Project Report
| Jul 18, 2013
Hungry bellies kept us out of school
By Emily Obiti | Field Worker
Boniface's Story
Boniface is the fourth-born out of six children. Boniface lives with his mother, step-father and his five brothers and sisters. Though his step-father sometimes brings food home, occasionally he disappears for days at a time and the children are forced to go hungry. When they get really hungry, they have to find ways to get food. Sometimes Boniface would beg for food outside a supermarket. But now, Boniface receives regular meals at our centre in Kibera and with support from Turning Point, he will join Standard 1 in January and begin his formal education. As well as playing football, Boniface likes learning with the other children at Turning Point and his favourite subject is Kiswahili. When he is older he would like to be a doctor. Turning Point’s Feeding Programme is vital for keeping children like Boniface in school, so thank you for your support.
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Apr 16, 2013
Holiday Clubs
By Pippa Wilkinson | Volunteer
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Enjoying holiday club lunch
Yesterday was the first day of April school holidays in Kenya. For many children all over the world school holidays are eagerly awaited and kids enjoy some time out of the classroom. For children in Kibera, it often means a couple of weeks going hungry. During the term time, children receive school lunches that are subsidised by the government. The only fee is to cover the salary of the school cooks. Many parents in Kibera can't afford even this small fee and so Turning Point helps to pay the cost. This helps our kids concentrate in class and prevents them from turning to the streets to look for food.
During the holidays, however, our kids don't get those school lunches. Instead, we host a holiday club where kids come each day for games and activities as well as receiving a nutritious lunch. They go home having laughed, having had fun and with a full stomach.
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Jan 10, 2013
Beatrice's story
By Pippa Wilkinson | Volunteer
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The BBC recently reported that up to 50% of four billion tonnes of food produced around the world is wasted each year. You can read the report here.There is plenty of food in the world, the problem is distribution.
In Kibera, kids are not going hungry because there is a lack of food in Nairobi, but because their parents or guardians lack access to adequate resouces to produce or purchase food. At Turning Point, we not only feed our kids a nutritious lunch everyday but we also give out small loans to parents as part of our microfinance project so they can start small businesses giving them the capital to purchase food for themselves and their children. Beatrice is one of our microfinance beneficiaries and her business helps her to feed her children. This is her story:
Me, I have a business selling woven material that I make myself using a loom. It takes me 2 weeks to make a set of 14 pieces of woven material and then I can sell each set for maybe 2,500/= (around £22) if I’m lucky. I’ve had my business for 2 years now and I’m very happy for it. It really helps me because I have four children who are always hungry and I always have to give them food. Last year was very difficult because they decided to increase the cost of food. I think it was because of the drought. I found it very difficult and it is still hard. Sometimes I cannot feed my family, and if my business does not sell then my children cannot eat. I am very careful with my money and it becomes very difficult when food becomes expensive. But the little I get I use to push. God will watch us.
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