A Community Education Lesson on Poverty :The Vice that Condemns Urban Slums Children to a Life Time of Misery.
Did you know that children born into poverty suffer a lower birth weight, higher infant mortality and poor health?
They are less likely to stay in school and will gain fewer qualifications.
The Effects of Poverty on a slums Childs’ Life :
Worse still, in adulthood, they will be paid lower, experience unemployment and are likely to die young.
Therefore, a slums child is condemned to a life of disease, hunger, unemployment, crime, child labor and early marriages from the day they are born because parental poverty largely leads to child poverty.
Poverty is a cycle which is hard to break.
Schools in Urban Slums achieve lower education targets because of the myriad challenges they face in material and human resources.
The effect of poverty goes beyond test results- poor children face a lot of adversity.
Some of the challenges that Urban Slums Children face at school and within their communities are:
a) Lack of school uniforms
b) Lack of notebooks, pens, pencils and textbooks
c) Lack of instructional materials
d) Lack of proper classrooms
e) Lack of classroom furniture
f) Lack of water
g) Lack of sanitation facilitates
h) Chronic staff shortages
i) Little or no support from a poor neighborhood
j) Acute shortage of finances
k) Hunger
l) Disease
m) Pollution
n) Insecurity
o) Immorality
p) Child labor
q) Exposure to drug abuse
r) Rape
Wide spread slum poverty affects both pupils performance and their school attendance.
Poor quality education leads to low income which in turn perpetuates poverty.
Low levels of education affect growth through low labor productivity.
The truth of the matter is that urban Slums children have been excluded from primary education because of poverty.
I speak from experience because I manage a Slums children learning center that I helped start in the year 2000.
The school is known as Wisdom Nest Primary School.
The students are exclusively from an Urban Slum and I can tell you that the children are suffering.
Poverty is a painful experience that no child should ever go through.
Children come to school hungry because there was no food at home the yester night.
They come to school sick because their parent can’t afford to take them to the hospital for treatment.
Others skip classes to go scavenge for food from street rubbish cans.
At Wisdom Nest we harbor this pain of dealing with children who had no meal last night or breakfast this morning. Children are sick but no money to pay for treatment at the local private health clinic.
Poverty is a cruel vice that condemns innocent children to a live of untold suffering which very few (of these children) will ever be able to escape in adulthood because of lack of proper and meaningful education.
Poverty condemns children to a life of walking barefoot wading through raw sewage along unclean and dusty slum streets in tattered cloths and running nose.
Child Education Sponsor :
Would you like to sponsor a slums child’s education at Wisdom Nest Primary School?
Tuition fee is $20 per month which will help change the destiny of a child condemned to poverty for ever.
It will help a child break the cycle of poverty afflicting their family for many years.
Please visit our -Contact us- page to let us know about your intentions.
Poverty: The Vice that Condemns Urban Slums Children to a Life Time of Misery, was our topic today.
More on poverty:
Slum Village Education and Exclusion.
Thanks for your visit.
Steve.
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Saturday, June 26, 2010
Monday, November 2, 2009
African Bead necklace Project-Poverty Afflicted Slum Women Crying for Help.
A group of poverty stricken women in Kayole’s Soweto Slums, Nairobi, Kenya have
come together and formed a women group with a simple goal, “check dehumanizing poverty” that has afflicted them and their families’ since the dawn of time. They were born into poverty, brought, raised and lived in poverty all their lives. Their children have also fallen victims to the same poverty cycle which is very difficulty to get out off due to lack of education, employment opportunity and trade craft training. Therefore these women have decided to fight back and are appealing for your help in their battle against poverty.
Suffering Single Parents:
Majority of these women are single parents with out any meaningful sources of income because they never had an opportunity to acquire proper and useful education that would help them find employment. They can’t find self-employment either because they have no access to credit facilities due to lack of loan security documents. They live in a world neglected by the government and the rest of the world because nobody cares enough to highlight their plight. Yet they are undergoing immense suffering day in day out.
