Wamba Education Project

Wamba is a small towm in the north of Kenya with a hospital that has to care for people even 500 km north of Wamba, people from Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan. The hospital is the reason why there is a little bit more than nothing in Wamba. Not only sand, dust and stones. The people here have a hard life to live. The rain season did not came for a longer time and the prospects are not high. Especially for the young children it’s a tough life with no real chance for education in the region. And it’s a very poor region of Kenya, what means that most of the parents have no chance to afford their kids a good education what means a better life. Education is also here the key to get out of poverty. Combine that drastic prospects with the epidemic HIV/Aids (more about it here), what kills many before their kids get even in the age to care for themselves, and you look deep into a powerful crisis.

In February 2009 we came to Wamba on a field trip and met Theresa, Alice and William. They had lost parts of their families or both of their parents to Aids and were facing a life without future. Theresa for instance was living at her uncle and he wanted to push her into a forced marriage, a absolute horror as you might understand. And this was not even badly thought by her uncle. He just could not give her a chance for education or not even care for her because of poverty.

We started the Wamba Education Project in these days to give this three young now-students the chance for a better life. It’s a start and some might say: There are more fates like that, it’s a drop on a hot stone. But where to start? You could not change to whole world. But you could do something. And doing something is always better than nothing. And especially when you know exactly where your support is going to and you could follow how it helps. So visit the website for more information and feel free to donate, to give these children the chance for a better life.