) trainning to identify and nurtures there talents.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

Kisumu is now the largest city in East Africa recording the highest number of poverty and HIV/AIDS orphaned. Most of slum dwellers lives below $1 a day and makes it difficult to school their kids. This project will foresee that every orphaned and disadvantaged children get access to education through schorlaship and as well as make their sports talents nurtured and expossed.

How will this project solve this problem?

Through educate, high rate of crimes in slums shall be done with hence poverty rate shall dicrease. Sports will make the children socialize with their fellow hence identifies and nurtures their talents and expose them in various tournaments.

Potential Long Term Impact

250 orphanned and vulnerable children from slums of Kisumu shall get access to education and sports hence high rate of illitracy, crimes, idolness etc shall come to an end.

Project Message

I stay with my grandparent since i lost both my parents while i was very young due to HIV/AIDS.Now i realy needs support.
- Mariah Okong'o, Beneficiary

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $35

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Project Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $35 . The original project funding goal was $25,000.