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December 22, 2013

GIRL-CHILD PROJECT UPDATE

SEASONAL GREETINGS

SEASON AL GREETIGS TO DWELE GIRL-CHILD

EDUCATION DONORS & FRIENDS

Dear Friend s,This is the time to remember the dear friends like you who make life meaningful to

those in need and open the gates to Learning and Knowledge to less fortunate.

Your donations to this project have facilitated great transformational

changes in the lives of the project participants.

I Wish you , and the people you hold dearly, all the joy and warmth of this

Christmas Season and Happiness throughout the coming year 2014.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Warm Regards

Mary J Omondi

THE PROJECT STATUS

Of the inception project participants of 114 (54%) orphans and vulnerable children, who are very

needy, the Education+Plus programmes is continues to work directly with 37 children (23 girls

and 14 boys): in three OVC Support Groups. DWELE supports in psychosocial therapy;

provision of school uniforms, partial school fees payments in critical needs and books in the

area of education and provision of basic nutritional support for children placed with rescue

families due to sexual gender-based violence in their respective homes. Two boys and two are

at University/tertiary levels higher learning instructions; two girls at pre-college; four girls in

Secondary schools; three girls very likely to join form one in term one of 2014 and the rest are

in primary and early childhood development.

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The program has immediate critical educational resource needs for supporting 25 vulnerable

children (82% girls) in January/February 2014. We utilize the donors’ to implement to provide for

essential education support in small but strategic manner to ensure sustain the academic

growth of the vulnerable children

Our hearty thanks to you as special donors to DWELE’s Girl-Child Education+Plus Programme.

We particularly salute the prime donors who have been donating repeatedly to this programme

throughout our attempts to secure permanent partnership with GlobalGiving – generous

donations have facilitated life-changing processes among the orphans and vulnerable children

that participate in this program.

CONSIDER GIVING A GIFT FOR A VULNERABLE CHILD THIS CHRISTMAS

The Girl-Child Education+Plus Programme is on the 2013 Winter GlobalGiving Challenge on the

GlobalGiving project site: http://goto.gg/15804

Please consider donating to and sharing Christmas gifts with the children. Tell your friends too.

OUR PARTICIPANTS

Phellie (carrying her sibling) is one of the program girls that has Just graduated from Form 1 in 2013

Mary (left) and Mercy – two of our year 2013 KCPE candidates

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Felix was born of a ‘baby-mother’ and left under the

care of single grandfather. He is in need of protection

in addition to other needs.

Both orphaned girls are affected by the impacts of HIV&AIDS

Girls in the process of setting personal academic goals during Academic Clinic… Courtesy of Scripture Union, Lake Region