Overview of main Investments required to build up CBSM:
Feeding Program (2 yrs): 12'500 Euros
Land (20 plots): 47'000 Euros
Classrooms (10): 51'500 Euros
TOTAL: 111'000 Euros
More details on the individual investments below:
Feeding program:
Due to the enduring drought in Kenya, prices for food have been gone up to a level, where many schools cannot afford the feeding program anymore. The CBSM school is also affected, facing the severe challenge to lacking the financials to buy the daily food required for the children.
As a short term remediation, some of the CBSM members offered to renounce part of their salaries to ensure the continuity of the school. However, given the low salaries of the members, this is not a sustainable solution.
The daily costs to feed our 250 kids are as little as 26 Euros per day:
Maize: 15.30 Euros
Beans: 8.60 Euros
Fat: 0.60 Euros
Fire wood: 0.80 Euros
Salt: 0.40 Euros
Tomatoes & Onions: 0.40 Euros
TOTAL: 26.10Euros per day / 520 Euros per month
Experts estimate (please see here or here) no relieve till 2012. To secure the nutrition program for two years, additional 12'500 Euros are required.
For the long-term solution, please see "Land".
Land:
Long term, additional land is required to cultivate own crops to feed the students over lunch. The option of the CBSM youth groups to take care of the fields and keep a small portion as gratitude needs to be further evaluated.
There is plenty of land for sale available around the school. One additional plot of 100x50 feet (30x15 meters) of land is around 300'000 KSH (2'350 Euros). 20 additional pieces of land would provide a solid basis for feeding the kids. This equals a total investment of 47'000 Euros
School building:
To ensure long term sustainability, it is of vital importance to replace the temporary mud and wood structure with a permanent building made of bricks and cement. For one classroom, below costs are estimated:
Substructures: 1'700 Euros
Walling and Frame: 1'000 Euros
Openings: 450 Euros
Roofing: 1'050 Euros
Finishes: 950 Euros
TOTAL: 5'150 Euros per classroom
Eight classrooms are required as well as an office and a recreation room for teachers. This would total an investment of around 51'500 Euros
Kitchen:
No investment details yet, but a kitchen is needed to prepare lunch for the kitchen
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
Regards,
Alex & Agnes
Wednesday 20 July 2011
Friday 15 July 2011
Famine in Kenya
Dear friends,
Devastating news have reached us from Kenya.
Due to the lack of rain over the last two years, famine has reached many countries in Africa, Kenya being one of the countries with the highest impact.
Below is an article from the Guardian (28th June 2011) outlining the severe situation:
"Two consecutive poor rainy seasons have resulted in one of the driest years since 1950/51 in many pastoral zones," the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs told a media briefing. "There is no likelihood of improvement until 2012".
Food prices have risen substantially in the region, pushing many moderately poor households over the edge.
A UN map of food security in the eastern Horn of Africa shows large swathes of central Kenya and Somalia in the emergency category, one phase before what the UN classifies as catastrophe/famine – the fifth and worst category.
Child malnutrition rates in the worst affected areas are more than double the emergency threshold of 15 per cent and are expected to rise further. High mortality rates among children are also reported.
Drought and fighting are driving ever greater numbers of Somalis from their homeland, with more than 20,000 arriving in Kenya in just the past two weeks, the UN refuge agency UNHCR said on Friday. It voiced alarm at the dramatic rise, noting the average monthly outflow had been about 10,000 so far this year."
As we have been told by our CBSM members in Kimilili, our school is also affected as the daily lunches for the kids can't be afforded anymore. The cost for our 250 kids are 26 Euros per day (30 CHF) and are split as follows:
MAIZE: 1950 KSH
BEANS: 1100 KSH
FAT: 80 KSH
FIRE WOOD: 100 KSH
SALT: 50 KSH
TOMATOES AND ONIONS: 50 KSH
TOTAL: 3'330 KSH equaling 600 CHF per month
As a long term solution, we would like to buy enough additional land for local volunteers to grow crops and sustain themselves, but as long as the funding is not there yet, we need a mid-term solution.
We are looking for volunteers to cover parts of the monthly costs so that our kids can be fed over lunch. For many of those kids, this will be the only meal they receive for the day.
If you would like to support, please contact us or transfer your donations to the CBSM account. Please remember, 100% of your donations will go directly to the kids, all administrations costs or other costs are covered by us.
If you have questions, please feel free to contact us.
Thanks for your kind support,
Alex & Agnes
Devastating news have reached us from Kenya.
Due to the lack of rain over the last two years, famine has reached many countries in Africa, Kenya being one of the countries with the highest impact.
Below is an article from the Guardian (28th June 2011) outlining the severe situation:
"The worst drought in 60 years in the Horn of Africa has sparked a severe food crisis and high malnutrition rates, with parts of Kenya and Somalia experiencing pre-famine conditions, the United Nations has said.
More than 10 million people are now affected in drought-stricken areas of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda and the situation is deteriorating, it said.
Food prices have risen substantially in the region, pushing many moderately poor households over the edge.
A UN map of food security in the eastern Horn of Africa shows large swathes of central Kenya and Somalia in the emergency category, one phase before what the UN classifies as catastrophe/famine – the fifth and worst category.
Child malnutrition rates in the worst affected areas are more than double the emergency threshold of 15 per cent and are expected to rise further. High mortality rates among children are also reported.
Drought and fighting are driving ever greater numbers of Somalis from their homeland, with more than 20,000 arriving in Kenya in just the past two weeks, the UN refuge agency UNHCR said on Friday. It voiced alarm at the dramatic rise, noting the average monthly outflow had been about 10,000 so far this year."
As we have been told by our CBSM members in Kimilili, our school is also affected as the daily lunches for the kids can't be afforded anymore. The cost for our 250 kids are 26 Euros per day (30 CHF) and are split as follows:
MAIZE: 1950 KSH
BEANS: 1100 KSH
FAT: 80 KSH
FIRE WOOD: 100 KSH
SALT: 50 KSH
TOMATOES AND ONIONS: 50 KSH
TOTAL: 3'330 KSH equaling 600 CHF per month
As a long term solution, we would like to buy enough additional land for local volunteers to grow crops and sustain themselves, but as long as the funding is not there yet, we need a mid-term solution.
We are looking for volunteers to cover parts of the monthly costs so that our kids can be fed over lunch. For many of those kids, this will be the only meal they receive for the day.
If you would like to support, please contact us or transfer your donations to the CBSM account. Please remember, 100% of your donations will go directly to the kids, all administrations costs or other costs are covered by us.
If you have questions, please feel free to contact us.
Thanks for your kind support,
Alex & Agnes
Monday 4 July 2011
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