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Current Be A HERO Project: Be A Hero is partnering with Love Mercy and Hope for the Nations to complete this project. Children’s Home of Mercy in Kitale, Kenya needs support for basic needs, education, the purchase of land and buildings, the development of a school and the transforming of a slum.
Love Mercy
Love Mercy is a humanitarian aid organization dedicated to alleviating the suffering of the poor and oppressed around the world. Their mission is to provide housing, clothing, food and education for widows and orphans and especially children who are at risk. Noel Alexander is the president and has been a leader in Kansas City for the past 21 years. Love Mercy works in partnership with Hope for the Nations Canada.
Hope for the Nations
Hope for the Nations’ motto is “Today’s Orphans…Tomorrow’s Leaders. Hope for the Nations (HFTN) is a non-profit organization based in Kelowna, B.C., Canada that was founded in 1994, by a group of individuals determined to assist the world’s children at risk. Over the course of the years, HFTN has broadened its scope and sharpened its focus. HFTN is now engaged in community development, poverty reduction and gender equity issues in areas that affect children. Their long-term vision is to see “children at risk” transformed by providing the basic necessities of love, healthcare, education, a healthy community and self-sufficiency.
Be A HERO Project
Children’s Home of Mercy -This is a 3 phase project.
Phase one: purchase land and renovate the buildings on it in order to support 30 children.
Phase two: develop a school. The first and second phase will overlap as both are in the infant stages already.
Phase three: cultivating self sustainability and improving the conditions for those living in the slums and surrounding area.
Phase 1 - purchase the land and renovate the buildings. In turn this will support 30 children.
Children wait for class between buildings Ruth acts as Matron-- Charles is founder.
As you can see the area between the two buildings is red soil; when itrains it turns to mud and stainswhatever it touches. A roof to join the two structures will keep the children sheltered from sun and rain .
The property and buildings must be purchased at a cost of $19,000.00 for both lots (side by side). Once the land is acquired renovations are necessary to be able to utilize the property with the buildings on it. On the extra ¼ acre lot they plan to plant a garden to provide some sustainability of food supplies. Once the buildings are complete a fence with a gate will be constructed.
Within the complex a kitchen/fireplace & showers will be built. They had been doing all the cooking outside but recently an area was created that now shelters the cooks.
New Kitchen area
The children sleep two to a bed in bedrooms that look like the one in this picture.
Phase 2 the plan is to build a school that will allow the 30 children to attend classes. In one of the classes English will be taught. Learning to speak, read and write English will give these students an advantage and allow them to correspond with their sponsors. It is estimated that it will take $5,000.00 a year to maintain the school.
Phase 3 will focus on creating self-sustainability and helping the people now living in the slum and surrounding areas. Micro businesses will be established such a dairy and chicken farm.
In the slum area located just south of the building site a bore hole well will be installed which will provide the children’s home with water and also allow for water to be sold to the neighbours.
One of the income-generating businesses will be a fertilizer company. Garbage will be collected that has composted and it will be run through a filtering process to create a bio- fertilizer. A bio- fertilizer company will transform the slum area to a productive and improved state.
In order to give housing to the slum dwellers Earth/Bag homes will be constructed. After the homes are built; they will plant gardens to feed the population of that area. Many of the squatters will be employed by the planned micro-businesses.
These changes will improve the quality of life for all and create self sustainability.
Budget for Children's Home of Mercy |
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Phase One and Two |
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Land and buildings |
17,000.00 |
Adjacent lot |
2,000.00 |
Renovations |
25,500.00 |
Field Development |
10,000.00 |
Out reach to street children |
3,600.00 |
Phase Three |
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Dairy /Micro businesses |
15,000.00 |
Slum Transformation |
6,000.00 |
Annual Support |
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Annual Support for 30 children |
14,400.00 |
Annual Support for School |
5,000.00 |
TOTAL |
98,500.00 |
100% of all funds donated for this project will be applied directly to the project. Be A HERO does not keep anything for administration. Be A HERO is able to do this because the Hero Partnership and Pillar Program participants designate their donations specifically for administration. If you would like to invest in this project, we accept donations by cheque or by credit card. CLICK HERE to donate
If you wish to sponsor one of these children click here.
You will be sent a receipt for income tax purposes early in the following year.
To view photos from Kitale, Kenya, CLICK HERE.
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