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Thanks for visiting my page! Here's where I attempt to convince you to donate more money than you planned to...sorry about that.
The Kenyan Orphan Project (KOP) exists to support orphans and vulnerable children in Kenya on issues of health, education and social welfare; fighting poverty, disease, social exclusion and injustice.Their website is this one here ---> www.kopafrica.org
Western Kenya is a region of abject poverty. Life expectancy in Kenya is just 57 years, but is much lower for such vulnerable children, who have already had the worst of all possible starts in life. AIDS is a huge killer in the area, and without the important work of the charity many of these children would go on to become infected. Poverty, and the desperate malnutrition that comes with it is forcing children as young 10 years old into prostitution, simply to survive. KOP provides education on sexual and other health and social issues, helping to arm these young people against the awful disease that took many of their parents. The charity gives these children lifesaving medication and nutrition, protection and shelter, free of charge.
The Kenyan Orphan Project gives these children, in other words, a fighting chance at life.
In the summer I will be travelling to Kenya to help the charity with their important work, improving the desperate conditions that these desperately underprivelidged children survive in.
As with all of the students on the project, I am paying for my own transport and expenses from private funds, so you can be sure that whatever you decide to donate to this charity,100% of it will go directly to caregiving: supporting 10s of thousands of children every single day.
KOP is not a large charity, and as such doesn't have to pay out huge staff and advertising costs. It relies only on kind and generous (and sexy) people like you. Please donate whatever you can afford.
ALL of the money raised goes directly to giving young Kenyan people something approaching the life chances that we take for granted at home.
Thank you.