£15 per
month
made a difference to
Isaac's
life
in just one year.
SPONSORSHIP
has changed
the life of
Paul. He had
a
tumor removed, and although
he lost his eye, he's now free
from pain....now he has
HOPE for the future!
The goat breeding
programme
Children are encouraged
to breed the goats and
put the money towards
their education
Gatagani SONshine Farm,
provides training in farming
techniques for communities
and alleviates famine in the
surrounding areas
Child Sponsorship
As a sponsored child
As a Sponsored child, your donation enables me to go to school, providing me with a school uniform, solar lights, matresses, and much more. Your donation buys a medical insurance and if any of my family are ill, we can attend a local clinic or hospital for medical care. I have been given goats each year and taught how to breed them. This has improved my whole family's health as we now have fresh milk. Often when we have sufficient we sell milk to our neighbours and this gives us extra money to purchase food products. The goat programme will let me finance my own secondary education. I feel so blessed to be a sponsored child.
As a Sponsor or Donor
As a Sponsor, I initially get a profile of my child, detailing the child's family circumstances. Throughout the year I get 2/3 reports including a school report and a Newletter, keeping me up to date about the work of SONshine Club kenya Project. I can write to my child, and I understand I can even arrange to visit. It is satisfying just to know that I am making a difference not just to the life of one child but to their family.
Each child will part take in a Goat Breeding programme- A sustainable project. Since January 2010, each of the primary school children have received one or two female goats,depending on the market price, and they have been encouraged to rear and breed these. As the herd grows, they are encouraged to sell some to help provide for their own education. This project has been well accepted by the children themselves, their families and in fact their tribal leaders.
All our children originally received an annual medical check and we found many of them were treated for worms, malaria, typhoid, and other treatable ailments.
Several of the children have had more major problems, and they have been taken to Nairobi for further medical treatment. One young lad had a tumor behind his eye, and has now had this removed, and although he lost his eye, he now is free from pain and his life has been prolonged. He will be fitted with a glass eye soon. We discovered that when a child was ill, they didn't visit the clinic due to lack of funds. So with the sponsor money,
each child has now been provided with a medical insurance policy which allows any family member, if they become ill, to receive in-hospital treatment. This is really making a difference to the lives of children in the Tharaka region.