Kids Rescue and Sustenance Support Project of St.

Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s Centre

11th October 2010

Dear Sir/Madam,
We greet you all in the name of our gracious Lord and God.

We are humbled to submit our concept of Kids Rescue and Sustenance Support Project (KRESSP)
of the St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s Centre & School”. The project is for Children
at Risk in Kenya’s rural communities in Nyanza Province who are enrolled at our Centre to receive
support and care while accessing quality primary and secondary education.

A summary of the core problems faced by this orphanage and school for at-risk children were vividly
captured by UN OCHA between 22-25th September 2008 and were reported in the following website:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6519338/OCHA-Kenya-Humanitarian-Update-Volume37.

Against this backdrop, St. Terrycam has now entered into a working relationship with Universal
Community Development Foundation to: create public awareness and sensitization on the needs and
plights of orphans and children from less privileged families; to develop international understanding
on the best ways of helping orphaned families in Africa South of Sahara, particularly those orphaned
by HIV and AIDs.

St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s Centre & School a non-profit, non-political charitable
orphan centre registered in Kenya as a Society under the Societies Act Cap 108, Laws of Kenya in
2002 has launched project called COPE (Community Orphan Prevention through Education) as an
intervention plan to sustainable orphan support initiative.

Under this umbrella, St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s Centre & School has several
different projects. We have chosen the acronym COPE because our COPE projects offer a more direct
and quantifiable continuance and sustainability. This assistance is for Children at Risk and Women
Living with HIV and AIDS who are raising their children. St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated
Children’s Centre & School through its main sponsor, the Universal Community Development
Foundation (UCODEF), helps these women to secure ARV’s (Anti-Retroviral Drugs) and provides
nutrition for them and their families as they are trained to sew uniforms or bed nets. HIV and AIDS
Treatment literacy is quite low and access to HIV services and products is limited in the areas served
by the project. Many of these women had never sat at a sewing machine before … but become very
able seamstresses after St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s Centre through UCODEF has
trained them on seamstress! They learn a trade and are then able to care for their own children
through their own earned income from the sale of cloths made by them. With ARV’s and access to
good Nutrition they may be able to live long and see their children through school. ARVs have been
known to be effective in reducing the HIV Viral Load while not only reconstituting the CD4 cells but

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also increasing them for effective management of opportunistic infections common to people with
AIDs.

This is why we call it “Orphan Prevention” because we are:

• Helping women earn funds to provide for their own children – thus preventing them from
becoming orphans due to improved access to basic necessities for effective child growth and
development while ensuring that the mother’s health is stabilized due access to ARVs and
Nutrition.
• Helping grandmothers (or extended family) that are already caring for their orphaned
grandchildren to continue to care for them and keep them in school by providing respite
support to grandmothers as a relief of the burden they now bear following the demise of their
sons and daughters-in-law to AIDS.

This is a mechanism for helping women and children COPE with the AIDS Pandemic … and survive
this devastating disease.

This proposal submitted for goodwill support will deal with our “Kids Rescue and Sustenance
Support Project (KRESSP) of the St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s Centre &
School”.

St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s Centre & School rescues orphaned children without
stable source of support and care and reintegrates them into formal child care and education support
system where they get quality education, access to good nutrition, health support and protection. As a
lead partner, UCODEF then assists women, mainly widows with AIDS that are raising their children
to have income generating activities that they then use to minimize risks facing orphaned children in
Kenya. This is done through a partnership with UCODEF where the UCODEF assists the Centre with
training of the widows whose children are being taken care of at the Centre. The trainings are
conducted at the UCODEF’s craft centre in Karungu Division as well as educating the women with
HIV and AIDS on the need for taking ARVs and improving adherence. These are the WEEP Projects
(Widows Equality Empowerment Project).

To date, the partnership between St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s Centre & School and
UCODEF has helped to establish four different income generating projects for the women they serve:
1) Widows Groups stocking and distribution nutritious food and diet supplements for children
under nine at St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s Centre at a subsidized cost.
2) Women making peanut butter for sale (a project we partnered with YOFAK in Oyugis – a
local HIV and AIDS Socio-Economic Mitigation group to begin). The income from the
project helps the women to improve their access to ARVs and other Opportunistic Infections
Management drugs. They are now also able to maintain a good balanced diet.
3) Women making school uniforms which are partly consumed by St. Terrycam Orphans and
partly sold to other schools as a source of increased income for the women.
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4) Women Groups supported to grow and sell at a subsidized costs food crops and vegetables for
consumption by the orphans of St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s Centre and
School. Today, we have helped to establish over 10 kitchen gardens, 5 poultry projects, and
several women-led market-stalls-based retail trades.

