Support 250 Orphans with Education and Sport
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Cherishing Volunteers as asserts to support Orphans.
By Wycliffe Mboya - Team Leader, August 05, 2008 03:20 PM
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.
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You have helped orphans through your donations.
By Wycliffe Mboya - Team Leader, May 14, 2008 04:59 PM
SACRENA "support 250 Orphans education and Sport project"has penetrated across the Sub Saharan Region.We recently became the runners up for the Uganda-European Union Tournament and we brought Trophy home.It was a joy to see the Orphans celebrate the win and they want to thank all the well wishers and donors through the globalgiving.We have seen challenges of of food distributions at homes for double orphans taking care of fellow siblings.
There is a need of having a kitchen for all the Orphans to eat together as a sign of fellowship,support and physical support.Also there is problem of water as we have to search for 3-4 kilometers.This disturbs children and we seek donors to build for the children a bowhole or a well to help access water for use.Also with the sports for orphans we ask the donations of second hand sports materials like balls,uniforms,equipments etc.Here it is now second term and children have open schools.
Through you kind support we have now paid school fees for 3 girls and have worked with other partners to recruit orphans with disability in other support institutions here.
lastly we would like to hear more from you.i encourage you to communicate directly to us.For advice,information and sharing.We love you and continue to pray that you will continue to have the plight of orphans at heart.
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Championing the Sports Space to help OVCs'
By Martin - Coach: SACRENA U15 Soccer Teams (Girls and Boys), March 19, 2008 05:44 PM
Through wellwishers, friends, donors and colleagues have helped SACRENA for now to be here now. We said we shall make sure the children are in school...Yes it is happening now. After the Kenyan post election madness, children like the beneficiaries supported by you were really affected-- there was no shop to buy books, pens, uniforms, food, medicines and security was worsening. BUT now, Happiness...children enjoying the fruits of your support. If you see them now I tell you tears of joy will come out. They want you people to come and visit us.
Through you have given SACRENA a name. We now have expertise, new innovative ways, and have joined the movement around the world. Through Sports for Social Change Network championed by the Nike, Care, USAID, GlobalGiving and other implementing sports grasroots projects have earned SACRENA a name. Now we have a voice to share lessons and the best practices how through your support we are using sports in development and in programs to address the plights of orphans, people with HIV/Aids, youths, and the teenage widows and the entire community. By joining the SSCN-We are coming together with excellent Kenyan sports bodies to share, learn and scale up our organizationl capacity. Monitoring and Evalution is also good in the process. Just last week, the Care, Mercy Corps and Nike approached as to attend the 3 day Moving Forward Project targeting sports ambassodors and grassroots projest like SACRENA. We learnt new skills and informations of tools wich we are now putting in place. The Sports here help the orphans now to over came the past electione Trauma through Sports in Counselling. Through the Second Disbursement that we got last we trained 100 Community members gurdians on how to get involve to also sustain and own the SACRENA-Support 250 OVC education+ Sports Project", peace building, advocacy, reconstrution and how to have food security, distribiton of food relief to the orphans, buying of another 50 sets of uniforms and also visiting the Internally Displces persons at the Camps within Kisumu with the Peace message from Donors like you.
Through Sports and your double contribution. We as SACRENA through you and the Kenyan Ministry of Sports we are plnning to host youths through soccer challange called "Rebuilding Positive Image of Kisumu City through Soccer challenge" This will help in giving the City we are based in a positive image for Donors and Investors, grow sports and nature talents of OVC with sports and Education. Attached find the call to help and concept paper. Let us here from you. Any ideas,informations and encourage you to directly contact us. Thanks for your solidarity, support and helping the Orphans.
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Glad we Can Do it Together!!
