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The O.R.K. Launch

The launch of the O.R.K.

ROAD MAP TO AFRICA # 7

RFFA {Rotarians For Fighting AIDS}, is here in the Mathare slums with Hope World Wide to rescue orphans in a partnership called "The Africa Partnership for Children Orphaned and at Risk or {ANCHOR}".

THE MATHARE SLUMS IN NAIROBI KENYA.

600,000 souls exist here in atrocious conditions.

(click on the photos to enlarge them)

The Play Ground is a Rubbish Tip.

The Water Supply is an Open Sewer there are NO Toilets!
{note the yellow water cans}

One young man has collected water for his "family".

There is NO running water.

Why not rescue the children of Mathare, above, they deserve much better than these horrific conditions to grow up in. Below are details of the O.R.K. and how you can rescue an orphan NOW. Only the price of your daily newspaper for one year will make a huge difference to these beautiful children of Africa.

ORPHAN RESCUE KIT

The following items go to make up an Orphan Rescue Kit or O.R.K.

Full Uniform $27; Annual School fees $68; Rain Coat $7;
Leather school shoes $14; Sports Kit and Shoes $27
Leather Soccer/ Netball $16; Writing materials $7
Exercise books @ 12 per term $27; Text books $81
I meal per day @40 cents/day or $135 per year
Mosquito net $4; Blanket $7; Back pack $30

The TOTAL is only US$450.00 per annum.

The O.R.K.s will be sourced in the country they are being distributed in, our first O.R.K.s will be put together in Nairobi by the Rotary Club of Nairobi with RFFA and in conjunction with Hope World Wide, who will out source the materials and making of the uniforms so as to encourage small business locally in Nairobi. Hence giving employment to local Kenyans.

Our first target will be the slums of Mathare in Nairobi, in conjunction with Hope World Wide.

Get your O.R.K. Donation Form below or use the donation button at the top right hand side of this page.

ORK%20Flyer%20and%20Form.pdf

More news as it comes to hand with photos of what an O.R.K. looks like.

THANK YOU!

Mark Doyle

RFFA VICE CHAIR COMING TO WAGGA WAGGA

P.D.G. Mark Doyle Johannesburg South Africa.

Lyn and Mark Doyle, at the Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone Park.

RFFA Vice Chair Visits Wagga Wagga
Past District Governor Mark Doyle will be in Wagga Wagga at the District 9700 conference from the 28th March to the 31st March as a key note speaker. Mark will be speaking on AIDS and the orphans of Africa due as a result of HIV/AIDS. How we can rescue orphans will be the main subject.

After serving almost exclusively through the BSA Police in Criminal Investigations, Mark entered the security industry, by practising on a South African, African and an International basis as an independent consultant. He has 38 years membership in service organizations. His career in Rotary is extensive and includes District Governor District 9250 1996/97, Regional Rotary Foundation Co-ordinator (RRFC) Southern Africa 1998-2000, 5 Rotary International conventions, Paul Harris Fellow x 6 Sapphires, RI President’s Representative to Nigeria, Zambia and South Africa.

District 9700 Conference Web Site

Below Lyn Doyle dropping in for the conference 70 years young!

World AIDS Day Today December 1st 2007

WORLD AIDS DAY.

Today in Africa there will be nearly 5,000 new cases of AIDS, some 6,000 people will die today from AIDS related illness mainly in Africa.

In Africa another 5,000 orphans will appear and so the statistics continue. However the pandemic has not peaked yet and it is the women who are suffering the most:

Message from Stephen Lewis.

The children below need our help. These are some of the orphans from the slums of Mathare in Nairobi, Kenya. We are looking at providing Orphan Rescue Kits or ORKs for RFFA in Nairobi. These will probably be back packs for orphans which will include school uniforms and items they will need for school. Without a uniform they cannot go to school.




The following slide show from Reuters tells the story well:

AIDS SLIDE SHOW

Rescue an Orphan on World AIDS Day Dec 1st 2007

ROAD MAP # 6

RFFA ORPHAN RESCUE NAIROBI, KENYA

Please feel free to down load the poster below. Just click on the photo to enlarge, then right click to save to file. Then send it onto your fellow workers and see if they want to participate in our World AIDS Day project. Thank you.

Two of the orphans (siblings) we met in Mathare, Nairobi, at the centre being run by HOPE World Wide and RFFA'S Orphan Rescue team from Kenya.

"I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes, AND just for that one moment I could be you, then YOU would know what to do."

Please give John Glassford a call (02) 6927 6027 or email: john@glassford.com.au, for details of this initiative for World AIDS Day. Forms are available from John for you to circulate around your place of work or just for yourself.

