2009 Christmas Visit to SOON Children's Home

As the Christmas season is now upon us, we would like to ask you all to please contribute generously towards our drive to collect dry goods (foodstuffs), clothes and toys for the children of Soon Children’s Home.

The Nairobi Hash House Harriers will be visiting the Soon Children’s Home on the morning of Saturday, December 19th. If you would like to join us, we will be departing from Impala Club at 9.00am to make the trip to the home in Kasarani. Please bring your donations to the run next Monday, December 14th at the Public Service Club. In addition, for those who would prefer to give a cash donation, our Recorder (Baba Mboga) will also be collecting cash contributions at next Monday’s run. We will pool this cash together to purchase dry foodtstuffs for the needy kids.

We encourage you all to please contribute generously.

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Soon Children's Centre

Place: Kasarani, Mwiki.

About the Centre:

Lucy Mbaya, is the director

The centre was founded in 1994 and currently has thirty-five children aging from one year to fifteen years.

The centre is a rescue place for desperate orphans and street children, received from the community children's department, as well as street families programmes.

Until recently the children were living in a rented flat. Recently they have moved to a semi-permanent structure of mabatis

The kitchen only has one stove and two charcoal burners for cooking, which is not sufficient due to the large amount of food that is prepared every day.

The centre does not need water tanks, but probably support in form of upgrading the kitchen with additional cooking burners.
The centre does not need cloth donations, but support in form of washing detergents, bathing soaps and dry foods.
The room where the centre uses as a store is disorganised. The Hashers can donate wooden shelves to be placed in rows, for placing items.

The Hashers can provide support in form of paying school fees for the children.