WINCEP Wants To Reach Out:
That’s why Wisdom Nest Community Education Programme, (WINCEP), a local Self Help Organization, is reaching out to these women who happen to be parents in our needy slum children school, Wisdom Nest Primary, and helping them generate income for themselves and families. WINCEP has no capacity to meet this challenge on its own. We need your support and partnership in helping these women and families fight poverty for the benefit of their children’s future and the community.
The Project is Environment Friendly:
The women have come up with a unique environment friendly project, African Beads Necklace Project, which uses expired calendar paper to produce hand made beads. They then use these beads to make beautiful necklaces and earrings of different designs, sizes and colors. Since the project is recycling used calendar paper we can safely say that these women are helping clean up the environment.
Employments Creation:
Apart from generating income, the project will continue to train and create employment for slum young women as bead makers. Then bead making skills shall be passed on to more slum dwellers. Some trainees’ will find work here while others will self-employ after they acquire the skills.
Profits Sharing:
Profits from this project will be shared between the Project, Women group and Wisdom Nest Primary School. This Project helps woman generate income for herself and her family while her child gets education at Wisdom Nest Primary School courtesy of this project.
How you can help this Women Group, Children and School:
a) Buy Necklace;
Buying a necklace or earring will help this project grow. Buying will ensure a needy slum child remains in school. Buying will feed a slum child and her family. If you buy you will b helping create employment for jobless hungry slum dwellers. When you buy you will be helping fight poverty in an African slum. Buy beautiful African bead necklace or earrings for your loved ones.
The small necklace is selling at $5 per piece, medium at $6 and the large one at $7.
Shipping will cost you $5 a piece. We shall ship your order immediately we receive funds from you. Depending on your location delivery may take up to two months.
No Risk Involved:
If you don’t like it we guarantee to return your purchase price or take a new one in exchange of the one you reject. We can not con you because we are a school and we can’t hide nor can a school run. You can find Wisdom Nest Primary School on http://kidogo.rafi.ki/gemin-iplus/.
All the schools on that site have been satisfied to be genuine by UK government’s British Council. So you are save with us.
b) Help Market;
Out of good will you can volunteer to market our bead products in order to help disadvantaged slum women, children and a school. Help us find a market for our African Bead Necklaces.
c) Buy or Donate:
• Buy now and change a life;
These are beautiful African bead necklace and earrings and can last for many years.
• Donate Now and make a difference in some ones life for ever;
Funds are needed to keep this project going. You can choose to give a donation of any amount. Like any other project, investment and working capital are needed. Your donation will bring a smile on a disadvantaged slum woman and her child.
come together and formed a women group with a simple goal, “check dehumanizing poverty” that has afflicted them and their families’ since the dawn of time. They were born into poverty, brought, raised and lived in poverty all their lives. Their children have also fallen victims to the same poverty cycle which is very difficulty to get out off due to lack of education, employment opportunity and trade craft training. Therefore these women have decided to fight back and are appealing for your help in their battle against poverty.
Suffering Single Parents:
Majority of these women are single parents with out any meaningful sources of income because they never had an opportunity to acquire proper and useful education that would help them find employment. They can’t find self-employment either because they have no access to credit facilities due to lack of loan security documents. They live in a world neglected by the government and the rest of the world because nobody cares enough to highlight their plight. Yet they are undergoing immense suffering day in day out.
WINCEP Wants To Reach Out:
That’s why Wisdom Nest Community Education Programme, (WINCEP), a local Self Help Organization, is reaching out to these women who happen to be parents in our needy slum children school, Wisdom Nest Primary, and helping them generate income for themselves and families. WINCEP has no capacity to meet this challenge on its own. We need your support and partnership in helping these women and families fight poverty for the benefit of their children’s future and the community.
The Project is Environment Friendly:
The women have come up with a unique environment friendly project, African Beads Necklace Project, which uses expired calendar paper to produce hand made beads. They then use these beads to make beautiful necklaces and earrings of different designs, sizes and colors. Since the project is recycling used calendar paper we can safely say that these women are helping clean up the environment.
