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We come to the realization that a self-centered lifestyle will not satisfy us. Therefore, we have decided to use the knowledge, abilities and possibilities that have been given to us for the benefit of other people.

PERSONAL STORIES AND OPINIONS

Meldah Adhaimbo, Kenya

When I was visited Kenya in 2006 I took a picture of one lovely baby. Only thing I knew about that child was that the father died before her birth. When I came back to Kenya one year later, I would like to know more about the baby. I wanted to know how the baby is getting on. The girl on the picture was named Meldah. After her birth the Meldah´s mother Phoebe find out what was the reason of her husband death. He suffered from AIDS. She learn that both she and Meldah are HIV positive. If she had known it earlier she would have feed her daughter with a bottle of Sunar and would have saved her from illness if she had had enough money. But Phoebe is very poor to buy high quality food for herself and her second six years old daughter. She can hardly resist to the illness.

Meldah died in March 2008. Distressed tendency of Phoebe to obtain remedy from doctors was insufficient in their conditions. They could not afford the medicine for long and safe life for Meldah. Meldah did not make it and now Phoebe her mother is too weak and very ill. Nobody has given them support. Even those who wanted to help them do not have enough money to effectively support them.

Their story is not exceptional; this is how life is in Africa. Many people with similar stories are going through the same situation in this place just like Phoebe. The first chapter of many lives is being written now and it’s possible to rewrite it again. Medicine and food for one child cost about 62 EU per month. Giving a small amount of money here for the above mentioned purposes can give a chance for better life to some of the many HIV positive children.

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Newly Supported Children

We are still successful in supporting more and more children in Kenyan schools thanks to your help. During the last year's second term, we were able to give a goat and a uniform to another six children and two new girls are now an addition to our periodically supported children.

We had the chance to speak to the children through a middle person. We were able to get some information from them about their lives. Most of them live with only one parent or with their grandparents and with many siblings. It is not uncommon for them to live with another 7-10 children in one household. They call each other siblings, but they are mostly cousins - simply one big family.

We asked the children what makes them happy and, on the contrary, what they are afraid of. Most of the children (without any help) answered that our help makes them happy. You see, thanks to this help, they can go to school, wear clean clothes and many of them have a little something more to eat than they had before.

They would like to have a good education, have something to eat, not to walk barefoot and with no clothes.

They mostly like to read, play with the other children, go to school and eat Mandazi (something like our donuts).

They are afraid of for instance, lions, the next door neighbour's dog, snakes, God and death.

The childrens' answers often surprised us. If we were to ask Czech students, we would probably not get the answer that they enjoy studying or that they fear God.

But that would be a topic for a whole new article or probably for a longer discussion. We would like to wish all children, without difference in nationality, to have as little reason to feel fear as possible and mainly, for them to always be happy and smiling.

Thursday, 26 January 2012 22:19