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Saturday, August 1, 2020

10 - What next?

In planning ...



We have been donated some Heavy Flow Days For Girls Shields, and are making liners to fit them to make kits for the Positive Aid hospital (see page 6).  The Charity have offered to help with transport logistics and costs ... we just need to get the kits ready!



We recently met a charity that supports children near Nariobi to attend school.  The charity astonishingly enough, works in Kisumu!



KisumuChildren.org.uk asks people to sponsor a child by buying their school uniform - without uniform they cannot attend school, so the charity works to replace the uniform every year.  The  school they support is for children up to the age of 14.  I had a long chat with Suzanne from the charity and they go to Kisumu every year!  She was very interested in our kits (I always carry a 'pod' of a shield and a liner to show people!) and they are happy to take our kits out - some for their school girls and some for the Kisumu hospital in the Uranaga Rural Development Initiative (URDI)

We have emailed them to find out  when they are next going, and how many kits they want for the school.






We have also been working with a volunteer who works in Greece with Syrian refugees.  We had hoped to be able to supply them with sewing machines (hand crank) and the resources so they could make their own.  Sadly water is so scarce that a washable product isn't going to be any help.  They are finding out if the sewing machines would help, if not we will find another charity that can make use of the old Singers etc that we have collected

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