Sunshine Action Africa Volunteer Tour -KENYA
耀陽行動 - "非洲愛心肯亞行 SEPT 2010
Sept 2010, Two Sunshine Action volunteers visited Nairobi Kenya
肯亞:
奈洛比
and the surrounding area with 6'500 kgs food &
material, covering approx. 750 families cases &
children.
Plant the Planet - KENYA 植樹愛地球 -
非洲肯亞
In SVD secondary school in Katani & Kahuho Primary School planted several
fruit trees, including Orange, Avocado, Limon, Mangos,
Pawpaws, Guavas, Wild Apples, etc...
Together with Henry, Joseph, the principal of school & teachers.
Over 100 students help to plant the fruit trees around the
school.
Thanks to
SVD (Societas Verbi Divini) Kenya - Fr.
Eusebio,
we visited:
MISSIONARIES of CHARITY - Huruma 'Home of Mercy'
In 1968, Mother Teresa created the first home in Kenya taking
care of over 100
abandoned orphans, children; over
80 mentally sick female
patients, plus a school of nearly
300 street children in Huruma.
M.C. has also 2 others houses in Otiende & Kasarani.
FRANCISCAN SISTERS of the IMMACULATE -Amani na Wema
Children's Home.
After a long fight to create this orphanage, this place started
in end of 2009 taking care of approx.
45 orphans.
 
LILLIAN FOUNDATION - Orphanage in Nairobi - Kenya
Founded in 2010 by Ms. Lillian Ikuuro, a single mother of 2
children and together with another 3 single mothers: Serah,
Magaret, Scolastica, they take care & give food to
40 orphans in 2 extremely small metal houses.
In cooperation with
HENRY WANYOIKE FOUNDATION,
we distributed Sunshine Action Food Blessing Bags to the
following group:
"I have lost my sight but I haven't lost my
vision"
Henry Wanyoike Foundation (HWF)
is a registered organization by the government of Kenya through
registry of societies, registration no. 24475 on 29th March
2005.
Henry
Wanyoike Foundation is named after Henry
Wanyoike the visually impaired (blind) athlete from Kenya.
Wanyoike is a world record holder of the 5,000m
at the Sydney Paralympics in 2000,
a Gold in the 10,000m Paralympics of Athens 2004 and most
recently a bronze in the 5000m Beijing Paralympics of 2008.
Along side his partner, Joseph Kibunja...
Sunshine Action works on the first program in Kikuyu area.
Besides his
athletic career, Henry Wanyoike has always given
something back to the community. He has participated in
many charitable activities in Kenya particularly to
assist the poor, persons with disabilities, orphans and
other less privileged people.
He contributes through giving
donations, participating in charitable events,
initiating community service projects, partnering with
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Each case received Blessing bags containining 12 kg of food products, including maize flour,
wheat flour, rice & sugar.
- Ngure Mentally handicapped group
- Karai Pamoja HIV group
Many of these cases are HIV/AIDS mothers, some children are
safe.
 
- Gikambura Gibra
group
The parents of the young girl in the left died 2 weeks before
our visit and she is both mentally & physically handicapped.
HIV/AIDS
The prevalence rate is
6% and around 2 million people are living with HIV/aids,
There are over 15 millions orphans. The
most affected age group is 15 -35 years although the statistics
are changing with
married or committed couples accounting to 44% of new infections
.we have around 76,330
new infections rate...250 ,000
patients are on ARVs and around 300,000 who cannot afford or get
them.
We conducted several home visits to the severely sick cases
inside the village
 
- Thogoto Gibra group
 
- Kikuyu C.A.E. group
- Kikuyu Disable group
This group is mainly physically handicapped members, some are
incapable to work anymore.
- Gitaru Muguga CBO group
- Kingeero HIV volunteer group
- Wangige STARS of HOPE group
After the food distribution, this group sang for us & we were
all dancing!
- Ngure Primary School
Sunshine Action donated school bags specifically to orphan
students
- Kahuho Primary School
 
Fund Raising Event
'Climb Mount Longonot 2010'
for Kenya Society
for the Blind
Kenya Society for the Blind (KSB) is a charitable
organization established in 1956 by an Act of Parliament of
Kenya. KSB is a National Organization charged with the
responsibility of serving all citizens of Kenya who are visually
impaired or are at a risk of going blind.
The Kenya Society for the Blind reaches out to visually
impaired people in communities and helps to create a conducive
environment for the empowerment of the visually impaired by
promoting their welfare, training, education and employment, so
that they may become self-sufficient and self-reliant.
Naomi, Joseph Kibunja, Henry Wanyoike & Alfred
 
Mount Longonot
is a dormant stratovolcano located southeast of Lake Naivasha in
the Great Rift Valley of Kenya, Africa. It is thought to have
last erupted in the 1860s. Its name is derived from the Masai
word oloonong'ot, meaning "mountains of many spurs" or
"steep ridges".
THE MAASAI MARA 馬賽人
The Masai Mara National Reserve
(also spelled Maasai Mara, and known by the locals as
'the Mara') is a large game reserve in south-western Kenya,
which cover the northern continuation of the
Serengeti National Park game reserve in Tanzania.
Named after the Maasai people (the traditional inhabitants of
the area) and their description of the area when looked at from
a viewpoint - "Mara", which is Maa (Maasai language) for
spotted: an apt description for the circles of trees, scrub,
savannah and cloud shadows that mark the area.
It is famous for its exceptional population of Big Cats,
game, and the annual migration of zebra, Thomson's gazelle and
wildebeest from the Serengeti every year from July to October, a
migration so immense it is called the Great
Migration.
FACTS ABOUT KENYA
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Unemployment
The unemployment in
Kenya
is very high and particularly among the youth who are over 60%
of the population .the unemployment rate stands at 30%. This
both for rural and urban. The economy growth rate is only 2.6 %
this is due to the post elections violence that happened
in 2008.
Health.
The health status is
slowly changing although over 50% of population cannot access
health are to various issues e.g.
un-affordability,
distances, illiteracy among others. The most affected areas are
rural areas and also in slums. Maternal health is a major issue
in rural areas.
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