If you chose to fund this project you will not only be helping 500 orphaned children aged between 3
and 15 already enrolled and being cared for at the St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s
Centre, which in itself is a noble effort, but you can see that your funds will reach far more than 500
children by the end of 24 months through an extended program reach to widows and grandmothers
caring for other orphans not necessarily at St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s Centre &
School.

Please see the attached Proposal and proposed budget.

Thank you for your consideration of this worthy project.

Sincerely,

Richard Ochieng’ Bonyo

Project Director

Attached:
1. Concept Proposal with Photos from previous and current projects implemented by St.
Terrycam and UCODEF
2. Registration Certificate (Scanned Copy)

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ST. TERRYCAM DEOGRATIAS INTEGRATED CHILDREN’S CENTRE & SCHOOL

“Kids Rescue & Sustenance Support Project

(KRESSP)”
Introduction to the program
St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s Centre & School has launched a new program for
Children at Risk in Kenya, COPE (Community Orphan Prevention through Education).

Under this umbrella, St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s Centre & School has several
different projects. We have chosen the acronym COPE because our COPE projects offer a more direct
and quantifiable continuance and sustainability. This assistance is for Children at Risk and Women
Living with HIV and AIDS who are raising their children. St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated
Children’s Centre & School through its main sponsor, the Universal Community Development
Foundation (UCODEF), helps these women to secure ARV’s (Anti-Retroviral Drugs) and provides
nutrition for them and their families as they are trained to sew uniforms or bed nets. HIV and AIDS
Treatment literacy is quite low and access to HIV services and products is limited in the areas served
by the project. Many of these women had never sat at a sewing machine before … but become very
able seamstresses after St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s Centre through UCODEF has
trained them on seamstress! They learn a trade and are then able to care for their own children
through their own earned income from the sale of cloths made by them. With ARV’s and access to
good Nutrition they may be able to live long and see their children through school. ARVs have been
known to be effective in reducing the HIV Viral Load while not only reconstituting the CD4 cells but
also increasing them for effective management of opportunistic infections common to people with
AIDs.

This is why we call it “Orphan Prevention” because we are:

• Helping women earn funds to provide for their own children – thus preventing them from
becoming orphans due to improved access to basic necessities for effective child growth and
development while ensuring that the mother’s health is stabilized due access to ARVs and
Nutrition.
• Helping grandmothers (or extended family) that are already caring for their orphaned
grandchildren to continue to care for them and keep them in school by providing respite
support to grandmothers as a relief of the burden they now bear following the demise of their
sons and daughters-in-law to AIDS.

This proposal will deal with our “Kids Rescue & Sustenance Support Project (KRESSP)”.

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Our goal is to help Orphans - Children at Risk - in the rural areas along Lake Victoria Basin, in
Migori and Homa Bay County in four areas as follows:
1) Home - Stay in the tribal extended family home (usually cared for by an elderly
Grandmother)
2) School – Provide a uniform and food for children in school so they can go to and remain in
school –at least through Primary Education (Pre-school – Eighth Grade)
3) Health – Provide a goat for milk for the children/grandmother as well food rations for
families affected by AIDs and living in a food deprived status. Promote kitchen gardening for
improved access to good nutrition at no extra cost.
4) Out of Trouble – Keeping children in the home, in school and off the streets

St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s Centre & School works through established
community service organizations and leaders – to select and oversee the most vulnerable children to
participate in this project. Children at Risk can be 3 – 18 years old and in Pre-school – 8th Grade.
They often have missed a lot of schooling due to their home situation (and because the extended
family has no funds for uniforms) so they can be 18 years old before finishing primary education
(eighth grade). They also have evident symptoms of malnutrition and psycho trauma resulting from
deprived lifestyles they find themselves after the loss of their parents (sole breadwinners).

Background
HIV and AIDS IN KENYA
In Kenya, AIDS was first diagnosed in 1984 and declared a national disaster 15 years later in 1999.
The latest statistics from the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (2004) indicate that the national
prevalence is now at 6.7 percent with infection levels exceeding 20 percent of all adults in Busia,
Kisumu, Meru, Nakuru and Thika. The Demographic and Health Survey also showed a rural
prevalence of 12–13 percent, indicating that about 1.4 million infected adults are living in the rural
areas. Although prevalence rates are higher in the urban areas, the absolute or total number of people
infected is larger in rural areas, where 80 percent of Kenyans live. In rural areas the rates seems to be
increasing more rapidly than the urban areas.