Employments Creation:
Apart from generating income, the project will continue to train and create employment for slum young women as bead makers. Then bead making skills shall be passed on to more slum dwellers. Some trainees’ will find work here while others will self-employ after they acquire the skills.
Profits Sharing:
Profits from this project will be shared between the Project, Women group and Wisdom Nest Primary School. This Project helps woman generate income for herself and her family while her child gets education at Wisdom Nest Primary School courtesy of this project.
How you can help this Women Group, Children and School:
a) Buy Necklace;
Buying a necklace or earring will help this project grow. Buying will ensure a needy slum child remains in school. Buying will feed a slum child and her family. If you buy you will b helping create employment for jobless hungry slum dwellers. When you buy you will be helping fight poverty in an African slum. Buy beautiful African bead necklace or earrings for your loved ones.
The small necklace is selling at $5 per piece, medium at $6 and the large one at $7.
Shipping will cost you $5 a piece. We shall ship your order immediately we receive funds from you. Depending on your location delivery may take up to two months.
No Risk Involved:
If you don’t like it we guarantee to return your purchase price or take a new one in exchange of the one you reject. We can not con you because we are a school and we can’t hide nor can a school run. You can find Wisdom Nest Primary School on http://kidogo.rafi.ki/gemin-iplus/.
All the schools on that site have been satisfied to be genuine by UK government’s British Council. So you are save with us.
b) Help Market;
Out of good will you can volunteer to market our bead products in order to help disadvantaged slum women, children and a school. Help us find a market for our African Bead Necklaces.
c) Buy or Donate:
• Buy now and change a life;
These are beautiful African bead necklace and earrings and can last for many years.
• Donate Now and make a difference in some ones life for ever;
Funds are needed to keep this project going. You can choose to give a donation of any amount. Like any other project, investment and working capital are needed. Your donation will bring a smile on a disadvantaged slum woman and her child.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Compassion Run Project Proposal
Project Title: Compassion Run
Proposer: Wisdom Nest Community Education Programme
Address: P.O.BOX 9377-00100,
G.P.O,
Nairobi,
Kenya
Contact: Run Chairman Tel: 0724 13 04 46
Director Tel: 0722 81 40 81
Email: wisdomnest@gmail.com
Location: Soweto slums-Kayole
Savannah sub-location
Umoja location
Embakasi Division
Embakasi Constituency
Nairobi East District
Nairobi Province
Kenya
Amount Requested: Kshs 525,867.50/= i.e. (USD 6,919.30)
Event Date: 10th July 2010
Proposal Dated: 10th December 2009
Summary:
Wisdom Nest Community Education Programme (WINCEP) is proposing to establish the first annual run in Kayole’s Soweto slums, to take advantage of an exploited gap in Embakasi Division running/athletics, discover new talent and raise funds for community development activities.
The event has considerable growth potential which arises from the Divisions’ high population, demographic changes in urban slums/centers and the huge untapped raw running talent in urban slums waiting for an opportunity to show case their prowess.
This annual run opens the prospect of establishing a successful annual Cross Country meet which promises immense social benefits for the children, youth, community and sponsors.
The event management will consist of professional athletics manager and technical advisor with direct experience of developing and managing cross country events in Kenya. The concept is for a six race event, set and staged in Kayole where competition is currently non-existent and where we are the dominant athletics event.
WINCEP plans to raise Kshs 525,867.50 i.e. (USD 6,919.30) to enable her stage the run on 10th July 2010. This amount will cover the entire run budget thus ensuring a successful community event.
Therefore, we wish to take this opportunity to request you kindly to sponsor this unique project financially or in kind.
Sponsors Benefit:
1. We are offering our sponsor;
• Free Brand promotion. Give us logistical support and your product promotion materials and we shall do free promotion for you two months ahead and up to the actual event day.
