By Jules Higiro | Country Manager
First and foremost, I would like to thank all who contributed in different ways to this project to save the lives of vulnerable children who had no shelter. Because of your generation donations, 4 families who had been in the past living in poor conditions are sheltered comfortably and their children enjoy the environment conducive to their wellbeing. This has allowed us to provide early childhood development services to these children living in these houses built in this project. We have built a community center along with four houses where the children spend their time playing different games, receive daily nutrition of two meals a day and learn numbers, letters, songs, poems and other things around them with intend to prepare them to go to formal schools.
This project has changed the lives of people in a short period of time. These are the persons who were living on the streets, where you would find on the street a woman carrying small kids with her begging money everyone passing by on her side. We provided them clean water, and electricity which helped the student children to drink clean water and do their school home works. This project has reserved a farming area where these families can grow fruits, vegetables and other short seasonal crops to support their nutrition. We also assisted the families to grow domestic animals such as rabbits, goats and chickens. With these animal they get eggs, and meat but also sale to get money to buy other food stuff they want.
Our next plan is to build another remaining one house for one family. But we would also want to ensure continuing supporting the settled families to live independently. This will be possible as we engage our people getting acquainted with income generating activities such as social enterprises through cooperatives. We have so far initiated two cooperatives of sewing, and farming and saving cooperatives for everyone to take part in them and develop themselves to become self-reliant economically.
We count on your continuous support to be able to reach our future goals.
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