The Women and Girls of Kenya: Part 5

As I conclude sharing with you, what I have learned about the women and girls of Kenya, I am going to share more detail, about the Malkia Foundation. I already introduced you to Phionah Musumba, the Founder and Executive Director.

Though the Malkia Foundation has excepted many donations of different kinds, Phionah is looking for a partner or a financial investor, to help the foundation succeed. The ideal candidate, is someone that wants their presence to be felt in Africa, someone with heart and financial resources, to make a difference.

The core value of the Malkia Foundation, is to help empower the young girls and women of Kenya, through education and job skills, for economic and enterprise development. Here are just five ways, that a difference is already being made.

  • The Malkia Foundation is working with the YWCA and the Girls Scouts of America, in Austin Texas. The YWCA has donated Computers and supplies for the Vocational College and the Girl Scouts, are starting a center in Kenya. 
  •  The yellow bike project has been started and has had bicycle's and equipment donated. The girls and women are learning how to repair bike's to use for transportation. They need help with the cost, to ship the bike's and supplies, because it's expensive.
  • A school fee sponsorship has been implemented and anyone interested, can sponsor a girl in Kenya to go to school, by paying their school fees. If you are interested, contact the Malkia Foundation. 
  • The Sanitary napkin program was implemented and accepts towels and the supplies to make the reusable napkins or disposable sanitary napkins, that the girls need, to be able to attend school. 
  • Carpentry and Masonry supplies have been collected, to help women learn to build and repair, just about anything.
The work is never ending and the list is long, for Phionah and her foundation. Volunteers and donations are always needed, to help the existing programs succeed and to implement new programs, to help bring change.

The Malkia Foundation is also in need of a volunteer, to help set up a 501 C 3 Organization, to ease the taxes that they have to pay and to help increase the donations that they receive.

Since I helped set up the gofundme account, there has been $835 donated, so far to the Malkia Foundation. The amount is greatly appreciated, though it is still far from the goal.

Phionah has left Texas and has returned to Kenya to be with her family and to continue her work. If you are interested in sending sanitary napkins or any supplies direct, here is their address:

Malkia Foundation
PO BOX 9461-00300
Nairobi, Kenya

You can also visit their facebook page and follow what they are achieving.

You can make a cash donation by clicking this link:
gofundme/kenyagirls


My best wishes and prayers to Phionah and her journey to bring change to the future and to make a difference, for all of the young girls and women in Kenya. I wish that there was more that I could do, to help her achieve success for the Malkia Foundation.

Everyone have a marvelous week!

Bobbie
XoXoXo




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Little Things

Life takes us down many roads as we chase after our dreams, we often take for granted the beauty of what we are surrounded with. When we consume ourselves chasing after our dreams, we often forget to stop and smell the flowers. The one thing that I have learned is to appreciate the priceless little things in life What I am talking about are the things that are priceless, that money can't buy. Such as a beautiful sunset over the ocean. The feel of the sand between our toes. The way the sun feels on your skin, when it is shining on you, on a perfect day. The smell of flowers in the air, when they blossom in the Spring. As a parent, you learn that when you don't have money to provide for your children the way you had hoped, you learn to appreciate the little things of being a parent. The feeling you get the first time you look into your babies eyes. The sound of the first time they laugh. The smile on a child's face, when they see a toy and they get a gleam in their eyes....
Read more

The Women and Girls of Kenya: Part 3

Image
As a woman, I believe that every woman should be able to embrace, being a woman. We should be able to be comfortable in our own skin and we should not have to compromise our femininity. We should be able to 'own' being a woman. For many woman and young girls of Kenya, embracing being a woman, isn't always the option. In some villages, woman have to feel that having a menstrual cycle each month, is a shame. Many young girls in Kenya, are missing out on going to school, because of having a period each month. We live in a society that is built off of modern technology and never have to think of feminine products and sanitary napkins as a luxury in life. We are fortunate enough, that our government had no desire, to control how woman survive their period each month. Life for the young girls and women in Kenya, is not as simplified. Sanitary napkins are available, at a high price and not all have the money to buy them. In the village's where poverty has no ending, you...
Read more