2. A platform to;
a) Market, promote and advertise your Brands to the people of Embakasi Division
b) Exercise your Social Responsibility obligations
c) Meet and Recruit new customers
d) Interact and bond with your current and future customers
e) Sell your products at the events’ venue
f) Free publicity
3. Value for money through proper usage of funds, accounting, transparency and zero tolerance to corruption.
Social Benefits:
a) Raise funds for community development activities focusing on needy slum children educational infrastructure at Wisdom Nest Primary School initially but expand the number of beneficially slum schools overtime (as the event grows).
b) Provide education to needy slum children from extremely poor families and households, single parents, children affected by HIV/AIDS and orphans.
c) Help to discover, grow and nature slum based athletics talent.
d) Check crime associated with youth idleness by introducing athletics to occupy most of their free time
e) Peace building through sporting activity
f) Introduction of running as a career option for talented slum youths
g) We expect jobless youths to participate and benefit from opportunities emanating from this project either economically or health wise.
h) Reduced crime levels
i) Social economic development that shall be beneficial to the community.
Background:
Wisdom Nest Community Education Programme (WINCEP) is a self help organization located in Kayole’s Soweto slums, Savannah sub-location, Umoja location, Embakasi Division, Nairobi East District.
WINCEP was formed in 1998 by a group of women and a few men brought together by a merry-go-round weekly meeting. Currently the group has thirty members with three quarters of this membership being women.
WINCEP as active programs currently going on:
a) Wisdom Nest Primary School;
This is a full primary school catering for educational needs of needy slum children. There were 407 pupils and 13 teachers at the close of 2009 school year.
b) A school feeding program which is meant to entice enrollment and keep destitute slum/street children in school.
c) A partnership with Kenya Women Finance Trust that enables our female members’ access credit facilities for small income generating activities.
d) The Compassion Run Project;
This is our new project that is meant to help us raise funds for our programs and at the same time help our community youths discover their running talents.
Soweto slums are composed of squatter communities who have been resettled here by the government from various places and backgrounds. Residents are poor, hungry and majority is hopeless. All Kenyan tribes and a few people from East African countries reside here.
Project Objectives
a) Introduce running/athletics to our community which is currently non-existent.
b) Create a plat form for our children and youths to discover and develop their running talent.
c) Engage and occupy our children and youths free time positively by exposing them to the potentially lucrative world of athletics
d) Promote peace using this sporting event
e) Raise funds to support our community development activities
Goal
To create, organize and stage a successful annual cross country athletics event in an urban slum setting.
Vision:
Have at least one product (athlete) from this project representing Kenya at the Olympics before 2020.
What we proposal to do;
Stage an annual run (which shall eventually culminate into a fully pledged cross country event) to discover, grow and nature slum based running talent and raise funds for our community development activities.
How we propose to do it;
We shall have an eight races event with each race focusing on different category of people or teams. This is the races card;
a) 8 KM primary school girls race
b) 8 KM primary school boys race
c) 10 Km secondary schools race
d) 10 KM secondary schools race
e) 10 KM ladies race
f) 10 KM men race
g) 10 KM corporate sponsored teams race
h) 5 KM Pre-school, invited guests and elderly peoples race.
Where we propose to do it;
We propose to stage the event in the streets of Kayole’s Soweto slums and the surrounding neighborhood. The events’ immediate catchment area comprises of Soweto slums, Kayole Estate, Komarock Estate, Umoja, Donholm, Embakasi village and Matopeni.
When we propose to do it;
• Every 2nd Saturday of July each year.
The event is therefore on 10th July 2010.
Why we shall succeed;
• We are currently the first and only event of this kind in a densely populated Kayole Estate and its environs.
• We are working with all stakeholders including the government and community opinion leaders in order to win wide support for this event
• We shall be transparent and accountable to our sponsors for every sponsor ship cent we receive
• We are mobilizing primary and secondary schools head teachers and youth groups to send teams to participate and compete for honors
• We are inviting corporate sector players and other organizations to participate through sending their own teams and also via sponsoring the event
• We shall give awards to winning individuals and teams to interest (entice) and encourage future participation
• The youths will embrace this opportunity to show case their running talent and thus their support.
