Last Week In Numbers

93 children ate a hot meal at The Kindu Trust
36 toddlers got to play with an exciting range of new toys at Playgroup
10 children used the Kindu library for extra study
8 kids saw the weekend in with the Friday football game
10 families were visited by our Sponsorship team to see how the children are doing

Kindu UK Office Move

The UK office has relocated to a new office in Finsbury Park, London! Our new address is:

The Kindu Trust
225-229 Seven Sisters Road
London
N4 2DA

We were very sorry to leave our old offices in the Peel Community Centre in Kings Cross, which has now relocated its activities, but are pleased to have moved to another Community Centre, Finspace. We had been at the Peel Centre for 5 years and moved with our sister charity Link Ethiopia to Finspace where we continue to share an office. Thanks to the move we are also able to save on our overhead costs which we are always pleased to achieve!

The building hosts several other small African and local organisations who we look forward to getting to know. The Kindu Trust plans to remain here for the foreseeable future, and not just because we’ve found several delicious Ethiopian restaurants nearby!

Update on the Drought

Since April this year, Ethiopia has experienced it’s worst drought in 50 years, now reaching its peak. The dry spring has turned into traditional ‘lean season’ with occasional summer rains in some regions. They are welcomed with relief by many, but still are not enough to prevent people from suffering from lack of clean water. About 18 million people remain in need of food aid, including 6 million children, many of whom are suffering from severe malnutrition. Farmers are losing their crops and water sources are drying up, which results in families struggling to keep themselves and their animals alive. National and international efforts mean that 5 kg of wheat is currently supplied to each family in the drought zone, however this is only one third of a human being’s nutritional requirement.

The Kindu Trust’s sponsored families are all based in our project areas in North Western areas such as Gondar, Debark and Lalibela as well as the capital, Addis Ababa in the centre, which means that they have not been affected by the drought. (As you can see in the map above, Gondar is in the light green area in the upper left of the country). However, if you would like to support efforts to find solutions and provide assistance to those affected by the drought, the following organisations currently have appeals that you can donate to:

Save the Children is making an appeal to support Ethiopia with the emergency food aid to supply Ethiopians with all the basic food products they need, to help them go through this extremely difficult period and save lives of many children affected by Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM). Donate to the Save the Children Food Crisis Appeal here.

CAFOD is making an appeal to provide starving families with food. Donations can buy a family either a 100 kg sack of maize, a monthly food basket or 100 kg of wheat seeds for farmers to plant next season. Donate to the CAFOD Food Crisis appeal here.