Support 250 Orphans with Education and Sport

Achievements and Plans: Support 250 Orphans with Education and Sport has a new big initiative, Volunteers and Community service…. “When you Volunteer at this project, you get benefits and everything…” We have a database of volunteers and encourage interns to consider SACRENA. We recently developed current information and data for every orphan supported by you. We are planning and thinking ahead this quarter for more partnerships with GlobalGiving and encouraging people like you who are our donors to kindly give more and to come for a visit to see what your contributions have done. All our online donors are providing a tremendous, fantastic, and recommendable help and they all understand why they should support this cause. It is very important in such a relationship and friendship to build linkages, give and take, invest, and give back to us – thank you! On our part, we are determined to organize and support a more child friendly environment and community participation and find solutions to our problems through sustainable ways.

No child here wants to be reminded that he or she is an orphan. What they need is to communicate with you directly as their sponsors. Therefore, when you make donations please give your contact information so that one child at a time can write to one willing sponsor.

Education success Story: Anyango and Linet are twin sisters. Both lost their parents due to AIDS in 2003. They also discovered that they too are infected with the AIDS virus when we bought the Voluntary Counseling and testing to the center last year. It was the beginning of full blown stigmas, fear, shame and discrimination. Today they are both in class 8 and looking to be enrolled in Secondary School next year. They are on life prolonging drugs-ARV and life is normal and must continue this way. This is what they had to say:

“Now fellow children don’t discriminate us, stigmatize us, and even shame us at school because we have friends who care for us and pray for us….they are the parents we have, they donate money and send us to get food, medication, water, school fees, uniforms and what we need. We just know them as GlobalGiving friends and thanks to them all – they may help others too. ”

Through your donations, we are determined to help more than 30 cases similar to that of Anyango and Linet who need your help with $85 for every child .

Sports: To prevent unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, early marriages, female genital mutilation and dangerous cultural practices, we started a U15 (under 15 years old) girls soccer league with the goal of training the girls about children’s rights and protection ,behavior change, abstinence, life skills and maturity. Through this, we shall tap nature and market the girls’ soccer skills within the professional arena to explore the hidden talents in Africa. We need used sports equipment and trained coaches’ services or additional support for this.

Recommendations: Urgent need to pay school fees for 30 orphans this term, build kitchen, drill a water bow hole, purchase sports equipment (balls, jerseys, bibs, corns, T-shirts and hiring training venue) for girls’ U15 soccer team.

Challenges: Inconsistence of direct communication with the online givers and also a lack of international volunteers and guest who come to experience what their donations are doing here.