Our orphanage, Children for Children’s Future, is in trouble and we need your help.
(Updated April 11,2011)
As most of you know we are volunteering at an orphanage just outside of Arusha, Tanzania. The orphanage was set up in 1994 for street children to come and live and be able to go to school. When the founder of the orphanage passed away, the center went through a series of corrupt managers. Once again we feel that the management at CCF is not looking out for the children’s best interests. Volunteers will no longer be allowed to work with CCF due to the lack of cooperation over money on the management’s part. This means that the children at CCF are going to suffer. A wonderful person has donated funds for all of the kids at CCF to be able to go to school so that basic need has been met. Before the last 2 volunteers leave on September 3, 2010 we want to make sure that their other basic need of food will also be met. The average cost of 1 month of food, including some fruit, vegetables, soap, firewood, etc. is approximately $400USD.
The children at CCF have all lived on the street for 1-2yrs at some point in their life. They all say that they are afraid for when volunteers leave because they do not want things to go back to the way they were at CCF where they went days without food, and had to burn bunk beds for firewood to cook. That is an example of how things were at CCF 8 months ago before volunteers were working there. We want these wonderful kids to be able to stay at CCF and finish school but we need your help for money for food to be able to do that. Any donation that you can afford to make will go a long way at CCF.
Kate & Tom will directly control and distribute any donations made. We plan to buy one month of food at a time. Reasons for this are to avoid wasting food due to rotting etc. We plan to transfer the money raised for food through the cook, a very trust worthy women. The cooks best interests are for the kids and you can be assured that your donation will go towards food for the kids.
If you are able to donate we are asking that you donate to the below Paypal button. Please help us if you are able. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to email us ccfdonations@gmail.com.
Thank you to all of you for your support over the last few months.
Katie Nord & Tom Kuperus
A non-profit organization has been started to continue helping these children. Please go to www.sunriseoflife.com for more details
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