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Part of our goal as Africa Exchange is to provide opportunities for you to engage the world through life-sustaining activities that will make a difference in your life and the lives that you touch. Each of the items below represent material resources that will help make life better for children in marginalized communities. Click on any icon below and learn how that particular item will assist individuals and communities through our Integrated Child Development Centers spread around Kenya. We encourage you to utilize our web-based donation process to make contributions toward a selected item. Just click on "donate now" at the right and don't forget to make a designation regarding your support preference. THANKS!!
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Beehive
Several parts of Kenya present ideal locations for bee keeping and honey sales as a micro-income generating project. Five of our Integrated Child Development Centers (ICDCs) are located in such regions. These are, Garissa, Longeiwuan, Wamaganga, Nakwijit and Ngerenya. Our goal is to establish a bee keeping unit in conjunction with each of these ICDC projects to provide income towards the payment of teacher salaries. Once the bee keeping unit is established, individual community members may choose to adopt the practice to provide income for their families.
African Bee Keepers, Ltd. provides training and the supply of the hives and equipment necessary for this enterprise. Honey from all projects is purchased and sold through our “bee-cause” label, all profits returned to the respective project units.
Beehive Income Generating Project
(Initial setup includes training, 10 hives and extrusion equipment)
Full gift: $1500
Share in the gift with one hive (complete with stand): $75
Bee Hut
The bee hut is used to store bee hives and honey extraction equipment. In addition to extracting honey for income generation for each ICDC, individual families can choose to keep their own hives, utilizing the extraction equipment available in the “bee hut” for a small fee.
Full gift: $ 1250
Share in the gift: $125
Solar Cooker
80% of the population in Kenya relies on wood fuel (sticks or charcoal) for cooking. This has the devastating effect of deforestation in an ecosystem that is already strained to the breaking point.
The introduction of solar cooking is intended to provide an alternative to wood fuel use and is appropriate in most areas where we have Integrated Child Development Centers (ICDCs). A pot of “Githeri,” (beans and corn) can be cooked within 2 hours using a solar cooker and a pressure pot.
Solar Cooker System
(System includes a solar cooker, a complete set of pots as well as a “solar cooker cozy” that allows the cooking process to continue after the pot has been removed from the cooker)
Gift amount: $300
Fencing
Ever tried to plant seedlings with goats around? Believe me, it doesn’t work! In order to safeguard young trees and plants, it becomes necessary for us to surround the area with some sort of fencing that keeps kids in and animals out. In most cases, we utilize a metal post and chain link system.
Fencing Project
(Surround an entire acre of land with a fence that will last for years and ensure that food for the children can be grown and tree nurseries flourish)
Full gift: $2500
Share in the gift: $25
Water Filter
Each of our Integrated Child Development Center units utilizes rainwater collection as a primary means of providing clean water for children. In some cases this has to be supplemented by water from other less hygienic sources. Where this is the case, we endeavor to provide a filter to ensure that the water being consumed by children is hygienic and with the correct mineral levels.
Regular Water Filter
(ensures clean water for the ICDC’s 80 children)
Full gift: $100
Bone Char Water Filter
(in areas where high fluoride levels are present, this special filter is introduced to reduce the levels to acceptable standards)
Full gift: $500
Share in the gift: $100
Swingset
Critical to the motor skill development of children is active play, enhanced by equipment that is safe, durable and – FUN!! Each swing set has four swings, one of which constitutes rings and a trapeze bar. Made of heavy-duty galvanized pipe, steel connectors and commercial grade swings, components are a combination of locally produced and imported items. We have recently made an arrangement with a local firm that will fabricate critical items here in Kenya, reducing the overall cost of the projec
Your gift provides learning and fun for children at each of our Integrated Child Development Centers.
Swingset Project
Full gift: $1300
Share in the gift: $65
Kitchen Garden
In order to ensure proper nutrition for children that attend our Integrated Child Development Center (ICDC) units, we provide a snack (porridge) and one hot meal at lunch each day. Meals are from ingredients either purchased or grown locally.
Our desire is to produce as much of this food as possible at the local level. Where possible, an area adjacent to the center is fenced and put under cultivation using one or more intensive, organic techniques to ensure a steady supply of green vegetables for consumption. We are experimenting with a number of innovative methods including drip irrigation and the “veggie tunnel,” as well as conventional methods where sufficient land is available.
Small Drip Kit for Conventional Garden
Full gift: $25
Green House with Drip System (6m x 18m)
Full gift: $2500
Share in the gift: $250
Tree Nursery
The amount of forested land in Kenya has declined from 20% at independence to a measly 3% currently. Factors include high pressure on available arable land, population increase and the use of fuel wood for cooking including conversion of trees to charcoal. Deforestation has a devastating effect on the climate as well as soil erosion and runoff.
Your gift will help us establish a tree nursery at each of our Integrated Child Development Center (ICDC) units, distributing trees at the local level as well as educating the community on the importance of creation care.
Tree Nursery Project
Full gift: $1000
Share in the gift: $100
Educational Materials
At each of our Integrated Child Development Centers (ICDCs) we endeavor to provide a full set of resource materials for teachers according to the established government curriculum for Early Childhood Development.
At the beginning of each year, we add to these requirements by replenishing consumable supplies and take-home materials for children including workbooks, coloring books, modeling clay, cut-outs, etc.
Educational Materials
(provides one year’s worth of resources for 80 children)
Full gift: $750 Share in the gift: $75
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