PROJECT HOPE LAUNCHED: THE AID KENYA FOUNDATION’S LISHE BORA KWA WATOTO FEEDING PROGRAM.

Lishe Bora Kwa Watoto Feeding Program in Mitahato Village, Githunguri where AID Kenya Foundation, partnered with Kenya Welfare Foundation, to feed hundred of orphans and elderly grandmothers.Armstrong (Sanding , Right), Executive Director, AID Kenya Foundation, and Mr. Akello(Standing, Left), head teacher, of Pumwani Child Survival School, one of the feeding centres, with the kids, who are under the Lishe Bora kwa Watoto Feeding Program, and are supposed to go to school.Volunteers, Staff, and the kids at Malezi Community Centre.Kids, staff, volunteers, at Malezi Community Centre, where AID Kenya foundation has one of the feeding centres.Kids from Kitui Village Slums, Nairobi.Madam Grace Kavoi, head teacher, Malezi Community School, feeding kids.A teenage mother of four children, under the Lishe Bora Kwa Watoto Feeding Program. There are over hundred such teen mums who are breast-feeding, and are in the program.

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AID Kenya Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to mobilize voluntary humanitarian aid and development assistance to orphaned and vulnerable children, teenage mothers and disenfranchised populations in rural-urban Kenya.

On humanitarian grounds, we have launched a year-round Lishe Bora Kwa Watoto Feeding Program. The feeding program is being first piloted at Kitui Village Slums, Nairobi where we targeting to feed, 385 school-going children, breast-feeding teenage mothers and 25 households, infected with HIV/AIDS. It will cost KES. 85 (USD. 1) per child per day to have a balanced diet, that most children have missed since they were born into poverty in the slums. Combined we are targeting to feed over 5000 orphaned and vulnerable children and HIV/AID infected breast-feeding teenage mothers, over a period of 12 months.

The program is aimed at increasing school enrollment, improved academic performance, and reducing child mortality rates. Over the next 100 days, we will expand the program to Ole Maa Maasai Village, Embakasi; New Canaan/Pipeline IDP Camp, Nakuru; Mithahato Village, Kiambu; Likoni, Mombasa, Mokogodo Village, Laikipia, and Makueni. We count on your support.

FOOD PYRAMID:

• Breakfast (milk, mandazi, yams, nodules, eggs, sausage, bread, chapatti, tea)

• Tea Break (tea, milk, soup, porridge, bread, cake, biscuits, potatoes, groundnuts)

• Lunch (beef, rice, ugali, chicken, green grams, spaghetti, beans, green vegetables, githeri, pilau, cabbage,)

• Snack (fruit, milk, yoghurt, porridge, popcorns, ground nuts, tea, mandazi, cake)

A CALL TO HUMANITARIAN ACTION:

SPONSORING PACKAGES PER CHILD:

1 DAY: KES. 85 (USD. 1)

1 WEEK: KES. 595 (USD. 7)

1 MONTH: KES. 2,550 (USD. 30)

3 MONTHS: KES. 7,650 (USD. 90)

6 MONTHS: KES. 15,300 (USD. 180)

9 MONTHS: KES. 22,950 (USD. 270)

1 YEAR: KES. 30,600 (USD. 360)

We appeal for donations from individuals, companies and well wishers. Send your voluntary donation to:

1. ZAP: 0788 401 330

2. IN-KIND: AID KENYA FOUNDATION, P. O. BOX 5956-00200, NAIROBI-KENYA

3. BANK DEPOSIT/WIRE TRANSFER:

A/C Name: AID KENYA FOUNDATION

A/C No. : 082-1430151

Swift Code: BARCKENX

Bank: BARCLAYS BANK OF KENYA

Branch: Haile Selassie Avenue, Nairobi, Kenya.

4. Fair Trade Initiative (FTI): You can donate to the program by buying AID Kenya Foundation’s FTI hand-made and printed products.

5. Volunteer: You can volunteer with the Foundation in resource mobilization or re-selling FTI products and merchandise or hosting a fundraiser dinner or writing a feature story in the media or doing a documentary on the on the program.

For feedback, partnership, donation or to volunteer: Contact, Teresiah or Gillian on Tel. +254 788 401 330, E-mail: LisheBoraKwaWatoto@aidkenya.org

For and on behalf of:

DREAM TEAM, AID KENYA FOUNDATION

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