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6 October 2006 - 1 November 2006
The Street Children, HIV-Children & Child Slavery of
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Leonard Morris, Georgia Morris, Ian Ellerby, Wilfred Ogutu,
Florence, Geoffery & Roy will travel through Kenya the 6th of October till November first. They will shoot stories of Kenyan street children and will also film programs on the ground trying to help these kids. These are sad stories of extreme poverty and neglect, but also stories of amazing individuals who devote their lives to helping children rejected by society. Poverty is the enemy here, the kind of poverty that orphans children, through desperation, HIV-AIDS or a crippling lack of hope. Below is a tentative look at a journey that is just now revealing itself. every child has his own story to tell. In the next week we will get to know some kids and listen to their stories.
 
Street Markets of Nairobi
7 October 2006 | By Roy van Beem
Street children are not attractive. They are filthy, the move in gangs, they sniff glue to blunt their hunger and suffering. They beg, they try to was your windshield, they follow you on the street but they are JUST children.
 
Most live in groups with a natural chosen leader who
organizes and controls the kids. Perhaps he provide food, or
the glue to get high. They are someone to trust. E very child
has his own story to tell. In the next week we will get to know
some kids and listen to their stories
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Huruma orphanage, Ngong Hills
www.hurumachildrenshome.org | By Roy van Beem
Today and yesterday we went to Huruma Children's Home (which means mercy Children's Home) in Ngong, what an Oasis! This is a family of Mama, Dad and 146 Children.
Mama zipporah and Pastor Isaac Kamau are the parents of 3 grown biological children, a Son and two Daughter, and 143 abandonned and orphaned sons and daughters. They live together, as a family in every sense of the word. The 143 children have been given a second change at life and the sense of love and family is palpable. Huruma is also a school, from baby nursery to grade 8. And now they are building a high school, if they can arrange to get the finance for it.
8 - 9October 2006 | Yesterday was Sunday and we arrived during their sunday school service, the singing and keyboard music we could hear from the bottom of the hill. A joyous sound and the unmistakable rhythms of Africa.
10 October 2006 | Today we learned who these children were, before they were reserved by humura, today we listend to the children's stories, innocently and openly tod stories of poverty, rejection and abuse.
The children openend up to us as only a child who now knows he is loved, could speak. This evening's line-up for medication at their tiny "clinic" was heartbreaking: 23 HIV-AIDS orphans and much more lined-up in the hope to prevent ilness.
On the 13th we will heading back to Humura Children's Home, a special place on earth, a own intense world with a lot of love and a lot of history.
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18-21 October 2006 | Nyumbani, Nairobi
www.nyumbani.org
Founded in 1992, Nyumbani Children's Home is an active response to the rising number of HIV infected children born in Africa every day. Because infants carry many of their mothers' antibodies through their first year of life, a number of newborns with infected mothers may give a 'false positive' and never actually develop the disease themselves. In fact, a full 75% of babies who test positive at birth will eventually be found not to have the virus. Tragically these children are often abandoned anyway, on the mistaken assumption that they are certain to develop and eventually succumb to AIDS. At Nyumbani, 'home' in Swahili, children are cared for until a definite assessment of their HIV status can be made. Children who are eventually found not to have the virus are adopted or find other homes. Children who are found to be HIV+ are given the best nutritional, medical, in particular, anti-retroviral therapy, psychological, academic, spiritual care available and live at Nyumbani until they become self-reliant. Nyumbani is home to approximately 100 children ranging in age from newborn to twenty-three years old.
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MILLENNIUM VILLAGE: A model to fight
against poverty
The 'Millennium Village' approach draws upon
the village-level components of the UN Millennium
Project's bold science-based action plan to fight
poverty. It aims to identify the practical ways in which
impoverished villages in Africa and elsewhere can adapt
and implement the interventions. The Millennium Village
approach recognizes the interdependence of the various
Goals and stresses the need for simultaneous investments
across agriculture, health, education, environment and
infrastructure- all critical for success, and
implemented in a time-bound manner with clear targets
and goals. In this way, the Millennium Village research
project, carried out jointly with the Earth Institute at
Columbia University with financial support from the
Government of Japan, offers a model for fighting poverty
at the village level. The research project identifies
and tests the practical ways in which the international
community's political commitment to ending poverty can
be translated into community-level action in Africa.
Two villages (in Sauri, Kenya and Koraro, Ethiopia) have
already begun their Millennium Goal-focused programs and
after only a few months of work, tremendous gains are
already visible. In Sauri, Kenya, crop yields have
quadrupled over the last seven months through the simple
use of fertilizers, improved seeds and improved planting
techniques. In Koraro, Ethiopia, for the first time,
fruit trees are growing along side maize fields and
enough bed-nets will be distributed to ensure that every
child is protected from malarial mosquitoes at night.
Work in both Sauri and Koraro has shown that the people
most in need are also the people who best know what it
takes to win the fight against poverty. The underlying
principle for each Millennium Village is that community
empowerment, participation and leadership are key to
designing and implementing the solutions that will end
poverty even in the most remote places.
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Rescuing Emmanuel
All material of the documentary 'rescuing Emmanuel' has
been shot between 6 October & 1 November during the
journey through Kenya. All footage comes out of Kenya.
The documentary will be released in September 2007
Visit the website of
Rescuing Emmanuel
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 4 October
2006
Nobel price winner Wangari Mathaai
with Dr. Delno Tromp |
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 Telegraaf
Article
"De Slaafjes van Wassenaar"
Saterday 4 November 2006
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