Faith Child Education and Care Project (FACEP) Kenya
About Us
Faith Child Education and Care Project (FACEP) is a community effort to fight Aids Epidemic in Tetu Constituency, a rural area of Nyeri District in Central Kenya. FACEP aims to raise resources to take care of People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWHA’s) and orphaned children and their families.
It started in 1999 and officially registered under the department of Social Services in the Ministry of Gender, Sports, Culture and Social Services as a C.B.O. in 2001 .FACEP has over the years seen over 5000 orphaned children go through their Primary and Secondary school by
soliciting funds from well wishers.
The organization was started after seeing how children were made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS, dropping out of school, starvation, neglect and, abuse. Currently, our organization is supporting 2,600 orphans from poor households in Nyeri district. We know that poor house holds with few resources and options are more vulnerable to destitution by AIDS. It is therefore prudent that adequate resources are made available to give these children better education, care and medication to mitigate the Impact of HIV/AIDS.
Out of these orphans, 1200 are in secondary schools and 1400 in primary schools. Some of them are raised by their extended family through our support. We believe that when children are raised by their families, it will help them adjust in the community easily and also have identity. The family is the traditional safety net for care and support.
Since FACEP is a community driven support mechanism, its contribution goes beyond to help bright, poor and orphaned children to attend school because the burden imposed on families by HIV/AIDS is too heavy. We have established FACEP volunteer teams so that our activities can be monitored in each and every household.
What we do
Care and Support for PLWHA’s, FACEP has a home based programme where we are caring for 85 PLWHA’s, H.B.C has three components namely physical, psychological and spiritual support and is considered a collaborate effort between hospital, family and community. We believe that keeping the infected parents alive, they can be able to continue taking care of their children, hence reduce the number of orphans. We organize seminars for PLWHAS and donate food and clothes to their families.
Faith child care and rescue centre
We have centre for orphaned children. We are currently housing 52 orphans who have no one to care for them. Out of the 2600 orphans we are caring for only the 52 stay in the care and rescue centre. The others stay with their guardians. The care centre requires expansion and renovations at a cost of 62,500 dollars or KSH.5000,000.
Also note the wooden structures which serve as part of the care centre. We need to put up a stone house which is permanent and secure.
WE APPEAL TO WELL WISHERS TO HELP IN BUILDING THE HOUSE.
Below is an architectural plan of the proposed care centre to cost$62,500.this is a building that will ease the conjestion and improve security at the home.
WE WELLCOME DONATIONS FOR THIS PROJECT
The plan was donated by a local architect who will also assist in its construction.
The picture below shows a care taker with two twin orphans under our care. Their mother died due to complications arising from AIDS.
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above picture show a section of the home made of timber.
Each child requires 1 dollar a day which is about KSH.80 –local currency
This means we require 52 dollars daily for proper upkeep of these children which is about KSH.4160 and Kh.124,800 [about 1560 dollars] a month.
We also pay electricity and water amounting to about KSH.5000 which is about 62.5 dollars
We also require clothes and shoes for the orphans. We kindly appeal for your assistance in these areas.
We have poultry and dairy project which supports the care centre to about 10% of our needs.
We mostly rely on donors and well wishers.
Faith child education fund
We offer education support for over 2000 orphans by paying their school fees in high schools. More money is needed every term as we continue to get more and more children. Each child in high school requires about $125 per term or$375 per year for fees and upkeep.
OUR PAST DONORS INCLUDE:
Save Africa’s children USA www.saveafricaschildren.org funding period year 2007
N
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aids control council –Kenya www.nacc.or.ke
funding period year
2005/6
RECEIVING FOOD AT THE HOME
Our Dear Donors,
We are grateful for your continued support towards this project. If you wish to donate you can select one area and make special request to the are you wish to donate. You can choose to be making a continuous donation monthly or annually or make a once-off donation.
