Tobias Ounga
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Veronica Ensign
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Dear Veronica,
We confirmed the wire transfer today and we managed to withdraw and purchase a gas stove, cylinder, hose pipe and regulator. Thanks so much for all this. I'll go there tomorrow to show them how to operate it and get some photoes. We have just finished and I left Caren on the way to CRM to deliver the items. The rest ammount we shall use on food items. I'll give you breakdown of costs of the items after tomorrow. Floods were very extreme in some areas very close. The closest was about 20 km away at a place called Kano in Nyanza - as you approach Kisumu from Nairobi about the last 15 km stretch just before Kisumu town. The other badly affected place was about 130 Km away near Kenya Uganda border. The villages we currently operate in were safe due to ragged and slopying terrain. Otherwise if we had capacity, we should have tried to assit the Kano people. There are very few NGOs operating there although the government insists they (govt) did enough to avoid blames during elections. They also down play the Nyanza (Kano) case so it does not reduce there popularity in the region - Nyanza always complain that the govt. is innefective.
Again thanks so much. And meanwhile, are there any plans about the school supplies? Especially uniforms?
Regards,
Tobias
Latrine Construction for Dago Thim Primary School
Posted by Scott Chacon on September 24, 2007 at 06:38 AM
We're trying to raise $430 to purchase Latrine Construction for Dago Thim Primary School.
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Tobias Ounga
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Veronica Ensign
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Dear Veronica,
Thanks so much for that. The immediate priority will be the stove since it will increase the efficiency of cooking at CRM. The rest we'll use for food and the domestic supplies. The outstanding bills may not be much currently as you remember, we had withdrawn what we had banked George's salary and used it to clear most of the bills. So any bills now would wait. I'll soon work on the expenses for August which will show any such bills.
Best regards,
Tobias
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Veronica Ensign
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Tobias Ounga
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Dear Tobias,
Thanks for the extra information on Pamela Atieno and it is great to hear of the ample rains.
I want to confirm that the wire transfer for $300 from our latest micro-goal went out on Friday. You should see it in the Trop Focus account as early as this coming Friday. Will you please send me a note to inform me of what you use the funds for? I'm hoping you will be able to get that stove in addition to the food and domestic supplies we have discussed, though I know you still have some outstanding bills to pay.
Take care and look forward to hearing from you soon, Veronica
Updates
Posted by Veronica Ensign on September 12, 2007 at 01:17 PM
Just a quick post to update on some of the things happening at GlobalEyes and with our partner, Tropical Focus in Kenya:
− Children Rescue Mission, Kenya (CRM) is planning to take on four additional children; future fundraising and micro-goals will consider these additions.
− Tropical Focus has identified a widow with six children in a neighboring community that is in need of extra support. One of her children has been taken in at CRM but she and her remaining children could use extra help, especially food and domestic supplies. Please contact me at vensign@throughglobaleyes.org for more information about Pamela Ateino of Kajwang Village and her children.
− GlobalEyes, with the assistance of Tropical Focus, will be partnering to help another primary school in the Kisumu Region – Dago Thim. We will be constructing new latrines for the campus as well as initiating an outreach feeding program, similar to the program at Obede primary school.
− A newsletter will be distributed soon in which these items will be discussed in detail
Communication Log on 2007-09-10
Posted by Tobias Ounga on September 10, 2007 at 12:00 AM
There are new developments: -
- Agnes got admitted to a teacher training college and will be leaving next week.
- We have an idea of shifting the children to the bigger compound of Tropical Focus. We can then leave only one room there for use for Tropical Focus office work. Scholastica would then shift to stay at the former compound of the children's home or I will move so that I could offer more of my time to Tropical Focus and the children's home.
- Kenya Power company reviewed cost of power installation so that one now pays an initial Kshs. 15,000/= while the rest as instalments with monthly power bills.
- For transport, agents from India have introduced some cheaper motorbikes in Kenya which are as low as Kshs. 80,000/= which can be very suitable for use at the children's home.
- So far, we brought in 3 new children at the home, while 2 left. So they are more than previous number by 1. We had inteded to add 4 in addition to the replacements but these will depend on availability of funds.
Communication Log on 2007-09-08
Posted by Veronica Ensign on September 08, 2007 at 12:00 AM
- We are anticipating a donation to go toward educational needs and half of the Dago Thim latrines but I will confirm in the coming weeks. The next micro-goal, that will be launched this week, will raise funds for the remainder of latrine costs.
