Provide Kibera Slum Children with 1500 Solar Lamps

Summary

Providing a first reading and lighting experience for children in Kibera through the provision of 1500 solar lamps and establisment of a resource centre progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Improve the health status, study opportunity and safety and reduce the use of open kerosene lamps by providing solar lamps to 1500 children in Kibera, Nairobi-Kenya

Activities

"Light up my Christmas" seeks to provide 1500 underpriviledged children of Kibera slums with their first real reading experience and sustain it through the provision of a sustainable resource center through providing books and solar lamps .

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $785
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $149,215
Total Funding Goal: $150,000

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This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

About 15000 underpriviledged African children and their famlies shall receive better education, develop a reading culture, reduce carbon emmissions, fuel expenses and improve their health.

Project Message

Since I received the solar lamp, I am able to do my homwework as well as study for my final KCPE exams and my family can join each other and cooperate to do more every evening.
- Elizabeth Wasonga, Beneficiary of the program

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Dr. Elizabeth Odera,
Director
Off Kitengela Road
Langata
Nairobi, Nairobi 51736-00200
Kenya
+254-20-609046
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Organization

Sadili Oval
off Kitengela Road
Langata
Nairobi, Kenya 51736-0200
Kenya
25420609046
http://www.sadili.com

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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 August 06, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 13, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

NOW WE HAVE SHELVES!

By DR. LIZ ODERA - DIRECTOR, August 06, 2008 03:48 PM

LIGHT UP MY LIFE: PROVIDING CHILDREN WITH A FIRST READING OPPORTUNITY
Did you know that many children in Nairobi do not own any reading books, and often do not get the chance to read? Samantha Stonewigg has partnered with Sadili Oval to create a wonderful little library for estate and Kibera children who attend Sadili’s Sports for Life programme, to get their first reading opportunity. Sam plans to put together an exciting environment that will tempt children to immerse themselves in a world of books and also instill creativity through art. You can also contribute to this amazing project in the following ways:
1.   Donate books that your kids no longer need. Just drop them off at your school and we will come and pick them up.
2.   On average, a reading book costs Kshs. 300, so even if you do not have the books to donate, you can send some funds.
3.   We recently received a television set, so we can now show movies as well, so we welcome donations of dvds and tapes.
4.   Art materials, such as paints, paper, colour pencils and crayons are also very welcome.
We hope to open the doors of the children’s library and art room by the summer, and estimate that 1200 children will benefit from the learning opportunity
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