good initiative .............i participated in building one of the houses at the mai mahiu camp (un habitat was patnering with rotaract club)i must say thiose guy are desparate hawana any.

Good work @vision2030. Let us know the dropoff points for the clothes

Dear Members,

Please keep the clothes ready.we are organising for the collection point .will revert as soon as possible.Keep an eye on this thread for updates

Thanks Bwenyenye, for the caution, we shall be extra cautious even if it means going to the camp as a club.

As usual we have to take the necessary measures to
ensure that members donations go to the most deserving beneficiaries.
Once the collections are made , we can organise a trip to mai mahiu.It's just about 60km from Nairobi.

Dear Members,

I managed to talk to the administration of Harvest Centre church In Kangemi to allow us to use some stores in the church premises as a collection point.A collection point was a big setback which slowed us in deciding when to Visit the IDPS.

We agreed that we will partner with them in this and other events if Charity members agree.They have a department called Open Hand Ministry in their church which deals with helping the less advantaged in the society .I talked to the Assistant Bishop ,who was more than ready to partner with us.

If you find the Kangemi too far for dropping the clothings and other donations , you can inform me and I will send someone to pick them from your doorstep.


Now , remember the charity club is not a religious grouping so people from all religion are welcome.


Infact, one verse that the Bishop of the Center preached and emphasized on yesterday was James 1. 27

James 1.27

27Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.


So as long as you are doing something to help the poor and vulnerable , you are in the right religion with one attached condition :that you should keep unstained by the world.

We have about 2 weeks to the D-day ,please lets have the donations before 31st May 2011 for planning purposes.

Also , please set aside the date of 4th June 2011 morning hours so we can visit the IDPs .Remember in the afternoon same day will be the Wazua Mbuzi day courtesy of Ric Dees et al.

My email address mpolekabisa@gmail.com

@'user' hapana leta siasa kwa mambo serious kama haya.

Dear members ,
We managed to visit the IDPs at Mai Maiu yesterday .5 Wazuans and 6 volunteers made it for the trip.
We had a first hand experience of the conditions in the IDPs in Mai Maiu.We were assisted and guided by the Chairman Isaac ,coordinator and Chairman of marafiki.org, a local volunteer organisation in the IDP camps at Mai maiu.
This young man is just amazing . ALL the approx 4000 IDPs in the many camps at Mai maiu knows him and all of them from the small 5 year old to the 70 year old grandmothers in the camp have absolute trust and hope in him.

The situation in the camps is just inhuman and unbearable. Imagine a 10x10 feet polythene bag house being shared by 12 people!!! with parents sharing that same 'room ' with teenage children of both gender.
These people cant afford even contraceptives to plan their families .Any little amount they manage to get goes to the meal for the day.

Chairman Isaac told us they have been conducting medical camps in the camps in the past 1 year and the HIV prevelance has been on the increase.The most vunerable there is the girl child since mai maiu is a truck stop over town and truck drivers take advantage ot the vunerable girls.

The girls there also recycle sanitary pads because they cannot afford them.

We had clothes and 2 bundles of maize meal and cooking fat which we personally distributed to the most deserving
30 families .I was very easy to identify the most deserving , guided by chairman Isaac since the camps are arranged and given different names according to the Community Based Organisations (CBOs) that gives them assitance

The families were very happy that they got a meal for that evening and requested Kenyan out there to remember them.Cucu ( a seventy year old) grand mother promised to pray for all of you Wazuans there.

We took the whole day in the visit and managed to depart mai maiu at 6.30 pm. though we had intended to be back in Nairobi by 3.p m for the Mbuzi.

Wazuans, there is so much that can we be done out there . What we saw in Mai maiu is a Shame and embarrasement to our country especially now that most of the volunteers in the camps are foreigners.I know that times are hard but its a sad situation down there.

Chairman Isaac told Kshs 30,000 can feed 30 families for 2 weeks .

Chairman Isaac narrated all this to us for about 30 minutes inside one of the IDP camp with the host present.

The volunteer are now helping the IDPs start sustainability projects .
They are building a clinic in there and a school with 1300 children from the IDPs is already in operation.

@Vision2030/Leona & Other SK club members,

I and my family have gone through the touching and pitiable situation of the IDPs.

Pardon our ignorance, we were thinking that IDPs of the 2008 election crisis were fully rehabilitated.

We intend in a couple of weeks time to send our widows mite to help support the unfortunate Kenyan citizens.

As christians the Bible says whoever gives to the poor lends to the Lord.

May I use this opportunity to thank the Wazuarians and the good volunteers that took time to made the trip to visit our less priviledged members of Kenya community.

We see ourselves (though Nigerians) and non residents as part of Kenya community as we are investing in Kenya and God is blessing us through profits and dividends. It is wise and worthwhile to be identified with the plight of the people we are associating with in business.

We look forward some day when we visit Nairobi to see Master Samuel (with the guidance of SK club) the chap whom God is using the Wazuarians to bless and bring him out of the shackles of poverty.

I commend the vision of Wazua, Vision2030, Leona and Njun'ge in this aspect. May God bless you all.
Permit me to also mention Ric Dees, Pabio and fmooz who made the team to visit the IDPs.

With Regards

Young & Family.