Edd and I have been volunteering at a community project in Kenya for 1 month now. The project includes an Orphanage, hospital and School. The Orphanage homes 80 children and the School currently educates 900+ children. The project is sponsored primarily by Italians allowing the sponsored children the benefit of the project for free. An amazing couple including; a woman from Tyneside and her Kenyan husband set this place up 15 years ago and has devoted her entire life to it.
As with any organisation it has it's little organisational issues and last week we asked one of the staff at the Orphanage home to list the problems she thought needed addressing. Along with an essay about the gossip surrounding the founders of the project and their alleged involvement with Witch Doctors, stapled to the back of the sheets we received the below letter as I have copied it out. Obviously her identity will remain anonymous, but her written word illustrates quite nicely what I have been trying to describe. How we are perceived. I wonder what 'Jim'll fix it' would have replied back with! For reference 1000Ksh is approx £10/10EUROs
Mr and Mrs Edward
I have been trying to get you for the last few days but it seems you are busy.
Now after you go through the Problems of this home Please see my Personal Problems too.
I need your assistance very much if it is Possible and Please dont tell the directors because I may even be chased out of the Compound, because what I heard is that workers are not allowed to ask or borrow anything from the visitors who come here especially the whites. (Europeans)
But this Problem has really, Stressed me alot. am not settled. and if you will help me by tomorrow I will travel home to kilifi at 2.00pm
This is what i need
7,000Kshs to pay dept for my mother: this is what it is, my mother joined the Kenya Women finance trust and December last year she took a loan Worth 50,000 to buy a Plot. She is Supposed to send 5,400Kshs every month. She is jobless, I have a sister who is a ERIGI teachers college Kakamega, 6 of them are in Primary level. I am the only one working. so out of my salary 8,000 I have to divide it _______Kse rent for the room am leaving in, home and college. last month my mother did not send that money to the KWFT She was sick and I went to see her and I used that money for her hospitel bill and food.
Now the money is needed and she was to pay since last week no means. are u capable of helping me?
Please help.
Also my sister at College need 6,000Kshs school fees where will I get all this amount of money?
In the house I don't have food I dont have even a coin I take all my meals in the home before I go to sleep. you can make shopping for me if you wish.
Your negative response will be highly appreciated by me. and the family at large.
Your welcomed to my family to pprove what am telling you or in my room at Serengett.
Thanks Very Much
THINGS I NEED
4kg Maize flour
1big Hairfood Nice & Lovely (yellow)
5kg Rice (pishori)
2kg Sugar
1kg OMO
1+1 Shampoo & Conditioner
1big lotion - Nivea
1big fair & lovely (Cream)
3 bars Bathing Soap (imperial lether)
2pkts 2in1 Always
1big Colgate
1big Valon
3litres Cooking oil
3 rolls Tissue
1median Salt
1kg Blueband
2kg Wimbi
1kg Tealeaves
2pkts Supaget
2kgs Ngano -wheatflour
1big Royco
5litres Paraffin (Kerosine)
INCLUSIVE IS:
1) A BED. I only have the matress but I dont have a bed. and bed sheets. (4x6)

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