Education Kenya Project #30316

Give Hope to Kisumu's Underprivileged Children

by The Rahul Kotak Foundation

Give Hope to Kisumu's Underprivileged Children

Project Report | May 10, 2019
If You're Happy and You Know It...

By Mansi Kotak & Mohit Kotak | Co-Founders

Slippers bring smiles

We've been really busy the past couple of months and we have a lot of exciting updates coming up. But today's update largely comes from our partnership with Cohesu to provide students with shoes and slippers.

In March, we visited 5 of the schools we work with and provided over 450 students with shoes and slippers through the TOMS project run by Cohesu. The TOMS project was introduced to combat the rapid rise of bilharzia and jiggers amongst children in Kisumu. Cohesu provide footwear to school children that would otherwise be bare feet and likely catch these diseases. This also doubles up as savings for parents who cannot afford to buy shoes for their school-going children.

We had an incredible week taking the shoes to various schools and students across Kisumu. On one of our school visits, the students who received slippers held their slipper high up in the air and broke out into a childhood classic: If you're happy and you know it... clap your slippers! Clap clap!

Kitabu Changu Haki Yangu

One of our biggest projects till date is almost complete... the library at St. Vitalis Nang'a is currently being stocked with over 1,500 books in readiness for the handover of the project to the school. We've been busy all over the Easter Break in April working on transforming a storage room into a library space that can seat 48 students at a time. This library will be used by 1,300 students from the school and have an impact on thousands of community members living in Dunga. We will be sharing a detailed report and video on this project later in June.

GlobalGiving Site Visit

Earlier in May, we had a wonderful site visit from GlobalGiving's Field Traveler in Kenya, Isabelle Hall. We had a great time showing her our projects and we'll be sharing an update soon.

Shoes for students

If you're happy and you know it clap your slippers

Joy

New shoes also bring smiles...

New chairs and new shoes

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Feb 11, 2019
New Feather in the Cap!

By Mansi Kotak & Mohit Kotak | Co-Founders

Project of the Month: February 2019

Project of the Month:

We have incredible news!!

The Rahul Kotak Foundation's Project: Give Hope to Kisumu's Underprivileged Children got selected by GlobalGiving as the Project of the Month for February 2019. We are absolutely ecstatic to have received this honour!

Please read the entire report by GlobalGiving CEO, Alix Guerrier here: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/project-of-the-month-club/reports/?subid=122016

If you would like to make a contribution to our project as part of the Project of the Month Club, you can do so in the link shared above. The money we receive from being selected as the Project of the Month will be used to boost the various programs we implement within schools in the slums and rural areas to achieve the following:

Serve over 250,000 meals of breakfast and lunch in the 2019 academic year to over 1,800 students in the slums and rural parts of Kisumu through RKF’s Meal Program
Complete our current work of converting a storage room into a library that will hold 10,000 books and 50 seating units that will cater to over 1,300 children in a fishermen community
Convert 2 shipping containers into libraries that will hold up to 5,000 books each
Provide various learning material like exercise books, pencils, educational toys etc. to all the students we work with
Keep all the existing WASH Programs in our schools by ensuring access to soap and running water throughout the year

Other Achievements:

Every year, GlobalGiving recognizes the work every non-profit on the platform does and awards badges. For 2019, RKF received 4 badges: Top-Ranked, Effective, Vetted and Staff Favourite.

These badges show that RKF has been vetted by GlobalGiving, was actively engaged in the GG community and was a top-ranked organization in 2018! We also received a Staff Favorite badge, because our organization was selected by someone in the GlobalGiving team as their favorite!

Thank you for your incredible support! We couldn't have done this without you...

Effective Badge

Staff Favorite

Top-Ranked Project

Vetted Organization

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Nov 21, 2018
New Shoes for the Students of Soko and Valley

By Mansi Kotak & Mohit Kotak | Co-Founders

Students of Soko Primary School

Through our partnership with a local NGO, COHESU (Community Health Support Program), we have been able to ensure that the students of the schools we work with receive new school shoes at least twice a year through the TOMS giving One for One project. This program was introduced to combat soil transmitted diseases such as hookworms and jiggers (Tunga penetrans) amongst children in the Lake Victoria Region of Kenya. This also makes the morning walk to school a lot more comfortable and eases the financial burden on parents/guardians who may not have been able to afford a pair of school shoes for their children.

This year, the students of Soko Primary School in Nyakach received 147 new pairs of shoes as a result of this partnership; this included students starting from PP1 (age 3) all the way to Standard 8 (age 15). Another 80 pairs were received by the Students of Valley Academy.

We have big news! The Rahul Kotak Foundation is one of GlobalGiving’s Top 10 Nonprofits Committed to Impact! Look for us under Honorable Menitons on the list: https://www.globalgiving.org/learn/top-10-nonprofits

GlobalGiving has found that nonprofits that listen to their stakeholders, act on what they hear, and learn from the results of their actions are more effective and have a greater impact in their communities. This is a great moment for us, we’re proud to be recognized for our commitment to effectiveness and impact.

We will be fundraising for our programs and projects of 2019 on Giving Tuesday (27th November 2018) and during the Year End Campaign (28th November to 31st December 2018) on GlobalGiving. SAVE THE DATE! Your donation will be up for matching making your contribution during the holidays count even more. Upto $150,000 will be available for Matching!

Putting on new shoes

Off to the field with new shoes

Old shoes out, new shoes in!

Young student at Soko receiving new school shoes

Putting the new shoes to test

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