Furaha Community Foundation

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Meet Lydia, the Furaha School Nurse
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We’d like to introduce you to the Furaha School Nurse, Lydia.

Lydia provides regular health screenings, treats injuries, supports students with chronic health conditions, and re-enforces the need for proper hygiene and nutrition so the students of Furaha can stay healthy.

Lydia’s role is a great blessing to the students of Furaha as each staff member works to empower children out of extreme poverty.

Thank you to each of you who donate to make a difference.

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Don’t Forget Us
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When you live in a place like Huruma, it’s easy to feel forgotten, unwanted, and alone. Thank you for joining the movement to make the invisible, visible.
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Coming to Be
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We don’t come to DO, we come to BE.

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Those Pesky Mosquitoes! May 2018 Updates
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“If you think you are too small to make a difference…try sleeping with a mosquito in the room!”

Ouch!

I’ve been there. Done that. Glad my malaria medicine was working. BUT for many people they have no medicines and every 30 seconds a child dies from a mosquito bite!

Tragic.

Standing with our global partners can be as simple as a $10 donation to pay for malaria meds, or $30 to buy a mosquito net for them to sleep under.

No one and nothing is too small to make a difference.

Donate $30 Today

Furaha High School new dormitory – with comfy beds!

Most of us have a room to sleep in, a bed to sleep on and we don’t have mosquitoes infecting us. For the students of Furaha High School, most have no bed at home, no bedrooms at home and there are mosquitoes all around.

The High School is the first place they will have a bed of their own – and have a mosquito net!

Go on – buy a brick or a bed and help empower some amazing students out of extreme poverty. Graduating students can pull their entire family out of extreme poverty.

Click here to watch the video and learn more!

Urgent Prayer Needed for Guatemala

It seemed like a step forward. the Guatemala government pulled their army soldiers off the streets as a sign of peace and progress. BUT – in Zone 18 where Esperanza para Guatemala are working, this is having serious ramifications.

The soldiers were the force that kept the zone from erupting in gang battles and daily gun deaths.

People are nervous, tense, waiting.

Pray a particular protection for Jose, his family and the staff and children of Esperanza.

Thank you all for being difference makers!

When I Grow Up News April 2018
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Latest Updates from our Global Partners – April 2018
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At When I Grow Up, we exist to ensure no child in the world needs to live in extreme poverty.

We do this through behaving with relational intelligence, dedication and valuing meaningful relationships with our global partners.

Our action focuses on raising resources for funding and friendship to share with our global partners who are on the frontlines of helping children who live in circumstances of extreme poverty.

We are a village, because we know it takes a village. Our team is global including our global partner friends in Guatemala, Haiti, and Kenya. Our local partners are in California, Idaho, Indiana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Scotland.

In 2017, forty-two WIGU local partners traveled 79,114 miles to visit our global partners and share friendship and support.

Our supporters delivered on their best year to date in donating and investing in the work we do.

$657,810 was raised to help our global partners. Through individual donors, church support, fundraising events, and grants awarded, people gave generously believing in our mission and vision.

A total of 473 people, churches, companies and organizations stood with us in giving and investing in empowering children out of extreme poverty.

That’s over $1,800 raised every, single, day!

The focus of our work is on partnering with three amazing Global Partners who do life-changing daily, front-line work.

  • Furaha Community Foundation, Huruma slum, Nairobi, Kenya
  • Esperanza para Guatemala, Zone 18, Guatemala City, Guatemala
  • Bethesda Center Foundation, Palma and Jacob, Haiti

    Together they teach and care for 1,640 children and a total of 9,130 people receive regular help from our global partners in the form of school education, health care, daily feeding programs, weekly food supplies, micro-business interest free loans, church involvement, job training, work support, university grants and safe-house care.

    At the center of each global partner’s work is education.
    The education is wrapped around with feeding programs, health care, social care, spiritual nourishing, guardian empowering, safe house protections, job training, post High School education and community development.

    What’s Ahead in 2018

    Every year our global partners do more, help more, care more and love more. It’s our joy – and challenge – to keep up with all they are doing to change the lives of more and more children.

    Our biggest project to date is underway at Furaha Community Foundation. We are helping them build a new 240-bed dormitory for the High School students.

    This is a huge project – $300,000 huge!

    But as always we know our supporters and friends will help us raise it and see the Furaha High School students have the safe, warm, hygienic and quality dormitory they deserve.

    Click here to watch the video and learn more!

    Other News and Projects

    • In Haiti we also want to finish building their High School classrooms. But it’s more than bricks and mortar. Every day we provide 1,610 meals. We help over 90 staff provide for their families and develop their careers. We train 22 Pastors.
    • In 2018 Esperanza para Guatemala will start Phase One of a new Primary School.
    • We now have over 60 Furaha students studying at university or college.
    • Three safehouses are operating to protect most-at-risk children.
    • Last year textbooks were provided for every school student.
    • Esperanza have started a new program for 50 additional at-risk children from two local schools, three other schools will join in later in 2018.
    • In partnership with the Gnu Foundation there are over 240 micro-businesses running.
    • Furaha Primary won National Championship in arts and dance; top three in academics out of 120 schools; the Furaha High School was 5th out of 48 schools in their district.

    The amazing reality is that through our global partners, your support and investment with us helps 15,065 people every week!

    Travel in 2018

    Join us on in visiting one of our global partners. We have trips in the works for June, August, September, January, and February. We go to be, not to do. Learn more about traveling with us.

    Interested in visiting our global partners in 2018?
    Email carrie@whenigrowup-global.com and find out dates, costs and expectations!

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The Future Depends on What We Do in the Present
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The words of Mahatma Gandhi are poignant: “The future depends on what we do in the present.”

All of us want to live in a world where there is no injustice, and every child has the opportunities they need to succeed. Where there are no slums.

Join the movement, and make a difference today for the future.

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Duh! Moments
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We’ve all had those moments when we just go, “DUH!”

And sometimes those moments bring us to a realization that there’s a lot more we could be doing to help those living in extreme poverty!

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Kickin’ For Kenya 2018
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March 10th, 2018
Sidewinder Field 18353 Grangeville Blvd, Lemoore, CA 93245

Schedule:
Ages 4-6 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Ages 7-10 1:00pm – 3:00pm

For prices and to register, visit:
https://svcc.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/108738

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Feed a Child
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One out of nine human beings live in a state of constant hunger. Yet for just 25 cents a day, our partners at Furaha Primary School are able to put food in the belly of a child, giving them the fuel and energy to live, to learn, and to be a kid. Join the movement.

Project Literature
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Back to School Special: Project Literature
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In Low-Income Countries (LIC) most schools don’t have textbooks. Most schools and communities do not have libraries. Most children, most families have never owned a book.

To help empower the children we stand with we are committed to helping them have access to school textbooks and reading books.

Sadly, textbooks, even in LIC’s, are not cheap. $5 to $10 a book – for a family who lives on $2 a day – is a huge investment.

As your children or grandchildren return to school and college here in the US or the UK, how about donating to help a child in Haiti start their new school session with a school textbook?

BUY A STUDENT A BOOK

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