To help Liberty Community School and Maendeleo Learning Centre in Kenya, Inizjamed is accepting donations to BoV Account Kenya No. 40016902262.

All donated funds will be monitored through the Humanist Centre (Nairobi), the recipient schools and Inizjamed.

Inizjamed will also publish a detailed report of the funds raised on its website www.inizjamed.org and further notices.

Liberty Community School recently reported ten children missing, possibly displaced through the ethnic strife devastating the country following the heavy post-electoral riots. Due to tribal differences between the land-owner and head of school, the school was forced to leave its current premises by the end last month.

Having already found new grounds where to relocate, the school faces great problems as the new building lacks basic sanitation facilities, electricity and eight classrooms to accommodate its 280 pupils. The school is in need of €10,000 (Lm4,293) to cover all costs of setting up the new school, including a security fence to shelter children.

Maendeleo Learning Centre, a slum school run by The Reuben Community Centre, with a population of 600 students - 100 of whom are orphans to HIV/AIDS victims - is in need of sanitation facilities, classrooms, living quarters for many of its orphans, the fixing of the existing premises and a steel gate, amounting to a total cost of €12,000 (Lm5,151.60). In order to feed the children and to uphold its teaching and administration staff, Maendeleo requires €34,500 (Lm14,810.85) per year.

For more information e-mail kenyafunding.inizjamed@gmail.com or Dominik Kalweit at cmm@maltaforum.org or call 2131 5562, 2740 0407 or 9940 0407.