Statistics in Kenya indicate the following:

• Infection percentage is higher in the urban areas
• Total number of people living with AIDS is higher in the rural areas
• Infection is higher in women
• Prevalence is highest among 20– 49 year olds
• Infection is highest among 30-39 year old men
• Infection is highest among 20-29 year old women
• New infections were highest among 15-25 year olds
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• One in nine Kenyans is infected with HIV

• Between 600-1000 people die each day in Kenya from AIDS
• There are approximately 600 new cases daily
• Over 1.5 M orphans in Kenya

Orphans
Of Kenya's 1.66 million orphans, 54 percent are parentless because of AIDS. Children are left behind
to live with relatives, in orphanages or on the streets (UNAID UNICEF and USAID).
Throughout Sub Saharan Africa, the official orphanages are full to overflowing. By one estimate
50,000 new orphanages are needed to house these children, but in reality over a quarter of a million,
250,000 orphanages would be required to house the orphan population that will develop in Africa
below the Sahara by end of 2010. In a culture deeply rooted in their cultural ancestral heritage of
tribe, clan, kin, and family an orphan is an isolated outcast. No roots, no land, no future.

Children need family, community, and individual care. America learned more than a generation ago
that orphanages, even the best ones, produce adults who are isolated and unadjusted to life in the
community, more so in Africa where the family social structure is so strong. Tribal relationships are
paramount in integrating African society. A generation of orphans raised in institutions in Kenya has
taught the Africans that foster care in a home environment is a better solution than an orphanage.
Some of the more progressive orphanages in Africa are now turning to this type of program where the
child is rescued at an orphanage, linked to his/her foster family then supported while at the care of
family members to be able to attend school and have better healthcare, without cutting the link
between the child and his/her family. More importantly, foster care costs less than one third as much
per child as an institutional orphanage.

Remembering that 80% of the population of Kenyans lives in rural Kenya, there are very few social
services including orphanages in which to place AIDS orphans in the Rural Kenya. Therefore, if
these children are placed in an institutional setting it is generally in the larger cities, far from their
family and friends, hence seclusion and withdrawal.

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Justification for Cultural Acceptability to Care for

Orphans
In Kenya it is not only common but also socially acceptable for extended family and fellow tribe
members to raise parentless children. Women who parent children, regardless whether they are
biologically theirs, are called 'mother' showing a sense of pride felt by these guardians. The stigma is
not connected to an orphan being raised by the community but rather the condition in which children
have become orphans in the first place. HIV/AIDS still carries a heavy stigma to those infected by
the disease and to the children who are left behind after the parents succumb to AIDS related
infections. Being raised in a loving home environment helps reduce the pain associated with being an
'AIDS orphan'.

Need of Empowering Guardians to Offer Support

Many relatives and friends would like to be able to offer a home to AIDS orphans but due to their
own limited resources they are unable to extend this offer. A small amount of assistance is often
enough to help these families extend a welcome to these vulnerable children. This is why we
proposed a project that seeks to offer immediate respite support to elderly guardians caring for
orphans while conducting skills training for women with AIDS for improved sustainable access to
income, thus increased opportunities to care for themselves and their orphans.

Kenya’s Education System

Free primary education
In Kenya, as in other African countries, primary education is theoretically free. This 'free' education
of primary grades 1-8 (equivalent to the USA system of grades 1st through 8th Grade) generally covers
tuition and books. In order to properly educate a child of any age however other needs should be
factored as well. Uniforms required by schools can be very expensive for relatives or guardians
raising an orphan. Those families on the brink of survival themselves are unable to allocate the
necessary funds to buy school uniforms for orphans no matter how willing and desiring they are to
raise these children.

Secondary education
Beginning in Form 1 and continuing to Form 4 (equivalent to the USA system of 9th through 12th
grade) bursaries are available from the government for deserving children (i.e.; academically gifted
children who are orphaned or poor). What is needed to take advantage of these bursaries are the
exams and subsequent grades as children exit primary 8. Therefore it is critical that primary
education be available to orphans in order for them to take advantage of this opportunity for
scholarships in secondary education.

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Other needs
In addition to school uniforms, other needs in order to educate a child would include sufficient food,
adequate shelter, and family support. Food such as goat milk and goat meat would provide a good
source of protein for a growing child.

