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Children Helping Children in Africa

CHC IN LWALA & KOKECH, KENYA 2006-2010

FINAL 2010 FUNDRAISER: CHC DANCE & PARTY
TO BENEFIT OUR TWO VILLAGES IN KENYA

TOTAL RAISED: $3,011.50

LWALA: $1,500 for rainwater collection system or solar panels for the new maternity ward.
Pictures to come upon completion. Lwala Community Alliance		 KOKECH: $1,500 to build shelves and furniture for completed library and continue school funds for Kokech orphans. Konditi Development Initiative
Special Thanks to CHC 2010 Member, ANDY MADDEN ~ HHS 2014
 2010: Best Pie Fundraiser Ever: $935.71!!!
Pie Recipient: 2008 * 2009 * 2010

And Further Thanks to Solmate Socks for Boxes of Socks for the Kokech Children!

CHC IN LWALA, KENYA
RMS Contacts
2009 Graduate
Fred Ochieng' & Caitlin Reiner

First CHC Project

High School Scholarships

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2006-2009
Daniel Odhiambo Ogada
CHC SUPPORTS THE OCHIENG' MEMORIAL CLINIC
Milton Ochieng' (Dartmouth '04) and Fred Ochieng (Dartmouth '05), worked tirelessly with friends and supporters to raise money in order to build a medical clinic in their home village of Lwala. Their struggles and final success are documented in Barry Simmons's moving film, Sons of Lwala.

Milton Ochieng' stands in front of the finished building. It would take months before sufficient funds
were secured to be able to open and run the clinic, but it finally happened in April of 2007.

The Ochieng' Memorial Clinic now serves the 1500 residents of Lwala and over 3,000 from nearby villages. This has become a model of community action as workers at the clinic and in the village reach out to help others.

CHC PROJECTS IN LWALA
CHC'S PROUDEST ACCOMPLISHMENT IN LWALA: WATER!
CHC IN KOKECH, KENYA

NEW FOR CHC in 2009!
Konditi Primary School

Daniel Ochiel is from the tiny village of Kokech, Kenya and a graduate of the Konditi Primary School. He earned his PhD in virology and immunology at Dartmouth Medical School in late 2009. He wanted badly to help improve educational opportunities for the people of his village, and did not know where to find support for his dreams. He teamed up with Ben Schwartz (Dartmouth '06) who had started World Partners in Education (WPE) to help raise funds to improve education in Africa. Together, Daniel and Ben gathered funds to build two new classrooms, a village well, and provide the children with desks and school supplies. CHC got excited about two projects: helping the villagers build a school and community library and starting a fund to help orphans in the village attend and stay in school.

Daniel speaks to a Konditi student about
the importance of a good education.

Daniel and Ben traveled to Kokech to deliver WPE funds for their multiple projects.
The school children proudly display new backpacks, filled with school supplies.

WPE WATER PROJECT: Like the people of Lwala, given assistance with funds for materials, the people of Kokech were able to dig, line, and finish a beautiful well with running water for the whole village.
CHC 2009 & 2010 RAISE FUNDS FOR A NEW LIBRARY & ORPHAN SUPPORT

Daniel introduced the 2009 CHC group to his village and the children through his pictures, inspiring us all. We also saw pictures of the bore hole well for the village, with materials paid for by Ben's foundation but the work performed by the village - just like the situation in Lwala where CHC paid for materials. Helping people help themselves changes everyone involved.

CHC 2009 & CHC 2010 SUPPORT THE CHILDREN OF KOKECH

CHC HELPS THE ORPHANS OF KOKECH
CHC & SOLMATE SOCKS HELP CHILDREN SMILE

CHC IN ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA ~ 2006

 

Selamta Family Project
Human Capital Foundation

The Selamta Family Project works to provide safe family homes for children of Addis Ababa and surrounding areas who have been orphaned or abandoned by desperate poverty and disease, especially AIDS, within their families. To date, seven family homes have been completed: each has up to eight children with a mother and assistant; siblings always stay together; and all children of school age attend an excellent nearby school. Jody Horan and CHC member Bethlehem Foster visited Selamta in 2008, bringing CHC funds to purchase books for all of the houses and spending quality time with the Selamta children and their mothers.


CHC HELPS ETHIOPIAN ORPHANS AT SELAMTA

Carol Foster: Founder and Director
CHC IN PORT ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA ~ 2001
Jody's 2000-2001 service sabbatical ended in South Africa. She volunteered at the Port Elizabeth SOS Children's Village and the Papenkuil Primary School. Her work at the Port Elizabeth Children's Village led to a later CHC commitment to supporting SOS work, especially in crisis situations. SOS volunteers were the first group to respond to the plight of orphans after the tsunami hit Indian Ocean coastlines; they have set up food stations in times of famine in places like Ethiopia; and they run medical clinics in many places as well.

SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES

SOS Children's Villages is a world-wide organization that builds villages of up to 15 homes, with 8 children and a mother in each home. This gives orphans a permanent home until they are ready to live on their own. Siblings are always kept together within a new SOS family. The children attend public schools, and area children are invited to attend the SOS kindergartens and access other support services.

PAPENKUIL PRIMARY SCHOOL

Jody also volunteered every day that school was in session at this school. CHC funds were used to purchase some new books for the school, but the biggest accomplishment was working with student volunteers to transform a small room, cluttered with boxes of books, into a usable library for the whole school.

The Papenkuil Librarians

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