2008 Xmas Appeal!

This Christmas, you could do something really amazing!

Support a vulnerable child or family in Kenya by buying a friend or relative (or perhaps yourself!) an Action for Children in Conflict Gift. All of our gifts are designed to empower and protect the children that we are supporting and will give them the opportunity to have a brighter future.

 School Uniform - £10

Your donation would buy a vulnerable child a school uniform which is often the only thing that is preventing them from attending school. This Christmas, give a child the chance to access education.

Skills training - £50

Your donation will provide valuable skills training to former street children who are unable to return to school. By giving them a chance to learn a skilled trade, you will be giving them the chance to have employment in the future. Training can include tailoring, bicycle repair, mechanics, hairdressing and welding.

Creative Therapy Kit - £5

Your donation will provide former street children with art materials for the use during our creative therapy sessions. Your kit will include paints, brushes and paper and will enable children unable to talk about their problems, the opportunity to explore them through art work.

Back to School Kit - £25

Your donation will provide a rehabilitated street child the necessary items to return to school including uniform, school bag, books and stationary. Often, lack of uniform is the only reason that children are out of school.

Boda Boda - £50

A boda boda is a bicycle taxi, popular in Thika as an economic and efficient way of getting around. Your donation will provide a former street child with a bicycle to use to set up a taxi business and generate income therefore preventing them from returning to the street in search of money.

Games Kit - £8

Your donation will provide our Street Children's Day Care Centre with a recreational kit containing a skipping rope, football and table tennis bats for use in our after school and youth clubs. Creating fun, supervised activities in a safe environment helps to discourage children from spending time on the streets and limits sexual exploitation of young girls and boys in Thika.

Food Package - £7

Your donation will provide essential food stuffs to the family of a street child and will include beans, maize, cooking fat, sugar, salt and rice. Food packages are given to families in absolute poverty who can not afford to feed their children in an effort to prevent them from coming to the streets in search of food. This is a particularly great problem at present with food inflation at 30%.

Going Home Kit - £30

Your donation will provide a rehabilitated child the necessary items needed to return home including a shirt and shoes, toiletries, paraffin, candles and a contribution for the parents. By providing a good start at home, children are less likely to return to the streets in search of these items.

Bed kit - £20

Your donation will provide a vulnerable child with a mattress, mosquito net and blanket to ensure they get a better nights sleep and are protected against Malaria. Often families share a mattress and mosquito net or don't have one at all meaning that sleeping arrangements are inadequate. By getting a better nights sleep and being protected from Malaria, children are likely to perform better at school.

Goat - £50

Your donation will provide our Interim Care Centre with a daily source of fresh milk to give to our children to help them grow strong. It will also give them a sense of responsibility as they will take it in turns to feed and care for the goat. A pair of goats, will allow us to breed them and sell the offspring, creating an extra income for the centre.

Sewing machine - £60

Your donation will provide a sewing machine and a starter kit to a rehabilitated child who can not return to school but has completed skills training in tailoring. This will enable them to put their skills to use to set up tailoring business and generate their own income thus preventing the temptation to return to the street.