Friday, November 27, 2009
Ladies soccer team
At long last the girl’s soccer team is here with us, the team was launched by CTC Kenyan director where he presented some uniforms and also bought a soccer ball for them. The girls gathered at the office in the evening where they eagerly waited for the team to be launched and afterwards proceeded to the playing ground where the launching was done and later in the day they started their first training. The girls played soccer and they said that it was fun. Some of them never played soccer before and they could not tell the difference between the two teams even after being given some uniforms but we are hoping that they will get to learn how to play soccer as they continue practicing.
Monday, November 23, 2009
CTC soccer team launching
CTC soccer team was officially started by CTC Kenyan director where he presented the team with two pairs of soccer uniforms (they could play without their T-shirts on as you can see in the photos). The purpose of the team is to empower the youths in Maai-Mahiu through sports,to nature their talents and also keep them busy after graduating from schools since they stay idol in town doing nothing. We are soon launching ladies soccer team so that we can also empower ladies in our society where they believe ladies cannot play soccer.
Town Clean Up Mobilization accelerates
We are just about to close the month and we are thankful that CTC is still encouraging the community to step up and do the things that we can do without outside support. The Town clean has caught the momentum after C.T.C. has done that for two consecutive months. Now the County Council have launched a clean up that will go for one hundred days from from 16th of this month. CTC was invited to partner with the Town council during the launching ceremony and was highlighted as great role model of what needs to be happening in our Town. That day we collected 10 tons of trash with a few volunteers who came up.
Last Saturday was another ubuntu day for CTC in Maai Mahiu. It turned out to be more successful that all the rest. The turn out was better than the previous ones. We targeted about 150 volunteers and we had 120. Thank you friends for coming out to support us. More organized groups are coming up to partner with us and we thank each one of them for their efforts.
We created a positive stir in the town as we walked through from our offices to Ngeya primary school where we helped collect trash and planted 100 trees. We only have lost 16 trees out of the 220 trees we planted before. That is 92% success in the dry Maai Mahiu. What a joy! We are trusting that the trees will do even better as the environment club has been so proactive in taking care of their school.
This month we also encountered an incident that have been very challenging. As the World AIDS Day approaches, we have been visiting those that have been benefiting from our HIV/AIDS program, during the visit we identified a case of one woman who is not only ailing from HIV but also has a broken leg and four kids to take care of. One of her daughters who is 13 years old is also HIV positive and not able to go to school. Hunger is the number one need for this family. We were able to give them a weeks worth of food but we concluded that we still need to do a lot in our program and we are hoping to create a way that these families could do activities that can help them feed their families.
Finally we can say we have put a soccer team together of young men who share the vision of CTC. They have been joining us in our Ubuntu days and have been working hard to give back to the community. We gave them some soccer Jerseys that we received from Free State High school and have been so excited about the newly found adventure. All we need is more equipment to keep them going and keep them practicing together. Very soon we are trusting the girls will come out too so that we can have an active youth program.
Thanks again for your interest in what we are doing and the passion to help us develop our community. Keep us in your thoughts as continue to see other possibilities of the things that we can do together to uplift lives.
Jeremiah Kuria
Last Saturday was another ubuntu day for CTC in Maai Mahiu. It turned out to be more successful that all the rest. The turn out was better than the previous ones. We targeted about 150 volunteers and we had 120. Thank you friends for coming out to support us. More organized groups are coming up to partner with us and we thank each one of them for their efforts.
We created a positive stir in the town as we walked through from our offices to Ngeya primary school where we helped collect trash and planted 100 trees. We only have lost 16 trees out of the 220 trees we planted before. That is 92% success in the dry Maai Mahiu. What a joy! We are trusting that the trees will do even better as the environment club has been so proactive in taking care of their school.
This month we also encountered an incident that have been very challenging. As the World AIDS Day approaches, we have been visiting those that have been benefiting from our HIV/AIDS program, during the visit we identified a case of one woman who is not only ailing from HIV but also has a broken leg and four kids to take care of. One of her daughters who is 13 years old is also HIV positive and not able to go to school. Hunger is the number one need for this family. We were able to give them a weeks worth of food but we concluded that we still need to do a lot in our program and we are hoping to create a way that these families could do activities that can help them feed their families.
Finally we can say we have put a soccer team together of young men who share the vision of CTC. They have been joining us in our Ubuntu days and have been working hard to give back to the community. We gave them some soccer Jerseys that we received from Free State High school and have been so excited about the newly found adventure. All we need is more equipment to keep them going and keep them practicing together. Very soon we are trusting the girls will come out too so that we can have an active youth program.
Thanks again for your interest in what we are doing and the passion to help us develop our community. Keep us in your thoughts as continue to see other possibilities of the things that we can do together to uplift lives.
Jeremiah Kuria
Monday, November 16, 2009
Rafiki Link.
Rafiki link has been moving on well and as the last term in school this year is now ending we accomplished several goals that we had for this month, all the students are now able to transfer photos from digital cameras to computers which they did not know before.
Kids at Ngeya Primary school also went ahead and put it into practice where they made a newsletter which is shown on this blog.
We also had students who were Rafiki link club members who graduated from form four and they were awarded some certificates that showed that they participated in the Rafiki (friendship) connection with schools in Canada. They greatly participated in this connection and we thank them for their commitment, we now hope to recruit new members who will replace them for next year.
The schools here are now preparing for their end of year examinations.
Program co- ordinator
Paul Mwaniki.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Appreciation
The Malaika Mums project is still proceeding. The Mums are working very hard as usual, hoping for a better tomorrow. More than anything else the Mums are appreciating the skills they have learned to be able to bring food on the table in times of Crisis. The information and the activities of World Food day still lingers so clear on their minds. They evaluated their participation on Ubuntu Day and they all agreed that they have lit a light and kept it high for all to enjoy the brightness. They have vowed to continue to do good and mobilize more to join them.
They have been congratulated for working hard to reduce the social stigma of the disabled kids. Bringing them to CTC center through the Town everyday not only makes the community aware of them but they also start saying hello to them and the anxiety goes down. We appreciate the Mums for accepting the situation of their children and being bold to bring them out.
By Liz Josiah
They have been congratulated for working hard to reduce the social stigma of the disabled kids. Bringing them to CTC center through the Town everyday not only makes the community aware of them but they also start saying hello to them and the anxiety goes down. We appreciate the Mums for accepting the situation of their children and being bold to bring them out.
By Liz Josiah
Monday, November 2, 2009
UBUNTU DAY
We had a successful Ubuntu dayand everyone in the community recognized the good work that we are doing.
The county council officer attended the event together with county council employees, commuity members, malaika mums, disabled group, Maai- Mahiu secondary students and also Kids from Ngeya primary school attended the event.
The county council officer attended the event together with county council employees, commuity members, malaika mums, disabled group, Maai- Mahiu secondary students and also Kids from Ngeya primary school attended the event.
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