In November a team of us are once again heading to to help the 600-700 street children of Nakuru. On our last trip we helped to fund, build and equip a garage to provide a business to support an Orphanage and a School. The garage also provides apprenticeships and eventually jobs for these children in an area with 70% unemployment. This year we are raising money to drill a much needed Well to provide water for the orphanage and, in fact, the entire village. The orphanage has to buy water from a well one mile away. They can only afford to use the well for ½ an hour twice a week and must carry the water back to the orphanage. Even though there is a drought there is plenty of water underground. This well will not only supply drinking water it will also supply irrigation water so the orphanage and village will be self sufficient by growing crops. With food and water anything is possible. The water is held 600ft below ground and will cost some £20,000 to drill and equip with a pump and generator: A lot of money but a small price to pay.
We are also taking ten guys with us who have had very tough and disadvantaged upbringings on inner city estatesand are all memebers or leaders of gangs. They have had to face serious challenges in life and their futures are bleak. With help and support from us as positive role models they could be potential inner-city community leaders with positive futures. Luke (aged 21 from Roehampton) grew up on a tough council estate in . One of his earliest memories was having a gun held to his head by one of his Father's disgruntled drug dealers. From a life of violence and dealing in hard drugs, he now leads trips to and works as a taxi mechanic in Roehampton. It was Luke's vision to set up the garage to provide employment and funding for street children. Luke is an inspiration to us all and proof, that with help and support, peoples lives can change.Once in Nakuru the team will build a new school room to cater for up to 200 local children and for the Orphanage and help with the installation of the well.
In this area of there is 70% unemployment; very high rates of HIV and Malaria and a displaced population of 15,000 due to past election violence. Shadrack is a sixteen year old orphan whose parents died of unknown causes. He was taken in by the orphanage about two years ago suffering from trauma and malnutrition having served time for petty crime in an adult Kenyan jail. He is now doing well and hopes to get a job in the garage this year. Shadrack and many other children like him really, really need our help.
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