24/09: September 2009 Newsletter
Welcome to our autumn newsletter, keeping you in touch with the projects and progress of our Bumala Family in Kenya.
Thank you for your continuing support, with school fees rising and education no longer free in Kenya your sponsorship and donations are the backbone of our charity. Without these our children would not be able to look forward to a future.
Peter Weyama, Janet’s husband from Bumala arrived here at the end of August and returns to Bumala at the beginning of November.
While here Peter will be very busy, meeting those who have supported us and those who wish to support us. He very much wants to talk about the projects and the effects of these on the community and our Bumala family, without the Trust’s efforts to help them become self-sufficient, many of them would have died, or disappeared.
Peter is especially looking forward to talking to the schools that are supporting us. Decoy Primary raised enough money to build two classrooms at Masabula Primary School, Kingskerwell school are raising money to build a nursery at Bukhakhala school, Bradley Barton are sponsoring one of our children through school, and Preston and Roseland’s primary schools raise funds for us
The Tree Nursery is still thriving and the vegetable and fruit garden is getting bigger and more productive. The maize and beans have been harvested this year, and there are also fields of millet, kale and other vegetables.
On our visit to Bumala in April this year, we took out some vegetable and flower seeds that were donated by Sutton Seeds. The children planted them and the carrots have done particularly well, they are very good for our children, especially our HIV+ orphans.
Among the fruits we have planted are mango, avocado, and jack fruit,
Flowers have been planted to encourage our bees to produce honey. We have 10 bee hives now with 7 of these having bees. The honey will be harvested this month.
The Banana Plantation Project was started in 2008.
Firstly 450 saplings were planted, which has now increased to 1000 this year. We lost a few saplings and trees due to moles burrowing under the roots, and a virus that was transmitted via the bees through the pollen, but we have taken the advice of the agriculture minister and we now have this under control. We hope to have enough bananas this year to give to our orphans and families. Our aim is to increase the plantation to 4,000 Trees within the next two years.
There is a very high demand for good bananas, so we shall be able to sell the surplus in the markets, ploughing back the extra capital into other projects, such as goats
We received a donation from the Swiss Tropical Institute in Switzerland of 2,000 US Dollars (£1,321.21) towards the banana plantation project, this will be used to help with the cost of fencing and protection of the plantation.
Half of our trees are now bearing branches of bananas.
Electricity has now been installed at the farm. This will enable us to run an electric pump for our water borehole. While Peter Weyama is here with us, we hope to raise enough funds to purchase the electric pump, header tank and accessories for our water Borehole,
There will then be enough water to irrigate the tree nursery as well as supplying the surrounding homesteads.
To enable us to supply all of the schools and outlying areas, the cost will be around £60,000. We are approaching large funding organisations to help us achieve this as the schools desperately need sanitation. We hope the government will also help with the funding. A slow process but like all projects it takes money and time to achieve what we have set out to do.
Many thanks to the Devon Peace Group, who have helped us with the cost of the water borehole.
We are happy to report that the widows are continuing to help and support each other, those
widows who are able, also help and work in the tree nursery, giving something back to the Trust.
They are also continuing to breed pigs and are supplying other widows with piglets.
The problems we have found however is that due to the economic situation and high costs
of materials, many of the widow’s dwellings are in a critical state of affairs some have had
to be abandoned, with some families accommodating other families in their already crowded homes.
We have however built a dwelling for our neediest widow, whose house was in a near state
of collapse, We aim to start a rebuilding program when more funds are available to provide
new dwellings, on a most needy basis first.
Our next fund raising activities are:-
Saturday 26th September. Sponsored Walk.
This will start from the Babbacombe Inn at 10.00am. and finish at The Park Hotel Paignton a distance of 6 miles. Please join us or sponsor us if you can. Contact Anne Jenkins for more details on:- 01803 813211
Saturday 31st October 10.00AM – 2PM
Autumn Fayre at Paignton Methodist Church , Palace Ave, Paignton.
Come and meet the Panda, many stall including crafts, Pick- a- straw, pin the tail on the elephant, bric-a-brac, homemade cakes, and refreshments.
Our charity with 4 other African charities in Teignbridge, have a recycling receptacle at B&Q Car park, Newton Abbot and Woodholme car park, Buckfastleigh. These will take all unwanted clothing and shoes (not duvets) that can be recycled, the proceeds are shared between the charities.
We have also just undergone a shoe drive of all unwanted shoes, this has been a huge success. The money we receive will be used to buy school shoes for our children in Africa.
We will being doing another shoe event next year, please keep all your unwanted shoes for our collection.
We can’t change the World but we can change SOMEONE’S world.
Ideal Christmas presents :- 2010 calendars for sale at £5 each
Gift vouchers towards any of our projects from £5 each.
