District support for project in Kenya is vital
The continued support provided by the District of Ireland, Great Britain and Malta, to the TRANS-NZOIA DORCUS DEED NETWORK (TDDN) team in Kenya is proving very beneficial and in a letter to the District Brendah Mwarili (Director TDDN), has provided the latest update on upcoming plans for the project.
The TDDN sat together and proposed of some projects for the year that will help us move on in support to our rescued children and we already implemented each of them e.g.
1. The poultry/dairy farming project (1000 Chicken+10 goats +10 sheep+2 female cows). The team suggested on poultry/dairy farming to help the centre get money out of that and also benefit the children by getting chicken meat, eggs, milk for protein. So far, we started with one hundred chicken due to little money we had that could not allow us to buy one thousand, chicken and finish the poultry building we started. We have 2 goats and no sheep at the moment.
2. Community nursery school for development. (60 children). The team said some minority families have been defeated to take their children for basic education which is a baseline to allow them to qualify for primary education and if children get older, they end up not wanting to go to nursery for they feel ashamed sitting in class with little children and end up not going to school but instead go looking after cattle and school is forgotten.
The school started in the centre already and it is the rescue centre that pays the teachers and buys uniform and books for the kids and the children are provided with tea break porridge and lunch before they go home.
Turn up is good and the centre has employed 2 teachers and a cook all on pay. The challenge is that these children do not pay fees and they need food, books, uniform, and teachers to teach them.
3. Agriculture farming, We planted maize and beans on the centres farm which are doing very well, we intended to plant 2 acres of land but due to excessive cost of farming materials e.g., seeds, fertilisers for first round and second round top up, insecticide and booster chemicals and labour, we decided to plant a small portion of one acre.
However, in our three projects we have experienced, challenges that I have mentioned in each project.
We look forward to getting support from well-wishers to complete our projects successfully.
Below are some photos from the school, the farm, and the poultry/dairy products house we started but did not finish due to high cost of iron sheets and frames that needs a lot of partitioning inside the house.
