Micro finance for Internally Displaced Persons

Thank you to GVFoundation,Newzealand. The internally Displaced Persons in kenya who are still living in tents have something to smile about. They have come up in small groups where GVNFoundation,Newzealand has sent funds to VICDA for the IDPs to start small businesses to enable them to restart their lives again. Before these lovely people were displaced during the violence they used to be independent and some of them used to be farmers and business people.
The photo you see is for Irene handing over the funds from GVNFoundation to the 1st group of IDPs to enable them to start their own business.
GVNFoundation has already raised funds for 4 groups and one of the group have received the funds and the other 3 will be receiving the funds tomorrow.
You can join us to rebuild the lives of the IDPs and for more information please visit http://www.gvnfoundation.org.
The GVNFoundation also support other programs in kenya through Eat So They Can Funds such as child education sponsorship,feeding programs,furnishing schools and orphanages etc.
You can join the rest of the world through changing the lives of the needy by hosting a dinner in your house
For more details please visit the following link:
http://www.eatsotheycan.org/getinvolved/signup.php

Host a Dinner and change the world

Hey guys,

Our partner, GVN Foundation, is running their big annual fundraiser Eat So They Can this October and we’d love for you to be involved. Eat So They Can is a global dinner party where hosts around the world share a meal to raise money for projects in Africa. This year a portion of all funds raised from Eat So They Can will go to VICDA to help us with the different projects we support. Please consider hosting an event!

All you have to do is:

1. Contact Eliza from Eat So They Can if you have any questions: info@eatsotheycan.org

2. Sign up as a host by following this link: http://www.eatsotheycan.org/getinvolved/signup.php

3. Organise a meal

4. Invite your friends

5. Collect donations from your friends and submit these to GVN Foundation

Trip to the Internally Displaced Person's Camps

Thanks to everyone who participated in this food project. On behalf of the 2IDPs camps we do appreciate your kind donations and the hope you have given to our Kenyan people who are suffering.

Our journey started early in the morning on thursday heading to Jikaze and Pipeline IDPs camps to buy and distribute foods to the IDPs. Thursday was a very tiring day since we had two and half hours drive to the camps. It was also such a very emotional day for me since some of the kids asked me very sensitive questions and thank God i was able to answer them and give help where i could. I have never heard the kids sharing with me what they shared that day and they called me as i was walking out of their class. I asked myself a few questions and i lost it when i just walked away from them. When we visited the second camps(pipepline IDPs camp,it was another mind hit when some of the management members broke down due to the difficulties they have been going through recently. Since we started working with them i have never seen them crying and this also hit me hard but i tried to control myself until i got my space. We managed to buy food for IDPs at Jikaze camps and distrubuted it and then from there we headed to nakuru to order the food for Pipeline IDPs camp so that we could correct it the following day in the afternoon since it was getting late on our 1st day. After ordering the food we then went to the pipeline IDPs camp and had a meeting with the people there. Alot of families had gone for 2 or 3 days without food. Thanks so much to GVNFoundation.org,Newzealand for the porridge program for little babies.
We later headed to our accommodation and we were so tired and happy since we had made achievements for that day. On Firday we woke up early in the morning and we first visited the District Commissioner's office and later we headed to Baruku IDPs camps. This camp is in a very horrible state and i don't think there is any comparison with the other IDPs camps we are working with. We spent sometimes with the kids there and we later visited Division Officer office to give us the go ahead with the Baruku IDPs camps. After we left her office we headed to Nakuru town to collect the food for the pipeline camp and loaded it on the truck and we headed to the camp and distributed the food. My friend thought it was going to take us probably 2 hours being around there but it took us more than 5 hours. I have learnt one thing in these camps,never give your self time coz you are not going to make it. You remember you have another trip waiting for you when it start getting dark. After the food distribution i later gave out some funds which have been raised by GVNFoundation.org,Newzealand to help the IDPs to start small businesses so that they can be self-reliance.

Jikaze and Pipeline IDPs camp

I am catching up with everything here in nairobi since i have a very long week to go. Not yet....Am heading to Internally Displaced persons Camps on Thursday morning and i will be back on Friday. The two days are going to be so long since we have to buy food for 2 different IDPs camps. Food has been a main issue here in Kenya due to prolonged drought which is taking its course for the second year.

I will keep everyone updated with our mission and thank you to our Australian sponsors who sponsored for this food. VICDA do appreciate your kind donation and all your sacrifices.