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.

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Where this Project is Located

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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 November 20, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 01, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Prograss Report for the Past Once year

By Wycliffe Mboya - Team Leader, November 20, 2008 11:16 AM

Newsletter for the past one year of the Support for 250 orphans educations and sports.

Implementing project: SACRENA-Kenya.

Many thanks to our great individuals and cooperate donors and the challenge grants that have come over our way in the fund-driven for this year. We are grateful and are like giving us the whole world. Companies urging their employs give for this project, families getting their relatives to donate and friends recruiting friends, fellow work mark mates encouraging fellows to help. We than you dearly and through your Dolor have changed lives of most of these children. Though we haven’t meet with you face-face but hear tender loving heart, passion, call, commitment and human voices in supporting these 250 Orphans to get education and also sport.

Offering Services at the IDP camps January-March 2008
As organization it has been giving and takes…a win-win situation. In the Month of January-April: here in Kenya we had apolitical crisis after the looser was announce the winner and the winner the looser. Kenyan was in problem with our Community hardest hit. This crisis left 5500 people dead within 2 months, 2.6 millions of Kenyan lived in the Internally Displaced Persons camps, Millions of properties destroyed and children and women were hardest hit. In 3 moths there was no food, water, where to buy, where to go for civilians were short dead.

Intervention: Through your donations we pinched a tent at the IDP camp in Kisumu to help children who were the targets and victims. We donated assorted food stuffs, drinking water, and clothes to 30,000 IDPs, bought balls for orphans’ soccer at the camp. We offered ongoing counseling services to 4,000 persons at the camp and reinstated families 800 families. We conducted medical camp for over 200 women and 160 men. We gave people. We also received urgent help from the global giving-Kenya Crisis fund. At the end we were able to keep 82 children whose parents died as a result of the violence at the center so that they get supported by you. These means our number have gone higher and over 350 children are in the center. Where we feed them, send them to school and get trainings at the community soccer academy. At this center we drilled water well/bore hole, and one community member donated 2 hectors of land for our project.

Rose Onyango aged 14 years” My mother’s head was chopped in Nakuru and they killed my father too. I don’t know where they buried them….I need them, I miss them. When I am here at the center I see loving fellow children and communities loves me. I only need fees so that I learn and be a doctor”

Challenges for these includes: No school informs/clothes for this children, lack of medical attention, No kitchen and eating hall facility to be build in the 2hcts donated community land, lack of staffs and no one to pay their allowances/salaries, No mosquito nets,beddings,mattresses,cups and plates,administartio costs and no sports equipments.

Educations:
It has not been easy since we have 120 children (orphans) in secondary/high school out of this number 10 are have sat their 4th form exams and await to go to the college or university, 105 children in kinder garden/nursery school and 50 are going in primary next year, 88 in primary school and 20 are going to secondary school next year and other 19 children and yet to be in school and 10 are going to kindergarten/nursery school next year. We have a need! In schools where our orphans go reports is that all the top students/children in these schools coming from our center

Jeremiah Okumu aged 15 years “When I finish my fourth form, I want to be a pilot. The global giving donors I know will sponsor me…I leant through hardship I have a lot of unpaid fees in school and I may not get results till I pay. Fellow orphans at the center to get food, clothes, and uniforms and be visited, as you can see I go to school without shoes, uniform torn and look at my bag with no books inside. But I must live this life for God knows”

Challenges for these include: High number of children stay at the center when fees haven’t been pay until we get your support it has resulted to poor performance a child who was number one last tear is now number 5 this term, Lack of school uniforms,shoes,sox,sleepers for most number,(for those in boarding and day school:fees,fare,feeding,books,medications,and treatment of opportunistic infections).We also need to have counselors at the center to offer psycho-social support services. We need to build dormitory so that we have girls in the other side and boys in the other side. There is also challenge of food at the center sometimes we go hungry for even more that 2 weeks and we have to beg in the streets.