Justification for Working in Rural Areas

Most non-government organization and government efforts in are concentrated in the urban areas.
Despite the undeniable needs in the rural regions, the urban areas are the most accessible to aid
organizations and government assistance. Only those organizations that are willing to leave the ease
of the larger cities and have adequate infrastructure to cope with the rural areas are found in these
outlying regions.

Objectives for Goats and Uniforms project in KRESSP

Empower foster families to care for orphans
As discussed earlier, many extended families and friends are willing to raise an AIDS orphan but are
unable to financially support an additional member. Through Goats and Uniforms, the expense of a
school uniform is paid for by St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s Centre & School through
project funds voted for uniforms. The goat purchased by donor fund is given to the orphan. This goat
is able to provide much needed nutritious milk and more kid goats to raise and / or sell to raise school
fees later in the child’s education life. Income from milk and others goats that may be sold will also
provide continuance and sustenance support to other family members. The child through the family
may also slaughter the goat at home and eat.

Enable orphans to acquire education free from stigma

If orphans are able to attend school at all, it is often in the tatters of old school uniforms. This 'hand-
me-down' appearance sets the child apart from the others and singles them out for ridicule. With a
new uniform from Goats and Uniforms, the child will not be excluded on the basis of this appearance.

Increase status of orphans in foster homes

Owning a goat increases the status of the orphan with the foster home. The child is able to own an
animal capable of increasing the family's access to milk and money as the goat kids are raised and
sold even for more income. The child then becomes an asset instead of a liability to the family's
budget.
Improve nutrition of orphans in foster homes
A dairy goat will provide much needed protein and total calories through its milk production. As the
goat bears kids, these kids can then be raised to be sold or slaughtered for meat. This system allows
for the improved nutrition of the orphan and indeed for the entire family.
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Transfer of husbandry skills to orphans

Orphans raising goats will learn the necessary animal husbandry skills to keep their goats healthy.
Elders in the community, extended family members and schools will participate together in the
education of the child in order for them to learn the skills of raising goats. This will translate into an
economically empowered orphaned generation able to successfully survive the declining employment
opportunities in the formal sector but gain more self-employment skills in the agricultural sector
when they grow older.

Gene pool improvement of community herd by

access to pedigree buck
The orphans' goats will have access to breeding programs around Kenya through the Ministry of
Agriculture’s Field Extension Program readily available in each County in Kenya. These programs
are aimed at improving the community's herd by crossbreeding the child's doe with a pedigree buck.
The improved gene pool will increase hardiness and milk production in the breeds commonly found
in East Africa (German Alpine, Small East African, Galla).

Project Model
Uniforms
Boys: shorts, shirts, underwear, socks, shoes, sweater
Girls: skirt, blouse, underwear, socks, shoes, sweater

Goats to be presented to orphans

Female does from improved breed (typically German Alpine)
Young, preferably in first gestation when presented to the orphan
Additional information:
Baby goats are called kids and males are called bucks
Gestation is approximately 150 days
Able to breed (first estrus) at 7 to 12 months

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Orphans
Definition:
The definition of 'AIDS orphan' used by UNAIDS, WHO and UNICEF is of a child
who loses his/her mother, father or both parents to AIDS before reaching the age of 15
years.

Priority given in selecting orphan

1.1.1.1. Both parents dead -living with aged landless grandparents
1.1.1.2. Both parents dead -living with aged grandparents
1.1.1.3. Both parents dead -living with landless and jobless relatives/guardians
1.1.1.4. Both parents dead -living with relatives/guardians with many children and with limited
sources of livelihood.
1.1.1.5. Single mother dead - living with grandparents, relatives or guardians
1.1.1.6. Mother dead and irresponsible or absent father - living with aged grandparents

Partners in Goats and Uniform project

St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s Centre
& School
St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s Centre & School's responsibilities will fall into three
main categories.
1. Resource mobilization
2. Management and coordination of the program, resources and outputs
3. Presentation of goats and uniforms to orphans

Donor (s)
The Goats and Uniforms program solicits $50.00 to cover the expenses of a complete school uniform
for each AIDS orphan and the cost of one (1) dairy goat per. In return, the donor receives
information regarding the orphan including photos of the child when he/she receives the goat and the
uniforms.

