Project Report
| Jul 10, 2014
Caleb's Story
By Emily Obiti | Field Worker
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Primary School kids enjoying their lunch
When eight year old Caleb showed up at Turning Point's Children's Centre in Kianda, his stomach was riddled with worms, his swollen belly gave it away. The World Health Organisation says that these worms can have a significant negative impact on a child's health and development. But luckily, treatment is simple and affordable. This is why Turning Point regularly deworms all the children accessing our food programme as well as teaching kids about good hygiene and providing clean drinking water.
In time, Caleb's health improved greatly as he benefitted from the deworming tablets and the regular healthy meals. Today, Caleb is a happy and healthy boy. Full of energy and always excited about a game of football.
By supporting Turning Point's Feeding Programme you will help to ensure that 100 children with similar stories to Caleb will receive not only daily breakfast and lunch but also regular deworming and teaching about hygiene. Please consider what you can give to ensure this vital programme continues. Thank you for your support.
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Apr 22, 2014
Thank you for providing meals for all these kids
By Emily Obiti | Field Worker
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Luke enjoys his school lunch
We thought we would send this report in video form. Watch our Fuel for School video to see how your support has made a huge difference to the lives of children living in Kenya's Kibera Slum.
The feeding programme is vital to Turning Point's work returning street children to school as regular healthy and tasty meals attract kids to come to school and to stay in class. Full stomachs help increase concentration in class and give the kids energy to play and socialise with their friends. The feeding programme also serves to improve the children's overall health and wellbeing.
Three siblings - Felix, Esther and Mary-Jane are three of the children benefitting from the feeding programme. The Feeding Programme serves children in both Turning Point's School Transition programme and their Primary School. Felix, Esther and Mary-Jane attend the Primary School. Their parents are not around so they stay with an aunt who already has her own children to care and provide for on her own. The feeding programme takes some of the burden off of this hard-working aunt by providing breakfast and lunch to her orphaned nieces and nephews throughout the school week. Because of your support, this feeding programme can be offered at a subsidised rate and the aunt can even opt to pay the fees in kind by doing jobs around the school.
For Felix, Esther and Mary-Jane the feeding programme is really important as it overcomes the negative impacts of hunger and sets them up to succeed in school.
Thank you all who have given so generously to support this programme. We hope you enjoy the video!
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Jan 15, 2014
School lunches for the new school
By Emily Obiti | Field Worker
This year work at Turning Point is working slightly differently, early in January we opened our own Primary School to serve underprivileged children in Kibera. In the past, the have prepared out-of-school and street children to return to school and then supported those children to attend local primary schools. However, we have now launched our own Primary School to provide a quality education to vulnerable children in Kibera.
The feeding programme continues to serve both the School Preparation Classes, which prepare children to rejoin formal education as well the Primary School. The feeding programme which provides daily meals to the students is vital to ensure that children attend keep attending school and don't drop-out and return to the streets in search of food.
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