Physical Health Kenya Project #15715

Safe babycare for single mums in the Nairobi slums

by TIBA AFRICA FOUNDATION

Project Report | Jun 20, 2016
A moment of Victory

By Daniel Marungu | C.E.O- Tiba Africa Foundation

Jambo!

I am writing to thank you very, very sincerely for your generous donation to Tiba’s projects during Global Giving’s Bonus Day. You may like to know that in total we raised £1007/$1450 for our three projects, for which we are truly humbled and grateful.

This money has come at the perfect time. It is a great relief to us as we have been experiencing such serious weather conditions over many weeks here in Nairobi that have left both Tiba and individual families in very severe difficulties, struggling to survive. This has been due to sudden and prolonged storms, leading to very severe flooding, an increase in dangerous waterborne diseases (cholera, diarrhea, hepatitus A and typhoid) and damaged buildings. This has seriously disrupted our lives here in the Kiberia and Kibera slums, making it very hard for families to function and work to earn money for food. With the weather improving, and this extra money, we will now be able to restart the work we were previously doing training and supporting people with AIDS/HIV: now people can earn money for food again, and have food in their bellies, they will be able to take advantage of our education programmes and empowerment work, including breathwork. We are also now able to pay to repair our Abundance School building damaged by the floods: a leaking roof to seal, a new latrine to be dug, blocked drains to be opened. We will again have the money to pay for the children to have a meal each day so we know that they will not go to bed hungry. The mothers who bring their babies to Joy Babycare will be more able to find day labour and their lives and that of their children will be more stable.

We are now feeling much more confident for the future and so very thankful for your ongoing support. If you are in a position to make donations to Tiba on a regular basis, this would help us to plan and ride emergencies such as this recent one, without fear.

We will send you regular reports of our projects and you will find back reports on our Global Giving projects pages.

With grateful thanks and kind regards

Daniel Marungu

C.E.O-Tiba Africa Foundation

Links:

http://www.tiba-africa.com

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Mar 22, 2016
The safer my child, the higher my production.

By Daniel Marungu | Project leader

Dec 16, 2015
Wonderful news from Joy Babycare

By Daniel Marungu | Project Leader

Thank you card

At Joy Baby Care we give more than just babysitting. Much more. Our babies are prepared for pre-school learning through extensive exposure to teaching and learning materials. From Day One our babies have been exposed to letters, numbers, shapes and songs. These are the things they interact with on a daily basis.

Five of babies that have been attending to our Joy Baby care, have fully developed into school going age. They have been made ready and we eagerly wait for their first day experience at school. Our care givers have worked hard to ensure that our babies look forward to joining school. These babies would not be joining school had it not been intervened by Tiba Africa Foundation.

Will they cry on their first day at school?

Will they find the learning environment unfriendly?

Will they be overwhelmed by new information: colors, objects, many babies, teachers, noise, school rules etc?

Will our babies cling to their parents?

Will they refuse to stay in the classroom?

NO !

Our babies won’t do that!

Why?

At Joy Baby Care, we have been preparing them for pre-school.

Babies begin to interact with teaching and learning materials from an early age

They get used to a classroom environment.

They get used to staying away from their mothers.

When other children and parents will be struggling with challenges of day one at school, our babies will be jumping with delight and interacting confidently with the teaching and learning materials…

Why?

Our Joy Baby Care ‘graduates’ will have a huge advantage. Children are often traumatized on their first day at school here in Nairobi: leaving their families for the first time and coming into a world that is completely outside their experience. Our children won’t be traumatised. Not only have they been well prepared for their new school, but also they are familiar with the school environment because Joy Babycare is housed on the school site. They are used to the environment, teachers and the school system. This is not something experienced by many families. . So we feel proud that come January, our children will experience an easy and smooth transition; We wish them well and see them able to benefit fully from their education

Isn’t that wonderful news?

Thank you for making our children’s first day at school so easy through your continuous support to JOY BABY CARE

WE WISH YOU MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

A baby on the toy microphone

Babies interacting with toys

Young single mothers with their babies

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