Provide School Shoes to Kenyan Orphans

Ninety pairs of feet will be dancing, running, hopping, skipping off to a new term of school because you donated to this cause.  September 2 begins the last term of school in the Kenyan school year.  After a short vacation, our students are ready to go back to classes.  On August  1, Fabulous African Fabrics wired $900 in funds collected through Global Giving to buy school shoes for the children at the Good Samaritan Children’s Home.

As Manager Kris Wetah wrote us, “Friday there will be some shopping for shoes!”  Imagine the happy faces.

Children who have been admitted to the orphanage within the year have led hard lives, losing parents, being beaten, never having been in school.  Here are some stories Kris sent to us.

              Isaack and  Mainge, 9 years old siblings from Magumu Nyandarua, brought in by their aging grandmother.  She has no clue on the whereabout of their parents.

              Emmanuel, 10 years.  He was brought in with a hand broken by other street children from Eastleign.  On entrance to the orphanage the hand was treated and put in a cast, well on his way to being healed.  Now he is enrolled in school for the first time in his life.  As Kris wrote,  “He had never seen the door to it.”

              Ruth fled from her family for being sexually abused by her stepfather.  She has been living with her brother Isaack on the streets of Mathare  (where the orphanage is located).  Hope International enrolled her in school.  But they have no place for her to stay.  Good Samaritan provided accommodation, bus fare and personal effects.  She is now in form 2 at school with the orphanage adding to her school fees.

              FAF wishes good luck and good learning to these and other children who will be very proud to go to school in their shiny new shoes.

Links:

• Summer newsletter celebrates FAF's 15th anniversary