Feed 200 Children Living in Kibera Slum

Turning Point's Feeding Programme provides much-needed daily meals to children in our two children's centres in Kibera.

One centre sees street children preparing to return to formal education. The other centre runs a primary school for the neediest children in Kibera.

The Feeding Programme is key to the success of these two programmes. Without the Feeding Programme, children simply wouldn't turn up at our centres each day, many would be forced by hunger to go to the streets and find alternative ways to find food.

Its a very simple solution but its vital to the ongoing success of our education programmes. When we feed the children in our centres, we don't just relieve hunger. We improve health, we improve school attendance and we improve school performance.

But for the Feeding Programme to continue providing these nutritious meals everyday, we need your help. We need people to give and to keep giving to ensure the programme can continue.

Thank you for your support for this key element in our work in Kibera. Please consider whether you could commit to making a regular donation towards this project to ensure we can keep providing these meals, today, tomorrow and for the rest of the year.

Brian (pictured left) had a good start in life. He was the second-born in a home where his dad had a relatively good job as a labourer, and his mum was able to get some work washing clothes.

Unfortunately, when he was four his dad lost his job, and his fruitless search, day after day, for alternative employment led him to drink and he became an alcoholic. By this time Brian had a younger sister, and what little money his mum was still able to make was drunk by his dad.

After a desperate and miserable 18 months, eventually his dad deserted the family, leaving his mum alone to care for the three children. She still cannot get regular paid employment, and continues to make a little from her clothes washing, but it's hard to get enough to feed and clothe her family, and pay the rent at the start of each month.

The fact that Brian receives two good, nutritious meals each school day is really having an impact on his health, and means he can concentrate well in class. It is also helping the family, as his is one less mouth for his mum to feed.