Project Report
| May 16, 2019
STEP UP 4 AUTISM THERAPY CENTER
By Ruth Tenai | CEO STEP UP 4 AUTISM
We begin by sending warm thank yous and love to all those who are walking with us in this journey of making a difference in the lives of children with special needs.
For the past three months alone that is February, March, and April we have been able to offer free therapy consistently every week to thirty children. these are children who come from families where the breadwinner in one and earns less than two dollars a day, therefore, cannot afford the full charges of therapy in the mainstream hospitals.
the difference that we continue to make is mainly because there are people who have made a conscious decision to walk with us and support us. These are our volunteers, our kind donors from this platform global giving and the parents that embraced our services.
we however still face challenges like not being able to provide the children with something to bite as they come for the therapies and some of them due to the nature of their disability requires transport, we currently don't have our own means of transport. We would love to have our own means of transporting the children.
Wherever you are please continue supporting this initiative as we continue to impact more lives.Thank you.
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Jan 28, 2019
The free therapy in mathare
By Ruth Tenai | President,Step Up 4 Autism
For the past two years we have done some great work for the children with autism in the slums of mathare in nairobi kenya.
This has been enabled through your donations and gifts to our program.Throughout the year 2018 we have had up to 80 children receive free expert therapy.These are children whos parents cannot afford basic therapy services due to their little income.They are not in formal employment and hence depend on seasonal jobs which do not give them more than three dollars a day.
Our biggest challenge so far is paying rent for the premises which is 150USD a month.Then the motivation money for our volunteers to cater for their lunch and transportation money.These are volunteers who help in handling the children in between the therapies.The volunteers also include the occupational therapists,Speech therapists and nurses.
Your donations are doing amazing work on the ground here in Kenya.The money has gone towards the betterment of the lives of children with autism from very humble backgrounds.They can now attend therapy which is free and their parents can have some time off as we fully take care of the children.
If you can make your donation to be reccuring every month then our rent problem will be solved.We also request you to take up the rent burden for the therapy center,the food burden,because we need to be providing the children and the parents with autism friendly food and also the burden of paying one professional to be a permanent employee of the therapy center.The salary for the occupational therapist to be fully employed at the therapy center would require 250USD a month.May God touch you and use you to help accomplish this work.
Thank you once again in advance.
Regards,
Ruth Tenai
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Oct 30, 2018
Step Up 4 Autism Free therapy
By Kenneth Apopa | Coordinator
Over the past one year,the contributions we have received from Global giving have made a big positive impact to the children with autism in the informal settlements of Mathare in Nairobi Kenya.
These are children who before the free therapy program was established they weren't getting any therapy since they could not afford the prices set by the hospitals around. The parents of these children with autism were for long torn between taking care of the autistic child or fending for their other children who are neuro typical.
The establishment of the therapy center in mathare has made gains and changed lives.Every single cent that well wishers have given through this platform has been put into very good use and the receipts and invoices are all properly recorded.
From the last two disbursements from Global giving total up to 800USD.We budgeted 300USD into rent payment for the premises where the free therapy is offered. 200USD went to play toys for the children and 300USD went into feeding and transport money for the volunteers who come to the therapy center every single day to offer their services for free to the children.
From Step Up 4 Autism we would like to very much thank you for the continued support. We are far from achieving our ultimate goal of free therapy country wide in Kenya for children with autism and other developmental disorders. In this journey of making a difference in the lives of children with autism we wholeheartedly invite you to walk with us. Thank you .
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