AFRICA 2023

Nutrition and education of shepherd children in Kenya
With Africa Digna Foundation

We continue to collaborate with the fifth program “Lchekuti, shepherd children” in Kenya together with Africa Digna Foundation. This project promotes a dignified life for 133 children aged 6 to 16 years by carrying out impactful educational and nutritional interventions in the Samburu communities of Barsaloi, Lodokume, Lowa and Lulu. They have access to two hours of education a day from Monday to Friday and a balanced meal at the end of classes each day. For these communities, which are located in northern Kenya, pastoralism is their main economic activity. Because these little shepherd children work all day, they do not have the opportunity to go to school and are fed exclusively on milk and tea. Therefore, they are children who do not know how to read or write, with a high risk of social exclusion and with a considerable degree of malnutrition.

Contribution: 7.200€ + 2nd phase 2024: 8.279,50€

Improvements in infrastructure, food and health in Kenya
With Kakrigu Primary School

Kakrigu Primary School is located on Mfangano, an island in Lake Victoria in Kenya. In 2016, it received all our support to finance infrastructure improvement works and guarantee the education of 350 primary school children. On November 9, 2022, there was a storm that caused serious damage to the school’s infrastructure. Due to falling trees, 2 classes and electrical wiring were destroyed. They temporarily used the library as a class and the other class was held under the remaining trees. This project financed the material and reconstruction of the school’s infrastructure, as well as the wiring of the affected classes.

 

Contribution: 2.453€

Nutrition program for children and nursing mothers in Kenya
With Aztivate Association

This project with Aztivate Association guaranteed that children from 0 to 6 years old and nursing mothers had access to comprehensive medical care for the prevention and treatment of malnutrition and other diseases, reducing mortality of both mothers and children in North Turkana County and Kenya’s border area with South Sudan and Ethiopia. The Nuria García Foundation has financed the medical care of 400 children and nursing women in the clinic and mobile unit, as well as the monitoring of cases, the purchase and distribution of therapeutic foods, training workshops for mothers and fathers on action protocols, and cultural patterns for better health and nutrition.

Contribution: 4.000€

FFFood and nutrition program at Kikaya House, Uganda
With Babies Uganda Association

The Babies Uganda Association collaborates to solve the dramatic reality that thousands of Ugandan children experience due to broken families, abandonment, death of their parents, abuse, or illness. In addition, they help progress and development throughout the community, especially in education and health. Kikaya House is an orphanage that currently has 30 foster children and 6 caregivers who take care of them. Also, part of the house are 3 workers in charge of the maintenance and security of the entire facility. In this sixth project with Babies Uganda, we have financed the entire nutritious diet of the 30 children and the 9 caregivers for a year.

Contribution: 9.325€ + 2nd phase 2024: 4.662,50€

A ray of light in the darkness in Uganda
With Babies Uganda Association

In Uganda functional diversity is a controversial issue. Furthermore, they do not have social aid or adequate treatment. The CEVIC school is responsible for the medical care, nutrition and education of 50 children with visual disabilities. Most of these children’s families live in remote areas, so the school not only provides them with essential food and care, but also much-needed stability. The Nuria García Foundation, with the collaboration of Tailored Perfumes, has once again financed the school fees of the 50 children during the 2023 school year. This includes their schooling, dormitory, food and medical care expenses.

Contribution: 31.200€ + 2nd phase 2024: 20.800€

Construction of a nursery school in Senegal
With Gune Foundation

Since 2016 we have collaborated with the Guné Foundation to improve the quality of life of thousands of children in vulnerable situations in Senegal. The population of the Soussoutou village lives in a savanna area, far from urban centres, surrounded by pasture areas and without a road network that facilitates the movement of its population to health or educational centres. The town is located 40 kilometres from the nearest city. With our support, since 2020, 5 classrooms and bathrooms have already been built at the Soussoutou school. However, there are still classes made from straw and reed. This year we have once again financed a new cement classroom in this village to improve the study conditions of 229 children.

Contribution: 14.374,50€ + 2nd phase 2024: 7.374,50€

Improving the Gambasse School in Guinea-Bissau
With SILO Association

SILO Association has been collaborating in Guinea-Bissau, one of the most underdeveloped countries in the world, for almost 20 years. They promote the development of rural communities, and intervene to promote education, access to health and improvements in nutrition. In this fifth collaboration we have once again improved the education of more than 900 children at the Gambasse school. We have financed the acquisition of books, prints, school supplies, and computers, as well as scholarships for 5 children and contributed to the salaries of the 30 teachers. In addition, we have financed the salary of the staff and the maintenance of the Gambasse medical clinic, to improve the precarious health conditions of the children’s population.

Contribution: 13.935€ + 2nd phase 2024: 9.900€

Fight against maternal and child malnutrition in Mozambique
With IBO Foundation

Food care at the IBO Nutritional Support Centre (CANI) helps children under 5 years of age who attend the nutritional program, where they receive enriched porridge that their mothers learn to cook with local products and that they can replicate at home. Milk is also distributed to beneficiary babies to treat malnutrition and mitigate caloric and nutritional deficiencies. The average stay of each child in the nutritional program is three months and the mothers are involved in the project through culinary demonstrations and by attending seminars and hygiene and health workshops. In this third collaboration, we once again fight against maternal and child malnutrition of 350 children for 12 months. We want to contribute to the socioeconomic development of IBO and to the improvement of the precarious situation in which its inhabitants find themselves.

Contribution: 7.150€ + 2nd phase 2024: 7.150€