THE FOLLOWING AREAS REQUIRE ASSISTANCE
FEEDING CHILDREN AT THE CENTRE……………………………$1560/month
ELECTRICITY AND WATER……………………………………..$62.5/month
SCHOOL FEES FOR HIGH SCHOOL ORPHANS…………….$375/child/year OR $125/child/term
SCHOOL UNIFORMS AND SHOES ………………………………$20/child/year
RENOVATION AND EXPANSIOM OF THE CARE CENTRE………..$62500/once off need
CHILDREN STATIONERY……………………………………………..$200/month
POULTRY KEEPING AND DAIRY FARMING PROJECTS…………………………………….$5000/monthly feeds
COPUTER PROJECT………………………………………………….$16000/once off need
MEDICAL CARE FOR ORPHANS AND PLWHAS………………….$400/month
CREATIVE ARTS PROJECT…………………………………………..$100/month for materials
HOW TO SEND DONATIONS
PAYPAL EMAIL ADDRESS:jorammathenge@yahoo.com
BANK TRANSFER
CORESPONDENT BANK: CITI BANK
BENEFICIARY BANK: EQUITY BANK LIMITED-KENYA
SWIFT CODE: EQBLKENA
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 0110100191146
ACCOUNT NAME: JORAM MATHENGE
FAITH CHILD EDUCATION AND CARE PROJECT HAS AUTHORISED THE USE OF THIS ACCOUNT
CONTACT POSTAL ADDRESS: FAITH CHILD EDUCATION AND CARE PROJECT PO BOX 555 NYERI, KENYA
CONTACT PERSON: JORAM MATHENGE
EMAIL ADDRESS OF CONTACT PERSON:jorammathenge@yahoo.com
THEY ARE IN DIRE NEED OF SUPPORT.
Rachel Wambui Ndungu was born in 1991, to a family of three. She was diagnosed positive in 1997 and have lived to date due to the grace of God. At the age of 16, she is in form 2 in Karangia Secondary School in Nyeri District, Central Kenya.
She lost her mother in 2003 and her father in 2006. She is the last in the family of three but the other are negative. They all live with their ailing grandmother.
The family lives in object poverty. Faith Child Education and Care Project came in to assist Rachael to go to school. We have paid her school fees and upkeep since she joined form one last year (2006). The greatest problem with her family is financial. She lives on ARV’s and the others siblings need care.
FACEP would be happy to start an Income Generating Activity for the family to ensure that they are empowered financially to meet their daily needs. Since they have a piece of land where the project can be started, we propose to help them initiate a viable dairy project so that they can afford food, clothing, medical care and fees for Rachael.
To us this would be a sustainable way of taking care of this family infected and affected by Aids.
2. Story of Wambui and her family
They lost their father in 1997 due to Aids. We considered their care as urgent because even the grandparents who would have taken care of them passed on and their mothert works in their farm. Wambui is in Gatugi Girls Secondary School. She is now in form four, thanks to the support of Faith Child Education and Care Project.
Her younger sister Wamaitha is in Std 8 at Ndugamano Primary School. The family does not have a reliable source of income. We would like to help this family to establish a dairy project to make them financially independent so that Wambui and her younger siblings can have proper schooling and upbringing.
The story of Mary Njeri Wairimu
She lost her mother to Aids in 2001. Since then she is under the care of a close relative. She has been receiving education support from our organization since 2003 when she joined Gataragwa Secondary School. She is now in form four and will be sitting for her final examination this year. A dairy project will help her financially to join a middle level college and move on with life.
The story of Muthoni and her siblings.
They were born to the late Peter Gitonga and the late Magdalene Wairimu. They used to have a good life until Aids struck in 1994. Their father had invested in rental house business. The following photo shows Muthoni’s brother Munga (left), younger sister Wangeci (center) and father (right) during the good days outside one of his rental houses (1993).
On learning that he is HIV positive in 1994, he sold all his property, left his family and went about drinking and spreading the killer disease. By then people had a mentality that HIV infection meant death.
His family moved to their grandmother’s homestead after their father’s death in 1996. Their mother died in 1998 leaving them under the care of their grandmother.
They live in poverty since their grandmother cannot afford all their basic needs. We believe that a dairy project will help this family to meet their daily needs and education.
The boy (Muga) is in form one in Ihithe Secondary School while Muthoni is in Std 8 at Ndugamano Primary School and her younger sister Wangechi is in Std 6 in the same school.
Faith Child Education And Care Project
(FACEP Kenya)
Contact Person: Joram Mathenge
P.O. BOX 555, G.P.O Nyeri, Kenya.
Phone:+254 729-764619 [mobile]
Email Addresses: faithchildcareandedu@yahoo.com
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