Siloam Community

Thanks to a generous donor, I have been able to set up a small fund for Siloam’s food supply. Through a monthly donation from Mr VG, together with our company’s contribution, we will be able to purchase and deliver every month about 540 kg of maize, 90 kg of beans + 20 kg of sugar. This will certainly take the pressure off their meager finance. Many thanks to VG for his very kind generosity.

Life is not easy at Siloam Orphanage. The orphanage ‘father’ Stephen has set up a day school for outside fee paying pupils participation, but collecting fees from these children’s parents is also a problem. This is one of the major problems in the orphanage, Stephen is just not able to send a child home when the parents don’t pay their bills. Then as a result cash is short for food and teachers salaries, this is the case for October just like many other months. So we have bought today 90kg of beans and maize. I will try to set up some kind of fund to overcome this eternal struggle to feed the children. Let us hope that someone else will be generous enough to assist them. But all this is short term. The main issue is to create some sustainable finance for the Orphanage.

Laikipia Wildlife Forum publishes every month an article in TN. This month they mentioned our latest trip to the Nairobi National Park. Elephantus one of their education officer was explaining to young children the importance of protecting wildlife. Sammy one of our guides, was there also to learn how to do it, for future trips.

We organised another day in the Nairobi National Park, this time we got a bit more organised. We contacted the Laikipia Wildlife Forum.

This organisation is doing a great job supervising the implementation of several wildlife and community based projects in the Northern part of the country. I knew that they had an environmental program and asked them if they could send their implementation officer to give a speech to the kids. They accepted and we took care of his transport and accommodation costs.
It was great to see the kids listening to a lecture on the various animals and how beneficial it could be to preserve them, and how the wildlife can potentially assist to provide work through tourism. At the end of the day, when we asked the orphans what job they wanted to do when they were older: nearly all of them replied rangers or tour guides. I thought that was quite positive.
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Bramwell, the eldest boy in the orphanage (18 yrs) is now going to computer college thanks to a generous donation. It all started on the 5th May 08. The college is quite a long way so African Latitude has donated a bicycle to help him to get to school on time (a mountain bike is what you need to get through the mud holes of Kibera!)