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