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Child Focus Africa Current Events

Now that the Special Unit Children have a home, the focus of Child Focus Africa in Migwani is as follows:
             *  to provide funding for food for the children
                (currently they count on the kindness of local people for each meal).
             *  to provide assistance for the Mutulu Children’s Education Fund -
                a group of 29 single mothers who have formed a mutually supportive
                co-op to help each other put their children through school
             *  to gather and ship school supplies for the Special Unit Children


Letter from Smithers Senior Secondary School

posted Jan 1, 2011, 2:03 PM by Enclave Managed Networks   [ updated May 9, 2012, 4:37 PM by Cassandra Strain ]

Friday, May 21, 2010

Attached is a letter and photo of Mrs' Monkman's Grade 8 Leadership Class from the Smithers Senior Secondary School.

I recently did a presentation there on Compassion (and I discussed  the Migwani Dormitory Project.
While there I was presented with a donation of $200 from this group  for Child Focus Africa!

Jim Senka: jsenka@gmail.com

Supplies for Migwani

posted Jan 1, 2011, 1:57 PM by Enclave Managed Networks   [ updated May 9, 2012, 4:37 PM by Cassandra Strain ]

The children/dormitory have no money to purchase supplies or clothing for the children and so they really appreciate supplies we can send them.

At present we are able to get some supplies to the Special Needs group in our dormitory via the trekkers with the Killimanjaro expedition. We have to be careful choosing the things we send, i.e. bulky, heavy things aren’t practical to ship)  The supplies they can use are:

 

  • Clothing – fleece, and nylon (cotton an wool clothing tends to wear out and is more difficult to clean.
  • School supplies - such as pens, pencils, sharpeners,  chalk, duster, foolscap, 

  • Child development and psychology books, 
plastic blocks, (fixing blocks) (e.g. lego)

  • Play materials 
skipping ropes, balls (a deflated soccer ball goes a long way)

  • Plasticine (modelling clay) 

  • Bedding (if you put out a call for bedding to your friends, you will be inundated with worn sheets - I don’t know what else to say, maybe send a couple good sets and save the rest for rags -  the limitation is the 50 lb baggage rule)
  Think bed in a bag.
  • Stapler, 
paper punch
files  (probably anything practical for filing - including a Saskatchewan briefcase)

  • If we could get more computers, we would teach our children without speech AAC.(Augmented Alternative comm.) We are hoping to get electricity soon. (lots of people have out-of-date laptops that are still good over there)
 Anything else that can be used .
  • Knitting needles, needels, thread, etc. Those hoop things would go a long way.

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