What we need to enable us to carry out the plan;
a) Kshs 525,867.50 i.e. (USD 6,919.30)
b) Event sponsors
c) Voluntary human resource
The Budget Breakdown:
Individual Winner’s Cash Awards
Position Primary Secondary Seniors Total
In
Kshs
Girls Boys Girls Boys Ladies Men
1 1000 1000 1500 1500 5000 5000 15,000
2 500 500 750 750 2500 2500 7,500
3 300 300 400 400 2000 2000 5,400
4 200 200 300 300 1000 1000 3,000
5 100 100 200 200 500 500 1,600
Total 2,100 2,100 3,150 3,150 11,000 11,000 32,500
Total individual winners cash awards in Kshs 32,500
Winning Schools Teams Cash Awards:
Primary girls………. Kshs 3000
Primary boys………. Kshs 3000
Secondary girls………. Kshs 5000
Secondary boys……… Kshs 5000
Total Kshs 16,000 Kshs 16,000
Cash Awards Total…………………………………………. Kshs 48,500
Resource needed to enable us Stage the Run:
1) Main Budget:
Event Marketing materials…………………………………………… 200,000.00
Awards:
a) Winners cash awards………………………………………….. 48,500.00
b) Winning teams trophies……………………………………….. 66,000.00
Refreshments………………………………………………………….. 20,000.00
Transport;
a) emergencies van hire…………………………………………... 30,000.00
b) Purchase 3 supervision bicycles @ 15,000 each……………45,000.00
Public address system hire…………………………………………….. 15,000.00
Videographer…………………………………………………………..20,000.00
Hire professional Run manager/technical advisor…………………….. 30,000.00
Contingency 10%...........................................49,367.50
Total Event Budget…………………………………………… Kshs 525,867.50
USD 6919.30
2) Donations in kind:
1. Branded T-shirts designed and printed with the message; Compassion Run 2010 at the front (chest position) and your brand colors, message or logo or both placed at a position of your choice on the T-shirt.
2. First Aid kits
3. Stopwatches
4. Digital Video Camera
5. Computer, Printer and a Scanner
6. Advertising space
7. Event Publicity
8. Technical support/assistance
9. Volunteers
10. Bottled Water
11. Gifts for school children-biscuits, sweets, glucose, exercise books, pens, etc, and sanitary towels for upper primary and secondary school girls.
12. Guest Tents
Sponsorship:
The title sponsorship fee is Kshs 525,867.50, i.e. (USD 6919.30)
• . This amount will help the management meet the cost of organizing and staging the event successfully.
• We shall accept any sponsorship amount you choose to donate in support of this project.
• Support need not be in cash only, we accept sponsorship in kind.
Help Raise Funds:
The target for the run is to raise Kshs 1,000,000 (USD 13,156.894). These funds will be used to purchase a plot for Wisdom Nest Primary School in Soweto slums on which modern standard classrooms will be built to make our classrooms spacious and therefore friendly to learners and teachers.
a) Fund Raising Competition; Corporate teams, NGOs, Churches, Colleges, School teams and individuals who raise the highest amount of money will earn awards in form of (Compassion Trophies) for recognition.
b)Run Registration Fees; -Slums Primary Schools Teams Kshs 500, -Public and Private Schools Teams Kshs 1000, -Corporate and NGO sponsored Teams Kshs 10,000 i.e.(USD 132) -Pupils from slum schools Kshs 20, -Pupils from Public and Private schools Kshs 50, -Secondary school students Kshs 100
-Slum dwellers (men and women) Kshs 100,
-International individual participants USD 15
-Kenyan established athletes (men and women) Kshs 500
c) Request for Donations-
The school needs to purchase a plot, build classrooms and a sanitation block. Your donations will be highly appreciated.
