Build a future for children in a conflict zone

Dear Friends of Mah Di's Orphanage,

Since our last report all of this has been happening:

Two functioning fishponds have been paid for and started construction

• Mosquito nets have been renewed in all rooms

• A medical kit with medicine has been bought

• They continue construction of a new room for better cooking and eating 

• A new clean water pump has been finished

• Several food supplies (beans, vegetables) and two beds have been bought

• Pigs have been fattened and sold to save money for school fees

• Several chicken have been bought, raised and sold

• All children got positive grades and are continuing their studies

This has been done thanks to your support and the support of more wonderful people like you, and if we have to thank anyone it would be Mah Diana and the children, who continue to beat all odds and to build a great home together. It is their spirit and hard work that keeps this project going, we could not find more worthy beneficiaries for our(yours and ours) efforts.

But we want to highlight something amazing that happened literally in the other side of the world. 4 teenagers from Kamehameha School (Makuane, Hawaii) started a school project to raise funds for a social cause, and they picked the orphanage. Particularly for the fishpond microproject because as hawaians they felt a special connection with ponds, as they explained to us. They sold donuts, they worked transcribing, they went around asking for contributions and they did an amazing job, raising more than 900$. They explained all of this to globalgiving by letter, and they scanned the letter and send it to us. We printed it and read it in front of the children, it was inspiring for those who understood and Mah Diana took time to bring it down to real-life examples, “See what these children are doing, and they are only 17!” . Thanks to them the construction of the fishpond is going forward and we've been constructing for more than one month, although the severe rains of rainy season delay the porcess a bit. We would love to contact them to thank them properly but so far we have not been succesful, maybe some of our benefactors can have better luck trying? 

Also worth of mention is what happened with the chicken, Mah Diana bought only a few of them, but, with accute expertise of the market she is working on, she made great profit when she sold them, continued the venture buying more small chicks and she even kept some of the big ones in a special space, that space is for the children to learn how to take care and raise chicken themselves, another small detail that shows the kind of philosophy that impregnates Mah Di's Orphanage.

But we are still a long way to go, and we will continue asking for your support to raise the living standards of the orphanage, make it self-reliant economically and continue to work towards not only securing the subsistence of the children, but providing a bright future for the men and women they will become.

We are at your disposal and you can check on us through facebook (www.facebook.com/reachoutcameroon ) or our web( www.reachoutcameroon.org )

Some pictures were taken by a new volunteer from Estonia, Robert Nut, who is a professional photographer and had wonderful equipment, has made this short video about his visit to the orphanage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykNjuJEM2kQ&feature=youtu.be