Orphans and Vulnerable Children Care and Support

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Summary

Providing care & support to orphans & vulnerable children by facilitating education, good nutrition, counseling, healthcare, income generating activities & HIV/AIDS education. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Siaya District is one of the most HIV/AIDS affected districts in Kenya with high number of needy orphans. Adequate Health care is not easily accessible and has high costs in this poor rural area; by the time patients have died, their caregiver relatives and their dependant children are destitute. Because of this and the stigma attached to AIDS, few people in this area are able to support orphans, whose numbers have grown. This project will support orphans by working through schools and community

Activities

Schools feeding programme, scholarships and provision of school supplies, counseling, medical care, trainings on HIV prevention and care, give micro grants to orphans’ guardians to start businesses and provision of basic domestic needs.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $1,190
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $92,300
Total Funding Goal: $93,490

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Orphans that are Well-nourished, learning & completing primary education, receiving appropriate health care, self reliance and ability to meet basic needs by Orphans’ guardians. Community acceptance of HIV/AIDS orphans and reduction in HIV incidence

Project Message

You should have seen the children the first time they received school donations, in their new uniforms and books in their hands, they danced & sang songs of hope, tears of joy shining in their eyes.
- Elizabeth Okoth, National Programme Secretary – YWCA of Kenya

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Dorothy Ongeso,
Chief Executive KEDSC
YWCA of Kenya
P. O. Box 40710-00100
Nairobi,
Kenya
+254202724789/445085
Email:

Project Sponsor

Marketplace 2005

Organization

World YWCA
16 Ancienne Route
Grand Saconnex
Geneva, Switzerland CH-1218
Switzerland
41 22 929 60 40
http://www.worldywca.org

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Kenya and can also be found under Children.

For more information about Kenya, read the Human Development Report on Kenya or the Wikipedia entry for Kenya.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on January 07, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 26, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

KEDSC/YWCA OVC REPORT

By Dorothy Ongeso - Project leader, January 07, 2008 05:46 PM

Please click below to read the report from Kenya and see photos of project activities. The photos shows the disabled children with the volunteers and the income generating items such as the poultry, the Goats and the food stuff like bags of rice and field officer delivering them at the small home.

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