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Hi all,


I have previously posted here before regarding donations to an orphanage in Nairobi. I work for BA and when I visit Nairobi I take donated clothes/shoes out with me.


I am heading out there in about 10 days and wondered if anyone has any baby/kids shoes they would like to donate. I can't accept big donations as I have a huge amount of stuff to take that forumites have already kindly dropped off but I can carry shoes/sandles etc if any one has any.


Thx

Becks

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I would like to give a huge thanks to all forumites that donated clothes, shoes and toys for me to take to Nairobi very recently.


I met with the Nun who runs the project, Sister Mary, and visited the projects she runs. Now that I have visited I understand more fully what the projects are.


There is not an orphanage as such, I think it used to be an orphanage but recently changed to a compound with a primary and secondary school which teaches children from the nearby slums, a residential centre for street kids where they are clothed, fed and either schooled and then rehabilitated back into their families or for older kids set up in a halfway type house with an allowance.


I also visited a nutritional clinic where pregnant women and new mums come for medical and nutritional assistance and this is where most of your donations have gone. The nutritional centre runs twice a week and Sister Mary meets with the ladies, who all live in the slums, and distributes the clothes, shoes and toys.


It is heart breaking to see as some of these ladies have babies who literally have no clothes to wear but your generous donations are going straight to these ladies and babies.


Thanks again & best wishes,

Becks


Here are a few pictures from the project



Kids from the slums at the primary school

project1.jpg


Primary School

project2.jpg


Dorms in the residential home for street kids

project3.jpg


Cooking school lunch - maize and beans, the same lunch every day!

project4.jpg


The slums which the project directly helps and where your donations go to

project5.jpg

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