Anita Schachinger

We Harambee/Gapeka support a school for the poor, the Bright Academy. Led by a pastor. The classrooms are only rented. Neither a blackboard, nor books, notebooks; no tables, not to mention the school uniform required in Kenya. The special thing here, the vast majority of all parents are physically or mentally disabled. In a country without social benefits and without these people being able to work, it is impossible to send the children to school. A vicious circle of poverty.

Fumbini Special Unit is a public school in Kenya that is rented by an association that supports disabled children. Very poor families in particular cannot afford wheelchairs, let alone the school fees for these special children. Therefore, the association GABEKA (Harambee in Austria) supports families to enable the children to live a dignified life. What we do: Purchase of wheelchairs, co-financing of therapies, support with food supply,

Charity visits the baby class of the Hope Integrated School in Kilifi/Kenya, a partner school of the Kilifi Vonwald School. (www.harambee.at) Charity has recently lost her sponsor and is looking for a new sponsor(s). We want to pay the school fees in this group for the time until they have new sponsors. Since there are always children who do not have godparents, we will then introduce a new child for whom we will use the money.