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Tumaini Home of Hope Newsletter
November
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UK CHARITY NO.
1119126
PO Box 242, Hythe, Kent, CT21 6WW
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We have
Eight Trustees on board in the UK now.
Danielle Bonning: Jason Lang
Mary
Leadbetter: Bronwyn May: Michael O'Leary:
Michelle Porter:
Our job is to
co-ordinate the fund-raising in the UK and to
collect news and events from the Home to pass on
to our supporters.
No
trustee receives any payment or expenses for
the work or visits that they
undertake.
We can email or post -Standing Order
forms: Gift Aid forms: Permission to "Fund- Raise"
letters and airline "Extra Baggage Allowance"
request letters.
Cheques sent to us in the UK
should be made out to "Tumaini - Home of Hope" and
sent to our Box office (above).
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Visiting the
Home Joan
welcomes visitors.
Her postal address
is
PO Box 10478,
Mombasa, Kenya
Directions to the
Home: The Home is
situated in Bamburi, north of Mombasa town (about
half an hour's drive from the airport). Look
for signs for the Bamburi Cement Works, which is
just off the main highway (Mombasa to
Malindi/Kilifi road). Turn left at this
point and head towards the cement works. You
will pass it on your left - a couple of miles on
and a couple of roundabouts later you will see a
sign for the Home on the right hand side of the
road. Go down
this narrow track and you will hear the children
laughing - follow these joyful sounds!
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Adoption
We get
enquiries about adoption. A useful link is
Click
Here |
Fundraising
Many people ask us
if they can send parcels of clothing, stationery,
medication, etc to the Home.
We are not in a position to send
gifts from the UK and it is not encouraged as it
is both cost prohibitive and there is no
guarantee that the parcels will arrive at the
Home. Cruise liners have asked us NOT to
request space to carry gifts and parcels to the
home. Some airlines will provide an extra
suitcase - on the first to ask basis
- we can supply letters of request.
Many people hold coffee mornings:
boot fairs - to sell their unwanted items: or quiz
nights or dances, etc. to raise funds and
thoroughly enjoy the process while raising funds
for the Home. We appreciate all that is
being done for these children and are always so
amazed by peoples' generosity.
We love to know in advance of any event
you are running - maybe we can help or
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Voluntary
work
Many,
many people wish to volunteer their time to help
at the Home. There are two ways you can do
this:
1) On an informal
basis, by visiting the Home and helping out for an
hour or two. You would need to check this
with Joan and Elizabeth, the matron. People
usually stay at one of the nearby hotels on the
north coast and visit the Home bearing gifts as
well! (We do ask, not too many sweets
please, as several of the youngsters have had
visits to the dentist, which they don't
like!).
If you are visiting we in the UK
would like to know of your trip, possibly receive
photographs for our albums and give ideas to help
you enjoy your trip.
2) On a more formal
footing - volunteering through an
organisation called i-to-i. They operate
from the UK. Their details are
www.i-to-i.com. Tel: 0800 011 1156: They get
booked up very quickly and there is a waiting
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Dear Michael
VTPLC,
Welcome All our
Supporters. We have taken this
opportunity to bring you up to date with news on
the children and the Home
Our New website
is under construction so please use the link
above.
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Update on the Children
and the Home
Trustees Jason and
Danielle have returned from the Home within the
last month: Currently there are now 24 children
at the Home, ranging from age 2 - 9. The
Home is expecting another 7 very soon.
They are well and happy and the staff have a
wonderful relationship with them. It is a
pleasure to see them all gel together.
The first phase of the school,
across the track road, is now open, which
has released space within the Home. The
children are now divided into girls' and boys'
dormitories. They each have a bedside
locker with their favourite toys inside.
Visitors have been very
generous of their time and commitment, taking
the children to the local safari park, the beach
and on other interesting trips in and around
Mombasa.
Recently a group of
very dedicated guides from Stone (Staffordshire)
visited the Home. They had been
fund-raising for 2 years and had been in
training in construction crafts, AIDS awareness:
bereavement counselling skills. They
stayed in a local hotel and visited the Home on
a daily basis for some weeks, helping with the
construction of the school. (Danielle praised
the inspirational work these young guides had
done in the UK, to prepare them for their 6 week
visit to Mombasa). As there was very
little information on the date of birth of the
children in the home, the guides wanted to make
29th October as a birthday for all and they
organised a very special birthday party for them
on that day! While the guides were
there a sports day was arranged. The Tumaini
children were taken to the nearby Mikoroshoni
School to compete in running, sack races, egg
and spoon and the usual fun things. This
school is another project that the Stone Guides
have been supporting. Their final act of
generosity was to buy the Home a
matatu (mini bus) to ferry
visitors to the Home: daily collection of food
from shops in Mombasa and to take the children
to hospital for their blood tests and any other
medical problems that need attention.
The trustees in the UK
want to give the Stone Guides a
VERY BIG THANKYOU for their
generosity and support. Our UK
charity is to pay the ongoing wages for the
driver of the matatu.
