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Reach Out Cameroon celebration of the Day of African Child with (41) deserving Children at Mah Di’s Orphanage in Kumba-Cameroon.

 Overview of the Day

On June 2016 , Reach Out Cameroon joined the International community in celebrating the International Day of the African Child. This year we initiated a local fundraising campaign and we were able to earn support from individual donors from our community of well-wishers/partners to carry out this activity with children of the orphanage.

About the Activity and Support provided

 We were warmly welcomed with children and their care givers and after a very interactive exchange with kids, we discussed about their rights, they presented their poems each one carrying an important message about children, peace, community, human rights and education and we sang and danced many songs.

 This was followed by the presentation of gifts brought by the team of staff and volunteers from Reach Out Cameroon. The gift package was composed of:

1. Educational items (Books, pens, pencils, rulers)
2. Food provisions (Rice, beans, groundnuts, oil, sugar, Milk, tea )
3. Clothing Items (shoes, dresses)
4. Hygiene and sanitation items (Soap, teeth brush)
5. Bedding items (blankets)

Children were so happy to receive the support and were thankful to all those who have been supporting them, you and us. Walters; who is one of the teenagers in the orphanage said to us: “Knowing that outside there someone is thinking of us, and our situation, make us happy, and gives us courage and Hope in the life. Thank you and May God bless you more for all the supports that has been provided to us so far”.

 Our day at the orphanage was concluded by a round visit of their ongoing projects : the construction of a center for educational support which is done by big boys of the orphanage who are in technical schools; the piggery (just expanded with 5 more piglets), the poultry, the fish pond which has big fish now and has just been expanded thanks to you supports and the family farm.

 Our Impression

 Our visit to Mah Di’s orphanage was a very inspiring and motivational day as we met Mah Diana, a very generous , loving and carrying woman, who despite her little conditions, compelled to take care of the most deserving and to be a “mother” to more than 60.

Here children are very welcoming, intelligent, happy, they support each other and happily participate to work and projects in their humble home just as one big “family”; though their conditions are difficult, they never complain about life, there are always thankful to every person who support them in one way or another.

Thank you for your endless support!!!