The funds collected will go to RFFA's Orphan Rescue project in Mathare, Nairobi, Kenya.

Latest News from Africa

1. News From Malawi

Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika

HIV/AIDS is stunting economic growth and social development in sub-Saharan Africa, Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika said Tuesday at the opening of a two-day parliamentary forum of the Southern African Development Community. SADC members need to "move fast in solidarity to find lasting solutions and to try and fight the HIV pandemic," Mutharika said.

According to Mutharika, HIV/AIDS has created "huge social and economic implications" in the region. He called for a multifaceted, comprehensive and holistic approach toward curbing the spread of HIV in the region, adding that national parliaments have a "crucial role" in providing political leadership to fight HIV/AIDS. Mutharika added that the community needs to "agree on a common SADC strategy to collaborate programs and projects dealing with this disease at all levels."

Malawian parliamentary speaker Louis Chimango added that Southern Africa is "at war against a pandemic that knows no boundary." HIV/AIDS has "contributed to the deepening levels of poverty in a region with one of the lowest levels of development indicators," Chimango said, adding, "Fighting HIV/AIDS is also fighting poverty itself."

According to a UNAIDS report published last year, 63% of all adults and children living with HIV/AIDS live in sub-Saharan Africa. The number of adults and children living with the virus in the region increased from 2.4 million in 2004 to 2.8 million in 2006, the report said. In addition, the report found that there were no signs of HIV/AIDS diminishing in the region and said that a lack of leadership was responsible for the situation (AFP/Yahoo! News, 10/23).

2. News From Uganda:

President of Uganda H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni,

The Uganda AIDS Commission plans to implement a five-year strategy aimed at reducing the spread of HIV in the country by more than 40%, the New Vision/AllAfrica.com reports. The strategy will focus on boosting the ABC approach to HIV prevention -- which stands for abstinence, be faithful and use condoms -- and on providing people living with HIV/AIDS with treatment access.

The plan aims to provide antiretroviral drugs to 80% of HIV-positive people in the country. Kihumulo Apuuli, chief of the commission, said the program will "increase access to treatment, care and support of the people living with HIV/AIDS in addition to offering prevention services to the entire population." The terms of the program were agreed upon at the United Nations General Assembly in June 2006, Apuuli said.

Apuuli also denied claims by some HIV/AIDS advocates that the program will undermine the ABC approach, saying the new program will "complement the ABC strategy" (New Vision/AllAfrica.com, 10/24).

Congrats John our New Paul Harris Fellow!

For his passion, determination, tireless work ethic and uncanny ability to produce results the Rotary Club of Hout Bay has bestowed upon our John the highest Rotary recognition of Paul Harris Fellow!

We Visit the Nonceba Centre

The Nonceba Centre Update.

Several of the climbers from Kili 28/8 visited the Nonceba center in Khayletisha as guests of Hout Bay Rotary and in particular Rotarian Don Peters. It was Tuesday the 4th September there we met Nocawe Mankayi, a living angel. We also met a young 7 year old lass who was being counseled. No need for descriptions or photos. She was beautiful, so innocent, so young, so sad.

Here is the latest web site for Nonceba

NONCEBA

You can down load the DVD from this site as well as donate on line.

We are also making copies of Ashley's DVD on the story of Nonceba. Please contact me for a copy:

john@glassford.com.au

In the mean time we were all moved beyond our limits by what we learned from this visit and from Nocawe. We are working on fund raising ideas for Nonceba more on this later.

Nonceba Family Counselling Centre

ROAD MAP # 5

NONCEBA PROJECT, KHAYELITSHA, CAPE TOWN

Rotary Road MAPS to Africa: get your road map to Cape Town, South Africa and help to support the Nonceba Family Counselling Centre through the Rotary Club of Hout Bay and their Ashley Kaimowitz Fund.

Ashley Kaimowitz Memorial

More information on this remarkable lady whose life was cut so tragically short can be found here:

District 9350 South Africa

More here:

ASHLEY'S LEGACY.

Why we should support this amazing project:

"I wish we were not needed but we are!"

The telephone rang and a desperate voice on the line said “Please can someone help this child. Of course we will, bring him to us". An hour later, Vuzani's teacher arrived with a small boy who could hardly walk. He was in grade four but he was 16 years old. He had been living with his grandfather, who had been sodomising him for five years. His grandfather said that if he told anyone, he would throw him out and he would starve.

So Vuzani had suffered in silence. By the time he came to Nonceba, he was damaged beyond repair, he would never be right and he would never be able to look after himself. Why had no-one noticed before?

