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Weʼve raised £85 to help rebuild Mary's stall in Wundanyi, Kenya
- Wundanyi, Taita-Taveta County, Kenya
- Funded on Monday, 12th June 2017
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Story
The story of Mary Samba Ringoma who suffers with dwarfism and is a part of the Wundanyi Disabled Persons Self-Help group (WDPG); this is her crowdfunding page to raise money to rebuild her stall to support her family:
Mary is a fourty-two year old woman from the taita tribe in the coast of Kenya. She has one child and lives with her ailling mother at her home in Taita Taveta County, Kenya.
Despite her disability and frail legs which cause her to fall over when she is overworked, she does everything to provide income for herself and her family. This mainly comes from selling vegetables at her delicate stall but she also buys and sells charcoal, rears dairy cows and chickens, and has a soup club at her homestead to sustain her daily needs. Often, however, her stall gets blown away by strong winds and she loses her livelihood as she struggles to put the stall back together. Furthermore, the vegetables also get spoilt as a result of leaking roof and direct sunlight which causes further loss. She is already living in poverty. This causes her to become even more deprived and makes her concerned about her stall being blown away again.
Her stall is everything: source of income, hope and part of her life. Without it, she will struggle to make ends meet. Therefore, she wishes for well wishers to help her raise money to rebuild her stall so that she can sustain her business. Her crowdfunding target is KSHs 10,000 (£75) which will be used to buy timber, roofing materials, nails, sacks to help stop soil erosion and for labour.
She would be eternally grateful for any donations you make towards her stall. She will keep you updated when the stall is completed and about her progress with her business.
Updates
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- 7 years ago
Swopnil Gurung
7 years agoShare this update to help us raise more
- 7 years ago
Swopnil Gurung
7 years agoFrom all the members of the WDPG, VSO volunteers, Mary and her family, we thank you all for your generous donations and your willingness to help by sharing our page. We are all very grateful that we exceeded our £75 target and with that money able to rebuild Mary's stall few days ago. Here's a photo of what the new stall looks like with Mary, my work counterpart Monica and myself. In the following post we will update on how her business is doing, how the money was spent and more photos of how we built it amongst other things.
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- 7 years ago
Swopnil Gurung
7 years agoThis is Mary in her house beside her ailing mother.
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- 7 years ago
Swopnil Gurung
7 years agoThis is her charcoal storage. She buys charcoal cheaply and sells it for profit.
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Supporters
5
Anonymous
May 31, 2017
£10.00
Richard
May 23, 2017
Best wishes
£50.00
Lotty Clare
May 23, 2017
The best of luck to this lady
£10.00
Emma Giles
May 23, 2017
Good luck with your fundraising, I hope you raise enough to get the stall rebuilt whilst you are on placement
£5.00
Anonymous
May 16, 2017
£10.00
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Swopnil Gurung
Wundanyi, Taita-Taveta County, Kenya
I am volunteering with VSO in Taita Taveta county in Kenya and my fundraising efforts lately are for the projects I am doing.