Category ethiopia

Oct 18 2011

Roof repair

The Kindu Trust works to support disadvantaged  families and their children throughout the Gonder area.  The role of the charity is to help families carve out a sustainable future for themselves and their communities, however there are numerous challenges to this goal.  Lack of infrastructure, little employment opportunities and food insecurity are perhaps the most obvious challenges that The Kindu Trust works to alleviate.  But there are other problems that families face on a day to day basis that may in fact hinder progress in other areas of support; basic maintenance and sanitation are perfect examples of such problems.

The Kindu Trust provides families with 250bir a month, on average 74% of this is spent on food leaving little else to address other critical needs that the family may be facing. There is rarely, if ever, any surplus to save for the next month and so ongoing problems that may require a lump sum of money to solve are rarely addressed. However last month a sponsor of one of our families inquired as to whether there was anything extra she could do to help her beneficiaries in addition to the child sponsorship scheme.
Well, the team in Ethiopia quickly dispatched a sponsorship coordinator to meet the family and see what could be done to ease some of the day to day problems they encountered. The family regarded the state of the roof which was in urgent need of repair as their greatest concern.

The message was relayed back to sponsor  as well as an estimate as to how much it would cost and the money was duly sent not long after.  The roof was repaired and waterproofed within the month! One of the long standing problems facing this families had been solved.  See the photos below to view the roof before, during and after repairs.

The leaky roof before repairs

At work on the new roof

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you would like to donate to a family in Ethiopia then visit our gift catalogue here  http://www.kindugifts.org/kindugifts/Home.html  there are plenty of vital items that will help to ease the lives of families living in some of the hardest conditions.

The new roof

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Oct 11 2011

Books in the post

The Kindu Trust places  a high value on the education of its beneficiaries, as a result the charity offers supplementary education to the children at the Kindu Klub. Here the children can attend extra classes in English, Maths and Science. This can help a child get a head start that may not have been possible in their circumstances, furthermore this tutoring helps build a better future for the children and their communities.

One of the main challenges in providing this service however is the shortage of books available to educational centres such as the Kindu Klub. Good quality text books, Ethiopian and English dictionaries, informative texts, advisory material and novels are always being sought after by The Kindu Trust. With these materials The Kindu Klub can continue to help those most in need within the education system.
Just think, those books sat around the house that have been read once and will never be read again or those old text books collecting dust on the book shelf can be sent to a community in Ethiopia where they can used many times over.

We are pleased then by the arrival of a shipment of books donated to The Kindu Trust by ‘Books abroad’! There was an impressive array of material from chemistry text books through to past editions of the National Geographic.

A shipment of books newly arrived in Gondar

Here is some feedback from Kassahun Demisse our general manager in Gondar!

It’s my pleasure to confirm the receipt of three parcels of different kinds of books. Thank you so much for sending those books to our organization, The Kindu Trust-Ethiopia. As our project is a Sponsorship in the Community Project, we are running different projects which can help and support our beneficiaries and their families in a number of ways. Among these small projects, the Kindu Club is one of them.

The Kindu Club is established to help our children to have access for supplementary education and to create a proper place where they can study their lessons, do their home works, read fictions and develop their reading skills, get reference books and sometimes practice physical exercises as they lack these facilities at home. Therefore, the books which we already received from you and perhaps the others which will follow next are and will be very helpful for running our Kindu Club programme as we expect it to be.

I, on behalf of The Kindu Trust-Ethiopia team, am very grateful for your donation

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Sincerely  yours

Kassahun Demissie

General Manager

If you want to know more about how you can donate books or other items to The Kindu Trust then follow the link
http://www.kindutrust.org/donate.htm or for any other inquiries don’t hesitate to contact us at kindu@kindutrust.org

For more information about ‘Books abroad’ please visit their website here  http://www.booksabroad.org.uk/