Homa Bay Orphans Project, Kenya
Our (informal) settlement is the most conspicuous and oldest informal settlement within Homa Bay Municipality. The growth of the slum has been both rapid and unplanned resulting in desperate living standards for majority of inhabitants. It's among the worst polluted and disease ridden habitats within Homa-Bay municipality. Even section which happens to be served by sewerage line, suffers from permanent sewage discharge polluting surface waters and seepage from sewers, septic tanks and pit toilets pollute few shallow wells in existence and lake water as well. Due to poor sanitation facilities and lack of drainage, human faeces and pools of stagnant water are found adjacent to family households. Such living conditions are particularly serious for young children resulting in high incidences of diarrhea, typhoid, cholera, malaria, fungal infections, scabies, ring-worms and chest infections. Poor knowledge of good hygiene practices accentuates the problem resulting in high incidences of infant mortality and morbidity.
3.0 In nutshell
Like other children in the world, our children, have a right to live to celebrate their fifth birth day and beyond. This is attainable by ensuring these children have: enough to eat, clean water to drink, access to basic medicines and vaccines, access to simple solutions like treated nets and re-hydration salts .
How to help Africa - Ways to help Africa
I am ALois Murerwa Maingi, 27 years old and a Kenyan Citizen and single. I live in Meru about 300kms from the capital city Nairobi. I saw your information on the internet and thought you could of great help to the suffering children so as to save them from going through what I went through and still going through.
I did my form four exams on November 2001. Thereafter I learnt little on how to use the computer. My trials of taking a management course has had been my desire to be a manager had been very difficulty. I enrolled in Kenya Institute of Management in Year 2008 for a Human Resource Management course. I dropped out due to lack of money to pay the fees. In short have suffered a great deal. Currently am working with a pay of Kshs. 4,000/= (equivalent of USD $53.3), the amount which can handily meet my basic needs
In Meru especially the places I know well, Nkando, Naari, Nkuriga, Munanda, Kithima, Mutunyi, Nkando, Kiirua and others. many children don't attend school due to lack of basic needs, school fees, food, medical care, didactic materials etc. Life here is generally difficult.
Death Dances and Life Ruins in Somalia
Horrors besiege Somalia from all sides: from air, land, and sea, rogue countries sent weapons to Somalia by air , land bred infestation of brutes and filthy murderers that came from all over the world in search of false martyrdom, but last not least, the sea welcomed pirates to a source of livelihood of thousands of Somali families to divert the real plight of Somalis from the world attention , Somali suffering people usually miss the headlines for the sake of minor accidents of crew kidnap and worn out vessels hijack, Richard Philip's kidnap , which was as bad as it can be, in Somali coastal line was appeared in the cover page of the leading magazines in the Western world, instead of talking the root causes of the crisis; the international community impulsively begun to confer about the formation of private naval task in Somali waters to combat a piracy. But it was a step in the wrong direction, it signals that the Chinese goods loaded in scrap ships which adventured to infested-piracy ocean are more important than lives of its inhabitants!