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December 22, 2013

PROJECT UPDATE – GIRL CHILD EDUCATION+PLUS

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 56 (43 girls and 13

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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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. Share and tell your friends about this project to which you are an esteem donor. The project’s local resource Safaricom M-Pesa Pay Bill Number 994600 Account No. 42240 continuous to be operational for our local donors in Kenya and East Africa – thanks to our local supporters for both material and financial donations to this project.

OUR PARTICIPANTS

Leah and Betty after psychosocial group therapy

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.

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Project young adolescent girls after attending Psychosocial Group Therapy Meeting

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