Send Orphaned Teens from Kenya to High School

FIRE LEADS TO SACRIFICES

               Crisis seems to be the name of the game at the Good Samaritan Children’s Home in Mathare

 Slum, Nairobi, Kenya.  We are now wondering if the bill for tuition for the summer term can be raised.

If not, high schools students will be required to stay home for the term, again.  It seems that just

yesterday we were worrying about the 78 girls who lost their possession and sleeping rooms in the

January 1^st fire which kept them out of school because they didn’t have proper uniforms.  Getting an

education in Kenya costs not just tuition, but uniforms, shoes, sports clothes, book bags and sweaters.

Fabulous African Fabrics was able to come to the rescue with $2600 raised through our annual

 emergency fund and a birthday party celebrating Founder Laura Salazar’s 80^th year.

For our small organization, this means that taking care of the fire victims sacrificed our usual

collections of monies for next term’s tuition.

               But Microsoft Youth Spark Bonus Day on April 14 provides an opportunity for you to help us

solve this problem.   Your donation to project 6163 will be matched at 50% providing that you donate

through GlobalGiving early on the 14^th , starting at 9:00 Eastern Daylight Time until  the $100,000 set

aside for matching runs out. 

               Our goal is to raise one half of the required tuition money, or $6500.  Together we can do this

through encouraging your friends and relatives to join you in supporting this worthy cause.  Encourage

them to donate a small amount—even $10.00—because prizes will be awarded to the project that

attracts the most new donors!

               Keep our teens in school! 

Here are our plucky girls squeezed into a narrow room where they sleep when not at boarding school.