I'm going on a mission and I would really appreciate your help.
In November a group of us are heading for Kenya to help the 600-700 street children of Nakuru. We are helping to build and equip a garage to provide a business and jobs for these children. We also want to raise as much money as possible to provide a school for them. In this area of Kenya there is 70% unemployement; very high rates of HIV and Malaria and a recently displaced population of 15,000 due to election violence. Shadrack is a sixteen year old orphan whose parents died of unknown causes. He was taken in by the orphanage six months 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 next year. Shadrack and many other children like him really, really need our help.
We are also taking some guys with us who have had very tough upbringings on inner city estates. They have had serious challenges in life and face bleak futures. But with help could be potential inner-city community leaders. Luke (aged 20 from Roehampton) grew up on a tough council estate in South London. One of his earliest memories was having a gun held to his head by one of his Father's disgruntled drug dealres. From a life of violence and dealing in hard drugs, he now leads trips to Kenya and works as a taxi mechanic in Roehampton. It was Luke's vision to set up a garage to provide employment and funding for street children and he will be co-leading the trip.
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Thank you.
Jonty
