Primary Priorities
Happy 2012! We’re starting our New Year by getting 1250 Huru Kits to at-risk girls in the Nyanza and Rift Valley Provinces, thanks to a $17,000 grant from the Safaricom Foundation in Nairobi, Kenya. At our first distribution, on January 16, Huru Hero(ine) Pastor Helen Waweru offered HIV/AIDS prevention training to 185 girls at the Ndabibi Primary School in Naivasha. The girls at Ndabibi told Pastor Helen that they’d been using old socks and parts of mattresses because they couldn’t afford sanitary protection. Pastor Helen reports that the need for Huru Kits in this area is still great.
Pastor Helen Hands Huru Kit to Ndabibi Primary Student
Among the girls Huru has reached so far, there’s been a 96% decline in chronic absenteeism, and an 85% improvement in academic performance. Now Pastor Helen is collecting names of other girls in the area who badly need Huru Kits. We resolve to find the funds to get a kit to every girl!