Please contact us to purchase your requirements
Thank you for your continuing support, with school fees rising and education no longer free in Kenya your sponsorship and donations are the backbone of our charity. Without these our children would not be able to look forward to a future.
Peter Weyama, Janet’s husband from Bumala arrived here at the end of August and returns to Bumala at the beginning of November.
While here Peter will be very busy, meeting those who have supported us and those who wish to support us. He very much wants to talk about the projects and the effects of these on the community and our Bumala family, without the Trust’s efforts to help them become self-sufficient, many of them would have died, or disappeared.
Peter is especially looking forward to talking to the schools that are supporting us. Decoy Primary raised enough money to build two classrooms at Masabula Primary School, Kingskerwell school are raising money to build a nursery at Bukhakhala school, Bradley Barton are sponsoring one of our children through school, and Preston and Roseland’s primary schools raise funds for us
The Tree Nursery is still thriving and the vegetable and fruit garden is getting bigger and more productive. The maize and beans have been harvested this year, and there are also fields of millet, kale and other vegetables.
On our visit to Bumala in April this year, we took out some vegetable and flower seeds that were donated by Sutton Seeds. The children planted them and the carrots have done particularly well, they are very good for our children, especially our HIV+ orphans.
Among the fruits we have planted are mango, avocado, and jack fruit,
Flowers have been planted to encourage our bees to produce honey. We have 10 bee hives now with 7 of these having bees. The honey will be harvested this month.
The Banana Plantation Project was started in 2008.
Firstly 450 saplings were planted, which has now increased to 1000 this year. We lost a few saplings and trees due to moles burrowing under the roots, and a virus that was transmitted via the bees through the pollen, but we have taken the advice of the agriculture minister and we now have this under control. We hope to have enough bananas this year to give to our orphans and families. Our aim is to increase the plantation to 4,000 Trees within the next two years.
There is a very high demand for good bananas, so we shall be able to sell the surplus in the markets, ploughing back the extra capital into other projects, such as goats
We received a donation from the Swiss Tropical Institute in Switzerland of 2,000 US Dollars (£1,321.21) towards the banana plantation project, this will be used to help with the cost of fencing and protection of the plantation.
Half of our trees are now bearing branches of bananas.
Electricity has now been installed at the farm. This will enable us to run an electric pump for our water borehole. While Peter Weyama is here with us, we hope to raise enough funds to purchase the electric pump, header tank and accessories for our water Borehole,
There will then be enough water to irrigate the tree nursery as well as supplying the surrounding homesteads.
To enable us to supply all of the schools and outlying areas, the cost will be around £60,000. We are approaching large funding organisations to help us achieve this as the schools desperately need sanitation. We hope the government will also help with the funding. A slow process but like all projects it takes money and time to achieve what we have set out to do.
Many thanks to the Devon Peace Group, who have helped us with the cost of the water borehole.
We are happy to report that the widows are continuing to help and support each other, those
widows who are able, also help and work in the tree nursery, giving something back to the Trust.
They are also continuing to breed pigs and are supplying other widows with piglets.
The problems we have found however is that due to the economic situation and high costs
of materials, many of the widow’s dwellings are in a critical state of affairs some have had
to be abandoned, with some families accommodating other families in their already crowded homes.
We have however built a dwelling for our neediest widow, whose house was in a near state
of collapse, We aim to start a rebuilding program when more funds are available to provide
new dwellings, on a most needy basis first.
Our next fund raising activities are:-
Saturday 26th September. Sponsored Walk.
This will start from the Babbacombe Inn at 10.00am. and finish at The Park Hotel Paignton a distance of 6 miles. Please join us or sponsor us if you can. Contact Anne Jenkins for more details on:- 01803 813211
Saturday 31st October 10.00AM – 2PM
Autumn Fayre at Paignton Methodist Church , Palace Ave, Paignton.
Come and meet the Panda, many stall including crafts, Pick- a- straw, pin the tail on the elephant, bric-a-brac, homemade cakes, and refreshments.
Our charity with 4 other African charities in Teignbridge, have a recycling receptacle at B&Q Car park, Newton Abbot and Woodholme car park, Buckfastleigh. These will take all unwanted clothing and shoes (not duvets) that can be recycled, the proceeds are shared between the charities.
We have also just undergone a shoe drive of all unwanted shoes, this has been a huge success. The money we receive will be used to buy school shoes for our children in Africa.
We will being doing another shoe event next year, please keep all your unwanted shoes for our collection.
We can’t change the World but we can change SOMEONE’S world.
Ideal Christmas presents :- 2010 calendars for sale at £5 each
Gift vouchers towards any of our projects from £5 each.
Please contact us to purchase your requirements
