Choirs of hope

Choirs of hope and joy can luckily be heard from just everywhere recently. African Child Initiative & Community Development Forum loves music and thinks that it is a great way to learn, create and share in every community.

That is why the african child intiative chairman gave uniforms to the choir St Joachim Catholic Church in Mukuyuni.

We donated the uniforms and the equipment for the new choir. In the pictures we can see the choir band playing and the choir master receiving the gifts.

This is a vibrant, talented and creative community as you can see. Now listen some gospel from this other choir close to Umoja in the following short videos.

Letter of thanks

Wednesday October 14

Dear Alfonso de la Fuente Ruiz

On behalf of Mukuyuni village, I would like to thank you for your generous donation of your time, money, ideas, resources and goodwill. Your contribution makes it possible for us to get in touch with the world and understand the needs of our people, as we celebrated 2 years since you hosted our blog and have been the keeper we have no words to say thank you but pray for you to stay longer and live to see the dreams of our vision come true.

African Child Initiative & Community Development Forum weblog has been a key tool to our efforts and success to mobilize resources and funds to keep hope for our people.

Since its inception in 2006, African Child Initiative & Community Development Forum has donated and participated in projects in the field of informatics and computing, volunteering, hospitality, civic education, cultural exchange, community mobilization, homestays, projects for the old, school renovation and equipment, slum project and poverty eradication.

This is only possible because of thoughtful contributions from people like you.

In 2010, we plan to create another success story by having you as our Goodwill Ambassador. As you know, the cost of success is sacrifice and hard work. We thank you for all you advice and time.

We hope for your continued support in the future.

Please keep this written acknowledgment of your donation and support for long time appreciation for your and our cause.

Once again thank you for your generous donation.

Sincerely,

Name

THADEUS MUTINDA MUTISYA

Title

CHAIRMAN OF BOARD

Organization

African Child Initiative
&
Community Development Forum

Busy months, to bring up something new

Last months the blog had no updates whatsoever, but that does not mean there was no action! We bring you today some news from AFR&CDF friends all round the world.

Let´s start off with this video recorded at Mukuyuni village by Glory Ho and Michael Boudreaux. Visit their websites at the underlined text for much more.

And last but not least, we must say that Brian Thacker, the writer of the book "Sleeping Around, a couch Surfing tour round the globe" and related to the CouchSurfing global initiative, has authored a special chapter for Mukuyuni and Thadeus Mutinda Mutisya! Please check this out here.

As he says: "after meeting them you may never feel like leaving home again."

Donation from Jacky and Ryan (United Kingdom)

African Child Initiative received a donation on the 4th march 2009 in shape of scanner, photocopy machine and printer from Jacky and Ryan of the United Kingdom. Jacky and Ryan both work for UK local authorities.

They also donated food valued 150 euros and gifts for children, which were handed over to a need children home in Mombasa.

Furthermore, Mukuyuni primary school has received software for their computers valued about 1500€ from a UK organization named Virtual Image. This donation was presented to African Child Initiative by Jack and Ryan on behalf of the donating company, whom we wish to thank as well.

The software programs will go along with the previous donation of computers by Cindy group and Alfonso who were the pioneers of the Mukuyuni primary school informatics project and will soon celebrate two years of cooperation with the friends of Mukuyuni village.
Later on, Jacky and Ryan were presented with a certificate of apreciation by the chairman of AFI&CDF, Thadeus Mutisya.

We thank them all for their support and we hope to do more work with them in the near future.

Volunteer teaching in Mukuyuni Primary School, Kenya

TEACHING ENGLISH, MATHEMATICS, SPORTS AND COMPUTERS IN MUKUYINI PRIMARY SCHOOL

Brief history of the project: Mukuyuni primary school is a join govermental and comunitarial intiative for the children of the village. It's main sponsor is the local salvation army church and it has classes from stad. 1 to stad. 8 and it boosts of good perfomance in results of stad 8. The head teacher and its staff have been doing a good job and with partnership with AFCI&CDF and friends we donated eight comptuters for school. Therefore we want to have the children learn computers, as it is the only school around the location to start this project, so we require to have volunteers. These would help to teach informatics and also to improve the level of written and spoken english.

Volunteer work: Volunteers' major duties would include:

-Teaching informatics and information technology (I.T.)
-Teaching the pupils English and Math
-Counseling the young girls and boys

Language: English

Special requirements: Volunteers with strong motivation to teach, knowledge of computers and other useful skills.

Details: The volunteers will be working from monday to friday, five hours a day and are needed to assist in the school. However, volunteers with sports background, like football, netball, basketball etc. are also need as sporting activities are an important part of the project improvements. Volunteers need to contribute/initiate ideas and by that would be promoting the growth of the School. This is an opportunity for the volunteers to work at community/grassroots level in capacity building and training in self-sustainability.

Duration of the project: The schools in Kenya (Public Primary Schools) run from January to April, from May to August and from September to November. Any of the terms is open and welcome to participate in the workcamp.

Orientation: Orientation meeting will take place in Nairobi before proceeding to the project.

Accommodation: With a host family (You only buy your food)

Location: Mukuyuni Primary School is located in Eastern province, Kangundo District. This place is situated in Eastern, Kenya, its geographical coordinates are 1° 18' 0" South, 37° 21' 0" East and its about 70 kilometres away from the capitol city NAIROBI.

Participation fee: None, but donations of any amount to the school are really appreciated.

Leisure activities: In your spare time you will enjoy the beauties of the countryside and friendlyness of the people around. Visits to the fourteen waterfalls, neighbour city of Kangundo and mountains nearby are highly recommended.

Our profile and contact data

Organisation Name:	African Child Initiative & Community Development Forum
Email:	africanpartnership @yahoo.com
Serial:	AFICDF/01/2007
Province:	Eastern Province
District:	Kangundo
Division:	Kivaani
Location:	Kivaani
Sub Location:	Katitu
Physical Address:	Mukuyuni village, office located mukuyuni market at wab hotel, near mukuyuni primary school about 6 kilometres from kangundo town on the main kangundo mwala road
Number of Members:	300
Date Formed:	jan 2007
Chairman Name:	Thadeus. M. Mutisya
Chairman Telephone:	+ 254 720 615730
Secretary Name:	Francis Wambua
Treasurer Name:	Teresia Mwongeli
Vision:	To make a difference in life of the comunity by use of technology and available resources
Objectives:	Provide the that much needed suport in development and comunity mobilization and bring change and result for a better living
Current Source of Funding:	Membership contribution, friends of Mukuyuni village,