Support 250 Orphans with Education and Sport
Orphans in Africa
Summary
250 orphans between 8-17 years will receive education, healthcare, and soccer equipment.These children are in need of our support as most of these children are HIV-positive,disabled, and very poor.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Many challenges face orphans. With well-wishers and friends we help these children. These kid are faced with challenges like no food to eat, no clothes to wear, no education access, and no medication. We shall be giving them these basic needs and tap their talents through soccer challenges and we will sensitize the people that orphans can do it!
Activities
We will educate and provide healthcare for these orphans. We will help boys and girls play soccer. As Chris, an orphan in our project says, "We can do it!"
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $7,861
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $266,424
Total Funding Goal: $274,285
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Cross cutting problems facing orphans including food, shelter, disabilities ,poverty and living with AIDS will be addressed. Children will be taken care of and their self esteem improved.
Project Message
I can now go to school, get treatment and play soccer because of donor support. Being an orphan now is no longer a problem because i see love and care not only for me but also other 249 orphans.
- 14-year old beneficiary of our project, An HIV+ orphan during the launch of SACRENA.
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Wycliffe Mboya
Team Leader
P.O.Box 138-40123.Mega City.Kisumu,Kenya
Kisumu, Nyanza 40123
Kenya
+254 724 799 727
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
S A C R E N A
Arina Estate Phase 1.
behind Arina Primary School, Opposite Manyatta
Kisumu,
Kisumu
Kenya
Kenya
+254 724 799727
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Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in
Kenya
and can also be found under
Sport.
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 May 21, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 1, 2007
Latest Update from the Field
Visitor postcard and insights on improving SACRENA, including volunteer support
By Tim Hicks - Program Director, University of Oregon, May 21, 2009 11:12 AM
"I visited SACRENA and Wycliffe Mboya for 9 days beginning May 4th, 2009. Main impressions:
1. SACRENA is doing good work helping orphans through the core activity of football (soccer) training and development.
2. SACRENA as an organization must take the next step in its organizational development, creating systems for transparency, accountability, management, etc.
3. Director Wycliffe Mboya understands this need and is ready to take this next step. As with all new organizations, there hardly seems time beyond fulfilling the central mission to take on the organizational development aspects.
4. My Master's degree program will be sending two student interns this summer to work with Wycliffe for 8-10 weeks. Part of their work will be assisting in this organizational development.
5. While I was there, Margaret Oluoch, director of the Smejak Trees Promotion Development Group (STPDG) began arrangements to contract with SACRENA for a three-year period for the SACRENA youth to plant trees and raise seedlings for her organization. As part of the exchange, she will require that SACRENA take its next steps in org development and transparency/accountability. Her organization will be able to provide resources and training to help with this development. She said she would also be able to provide office space and support to our students while they are there. An additional benefit of this relationship is that SACRENA youth involved in the tree planting will be required and given support to continue their education from whatever level they are at.
6. In addition to the org development benefits this relationship with STPDG will have, it will provide the SACRENA youth with a positive role model for civic engagement, helping them see that it is possible to build organizations and make a difference. As SACRENA develops, there will be an educational benefit for the youth in learning how to manage and grow an organization.
7. In addition to its work with orphaned youth, SACRENA is engaged in some work helping AIDS widows. Wycliffe has acquired two sewing machines and is seeking capital that will allow him to purchase additional machines and thread and fabric so that widows can sew school uniforms (for which there is a ready market) and thereby support themselves and their children as well as providing some income for the organization. SACRENA also provides some home care support for widows sick with AIDS.
8. Wycliffe has a number of other projects that will lead to organizational sustainability and income for support of projects. SACRENA has purchased two tuk-tuks that provide some income to the organization. He wants to purchase perhaps 8 computers in order to open a revenue generating internet café that would also double as a computer training lab for the SACRENA youth.
All in all, this is very much a legitimate organization doing good work and worth supporting. Over the next 6 months, I believe it will develop the org management systems that will increase transparency and accountability. I believe that there is tremendous potential for SACRENA to make even more of a difference for orphaned youth, widows, and the community at large."
Tim Hicks
Director, Masters Degree program in Conflict and Dispute Resolution at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA.
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