GIWA Health Center Ground Breaking

What a beautiful Day it was!
On 9th August,2011 was a big day for GIWA Community and Visitors who had come all the way from North America and Canada. The visitors stayed with the GIWA Farm community for four days and we had so much funs than we expected. The community took good care of us and we were all happy to make one team with one focus of changing the lives of those in need. On 9th August,2011 was the day of big celebration with our visitors for GIWA Health Center ground breaking ceremony and celebrating our visitors for the beautiful work they have done of funding Shalom Primary school which now accommodate almost 500 children who did not have access to primary school education. It is such a noble cause and sometimes i wonder whether they have any idea of the beauty of the work they have done for the GIWA Community as this project will serve hundreds of thousand of children to be born. For a poor child to have education in Kenya,it is an opportunity which comes once in a lifetime. The celebration was beautiful as you can tell from the photos. Am sure no one expected the event to turn the way it did. We had Both Minister for Special Programs and Assistant Minister for Special Programs, and other senior and junior government officials who participated in this event. A lot of much appreciations also go to them since they left all other official duties of the country to come to celebrate with us. It was such a great honor to have them in our celebration. We also had 12 soccer teams who had tournament on this particular day and they received uniforms and soccer balls from our donors. It was a new day for these soccer teams since they did not have any uniforms and the soccer balls they were using were worn out.
Thank you to all our donors for changing the lives of many and giving them hope. 'Where there is no Hope, there is Desperation and we all know the results of desperation'. Do you have passion for community work? Do you want to have a real experience of the Kenya(Africa) and community you are supporting? Join us for our trip to construct the just launched GIWA Health center construction!. Join us for our Volunteer Mission trip to support construction of GIWA Health Center vicdakenya.com/news/voluntourism/

Bright faces of children at Shalom Primary School

We can all see the joy of these children singing on their first day in their new constructed school. Their joy was once stolen and they had no any idea and it is now back. This is the best we can offer them(Education). Special Thanks goes to WTA,Canada for funding full construction and GVNFoundation,New zealand for buying uniforms for 95 children.

New Constructed Shalom primary School

The children at GIWA Farm resettlement Farm have benefited with a new primary school constructed by VICDA which has been fully funded by WTA, Canada. After the post election violence in the year 2008, a number of families were left homeless and they were forced out of their homes. This affected a number of children who dropped out of school and they have no access to education. The children were left out with their families with no alternative but to wait for a miracle to happen. When the Kenya Government started the IDPs resettlement program, GIWA Farm families were among the first beneficiaries to be resettled in their new land which is now their permanent home. After resettlement, VICDA came in to access the project needs. The farm have no any social amenities at all and VICDA/WTA came to an agreement to construct a primary school to attend the needs of the children first as they have been out of school for more than 3 years.
The construction started in April, 2010 and completion of all classes from grade 1-8 was completed by end of March, 2011. The school was officially launched by Office of the President, Minister for State, Ministry of Special program Hon. Esther Murugi mathenge and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education Pro. Ole Kiayapi on 25th march, 2011. The event was beautiful and full of joy from parents and most importantly the children. The construction costed us US$81,250.00.
The school is having 500 children from different IDPs camps in the area since they are still more families who are still living in tents hoping to be resettled one day.
VICDA is now fundraising to connect water at a different IDPs camps called San Marco Resettlement Land where the families have no access to any water. The project is costing us US$10,000.00. All what these families are need of are basic needs. In the same San Marco Resettlement Land VICDA is also looking for a donor who can fund construction of a nursery school as the children have to walk 4 kilometers to the nearest school and alot of them are unable to attend the school since they are very tiny to walk such a long distance. This project is having a budget of US$9,000 fully furnished nursery school. VICDA is working on permanent solutions to the families in need since these projects will serve hundreds of thousands of people as the year goes.
Anyone interested to join this noble cause please contact us.