Sports:
We started Community Soccer academy. In the Month of May-invitation to Uganda for European Union Uganda trophy and we worn it. It was happiness as we represented our country. We brought the trophy home. We have participated 5 local tournaments. With this, we have received a lot of media attention both radio, TV and Newspapers/magazines. In the month of July we conducted a soccer clinic for U15 years-50 soccer players within the center .We managed to train 4 of our members to be as referees, 5 as coaches and 2 in sports managements. With your support through global giving-We have accessed the sports cooperate wares that includes Nike. They trained us on digital marketing and power of marketing, fundraising, mobilization and the power of sports. We have also through the Sports for Social Change Network being championed by CARE and NIKE which we are to be part of. have build our capacity in Coaching trainings, the use of sports in counseling children, Exchange program with the Sea-Cost United min USA.We developed a contract forms for all our players at the academy. We conducted one tournament called”Mpira Mtaani”Kiswahili word that means in the Communities. With the goal of bringing our talent as a brand, market it so that our children also are part of whorl achievers. We extended this and we formed 32 teams to which winners took trophies home. We suggest that we do this yearly. Of all, we documented it to be used as a best practice and lesson that can work. And we pled with our donors to fill free and give us address so that we can send this DVD quickly to help recruit and mobilize more volunteers’ donor. We also entered this project with the changemakerrs and we didn’t win. Through your generous contributions and support of donations we have managed to have teams of U8, U12, U15, U17 years old both boys and girls at the Academy.

Isaac “Etoo”Omondi”I didn’t know to play 2 years ago. Now they call me a good name. I saw myself in KTN television and Newspaper when they featured SACRENA using sports. I was happy. May be I will play for our National team and play professional soccer in biggest club in the World. What we lack are sponsors, sports equipments and facilities. We need exchange programs, more tournaments and came up with our own league and teach our communities how soccer can be used as a tool for social change”

Challenges for these include
·   Lack of Sponsors.
·   Lack of sports equipments (ball, uniforms etc) and high cost of high hiring training facility.
·   Inadequate volunteers to help us in making website and reporting format, visit, exchange programs, working with our organization and staying with us.
·   Digital cameras and videos or documentations.
·   Administration costs and programs facilitations.
·   High community demand on services we can’t offer.
·   High Dependency syndrome.
·   Lack of allocations for sports programs and specific donations.

10 Help Recommendations:
1.   Help build orphanage hall facility for children to eat on the community donated land
2.   Help buy utensils, beddings, and dormitory building and kitchen structure.
3.   Help sponsor one child at a time paying fees at a particular child in your name.
4.   Help pay for the administration costs (email, phone, electricity bills, rent, and typing).
5.   Help purchase sports equipments (shoes, jerseys, sox, pads ets, and first aid kits.)
6.   Help 10 students go to college/university, 20 students go to secondary/high school and 50 orphans intake for nursery school next year-2009 out of the 250 programs orphans.
7.   Help identify interns’ students/volunteers to visit and come and work with us here.
8.   Help get sponsors of the U15 youths league and the “Mpira Mtaani Tournament” a yearly event in the month of April, August and December.
9.   Help purchase foodstuffs (cereals and edible goods) for the center for the orphans.
10.   Help recruit more donors and well-wishers for us to meet the goals.

Two Good news as we end the year:

1)To the USA Citizen and the rest of the world-Thank you for having your elections and to the President Barrack Obama.He has his roots here in our communities of Kisumu-Kenya and could be opportunity for visitations, tourism and cultural attractions to come and see.

2) For valuable member of the Global Giving community, donors/contributors of project: www.globalgiving.com/1713.So that we came again as usual and receive the invite for us to participate in an upcoming "challenge" funded by the Kellogg Foundation that could result “support 250 orphans education and sports receiving prize grants ranging from $2,500 to $15,000.I encourage you to be part of this opportunity by recruiting just 3-5 donors for this project
This challenge is open to project “support 250 orphans education and sports “as you know this our project through you are the best projects currently listed on Global Giving working in children's health and education. This is opportunity for us all to reach out to your supporters and fellow donors and encourage them to give, contact us directly and advice.
If you help recruit this donors here, we shall have opportunity of helping 10 students go to college/university, 20 students go to secondary/high school and 50 orphans intake for nursery school next year-2009 out
Attachments:

• soccer clnic for orphsn August 2008.JPG
• IDP Mobile Clinic 2008.JPG
• orphans supported by the GG.JPG

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