Sunday, July 25, 2010

Good Samaritan Children’s Home

(Mathare Slum, Nairobi, Kenya)

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Good Samaritan Children’s Home and Rehabilitation Center is located in the Mathare slums surrounding Nairobi Kenya. Mathare has no sanitation facilities or electricity; the slum has one water pipe and the women and children have to carry water in worn plastic jugs for drinking and washing. The area is plagued by disease, crime and gangs.
Good Samaritan currently provides housing, food and some basic education to over 220 children that have been orphaned by the loss of their parents to AIDS or children that have been abandoned because of the overwhelming poverty in the slums and families that could no longer feed and support them. A number of these children also have health problems including AIDS and TB for which most are receiving medications. It is especially difficult to care for those few children who have physical disabilities.

The children grow stronger day by day as they are nurtured by Mercy, the founder and director of Good Samaritan, and a small dedicated group of community volunteers. Mercy and her staff have deep faith and personal commitment, even as they struggle each day to find the essential resources to feed, clothe and educate these orphaned and abandoned children.

We as Destitute support team is there fore kindly and humbly requesting any assistance for this kids that are  struggling to make a living 

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