Water for kids in Kibera - Now it's your turn! (version en ingles)

Water for kids in Kibera - Now it's your turn!

I'll explain briefly for those that are reading this blog for the first time:

I'm volunteer-working in Kibera, the largest slum in the world, that's in Nairóbi, the capital of Kenya. In the first week of work, Yasmin and me (a volunteer from Brazil) visited some schools and we realized that their biggest problem is not having water. They don't have water for washing the hands, brushing the teeth, cooking or dinking.

Looking to help these schools in a sustainable way we created the project "Water for kids in Kibera", that has the objective of buying the necessary equipment to collect water from the rain. Thus, these schools will always have free water; they'll save the money usually spent on water, and they'll be able buy other necessary things, like food.

The first school that we are going to help is the "Fruitful Talent Center", which is a school that needs a lot of help because the 180 students (including 25 orphans) don't pay because they don't have money (and usually the monthly fee costs 2 USD). The only economic resource that this school has is selling handmade souvenirs that they do, but most of the times this money is not enough for buy everything they need.

This school uses around 1400 litres of water per week. That is, in 3 months (the longest rainless period in Kenya) they use 16800 litres of water. So we'll buy one tank with 16000 litres capacity to store water.

We did the budget of the project and we concluded that we going to need 2229 USD because the tank alone costs 2000 USD and we'll need the tank, gutters and a structure (made with cement, sand and stones) to settle it so nobody can steal it. We'll also need a way to transport these materials and someone to work on the construction.

We already sent a formal proposal to some companies that sell tanks, asking for a discount, but none of them replied until now. I wanted to attach the proposal here on the blog but it's not possible to attach files on the blog. If some of you want to read it, I can send it to you by an email or facebook. The proposal explain all the details about the project and is in english.

Now comes the most important part of the post: the part where you can help!

Yasmin and me don't have enough money to implement this project alone, so we are fundraising on our blogs so that friends, friends of friends, family, people that we don't know, everybody, can donate any quantity to help this dream come true.
I am very hopeful that the project works out for at least one school, because if this happens, 180 lives will be changed for the better, thanks to us! Whoever can donate any amount, even if it is 10 USD, don't hesitate to do it. And who cannot, remember that you can help by disseminating this post with your friends and spreading the idea.

One of Yasmin best friends, Carolina, wants to share my project with her friends and people that live in USA just like her. We know that an international transaction is expensive and a lot of people don't know exactly how to do it. So she had the idea to leave one of her bank accounts empty and you can donate to this bank account. On February 07th (the last day of fundraising) she'll send me everything that is in this bank account, at just in one time.

Here is a print of the budget and a print of her empty bank account. All the money you deposit in this bank account will go to the project.

Click on photos to enlarge them.

Information for donating:

Carolina Carneiro Paulon

Bank account: 0069-965300

Routing number: 121301028

 

Whoever donates more than 20 USD will get a surprise! Please sent the receipt to londonovaleria@hotmail.com

Please feel free to ask any kind of information about the project or to give ideas here on the comments or by email.

I hope we can accomplish this dream together!

Kibera Slum

Classroom in Fruitful Talent Center School

Inside the Fruitful Talent Center

Where the 25 orphans sleep

Some of the children from Fruitful Talent Center