By Isabel | Awareness Coordinator
Re: Appreciation for the volley balls donation Heshima Kenya wishes to thank you for your support in providing us with four volley balls for use in the recently established sports component of our Children’s Empowerment Program.
With many thanks and warmest regards, Talyn Good, Co-Executive Director
Thanks to your kind donations, Alive and Kicking on 11th July, 2009, was able to present Heshima Kenya with volley balls to start off a sports project, which aims to promote health and restore the highest possible level of normalcy to the unaccompanied refugee girls it caters to. The girls, who have faced a cycle of violence and war, couldn’t wait to get their hands on the balls.
Heshima Kenya is a non-profit organization that specializes in identifying and protecting separated and orphaned refugee children and youth living in Nairobi, Kenya. They run a safe house and a children’s empowerment project that seeks to provide support to rebuild the lives of unaccompanied refugee children; particularly girls aged 13-18 years. Many of the girls they cater to come from Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia, and are survivors of unimaginable atrocities. With limited access to formal assistance in Nairobi, they must cope with extreme poverty and the physical and emotional scars from war, and in many cases, prior abuse and exploitation.
In addition to the balls donated, Alive and Kicking also availed a set of health awareness posters to compliment Heshima Kenya’s HIV/AIDS prevention module. With your continued support, we look forward to a long-lasting partnership with Heshima Kenya to keep their girls playing and feeling more like children again, and ultimately nurturing confident and responsible girls who will be able to actively participate in society.
By Isabel | Awareness Coordinator
By Martin Barnard | Managing Director
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