My 1st blog in English and also my 1st shameless
fundraise shout out in my blog. Small note for the new (English) readers, I’m
writing this blog from the 1st moment I knew there was no way of
return to assist Macheo. At that time - more than 6 years ago I had a very comfortable
life in Amsterdam and a good joh at the Dutch Cancer Society. I volunteered
many years for Macheo next to my full time job. In 2013 I decided to quit my
job and go to Kenya to volunteer for Macheo.
During the years I was involved with Macheo I saw things growing. Met so many great passionate people. There was a big learning curve, we started projects, we stopped projects. And we focus since a few years only on a few big programs A Childrens Home, Primary School- and Secondary School Program, Family Empowerment and a several Health project.
Its wonderful to see how many people, friends, family, companies are believing in Macheo. Also the selling of bags and kikoys works very well, big amounts of money could be transferred to Macheo. Only because of well wishers Macheo can help so many vulnerable children and their family of a safe home or a chance to follow education. Thanks a lot for given donations or support in the past. Macheo could support over 14.000 children.
Primary School Program needs funding
During the years I was involved with Macheo I saw things growing. Met so many great passionate people. There was a big learning curve, we started projects, we stopped projects. And we focus since a few years only on a few big programs A Childrens Home, Primary School- and Secondary School Program, Family Empowerment and a several Health project.
Its wonderful to see how many people, friends, family, companies are believing in Macheo. Also the selling of bags and kikoys works very well, big amounts of money could be transferred to Macheo. Only because of well wishers Macheo can help so many vulnerable children and their family of a safe home or a chance to follow education. Thanks a lot for given donations or support in the past. Macheo could support over 14.000 children.
Primary School Program needs funding
This year Macheo celebrates 10th anniversary.
Still the dream is alive to help as many as possible needy children. With a team of 145 professional employees Macheo works on many projects. Macheo
is happy all donations already but we are still in need of
funding. Highest priority is the Primary School Program. Over 13.000 children
get daily porridge and a meal at school, this to motivate them to come and stay
in school. We don’t want to create dependency so only the 10% who are really in
big need get the meal for free the rest have to pay a small amount. The primary
school team of Macheo is divers. Social workers, counselors, cooks, fieldworkers
working in 20 government school Macheo
also provide all the 20 schools + may others with Sanitary pads and dewormers. At
the moment we have funding until September to roll out our feeding Program. Who can help a lot of Kenyan children to get a plate of food at school until the end
of the year? Donations can be sent to NL80ABNA0413232506 Stichting Macheo Nederland subject PSP 2016 (all donated money will 100% goes to Kenya).
Many possibilities to help Macheo
Macheo is helped by in kind donations of (used) laptops, shoes and clothes for children, cameras, phones, towels, underwear etc Transport to Kenya is a challange but with support of Wings of Support, crews of KLM carry sometimes things or volunteers coming to Kenya are overleaded with things for Macheo.
Whomever is considering to start fundraising for Macheo - we can assist contact me where you want. Anybody who knows a company, school, family trust fund or foundation, contact us we appreciate any lead or future donation. And if you are able to donate in person any amount, also great off course. Every donor will get a report with financial explanation and to show the impact.
Macheo works with many social workers in all different programs, who are mostly working in the field. But also we have an office where we have colleagues from financial department, HR, communication, Monitoring&Evaluation, reporting, fundraisers etc it is based on the compound of the Childrens Centre from Macheo.
Macheo will never say we are perfect - we can be only successful to work together with stakeholders, government and the schools together to succeed in our mission. We involve parents/family/guardians/school/teachers and government to make sure we share responsibilities for long term sustainable support. Still hugh challenges for so many people in this part of Kenya - so there is still a long way to go.
Many possibilities to help Macheo
Macheo is helped by in kind donations of (used) laptops, shoes and clothes for children, cameras, phones, towels, underwear etc Transport to Kenya is a challange but with support of Wings of Support, crews of KLM carry sometimes things or volunteers coming to Kenya are overleaded with things for Macheo.
Whomever is considering to start fundraising for Macheo - we can assist contact me where you want. Anybody who knows a company, school, family trust fund or foundation, contact us we appreciate any lead or future donation. And if you are able to donate in person any amount, also great off course. Every donor will get a report with financial explanation and to show the impact.
Macheo works with many social workers in all different programs, who are mostly working in the field. But also we have an office where we have colleagues from financial department, HR, communication, Monitoring&Evaluation, reporting, fundraisers etc it is based on the compound of the Childrens Centre from Macheo.
Macheo will never say we are perfect - we can be only successful to work together with stakeholders, government and the schools together to succeed in our mission. We involve parents/family/guardians/school/teachers and government to make sure we share responsibilities for long term sustainable support. Still hugh challenges for so many people in this part of Kenya - so there is still a long way to go.
Spread the word with us, any donation through Macheo will help very vulnerable children
(and their families). Every child deserve every day a plate of food and a chance
to education, isn’t it?
Check out more about Macheo on www.macheo.org or like our Facebookpage
Questions, leads, cheers can be sent to maaike@macheo.org
On behalf of everybody who is involved with Macheo, thanks a lot - asante sana!
Maaike
On behalf of everybody who is involved with Macheo, thanks a lot - asante sana!
Maaike
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