By Wycliffe Mboya - Team Leader -SACRENA, February 29, 2008 05:16 PM
Thanks you so much as our dear partners and donors you are very unique to us. We are proud of you and you have made SACRENA to be what is it now. Wellwishers through the CARE USA announced SACRENA as one of the winners of the Chege Challenge Grant. The success of this is you. We cannot forget to mention you by names! This will help us to do part of the Activities intended for this year, most importantly adding value in the part of Sports as a tool to bring Peace here in Kenya so that orphans can be in School without any pressure, worries and challenges. SACRENA is dedicated to support 250 orphans in Education+Sports and as our donors we encourage you for more fundraising, good ideas, direct communications and raising a voice for what you feel necessary.
This time to commemorate the life work of Geoffrey Chege, CARE USA in collaboration with Nike and GlobalGiving have teamed up to offer the Chege Challenge for Sports for Social Change Initiative partners in East Africa. The Chege Challenge offers matching grants of $1000 for successful online fundraising.
Geoffrey Chege, a 25 year veteran of CARE, was killed in Nairobi in early 2007. Chege directed CARE USA’s programs in East and Central Africa and was committed to serving Africa’s poor and vulnerable. Chege was a strong advocate of gender equity and equality and believed that the SSCI was an innovative approach to reach youth. As we struggle to bring dignity and hope to the world’s downtrodden, Chege’s life and sacrifices continue to shape and inspire the people who knew him.
SACRENA (#1713: Support 250 Orphans with Education & Sport) as a Sports for Social Change Initiative partners have met the requirements of the Chege Challenge and will receive a matching grant: along other implementing local partners like:
-Sadili Oval
-Alive & Kicking )
-AKWOS -
-TYSA
-Moving Goalposts Kilifi
-Best Buddies Kenya
SACRENA will be awarded for having the for having the highest number of donors and unique donors in same.
Please contact us through direct email for one -one communication or call:
email:sacrenakenya@yahoo.com
Tel+254 724 799 727
web:www.globalgiving.com/1713
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Our Pride and Challenges in New Gear!
By Jemimah Achieng - Lead Volunteer, February 12, 2008 04:55 PM
Kenya as you have been following up is of late the headline news all over the world. The flawed-controversial Kenyan elections results to which the loser was announced as the winner and the winner as the loser have made us a country lost to much (lives through deaths, outbreak of disease, lootings, houses burnt, properties destroyed and now ethnicity kills more than AIDS itself here.) Estimated 3.4 million Kenyans are now refugees in their own country and more than 3000 lives lost within one month.
Kisumu where SACRENA project is situated is the most hard hit areas with children now engaging themselves into acts like prostitution, thuggary and no security at all.
SACRENA during this crisis was affected much, our projects here supports children without considering ethnic backgrounds as we have done before helping orphans who are luos, Kikuyus, luyahs, kalenjins and other 42 Kenyan tribes. Now Kibaki belongs to Kikuyu and where we are belongs to Raila whom is said to have won the elections now we were targeted as organization. More than 4oo youths armed with crude weapons, pangas etc came in looted all out computers, office stationaries and everything then set the office on fire.
We had no alternative but first to make sure all the orphans, people with AIDS, vulnerables and our volunteers were safe. Then we Hid them in our church knowing that they also made it to the church stole all the chairs, PA system and set the church too on fire. It was terrible.
But were still to do something. With the help of the Kenya Red Cross we pitched 2 tents outside the field whre SACRENA iffice was to accomodate the displaced victims. Starting with our volunteers providing Counseling service, Alliasing with the Police for Security, and now the situation for the past 3 weaks is overwhelming we cannot help any more-There is no food, fear of outbreak of communicable diseases, no temporary structures, clothes, medication, no latrines. This is the urgent request for the desparate needy Kenyans hosted at SACRENA needs your urgent double support for bringing hope.
As the politicians with the help of the UN, EU, Commonwealth, Africa Union. The mediation efforts to bring this to an end is there being chaired by the former UN boss HE.Koffi Annan and other eminent persons as they looks for the long time solution, Kenya has been a home for many outside refugees e.g Rwanda, Uganda, Somalia and Sudan. Already through the American Embassy here in Nairobi-Kenya they are seeking International Aid Urgency to help nation wide. The UN has already said they are considering helping Kenya, the EU soliciting support too. At the organizational level we cry for you to come to our aid. You can get clothes, food, toys, blankets, temporary tents, soap, sanitary towels etc. This can be urgent through our contacts here.