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Universal Community Development Foundation

(NGO)
The primary functions of the NGO are to:
1.1.2. Identify and prioritize orphans
1.1.3. Teach orphans husbandry
1.1.4. Monitor wellbeing of orphan and goat
1.1.5. Facilitate Goats and Uniforms project ensuring that a kid is returned to the program
1.1.6. Facilitate herd improvement by breeding the does with a pedigree buck

1.2. Ministry of agriculture

Responsible for maintaining access to animal health (veterinary) and management support available
at the grassroots level through Divisional Extension Service offices

2. Goats and Uniform Timeline

Month 0 ORPHAN 1
Receives a uniform and goat from project

Month 12 ORPHAN 1
ORPHAN 2
Receives a uniform from project in
Receives a uniform from the project
exchange for a kid to be given to
and a kid donated by Orphan 1
Orphan 2

Month 24
ORPHAN 2 ORPHAN 3
Receives a uniform from project in Receives a uniform from the project
exchange for a kid to Orphan 3 and a kid from Orphan 2

NB: from the above timeline, it is evident that within 24 months:

A. Orphan 1 will have been given 2 uniforms and will have had 3 kids (one being returned to the
project)
B. Orphan 2 will have been given 2 uniforms and will have had 2 kids (one being returned to the
project)
C. Orphan 3 will have been given 1 uniform and will have had 1 kid (one to be returned to the
project in the next cycle)

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Example of project starting with 10 Orphans

Month 0: St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s Centre & School donates uniforms and
goats to 10 orphans (group 1) at a cost of $50.00 each ($25.00 for uniform and $25.00 for goat).
Total expense: $500.00 (10 uniforms and 10 goats)
Orphans helped: 10

Month 12: St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s Centre & School donates uniforms for 10
new orphans (group 2) at an expense of $25.00 each.

Month 12: St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s Centre & School transfers kid from
original orphans (group 1) to orphans in Group 2

Month 12: St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s Centre & School donates uniforms for
original orphans (group 1) in exchange for the return of their first kid at an expense of $25.00 each
Total expense: $500.00 (20 uniforms)
Orphans helped: 20

Month 24: St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s Centre & School donates uniforms for 10
new orphans (group 3) at an expense of $25.00 each

Month 24: St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s Centre & School transfers kids from group
2 to group 3

Month 24: St. Terrycam Deogratias Integrated Children’s Centre & School donates uniforms for
group 2 in exchange for their first kid at an expense of $25.00 each. Orphans in group 1 at this point
are expected to have 3 kids and able to buy their own uniform for the following school year.
Total expense: $500.00 (20 uniforms)
Orphans helped: 30

This example works as written under the following conditions:

A. Every doe produces a live, healthy kid to be returned to the program
B. Every doe remains healthy and survives to produce a kid
C. The orphan has control over the doe (i.e.; it is not sold by extended family member)
D. The orphan relinquishes the kid to the program
E. The orphan does not leave the area and exit the program

The group that has been in the program at 24 months 'graduates' into self-sustainability with the doe
and 3 kids. Since goats often produce 1-2 kids per year with a twinning rate between 15-30% it is
conceivable that the orphans will have even more goats than predicted. With that good start to a herd,

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the orphan should be able to purchase his/her own school uniform for their third year of school after
their start in the Goats and Uniform project.

Budget Proposal “KIDS Rescue and Sustenance

3.

Support Project (KRESSP)”

Uniforms and Goats for 500 children…………………………….………..…… $25,000.00

(Recipients to be determined by Community Leaders through UCODEF)

*Logistic Costs:

Travel and Delivery $1,000.00

Program Accountability $ 250.00

School/Education on Care of Goat $ 250.00

Kenyan Supervisor of the Program $ 1,000.00

Sub-Total Logistic Costs ……………………………………..………………… $ 2,500.00

Total Budget for “KRESSP” Program…………………………….…………… $ 27,500.00

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PROJECT PHOTOS

The ICT Officer during free

UCODEF – NGO Reception
Computer
Migori Headquarter
Training session to youths

Free Computer & Reproductive Health Program Officers assembling Relief

training for Youths Sponsored by WPF Food ready for distribution

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The Chief Executive Officer of UCODEF NGO during one of the

his visits to the NGO’s tailoring training project for Commercial Sex
Workers under Rehabilitation at Sori Beach in Lake Victoria

Orphans & Vulnerable Children assembled

Uniforms ready for distribution in one of the for School uniform distribution in one of the
satellite centers of UCODEF NGO satellite centres

Uniforms displayed by OVC in one of the

satellite Centres of UCODEF - NGO

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Older Caregivers waiting for distribution of

Food & Cloths for the OVC

Beneficiaries & OVC assembled for

support given by UCODEF - NGO A poultry project supported by the NGO

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