SPECIAL
THANKS
Trustee Danielle wishes
to thank publicly the generosity of visitors who
helped her and the Home on her recent
visit:
Vicky and Clive: Switches,
sockets and fan man, Judi Tait and her husband:
Repaired toilets and washing machine, Wendy and
David Roberts: Gifts for the children,
Caroline Fiddaman and her mother: A
suitcase full of school uniforms, gifts and
medication. They also raised £1,600 for
Tumaini, Carl and Jeanna Knight: Cash
donation, John and Yvonne Brooker:
Continued support and kindness. First
Choice Flight Crew: Amazing gifts - A mini
bus was needed to transport it all to the Home,
Barbara Glass: Box of Christmas gifts sent
from Australia, Gararel Metselaar:
Donation of 600
Euros
SPECIAL THANK
YOU To the
Allen and Nesta Feguson Trust
who donated over £5000 to ensure that the school
was fully operation plus desks chairs and a
climbing frame. Plus The Clabile
Trust who donated over £500 for text
books exercise books and other school equipment.
The UK charity had bought the
Home Internet broadband and Jason set this up on
his last visit. We are hoping to get
regular updates, via email to post on to the
website, when it is up and running. Jason
also took out a replacement swimming pool as the
other one was completely worn
out! Jeremy KIyle
We were fortunate
enough to be involved with the Jeremy Kyle show
in May 2007. Jeremy and his crew spent 10
days filming at the Home and came back full of
praise for the staff who worked so diligently to
give comfort and love to these children.
In the summer Jeremy telephoned Joan and
Elizabeth for an update and this was viewed on
ITV on Friday, 7th November.
Photo
DVD
Jason was sent a DVD of
photos taken by a tourist who had visited
recently and and if you want a copy, please
let us have your land address and we'll pop one
in the post to you (donation very much
appreciated, of
course!). |
Taking in new
children
Some people
have asked about the process of taking in
children at the Home. Joan tells us that
it is a very lengthy procedure. There is a
lot of bureaucracy which is very
time-consuming. The Social Services or
referral agencies have to get death certificates
of closest relative (mother, uncle, grandmother,
etc) to prove the children are orphaned.
The children have to be tested for
AIDS/HIV. Then there is the process of
getting legal guardianship, as Tumaini will be
their Home until they wish to leave in
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Livingston
Airways
After several
visits by the airline crew from Livingston
Airlines (The staff have raised the money to
build the school) the children were invited to
Moi Airport where they had arranged for the
Tumaini children and staff to visit their plane
and indeed see what a plane looks like close
up. Until this time the only airplane
that the children had seen were the little dots
in the sky that they were told were either
arriving or leaving planes.
Upon
arrival at the airport the children were very
quiet and were immediately overawed by the sheer
magnitude of the comings and goings of a busy
airport.
The airport security gave
us a guided tour of the airport and just to see
all the little faces as they saw the giant form
of an airplane close up was amazing. They
were then led up a set of stairs and it took a
few moments until they realized that they had
indeed boarded a plane. They were shown all the
way around the cabin and each had a look in the
cockpit to meet the captain and
co-pilot.
As we left the plane I
felt a tear in my eye as this was such a
wonderful experience for them. As we were
about to leave the airport Katherine and myself
offered to buy the children a cold soda each and
we were directed to the Kenyan employee café, as
the prices were about half that of the main
cafe. The children all sat and
watched out over the runways with their soda and
one of their favorite snacks - sausages.
As they sat the Livingston Airline plane
began taxi-ing in front of their
eyes. They saw the actual plane that they
had been on just 20 minutes earlier, take off
into the air right before their
eyes.
I
would like to thank all the Livingston crew who
made this day possible
Trustee -
Jason.
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STAFF & CHILDREN AT
THE HOME
CHILDREN'S NAMES AND
AGES
Joanne
2 Stephen
2
Meshack 2
Peter
3 Jemima
4 Mercy
4
Hope
5
Faith
5 Leon
5
Baraka
6 Sophia
6 Lydia
6
Isiah
6
Elizabeth
6 Amina
6
Abdulah
6
May 7 Terrence
7
David
8
Kadzo
8 Christopher
9
Stephen (Big) 9
Anthony
9 Moses
9
Elizabeth -
Matron Naiomi -
Chef Joyce
Juliet
Emily
Anna
Rukia
Florence
Juma
(Kitchen) Juma
(Gardener)
Beatrice
Esther
Mary Naomi
(Teacher)
WORLD AIDS DAY -
Dec.
1st.
May all our prayers
help!
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Finally, a very big thank you to all of you
who have supported The Tumaini Children's Home, in thought,
word or deed. The children will grow up to be good
ambassadors in the fight against discrimination and abuse
inflicted on people who are HIV infected. These children
have a chance and with your continued help, more children will
find their way to the Home and be given the opportunity to
change from sickness and trauma to joy and good health.
You only have to visit to know that IT WORKS! Best
wishes
Trustees - Tumaini - Home of
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