Institutional Capacity:
WINCEP Management Board-(9 members):
1. Bishop J.B. Muchanga…………………………………...Chairman
2. Mrs Susan Njeri………………………………………….Director
3. Head teacher-Wisdom Nest Primary School…………….Secretary
4. Mrs Margaret Sadji………………………………………Treasurer
5. Pastor Andrew Manyeki…………………………………Technical Advisor
6. Steve Wanjie-Founder WINCEP………………………...Chair-Compassion Run
7. Mr. D.W. Mwangi………………………………………..Comm. Opinion Leader
8. Naomi Kwamboka……………………………………….Women Representative
9. Mrs Lucy Luvanda……………………………………….Advisor/social worker
Others:
Compassion Run Management Team (5)
50 Volunteers
13 Teachers
Accounting Capacity:
Account Name…………………Wisdom Nest Primary School
A/C No…………………………0120100302176
Bank……………………………Equity Bank
Branch………………………….Kayole
City…………………………….Nairobi, Kenya
Sponsorship Request:
May we take this opportunity to request you to sponsor this project in any way you may choose or deem appropriate!
Invitation to participate:
May we take this opportunity to officially invite you to participate in this Run Event?
International participants should email their participation request at wisdomnest@gmail.com so that we can send you invitation Letters to visit Kenya.
Proposer: Wisdom Nest Community Education Programme
Address: P.O.BOX 9377-00100,
G.P.O,
Nairobi,
Kenya
Contact: Run Chairman Tel: 0724 13 04 46
Director Tel: 0722 81 40 81
Email: wisdomnest@gmail.com
Location: Soweto slums-Kayole
Savannah sub-location
Umoja location
Embakasi Division
Embakasi Constituency
Nairobi East District
Nairobi Province
Kenya
Amount Requested: Kshs 525,867.50/= i.e. (USD 6,919.30)
Event Date: 10th July 2010
Proposal Dated: 10th December 2009
Summary:
Wisdom Nest Community Education Programme (WINCEP) is proposing to establish the first annual run in Kayole’s Soweto slums, to take advantage of an exploited gap in Embakasi Division running/athletics, discover new talent and raise funds for community development activities.
The event has considerable growth potential which arises from the Divisions’ high population, demographic changes in urban slums/centers and the huge untapped raw running talent in urban slums waiting for an opportunity to show case their prowess.
This annual run opens the prospect of establishing a successful annual Cross Country meet which promises immense social benefits for the children, youth, community and sponsors.
The event management will consist of professional athletics manager and technical advisor with direct experience of developing and managing cross country events in Kenya. The concept is for a six race event, set and staged in Kayole where competition is currently non-existent and where we are the dominant athletics event.
WINCEP plans to raise Kshs 525,867.50 i.e. (USD 6,919.30) to enable her stage the run on 10th July 2010. This amount will cover the entire run budget thus ensuring a successful community event.
Therefore, we wish to take this opportunity to request you kindly to sponsor this unique project financially or in kind.
Sponsors Benefit:
1. We are offering our sponsor;
• Free Brand promotion. Give us logistical support and your product promotion materials and we shall do free promotion for you two months ahead and up to the actual event day.
2. A platform to;
a) Market, promote and advertise your Brands to the people of Embakasi Division
b) Exercise your Social Responsibility obligations
c) Meet and Recruit new customers
d) Interact and bond with your current and future customers
e) Sell your products at the events’ venue
f) Free publicity
3. Value for money through proper usage of funds, accounting, transparency and zero tolerance to corruption.
Social Benefits:
a) Raise funds for community development activities focusing on needy slum children educational infrastructure at Wisdom Nest Primary School initially but expand the number of beneficially slum schools overtime (as the event grows).
b) Provide education to needy slum children from extremely poor families and households, single parents, children affected by HIV/AIDS and orphans.
c) Help to discover, grow and nature slum based athletics talent.
d) Check crime associated with youth idleness by introducing athletics to occupy most of their free time
e) Peace building through sporting activity
f) Introduction of running as a career option for talented slum youths
g) We expect jobless youths to participate and benefit from opportunities emanating from this project either economically or health wise.
h) Reduced crime levels
i) Social economic development that shall be beneficial to the community.
Background:
Wisdom Nest Community Education Programme (WINCEP) is a self help organization located in Kayole’s Soweto slums, Savannah sub-location, Umoja location, Embakasi Division, Nairobi East District.