Vuzani was one of the centre's first clients. Had Nonceba been there five years earlier, perhaps they could have saved him. It brought home, just how desperately the centre was needed and how important it was for the community to work together to protect their children.

Nomsa's story is a little different. Nomsa goes to a school that receives regular talks from Nonceba's social worker as part of their Abuse Prevention Programme. When she started to behave strangely, her teacher noticed and sent her to Nonceba. They found out that she, two sisters and a brother were living alone in a shack in complete squalor, having been left orphaned when their mother and father died of AIDS.

A neighbour had been abusing Nomsa and buying her silence with a few rands. Because the children were destitute, Nomsa had said nothing. The few rands put food in their mouths. Nonceba immediately put a stop to the abuse, got medical help for Nomsa, cleaned up the shack and provided them with some basic essentials for sleeping and cooking. The children still live on their own but the Nonceba staff look in on them all the time, make sure they go to school, have uniforms to wear and food to eat.

Nonceba staff have become their parents. This has been possible because of the financial support of the public and the community's awareness of the problems and their willingness to help.

There are thousands of children like these in Khayelitsha. Please help Nonceba through the Ashley Kaimowitz Memorial Foundation to help Rotary Hout Bay.

Rebecca's Contribution.

ROAD MAP #4

MAMA AMELIA'S ORPHANAGE MFULENI CAPE TOWN

Rebecca Hillas on the Road to Africa.


Mama Amelia's Babies Room (needs a quilt or two!).

Rebecca has created a web site to promote making quilts to help Mama Amelia's Orphans at her orphanage, "Sakhumzi", in Mfuleni, Cape Town, South Africa.

This is a brilliant idea and a very good way to support this very needy community.

Please have a good look at what Rebecca is doing and see where you can help her. We have visited Mama Amelia and her wonderful children at Sakhumzi in 2004 and 2005. I can not think of a better way to support this wonderful woman.

Rebecca has built this web site herself, Rebecca is 16, well done.

Click below to get your road map to:

Mama Amelia, Sakhumzi, Mfuleni, Cape Town.

Thank you Rebecca.

Sweetwaters Project South Africa

ROAD MAP # 3

KWA ZULU NATAL SOUTH AFRICA

Sweetwaters Quilt Project

Some of the Sweetwaters Quilters.

Edna's Quilt that we bought and sleep under.

IN 2005 we visited Sweetwaters quilt project at the home of a Rotarian couple from the Rotary Club of Hilton Howick, Rick and Elisabeth Baratta near Durban.

http://www.rotaryhiltonhowick.co.za/

We bought one of the quilts made by a lady called Edna Mthalene who has no husband and 7 children, her husband died, proably AIDS. We sleep under the quilt every night and it is of African themes, Edna says "Thank you for buying my quilt it will buy a lot of food."

If you would like to suport this Rotary project please contact me and I will send you a Road MAP on how to get there.

Email to: john@glassford.com.au

Thanks.

The Road to Hout Bay

ROAD MAP # 2

OPERATION MEDICAL HOPE HOUT BAY, SOUTH AFRICA

The N2 Freeway from Cape Town International Airport


Phillipi Township on the N2 Freeway

Hout Bay Imizamo Yethu Township Life


Hout Bay Fishing Village.

Operation Medical Hope in Hout Bay Cape Town

Please join us on our first Road MAP to Africa and it will take you to Hout Bay in Cape Town, South Africa. It is an interesting journey from Cape Town International Airport through the shanty townships on the edge of the N2 freeway. You drive through the centre of the Cape Town CBD and onwards East for a few miles until you come to the lovely suburb of Hout Bay. Here is a description of my last trip to South Africa and if you need a MAP to Hout Bay just call us.

South Africa 2005

Slums of Nairobi in Kenya

To Oder These Photos

Here is an intersting article by Oluoch Japeth Ogollah

If Jesus was born in the 200 slums of Nairobi ...

If Jesus Christ were born in one of Nairobi's 200 slums, say
Korogocho, he would have been greeted by the harsh environment from
the adjacent Dandora dumpsite.

The huge mountains of industrial, medical and domestic waste, which
have not been controlled for about 10 years, would perhaps choke his
innocent throat, denying him the chance to make his inaugural cry, the
cry that announces a child's entry into the world.

The perpetual cloud of obnoxious fumes hovering over him would blind
his small eyes from seeing the new world, a world full of challenges
and tribulations. The foul smell from Nairobi's largest dumpsite might
have interfered with his breathing. Criminals who control the site
might have attempted to steal him.

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