Guardian reporter Mary MacKay is currently traveling with the Mikinduri Children of Hope’s educational and volunteer tour in Kenya. She will be sending regular dispatches on the group’s activities and the Guardian has setup a separate page where you can read Mary’s stories. There is also an RSS feed.
This is an invitation to become part of a very exciting project.
Work has just begun to drill the first three wells in Mikinduri. They will bring clean, fresh water to the community for the very first time.The plan is to dig 11 wells around the community.
Clean water is the essential first step. Women of the area are currently travelling long distances to get water from the river,
which they carry home on their backs. But this water is polluted and has caused as many problems as it has solved. Access to clean,
fresh drinking water will give the people of Mikinduri a whole new lease on life. It will give them health and it will give them hope.
Here’s how you can help:
Perhaps this is something you would like to do as a family. Or you could do it at your workplace, in lieu of a Christmas gift exchange. In either case, you will be giving a gift that will have significant consequences.
Please send your donation to:
Mikinduri Water Project
c/o Ted Grant
25 Waterview Drive
Cornwall, PE C0A 1H0
Or, you can donate securely online, via PayPal, using the “Make a Donation†button at the top of the sidebar on the main page.
You may also download a colour brochure on this project.
A grant from the City of Charlottetown will allow construction to begin on three wells in Mikinduri, Kenya. In its annual budget, the City allocated $10,000 to the MIkinduri Children of Hope.
“When you see how much we have in a city like Charlottetown, and how much we take for granted, it’s impossible not to be generous to those who have so little,â€said Mayor Clifford Lee, “ It’s easy to look at the problems in Africa and feel overwhelmed. But this is a concrete way the people of our community can really make a difference.”
Each of the three wells will be named in recognition of the City of Charlottetown’s contribution. City Council will choose the names at an upcoming meeting. Plaques will be affixed to the wells when a group from the Maritimes travels to Mikinduri in November.
Mikinduri Children of Hope is selling tickets to the Jubilee Theatre production of Anne & Gilbert - The Island Love Story on July 13th at 8pm. Tickets are $44.50. Tickets sold out last year so be sure to get them ASAP. Thanks to Campbell Webster Entertainment for donating half of the proceeds of all of our tickets sales to our organization. To purchase tickets or to help us sell tickets please call Ted/Rita 566-2976 or email us.
The Mikinduri Children of Hope Yard Sale was a huge success. With the help of volunteers, donors and buyers we raised a little over $4600. The staff of downtown Charlottetown branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia chose our group as their cause this year. They gave us help with the sale and also contributed $5000 to the proceeds. That is $9600 total - enough money for 39,000 meals at the feeding centre. Thank you all!
Mikinduri Children of Hope received some great exposure [pdf] yesterday in our local newspaper, The Guardian, (Saturday, April 8, 2006).
We are redesigning our website using the Wordpress personal publishing platform. Wordpress is commonly used for publishing weblogs — known as blogs — but it also makes a convenient and user-friendly platform for managing regular websites such as this. We hope to provide more frequent updates of our group’s activity and news. Please check back regularly, or subscribe to our RSS feeds.
