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A Child in Thika
Needs Your Help
One-year-old Allen was abandoned by his mother. With five other children to care for, his elderly, sick grandmother couldn’t feed him. By the time Give A Child Life found him, Allen was near death and he weighed only seven pounds. Will you please help a child like Allen? |
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The City
Thika is a market town of 250,000 people about 45 minutes from Nairobi, Kenya. Twenty thousand people live in Thika’s Kiandutu slum, a sea of cardboard shacks and shanties with open sewers, roaming cattle and pencil cactus fences. Here about 30% of the adults are HIV-positive. Hunger is rampant. Rates of diarrhea, chest infections and malnutrition are high. Babies die most often of diarrhea. Not a single child care center exists.
How You Can Help
Until recently, GIVE A CHILD LIFE planned to open a New Beginning Child Care Center in Kiandutu. But after a visit last November, we realized that we couldn’t wait to buy and fix up a building. The mothers and babies needed help now. So we started doing what we could. We gave a number of families emergency food at the end of last year. We started a monthly group for mothers, during which they describe their own and other families’ needs. Working with village elders, GCL is identifying families and children in crisis. But right now, we are absolutely strapped for cash. This is a new program with no funding. Children are dying because we do not have the funds to help.
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Kiandutu Financial Details Page |
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