Tembo-Kenya

TEACHING-EMPOWERING-MENTORING-BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES

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Tembo-Kenya is a non-profit society formed to assist development and education in Western Kenya. Projects are run by volunteer Canadians who supervise all contracts and expenditures

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Community Development and Capacity Building:

To relieve poverty in rural Kenya by offering training and assistance to start or improve small businesses and entrepreneurial initiatives

[Micro-finance - building products from agricultural waste- small business training]

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 Education:

 To fund scholarships for needy individual Kenyans to attend Kenyan secondary or post-secondary institutionsTo provide educational materials and assistance to local schools and communities

[Distribution of books, computers, teaching conflict resolution and positive discipline. Providing HIV awareness in elementary schools. Read for the Top.]
 
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- Health:

To provide clean water and sanitary installations for community use on public land in rural Kenya To provide health education, supplies and equipment[

[Simple wells, medical supplies, pit latrines, teaching]
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Donations can be received with thanks through Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria (with tax receipt) or directly to donations@tembokenya.org.  

For updated information: www.blogtembokenya.blogspot.com; www.tembokenya.org (web site in progress) ;

info@tembokenya.org     

Tembo Kenya
920 Park Blvd # 203
Victoria, BC V8V 2T3
250 592 5057
e-mail: kenyatembo@gmail.com

    Patricia and Rod Crossley have been working on these projects in Africa since 2001.   You can reach them personally at kenyatembo(at)gmail.com

Project 1: Job Training
-Send young people and breadwinners to learn skills and trades.$100 trains someone to learn tailoring. $200 trains someone to be a commercial truck driver.
Project 2: Business training and adult literacy
- Provide basic business training and simple bookkeeping for women.
$200 will provide a seminar and follow-up for 40 women.
Project 3: Improved farming and small business set up
- Teach individuals or groups about better farming methods, rabbit keeping, fish farming and raising poultry or goats. $20 will help build a hutch and buy rabbits.

We have set up a library of farming and livestock manuals written for Africa in simple English.
Project 4: Clean water
$2,500 will provide a simple community well.
$500-$700 will protect a spring to serve about 400 people a day.
Project 5: Schools
-Supply computers and reading books to High Schools and to Elementary Schools to improve English, Math and Thinking Skills. One computer can be purchased in Kenya for $150.
Project 6: Virtues Project
- Teach the Virtues Project in schools and communities.
$200 provides a training session for a group of teachers or a community to eliminate use of the cane, train children for leadership as Peace Makers and create structures for cooperation, peace and harmony. Check out www.virtuesinkenya.blogspot.com
Project 7: Training centre and shelters
$2000 will construct a central building for Virtues and Income Generation training. $700 will provide a small house for the homeless .
Why donate to TEMBO KENYA?

• Ten years African volunteer experience
• Kenyan advisory team & Canadian board
• Canadian charitable tax receipt
• Minimal administrative costs
• Sensitive firsthand response to community needs- our home is Kenya six months of the year
• Opportunity to donate to specific projects or individuals
Tembo Kenya
920 Park Blvd # 203
Victoria, BC V8V 2T3
250 592 5057
e-mail: kenyatembo@gmail.com