Build a future for children in a conflict zone

Since the uploading of this project three months ago you have donated the amazing figure of 1230$ to Mah Di’s Orphanage. Significant impact is on the way! Since we still have to receive the money we will report on one of the last visits to the orphanage, when we accompanied a donor, a friend of Reach Out who was visiting the country. From there we expect you to get a better picture on how your donations will impact the orphanage and on how it works itself.

Can a middle-aged woman from one of the richest countries in the world visit a Cameroonian Orphanage in strong need of the most basic supplies for the first time of her life and conclude that “the kids are fine”?

Yes she can, and that is what happened. This is precisely the essence of Mah Di’s Orphanage and of Mah Diana herself. A strong woman that is almost single-handedly (with the precious collaboration of volunteer/workers and the oldest children of the orphanage) raising more than 40 children and doing it so with impressive results.

Mah Di’s is about solidarity, about family, about every one doing his part, it is not rare to see a little child cheerfully washing the dishes, to see how each one of them take on more responsibilities and care for those younger as they age till they reach the point of Ivan, a full grown man of 18 years old who is undergoing technical education and is taking care of the different Income Generating Activities of the Orphanage such as the poultry and the piggery.

In Mah Di’s common problems among orphans such as lack of confidence or coexistence problems are rare, if not non-existent. We don’t believe in magic solutions and we imagine that such problems are possible, but Diana’s style of lax and at the same time disciplined education continues to impress us an orphanage in so much need can be even used to gather best practices. You can be sure that will money will be put on the best hands, with amazing potential for impact.

Our first intervention in a month’s time will buy bunk beds, we are addressing first this need as the orphanage hardly finds such capital and kids continue to sleep three in one bed while teenagers continue to sleep in a matrass on the floor. This donor assisted us to buy two new beds and some feeding expenses and medicine, your donation will buy another 5 beds and more food. We hope you find your money well spent, and that you could see how grateful the children and Madame Diane are to us, a gratitude that we remind them should be directed to you.