WINCEP was formed in 1998 by a group of women and a few men brought together by a merry-go-round weekly meeting. Currently the group has thirty members with three quarters of this membership being women.
WINCEP as active programs currently going on:
a) Wisdom Nest Primary School;
This is a full primary school catering for educational needs of needy slum children. There were 407 pupils and 13 teachers at the close of 2009 school year.
b) A school feeding program which is meant to entice enrollment and keep destitute slum/street children in school.
c) A partnership with Kenya Women Finance Trust that enables our female members’ access credit facilities for small income generating activities.
d) The Compassion Run Project;
This is our new project that is meant to help us raise funds for our programs and at the same time help our community youths discover their running talents.
Soweto slums are composed of squatter communities who have been resettled here by the government from various places and backgrounds. Residents are poor, hungry and majority is hopeless. All Kenyan tribes and a few people from East African countries reside here.
Project Objectives
a) Introduce running/athletics to our community which is currently non-existent.
b) Create a plat form for our children and youths to discover and develop their running talent.
c) Engage and occupy our children and youths free time positively by exposing them to the potentially lucrative world of athletics
d) Promote peace using this sporting event
e) Raise funds to support our community development activities
Goal
To create, organize and stage a successful annual cross country athletics event in an urban slum setting.
Vision:
Have at least one product (athlete) from this project representing Kenya at the Olympics before 2020.
What we proposal to do;
Stage an annual run (which shall eventually culminate into a fully pledged cross country event) to discover, grow and nature slum based running talent and raise funds for our community development activities.
How we propose to do it;
We shall have an eight races event with each race focusing on different category of people or teams. This is the races card;
a) 8 KM primary school girls race
b) 8 KM primary school boys race
c) 10 Km secondary schools race
d) 10 KM secondary schools race
e) 10 KM ladies race
f) 10 KM men race
g) 10 KM corporate sponsored teams race
h) 5 KM Pre-school, invited guests and elderly peoples race.
Where we propose to do it;
We propose to stage the event in the streets of Kayole’s Soweto slums and the surrounding neighborhood. The events’ immediate catchment area comprises of Soweto slums, Kayole Estate, Komarock Estate, Umoja, Donholm, Embakasi village and Matopeni.
When we propose to do it;
• Every 2nd Saturday of July each year.
The event is therefore on 10th July 2010.
Why we shall succeed;
• We are currently the first and only event of this kind in a densely populated Kayole Estate and its environs.
• We are working with all stakeholders including the government and community opinion leaders in order to win wide support for this event
• We shall be transparent and accountable to our sponsors for every sponsor ship cent we receive
• We are mobilizing primary and secondary schools head teachers and youth groups to send teams to participate and compete for honors
• We are inviting corporate sector players and other organizations to participate through sending their own teams and also via sponsoring the event
• We shall give awards to winning individuals and teams to interest (entice) and encourage future participation
• The youths will embrace this opportunity to show case their running talent and thus their support.
What we need to enable us to carry out the plan;
a) Kshs 525,867.50 i.e. (USD 6,919.30)
b) Event sponsors
c) Voluntary human resource
The Budget Breakdown:
Individual Winner’s Cash Awards
Position Primary Secondary Seniors Total
In
Kshs
Girls Boys Girls Boys Ladies Men
1 1000 1000 1500 1500 5000 5000 15,000
2 500 500 750 750 2500 2500 7,500
3 300 300 400 400 2000 2000 5,400
4 200 200 300 300 1000 1000 3,000
5 100 100 200 200 500 500 1,600
Total 2,100 2,100 3,150 3,150 11,000 11,000 32,500
Total individual winners cash awards in Kshs 32,500
Winning Schools Teams Cash Awards:
Primary girls………. Kshs 3000
Primary boys………. Kshs 3000
Secondary girls………. Kshs 5000
Secondary boys……… Kshs 5000
Total Kshs 16,000 Kshs 16,000
Cash Awards Total…………………………………………. Kshs 48,500
Resource needed to enable us Stage the Run:
1) Main Budget:
Event Marketing materials…………………………………………… 200,000.00
Awards:
a) Winners cash awards………………………………………….. 48,500.00
b) Winning teams trophies……………………………………….. 66,000.00
Refreshments………………………………………………………….. 20,000.00
Transport;
a) emergencies van hire…………………………………………... 30,000.00
b) Purchase 3 supervision bicycles @ 15,000 each……………45,000.00
Public address system hire…………………………………………….. 15,000.00
Videographer…………………………………………………………..20,000.00
Hire professional Run manager/technical advisor…………………….. 30,000.00
Contingency 10%...........................................49,367.50
Total Event Budget…………………………………………… Kshs 525,867.50
USD 6919.30
2) Donations in kind:
1. Branded T-shirts designed and printed with the message; Compassion Run 2010 at the front (chest position) and your brand colors, message or logo or both placed at a position of your choice on the T-shirt.
