An appeal for help/funds: Embu Don Bosco Secondary School

Dear Kenya friends,

I am forwarding the proposal of the Don Bosco Fathers whom we met during our visit to Embu.

Damian John Formosa is a Maltese student going for his last year in theology and who has been in Kenya for many years. During our visit we went to this vocational school that he is asking for help. Essentially the Salesians are planning to expand the vocational school they have already to accommodate more students. They will carry the work themselves.

Those of you who went to this college knows that it is quite big and houses thousand of Kenyan students. A look at the attachments you'll find all the details of this project.

This is an appeal for help as educating students is the real answer for the future of Kenya.

Fr Maina is following our water purification project that our engineers built while we were there.

I intend to go to Kenya for ten days to follow up the work and to plan other projects with the Bishop. I would like to visit the Seminary as there will be the future religious leaders of Kenya.

Training the trainers would be the new thrust we want to follow in our future projects.

Once we have trained leaders on the spot we can have a reasonable guarantee that work will be done and completed.

I am sure that one thing we learned from our Mission is that unless the local people are motivated and have the know-how all projects started will remain the same. It's when we train the locals that there would be greater chance that the work will continue even when we leave.

As you know our dear Bishop Paul, whom we all met, is ready to accommodate us to further our projects. The Orphanage which we have begun had to stop as they don't have enough funds. It is our commitment to continue the work begun.

Those who can help: can you please contact me asap as we have to plan the short visit to Kenya together. My idea is to go a very small group to do specific work in a specific place. That will help us to do ten days intensive work on the spot without wasting time in travelling etc.

Probable dates will be the first week of September before the rainy season.

On behalf of the Orphans, the children and youths,  our Beloved Bishop Paul, the very dear Sr Florence and the wonderful priests we met I encourage you to continue the work we started.

Please contact me either by email or sms or mobile 7999 14 59 .

Colin

Appeal for Bible and book donations - can you help us?

We are still short on Bible, prayer or holy books- if you have any books such as Bibles, Children's Bible, and books with a spiritual theme suitable for children aged 10 and over,  please contact us since we are still short of these books. Please contact us if you can help us.Thanks for your support.

Bible Project

Another project is the distribution of the Bible in the various schools in Embu. This is a project which is being conducted with the collaboration of the Gideons Organisation. The Team and representatives of Gideons are reserving Wednesday the 4 th of September as Bible Day

We would like to distribute a copy of the Bible in Schools while we are visiting ,

We have asked the Gideons International ( copied Rose Smith here) to distribute the Bible to children in schools above 10 years..Also we  will try to distribute ourselves a book with a Bible Story to children below 10 years.

Where there is no love, put love and you will find love.The Bible is one way of promoting a holistic approach to Embu.

Below is an excerpt from an email regarding this project: that Michael Attard sent to  Sr.Florence.

Dear Sr.Florence ,

We would like to distribute a copy of the Bible in Schools while we are visiting , possibly on the 4 th of September. 

We have asked the Gideons International (Rose Smith  to distribute the Bible to children in schools above 10 years. Also we  will try to distribute ourselves a book with a Bible Story to children below 10 years.

Michael

Further to this email a reply from Sr. Florence

I wanted to meet our group first to share with them this Good News! 

We are happy with the Bible initiative.we suggested three schools for this programme their details are as follows:

Ss Peter and Paul school-35 above 10 years and 95 below 10 years and they can all read.

Our Lady of Assumption, school Mbiruri,40 above ten and 20 below 10  who can read.

Mother Angelina school,126 above 10 and 69 below ten who can read.

Thank you for this great initiative.

Sr.Florence

The Projects of Kenya Mission International

An initial visit to Embu was made by Fr. John from the mission office who met Bishop Paul of the Diocese of Embu earlier this year. Bishop Paul indicated the needs of his people namely to supply safe drinking water to about 600 people in a 2sq. km area including schools and community and the need of a building for children who are orphans. This will house around twenty children initially.

Bishop Paul has bought 2 acres of land which will be used for building this orphanage.

Our team of 35 consists of:

1. Medical Team – three doctors and six paramedics, physiotherapist and nurses - Lead by Dr.Josie Muscat from St.James Hospital

2. Engineering Team – four engineers and two technicians lead by Michael Attard ( and  locally by engineers Marco Cremona and Paul Refalo who are assisting)

3.  Social Team – teachers ,  counselling , university students, workers

4.  Builders

The funds will be used to purchase the required material and to pay local workers which will be employed to build the building.

                                                                                       
This will be owned and run by the Catholic Diocese of Embu (Bishop Paul Kariuki Bishop of Embu -  Kariuki Njiru Paul

We are also being assisted by ECOSPACE CONSULTANTS in Nairobi to coordinate the information required on this project and on a water purification plant which will be built by our engineers.

The building will be built by local workers. Also the water purification plant will be built together with local people in order that they participate and take ownership.

The project of the building will be starting during our stay and will be finished in a 2-3 month period.

Our team of engineers will complete the installation and commissioning of the water purification plant during our stay in Embu. The cost for the equipment will be in the range of 10,000€.

We already have an ultra filtration unit which will be used to block any bacteria and pathogens from the water and make it into safe potable water. We also need to install an Ultra Violet unit as a backup system in case of ultra filtration unit failure. Our plan is to have the system running on an off-grid Photo voltaic system for which we have already several promises for equipment donations.

We have also signed an agreement with Malta University for the use of a water desalination unit which developed from research activity sponsored by the Malta Council of Science & Technology. 

These are passive (no need of energy)  desalination units which can be used in remote areas where there is water which however is not safe for drinking. 

We are building one unit which we will take with us and we plan to teach local people how to build such units. This could develop into a business set up for these units to be sold to local communities in remote regions.

The President of Malta, Dr George Abela, meets KENYA MISSION INTERNATIONAL

The President of Malta, Dr George Abela, meets KENYA MISSION INTERNATIONAL of MOVIMENT ERA GDIDA.

Dr Abela talked personally to each of the 35 volunteers who will go to Embu, Kenya, in August 2013.

Each Team of engineers, doctors, nurses, students, builders, housewives presented their concrete Projects they will undertake. The Medical Team will be working in hospitals, clinics and visit poor families. 

The Engineering Team are assembling a prototype of WaterPurification System, with the help of hydrologist MARCO CREMONA, to cater the needs of a whole village in need of clean potable water. 

The Educational/Social Team will be working in various schools and parishes. The Builders Team will begin work on a dormitory for orphans.

The Kenya Mission International Team 2013 before the meeting with President Of  Malta, H.E. DR. George Abela