The support we got from the Globalgiving we spent it for the specific purpose of orphan support that it was meant for and we didnt want to interfere first children were to get back to school, get office again where we can run our activities, build 2 toilets, Build one house for the orphan taking care for fellow orphans -one family, purchase 50 uniforms for 50 OVC and purchase 5 balls.
We are now convinced that with your help we can help our country, community and our people solve their own problems. I encourage you to kindly write to us directly and ask any questions, input and idea through email or call telephone directly and alos encourage others to become part of SACRENA as patners, assocaite and taking SACRENA as their own initaitives.
We are proud of you and bringing smiling face to us is something that will not be forgetted. We are now praying to get Child sponsorship directly and solicit for building materials for the orphan school so that all support coming in can be centralized. Should one be interested in this, please come so that we built and named after you. More so we encourage and plead with you to help with fellow donors to invest at SACRENA.
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Witnesssed Pain and No Hope But you Helped the Caravan of Joy to Orphans going back to School
By Jemimah Aching Otieno - Lead Volunteer, February 06, 2008 10:04 AM
The community and caretakers of the orphans you support with your donations are very proud of you and joyous. This time we managed to thank you all through that short email. Today we say big thank you.
We purchased 5 footballs, 2 for boys and girls respectively and one still kept. We managed to buy food stuffs and provided to 100 orphans with flour, beans, soap and fuel for cooking. Happiness was all over! This was not enough to give for under SACRENA alone the problems are there with us, we have camps of the dipalced people which through your support we worked with the Red Cross and got 2 big tents.
We do not have enough resources to handle the over 18,000 gathering at SACRENA in need of medication, food, security, temporary shelter, water and children to go back to school. We cant unless we get help. What we have done is to provide counselling services, build 2 toilets and make appeal to you our donors to help support us through this situation. This time the GlobalGiving sent us your donations of $1,744 USD. This money helped us alot.
As you know they looted all office (stationaries and properties) at SACRENA and burnt the offices in name that we are supporting minority groups, we managed to pay office rent for the period of 3 months (January-March) we are now happy to have office just to the opposite where we used to be. The tents are just infront of the office. This money also we purchased schools uniforms for 50 orphans, 20 boys and 30 girls this was not enough to buy like shoes for it was bit little.
We ask you to continue your donations and to communicate through email or call us directly. We love you and appreciate you and your support for needy Kenyans. After the flawed Kenyan elections Kenyans felt that their expectations were not met when they voted for change and were shortchanged. The announcement of the winer to looser and loser winner was a reaction and responce that have now claimed more that 2000 lives, left hundreds of thousand displaced, properties destroyed but this is not enough for millions af Kenyans now suffer for insecurity, no basic needs, no health care and children go to school but most teachers are not seen.
"I am just from school and heard them killing our neighbours and killed 4 of my relatives...we need Kenya of all tribes. If the GlobalGiving donors can support this like they gave us uniforms, food and build toilts to us then i know we shall be ok." -- Jane, age 14.
Kenya needs your prayers and help to the needy. We welcome your more contributions and support.
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This festivity apeal in gifts and donations!
By Wycliffe Mboya - Team Leader, December 13, 2007 06:47 PM
Happy Xmas and New year 2008! Make a child enjoy Christmas Holiday and a happy new year just as me and you this year by showing generous donations that you care about others too during this festive season!
-Avail bottled water.
-Second hand computers for the orphan’s resource center.
-Second hand clothes/shoes and toys.
-Miss a meal a day to support HIV+ children with packed foods and through your material and financial support.
Do you have something that when you give offers opportunity for empowering a future generations of our children’s children in human- kind like us all to have hope, a smile, and sponsorship to one needy child at a time?
Sports: -Thank you so much for when we asked you to help with sports, we were able to purchase one set of uniform for the boy’s orphan’s soccer team recently through your unconditional donations.
