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Hekima Pekee’s program “Children’s support” has been implemented since 2010. The aim of this program is to support vulnerable
children by providing them school equipment, health support and children’s
right protection. We want to make sure that those children are helped, get
capacity to access social infrastructure and are part of the society.
During
the follow-up of the Sahwa primary school students who we support, we noticed
that the school water tanks were broken. More than 1650 students and 32
teachers were at risk because they didn’t have any access to water at all. The
head teacher told that they didn’t have any fund to fix the tanks and they had
been broken for ten years. We and our intern Anni Pihlaja decided to start
fundraising from different children’s and nutrition stakeholders around the
world, and after a few days we had collected enough money to fix one big water
tank. Now the students and teachers can wash their hands and drink during school
hours.
At
the moment we are fixing the nursery’s water tank with the fund we got from the Friends of Kenya and Asegelile Investment Limited. We are staying in contact
with the stakeholders for more contribution in order to fix the rest of the
tanks. Along the project we realized that a fence should be built to protect
the water tanks and the school area overall. As a solution we met with the
school head teacher and the chairman of the school committee and we agreed that
they will build a local fence around the school yard to increase the safety. A
fence was built with the help of Mwembe Africa around the nursery and we are continuing fundraising to get a fence
around the rest of the school area.
