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Courtyard view of the
mummies' houses |
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Corridor view of the
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New mummies’ and
new boys' houses
After two years of dedicated work the new buildings for the
housemothers was opened in December. This makes a big
difference for the mommies. They used to share a room with
seven (7) or eight (8) others. In the new buildings they
sleep with four in a room. There is plenty of light and
space and there are new beds, blankets and curtains. The
walls, rooms, corridors and courtyard look impeccable.
Around the
same time the new house for the former street kids was finished!
Everything looks very neat: it feels like a great place to live. The
boy’s house has water boilers on solar power, which we think is very
cool.
Another low
maintenance solar powered water boiler has been placed at the baby
wing.
New borehole
Another very welcome addition to the children’s home are the second
and third borehole. The boreholes each consist of a tower and a tank
for 10.000 litres of water. One of the boreholes will be used by the
street kids and the other one by the mommies and the police station
just outside Kasisi. In exchange the police will provide extra
security.
The new
boreholes runs on solar powered water pumps. This saves a lot of
money that otherwise would have been spent on diesel for the pump.
The new boreholes were funded by the Dutch Kasisi Foundation,
amongst others. Conny Snoep supervised the development.
All of these new constructions have been paid for by the Dutch
Kasisi Foundation, the Dutch Wild Geese Foundation and ICCO, amongst
others. Special thanks to Conny Snoep from the Netherlands who has
been working on the developments for years.
Art group
Two Zambian artists – Stary Mwaba and Mulenga Chafilwa come to
Kasisi Children’s Home every Sunday afternoon to give art lessons to
25 of our children. The children use oil paint on canvas and make
beautiful paintings. Visit the children's art gallery at this
link.
Hopefully
this spring there will be an exhibition of the paintings in the UK.
In 2008 there was an exhibition in New York. A big thank you to Mrs.
Sardanis of Chaminuka Lodge who arranges and organizes everything:
the artists, the paints, the canvas and the exhibition. We would
also like to thank the artists for their commitment and for
dedicating their weekends to teach art to our children.
Extra generator
British Airways pilot Barbara Perrin with a group of friends from
England donated a silent generator. She also arranged the shipment
of the new generator to Zambia and Mr. Sardanis of the Chaminuka
Lodge arranged the connection. Kasisi is delighted with the
continuous power supply. Kasisi already had a generator to make sure
that the kitchen and the cold room would always have power. With the
current erratic power supply – Kasisi is sometimes without power for
more than twelve hours – another generator was urgently needed.
Visits and
volunteers
Anna Lisa from Brazil visited us about three times a week for
about two months during her stay in Lusaka. She conducted a knitting
course for fifteen girls from Kasisi. It was great. The girls
produced scarves and small blankets for the babies. At the end of
the course they even got certificates!
Shane
arrived from Ireland from and was teaching some of the older
children and is making great impact.
During the last months we have been really lucky to have two local
volunteers from Kasisi, Martha and Tatenda who come
and help us every day.
Michael from Australia brought peace and many scientific
knowledge not only to the helpers but also our children and other
visitors.
Margo, Wilma and Caroline continue to come and
help every week and make a real difference to Nelly’s life helping
also in the babies’ wing.
Annabel is really a treasure when it comes to administration
work. She is of great help in the office making Sr. Mariola’s life
much easier.
Help wanted!
Kasisi Children’s Home urgently needs: computers – our old computers
are completely gone; desks or computer tables – or money for
computer tables; black shoes with closed front for school girls and
boys – may be used but should be in good condition; school bags –
mostly conservative colours; washing powder; bathing soap: and, baby
milk, baby milk powder, baby cereal or porridge – for the age of 6
months and older
Please visit
our Our Monthly Expenses for the
complete listing |