"I want to be Ronaldinho of Brazil and Ronaldo of Man U" -- Billy, a member of the soccer team on the first day with uniforms.’
We now seek the girls’ set of uniforms. Who can purchase this? Who have balls? Soccer boots? Get yourself be part of this!!!
Education: -Schools open early January and we know that when you educate a girl child, you educated the whole village!! The boys too are bright and wished to get opportunity and reliance to your cent for school fee, school uniforms/shoes/bag, medication, shelter, and food
. Let’s do this, any support goes along way.
Community orphanage school project named after the sponsor just awaits a well wisher. Land is ready donated for free with the community. (Iron sheets, nails, polls, contractors, learning desks etc) for the school named after you as your foundation in Kenya-Kisumu.
Came and visit and see how it works for part time, Send a student internship/volunteer opportunity with us. How best we can learn lessons, best practices and documentations!!
For Donations you can give through GlobalGiving, or send material support to:
SACRENA 250 Orphans Education and Sports Project.
P.O.Box 138-40123.
Mega City
Kisumu-Kenya
Or feel free to call; Wycliffe Mboya.Tel +254 724 799 727 for any enquiries.
Best wishes, hopes, congratulations, prayers and a happy Christmas time and prosperous New Year full of blessings as we count on your donations!!
Team Leader-SACRENA
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More pictures about the school and few of the children we are looking for your support to help.
By Rev. Wycliffe Mboya (MPH, and the CEO -Sacrena) - Director, October 23, 2007 09:27 PM
Dear again colleagues,
I am sending you updates on the pictures about the school. The appeal out there for our friends like you is to kindly recognize with such initiative. Sacrena loks for your smiling face to go along in changing future of the challenges children. If one can support the renovation of this school so that we just have an orphanage home then the school can be named after the wellwisher as afoundation or in honour of support. We shall acknowledge this as acommunity!!
Should you have any commment suggestion or idea and want to come and vist or volunteer at Sacrena org. you are welcomed.
We await you here through your little support, promises and hand of mercy.
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BCC for Great lake-sacrena Organization sharing with her donors
By Rev. Wycliffe Mboya - Director, October 18, 2007 06:06 PM
Dear all,
It has been a very busy past 6 months to Sacrena Organization. For most of you that could have heard it it is true that to help our 250 orphans with basic needs effectively we were to develop the 5 year plan of the behavior change communication strategy we have considered to:
1)Implement the government of Kenya Policy on Children and the Children Act.
2)To work with governmental structures for all the children rights and conventional rights.
3)To make sure that we share with other partners not only us but through others that may want to join ha nds e.g the following websites:
www.changemakers.net
www.sportanddev.org
www. sport4change.com
We have also been able to write to individual here quarterly to mention the challenges and the successes. If you donate a dollar will add value to bringing a meal, education and clothes and even treatments to the 250 orphans. In our next report we shall send out the picture of few of the children to be able to identify with you out there and also view the community orphanage school that we are just looking at to be able to make and call in the name of the well wishers. We hope to sponsor it so that these 250 children orphans can be in one school. his time please enjoy the Sacrena BCC documents.
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Sacrena sporting programs to meet 250 ovc's needs and be part of it!!
By Sacrena director (now youths engaging in sports) - Sacrena opens sporting arm to support orphans, October 12, 2007 05:48 PM
Sacrena organization has now thought to introduce a component of sports to help meet the target of reaching support 250 ophans with basic needs. This has been through assistence of friends of Sacrena like you opening their websites for Sacrena to have a paragraph on sports!
Through you we ask you to kindly sponsor one child at a time! Should you be interested in this please contact us on the contacts given and we shall give you the details and the requirements of the needy orphans, guardians and what is needed of you. Feel free also to voluntary pay Sacrena a visit and introduce Sacrena to other partners and individuals that may be interested in investing, donating, visiting, volunteering services, collaborating and engaging Sacrena organization as their partner.
Click the link below to read more!
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