We are in great need of donations to buy Family Drip Irrigation Kits for our community members. This past year, Kenyans nation-wide suffered great food shortages due to drought. All predictions point in the direction that next years’ crops will be drastic decreased due to the persisting weather conditions.
The costs are:
200 Litre Kit (300 sq meters) costs 150 USD
500 Litre Kit (1000 sq meters) costs 225 USD
Each kit would be save a household from the severe challenges posed by the drought. Thank you.
We need your help
There are many ways you can positively change the lives of our Community Breakthrough Support Mission children. Whether it is in the form of sponsorship or donations, moral support, or as a volunteer, we welcome any and all gestures of your generosity.
The lists below are some concrete examples of what you could do today to help children in Kimilili live a life of better health, education, and happiness. We are constantly updating this list. If there is something you would like to do or give that is not on the list, please, feel free to contact us with your suggestions.
Helping our children
This section presents the profiles of six of our children, as well as their wishes for living a better life.
Name: Stella N.
Year of Birth: 2005
School grade: nursery school
Stella’s grandmother, her caretaker, wishes for Stella to receive regular HIV antiviral medicine. She is certain that Stella’s improved health would allow her to attend school regularly and have enough energy to play with her sister and friends.
Estimate costs: 120 USD/ month
Name: Mercy W.
Year of Birth: 1995
School grade: grade 4
Mercy is lame on the right side of her body. She attends school regularly and lives in our orphanage. Mercy would like to learn how to weave. For this she needs a hand loom and starting material.
Estimate costs: 150 USD
Sponsoring our Teachers and School
If you wish, you can also donate the following to the school as a whole.
Where would be without our dedicated teachers? Their thoughts are always for the children first, but barring this, they would like learning materials so that they can become better teachers.
Since we had to be evacuated out of Nairobi last year and we lost all of our teaching tools in a fire, we need five complete sets of teaching manuals (one set per teacher).
Estimate costs: 120 USD/ set
The CBSM school children are dearly in need of schoolbooks.
Estimate costs: 700 USD/ complete syllabus for all children of all grades
To enrich the minds and horizons of our children further, we would like to provide create a lending library of books we purchase at the second hand bookstore.
The books we include religious literature, Kenyan classics, and non-fictional vocational literature.
Estimate costs: 400 USD
It is important for us to feed the children’s bodies, as much as their minds. A great gift to them would be sports equipment (e.g. balls, goal nets) and building a sports playground.
Estimate costs: 400 USD
We just recently took out a loan (1000 USD) to relocate and rebuild temporary school facilities. It would be a great lift off our shoulders, if you could contribute to helping us pay back this loan.
The loan is only for building materials. The Kimilili community leaders and members are generously offering their labour to CBSM.
Estimate costs: 55 USD/ month
Forms of Payment
If you wish to sponsor a child's education through a monthly donation, or augment a teacher's salary, please contact Rev. Wasiike and/or make a money transfer to our international Barclays Bank account.
Alternatively, you can also just click on our PayPal account. Please include a detail description of who you are donating to in the PayPal online form.
Our banking information
Account Owner: Community Breakthrough Support Mission
Bank Name: Barclays Bank Of Kenya
Branch: 075, Moi Avenue
Account no.: 1264798
Barclay Country Code: 03
Swift Code: BARCKENX
IBAN: 03-075-1264798
Contact information
Project Organiser Kenya
Rev. Wilberforce W. Wasike
Community Breakthrough Support Mission
P.O Box 2099-00200 City Square
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel.:+254 2, 3539112/3, 0722451803/0722424265
Email: cbsmkenya (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
Project Organiser International
Lia Hadley
Email: cbsmkenya (AT) gmail (DOT) com
We'd like to give a special thanks to the following sponsors and private donors. Your help is highly appreciated and your generosity does much to improve the lives and assure for the education and care of our children.
Thank you Palm Security Service
We are happy to announce that Palm Security Service company have offered to supply new uniforms for all the CBSM children. They are supplying both the material and tailoring services to create new uniforms, which are much needed. What a happy day this is for us! Thank you Palm Security Service for this generous offer.
If you wish to write them an expression of thanks as well, please contact the management (palmguards AT yahoo DOT com).
Name: Kundu W.
Year of Birth: 1998
School grade: grade 3
Kundu lives with his siblings and his widowed father. He would like to grow a one-acre garden to help nourish his family and for sale in the local market. The seed package includes seeds for onions, tomatoes, kales and cabbages.
Estimate costs: 65 USD
Thank you, Jennifer B., for giving Kundu and his family this gift.
Name: Aminah M.
Year of Birth: 2001
School grade: grade 3
Aminah lives with her siblings and her mother. She would like for her mother to have a goat to add to the family income.
Estimate costs: 55 USD for 15 kg goat
Thank you, Jennifer B., for giving Kundu and his family this gift.
Name: Fadhili A.
Year of Birth: 2000
School grade: grade 4
Fadhili attends school regularly and is a serious student. His greatest wish is for him to own a real football that he and his friends can play with.
You can read the story about Fadhili's reaction to receiving his gift here.
Estimate costs: 40 USD
Thank you, Jennifer B., for giving Kundu and his family this gift.
