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It's been just over two weeks since we held our Giving Tuesday fundraiser with GlobalGiving. Again this year we not only focused on our vocational training program for young women, but we also included our food hamper program for the elderly, disabled, and single mothers.  I'm so grateful to you for making it so successful. Not only did we raise enough money to support our vocational training program moving forward into 2022, but we also raised enough to keep the food hamper program going throughout the holiday season, tripling the number of hampers we have distributed weekly over the past four weeks.

Imagine you're elderly, handicapped, or a single parent caring for your disabled child, ...with little or no government assistance! That's the predicament the recipients of our food hamper program have lived with for the past 20 months since Covid first arrived in Kenya. Normally they rely on the kindness of neighbors or their adult children. However, due to the COVID 19 pandemic, the neighbors are also out of work and not receiving an income. They too are struggling to feed their families daily. In many situations, adult children have had to move back to their rural villages due to business closures. For the past month, we have felt financially comfortable preparing and distributing three times our usual weekly food hampers because of the confidence we have knowing that we have you as a monthly donor. 

Please share the word among your friends that this week (December 13th to 17th), GlobalGiving will match all new monthly donations at 200%. 

100% of the donation that Springs of Hope Foundation receives will go directly toward our food distribution program.


We have never needed your help more than at the present time. 

Thank you so much.
Warmest blessings,
Jennifer Hughes-Bystrom
Founder/CEO 
Springs of Hope Foundation

* P.S. If you sign up for a new recurring donation from December 13-17th, GlobalGiving will match your first donation at 200% after 4 monthly donations.

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Hi Everyone,

Meet Susan, one of our recent Kijiji Mission graduates.

Susan is the 3rd born in a family of four. She didn’t have the opportunity to meet her father, who died when she was very young. Susan was 3 years old when her mother passes away in 2001 after a short illness, forcing Susan and her siblings to live with their 80-year-old maternal grandmother in the Nyamurutu slums. Her maternal aunt and her oldest sister are the ones who supported her with school fees in high school. 

Susan achieved high grades in school, however, after completing her secondary schooling her grandmother was not in a position to pay her college fees. Susan stayed at home for two years with little prospect of following her passion for learning fashion and design. Susan was very grateful when she was offered the opportunity to join Springs of Hope Foundations, Kijiji Mission Center in Nakuru on 5th October 2020, starting her new journey of studying the design and dressmaking one year course that we offer to help our needy girls attain a skill for their future, enabling them to earn a living.

We are often approached by outside organizations, offering our students special projects. One such example is the Rotary Club of Nakuru, which asked the students to sew reusable sanitary napkins to be given to high school girls within the community. These projects are wonderful for our students on many different levels. They help improve their speed and accuracy, while also giving them a huge sense of pride and confidence as they earn enough money to pay for their own sewing machine and a little seed money upon graduation.

Last week Susan left our center after being offered a job opportunity in a town known as Olkalou, at Quito Fashions Ltd, to work on piece work to which her sewing machine, paid for with the money earned while doing small projects while living with us, will be of great help.

Earlier this week we celebrated the International Day Of The Girl. We wish Susan, who now joins our alumni of young women who have become part of our huge Kijiji Mission family of successful young women over the years all the best in the future, you have made Kijiji Mission proud.

Again, we want to thank you for all of your support over the years, to be able to provide hope and a future to so many women who couldn't have possibly dreamed of having either is truly a blessing. You have made a tremendous difference in so many women's lives, including ours!

Thank you again,

Jennifer Hughes-Bystrom

Founder/CEO

Springs of Hope Foundation

(We've changed the student's name to protect her privacy)

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