An Uplift Pavilion for Africa - Kijiweni: Home for orphans in Kilimanjaro
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| TunaHAKI Shelter rescues kids from the streets of Kilimanjaro. Many of the children lost their parents due to AIDS or Malaria, while others were abandoned due to extreme poverty. One of the children is Colman. When Colman was 6, his father died and he was left in the care of his mentally ill mother. She left him at a bus stop and she told him to wait for her. Colman sat alone, waiting at the bus stop for one week, but she never came back. Now Colman and 19 other children live at the TunaHAKI Centre, where they receive shelter, food, clothing, medical care, education, and instruction in acrobatics and dance. Thanks to TunaHAKI, Colman now dreams to be a professional artist. He says it makes him feel good when people clap. TunaHAKI Shelter has been such a success (rescuing and providing an education for over 100 children since 1998), but it has no source of funding. In January the kids were evicted from their home by a greedy landlady, and they have scrambled into another temporary rental with no running water, where the children are sleeping two or three to a bed, playing in mud shared by the chickens and goats. After volunteering there in December, I have created the TunaHAKI Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and our goal is to buy land and build a permanent home for these kids. One that is big enough to house 100 children to meet the rising orphan population, and one that has a permanent theatre where tourists climbing Kilimanjaro can come and see the kids perform, thus making the shelter income-generating and ultimately self-sufficient. It's well worth the investment to give these amazing children the secure future they deserve. Phase I of the plan includes purchase of 3 acres of land, the construction of security fencing, and title and deed occupancy. The cost of phase I is $26,740, and it is the first step toward giving Colman and the other children of TunaHAKI a safe home of their own. Please help. |
Page name: Home for orphans in Kilimanjaro
Last editor: Linda ทรัพยากร Nowakowski (CCAL30) (2530)
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:05:35 PDT
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