Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Seed of Hope has the potential to enable many girls to gain financial independence, employ others, pay for siblings' education & improve living conditions for their families. These are all realities we can see amongst our current graduates.

Project Message

"Through your help I have become ambitious, have self esteem and happy because I can get my daily bread and also support my family. When you're helping one girl you're helping five people. Thanks"
- Florence Njeri, Graduate, Seed of Hope (2006)

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Kirsty Mclullich,
Project Leader
PO Box 76227
00508
Nairobi,
Kenya
+254 725052828
Email:

Project Sponsor

Kirsty McLullich

Organisation

Vision Africa PO BOx 76227 Nairobi, Nairobi 00508 Kenya +254 722951616 http://www.vision-africa.org/

Learn more about Vision Africa and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Kenya and can also be found under Women and Girls.

For more information about Kenya, read the Human Development Report on Kenya or the Wikipedia entry for Kenya.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on January 19, 2012.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 14, 2009.

Latest Update from the Field

Thanks GlobalGiving for Going Green!

By Kirsty McLullich - Project Leader, January 19, 2012 12:17 AM

Students receive the paper for recycling

As Vision Africa celebrates it's tenth anniversary this year, one of our key focus areas is making projects sustainable. In fact, the projects we work with have been challenged to raise 30% of their own budget by the end of 2013 through a variety of Income Generating Activities (IGAs).

At our Seed of Hope centre in Nairobi, one of the IGAs is a recycling enterprise called "re:future". The centre collects glass, plastic and paper in large volumes and sells them on to recycling companies. The profits can then be invested in training the students the life skills, business skills and vocational skills they receive at the centre.

We were delighted when GlobalGiving asked if they could use "re:future" to recycle the paper generated from their storytelling project which has been going on in Kenya. Today, we took delivery of the papers which will really help us in our efforts to give disadvantaged girls dignity, hope and opportunity.

THANKS GLOBALGIVING!!! 

Some of the paper that was donated

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