2. First Aid kits
3. Stopwatches
4. Digital Video Camera
5. Computer, Printer and a Scanner
6. Advertising space
7. Event Publicity
8. Technical support/assistance
9. Volunteers
10. Bottled Water
11. Gifts for school children-biscuits, sweets, glucose, exercise books, pens, etc, and sanitary towels for upper primary and secondary school girls.
12. Guest Tents
Sponsorship:
The title sponsorship fee is Kshs 525,867.50, i.e. (USD 6919.30)
• . This amount will help the management meet the cost of organizing and staging the event successfully.
• We shall accept any sponsorship amount you choose to donate in support of this project.
• Support need not be in cash only, we accept sponsorship in kind.
Help Raise Funds:
The target for the run is to raise Kshs 1,000,000 (USD 13,156.894). These funds will be used to purchase a plot for Wisdom Nest Primary School in Soweto slums on which modern standard classrooms will be built to make our classrooms spacious and therefore friendly to learners and teachers.
a) Fund Raising Competition; Corporate teams, NGOs, Churches, Colleges, School teams and individuals who raise the highest amount of money will earn awards in form of (Compassion Trophies) for recognition.
b)Run Registration Fees; -Slums Primary Schools Teams Kshs 500, -Public and Private Schools Teams Kshs 1000, -Corporate and NGO sponsored Teams Kshs 10,000 i.e.(USD 132) -Pupils from slum schools Kshs 20, -Pupils from Public and Private schools Kshs 50, -Secondary school students Kshs 100
-Slum dwellers (men and women) Kshs 100,
-International individual participants USD 15
-Kenyan established athletes (men and women) Kshs 500
c) Request for Donations-
The school needs to purchase a plot, build classrooms and a sanitation block. Your donations will be highly appreciated.
Institutional Capacity:
WINCEP Management Board-(9 members):
1. Bishop J.B. Muchanga…………………………………...Chairman
2. Mrs Susan Njeri………………………………………….Director
3. Head teacher-Wisdom Nest Primary School…………….Secretary
4. Mrs Margaret Sadji………………………………………Treasurer
5. Pastor Andrew Manyeki…………………………………Technical Advisor
6. Steve Wanjie-Founder WINCEP………………………...Chair-Compassion Run
7. Mr. D.W. Mwangi………………………………………..Comm. Opinion Leader
8. Naomi Kwamboka……………………………………….Women Representative
9. Mrs Lucy Luvanda……………………………………….Advisor/social worker
Others:
Compassion Run Management Team (5)
50 Volunteers
13 Teachers
Accounting Capacity:
Account Name…………………Wisdom Nest Primary School
A/C No…………………………0120100302176
Bank……………………………Equity Bank
Branch………………………….Kayole
City…………………………….Nairobi, Kenya
Sponsorship Request:
May we take this opportunity to request you to sponsor this project in any way you may choose or deem appropriate!
Invitation to participate:
May we take this opportunity to officially invite you to participate in this Run Event?
International participants should email their participation request at wisdomnest@gmail.com so that we can send you invitation Letters to visit Kenya.
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