Kenya
Kenya
Kenya
Kenya
Moindabi
The Moindabi community is located in a valley at an elevation of 6000ft around 100kms to the north west of Nairobi, Kenya. Home to around 1000 families – typically comprised of 10 or more members living in a 2 room tin shack – support comes from an acre or so of cropped land and a handful of animals. With at least half the population of the area being children, it’s clear that any possibility for forward momentum in this agricultural region will depend on two things – education and water.
Water
Over the last 5 years, the Moindabi valley has experienced a significant climate shift. Reoccurring drought patterns in recent years have seen crops fail and the community suffer drastically as a result. While a bore supplied by NGO World Vision has thankfully allowed locals to tap into a well-surveyed aquifer underneath the valley, the supply method doesn’t allow for any mass gravity distribution or irrigation system. For many children this means time that could be spent in school is instead needed for fetching and carrying water.
be* has partnered with the community’s pre-existing water committee:
to provide water to a school.
to develop a staged valleywide water reticulation rollout to the community, enabling kids to attend the school rather than walking 3 to 7 km to fetch water.
install a fluoride reduction filtration plant at the school, to improve water quality and to give the school the opportunity to sell filtered water to the community.
enable farmers to install and use micro irrigation techniques to increase their crop yields.
Projected cost of this staged water project $350,000 NZD
Project Status: staged project is predominantly completed
Moindabi Project Breakdown
Further ongoing staged work:
water storage tanks
further reticulation
pump maintenance
random water quality testing and assessment
The water project has been a community effort and now each family has their own water tap!
Education
With a well established, government registered school in the valley, the community is attuned to the importance of education in seeing future generations grow, learn and develop the opportunities around them. If a child has a secondary school education, then in later years they can potentially run a business. As with most schools in this area however, Moindabi is restricted by the challenges of poor facilities, and high teacher turn-over due to low pay, no accommodation and challenging teaching conditions. Teachers often walk several hours every day just to get to their classroom.
The education project in Moindabi is a project building classrooms and teacher accommodation (estimated at $300,000 NZ), helping the school to attract better teaching talent as well as increasing capacity allowing a secondary school programme to grow and provide much needed improvements to the learning environment for the children of the valley. This estimate also seeks to cover a growing school role, inflationary cost increases, building and designing future classrooms and an admin block.
Estimated Cost of Project $300,000 NZD
Project Status: Ongoing
Education Project, Moindabi
This project has been a huge success. Classrooms have been built, a fluoride reduction filter is in place at the school.
Further ongoing work:
The admin building is soon to commence.
Kibera
In Nairobi lies the Kibera slum, home to an estimated one million people and a metropolis as filthy and corrupt as it is thriving.
New Adventure School
Within its endless warren of mud shacks and polluted streets of Kibera,New Adventure School provides over 400 children with primary school education and at least one much-needed meal each day. Tthis was our first completed and fully operational school within Kibera.
After the fire
New Adventure School initially consisting of one hall with teachers struggling to conduct five classes within this space. Since partnering with be* has assisted New Adventure School in relocating to a more appropriate site, where it now has twelve classrooms, a cookhouse, toilets and a play area. be* also provided support to rebuild when a devastating fire which ravaged a significant portion of the slum unfortunately damaged a section of the school.
The school is now fully operational and be* has completed our work with this project. Other donors have come on board to look after the ongoing needs of the school.
Total Cost of Project $80,000 NZD
Project Status: Complete
New Adventure School Project, Kibera
The completed New Advanture School
Adventure Pride School
Adventure Pride School is our second school in Kibera and a sister school to our first educational facility. The term ‘pride’ comes from the concept of a family of lions.
There was an Urgent Need
Adventure Pride School buildings were demolished to make way for a road.
be* appealed to our wonderful supporters for NZ$30,000 to purchase land to enable new classrooms to be built. This was most kindly donated….
thank you, thank you, on behalf of the children from a horrible and challenging place to live.
Estimated Cost of Project $130,000 NZD
Project Status: Ongoing
Adventure Pride School Project, Kibera
The purchase of adjoining land is ongoing. Further adjoining land is available for us to purchase.
Can you assist?
There is a big demand from families living within Kibera to have their children attend the Adventure Pride School due to its reputation, results, and incredible leadership team.
Uganda
Uganda
Uganda
Uganda
Kitgum
For many years Northern Uganda was ravaged by civil war which forced thousands of rural farmers off their land into Internal Displacement Camps (IDP). Village life and family life was destroyed, farming skills were lost and schools were shut down. Once the IDP camps were disestablished, Kitgum Matidi Primary School continued to operate.
In 2012 be* partnered with the school to assist in the financing and construction oversight of seven classrooms which will accomodate 300+ children.
The Kitgum Matidi School is situated some kilometres from the much larger town of Kitgum itself. Kitgum Matidi means ‘little kitgum’.
Old school buildings
The first 4 classrooms were completed in late 2015/early 2016
Concrete floors, brick walls and iron roofs now replaced the old mud and stick structure. Further funding will provide metal framed joinery.
Total Cost of Project $70,000 NZD
Project Status: Current
Kitgum School Project Breakdown
Other Ongoing Projects in the Kitgum region
be* is also involved in funding various other initiatives in the region around Kitgum, some directed toward long-term farming sustainability and efficiency, thus enabling farmers to pay school fees. More recently an exciting tertiary educational facility is mostly completed, with approximately 8 training disciplines, and 230 students attending:
Oxen & Ploughs
Oxen and Ploughs enables the land to be farmed more efficiently producing a greater harvest.
Honey Project
be* funded 50 hives as a community honey producing project, to assist families. Honey can be sold at the local markets with profits returning to the families.
Moroto
The girls of Project Moroto
Project Moroto is a home for orphaned girls on a one acre site in the town of Moroto. In 2011 as piece of land was given to Project Moroto for a childcare facility by the local community. Since then we have built a dormitory for 18 girls, a dining room, a kitchen, bathroom block, a pavilion to give the girls a shaded outside area, a storage room and a room for the live-in Mama.
As a staged project a further two-story larger tuition and meeting facility has been completed, together with high security fencing encircling and protecting the complete facility. There are hundreds of girl orphans in Moroto – we want to change the lives of as many as we can. Not only do we change their lives but an educated girl can change an economy!
Total Cost of Project $120,000 NZD
Project Status: be* contribution is now complete and Project Moroto runs the ongoing project
This project is now being run by another NZ Registered Charity, Project Moroto.
Moroto Project Breakdown
Tanzania
Tanzania
Tanzania
Tanzania
Moshi
New Life Foundation
Close to the foot of Mt Kilimanjaro, outside the town of Moshi, in the United Republic of Tanzania, local organisation New Life Foundation has established Fountain of Hope primary school, a residential school for underprivileged and orphan children catering to an active roll of over 400 students.
In 2005 be* supported New Life Foundation’s work by funding of a number of much needed school buildings, associated utilities and improvements. Additionally be* has been able to fund the acquisition of over 25 acres of land, set aside for a longer term plan of developing a secondary school and a tertiary training institution, a first step in giving more students hope of extending their education beyond primary level.
The Moshi Sustainable Farm
Until the facility is built the land is being put to use to grow maize crops, which is proving of great value in feeding the children at the school. Currently new land in the area costs 10x the cost paid for these acres so being able to purchase the land was a great investment in the future for New Life Foundation.