Goals

My Savior Lives Orphanage, Ogembo Kenya, 2017, Goals Page

3.  Each week the food budget is $96.00  It includes rice, and flour, some beans, soaps, toilet paper, and fee for boda two dollars.  Rice recently went up on the 110 pound bag to $37.00.  Flour for 12 2kg bags is $15.20.  Occasionally we must buy also liters of oil for lamps.  There is no electricity for lights.  We are now also buying beans and chicken feed on alternating weeks, raising the budget from 75 to 96 dollars weekly.  Feeding 19 kids and six adult volunteer staff.  Budget each week for food is $96.00

HIV AIDS is a big killer, a baby can be spared by simply being fed formula instead of an infected mother’s milk.  So progress in education is causing a slowing of the disease and a benefit to the population.  There are other health issues.  And when you graduate high school as Juliet, Douglas’s sister, no job awaits.  So in Christian love and charity we reach out not only to the orphan, but to those who care for the orphan.  James 1:27 calls it perfect religion to visit the widow and the orphan, you will see their need and likely do something to lighten their load and cares.

If you are interested in helping in any way contact:  Douglas Makori via the Contact Tab at the top.

Donate Tab is at the top of this page as well.  There are 5 ways to Donate.

Goal 7.  School Uniforms

Goal 8.  School dress shoes

Goal 9.  School Tuition, three trimesters requires $5 per student we have 16 in school.  $80.  Sometimes they let us slide, sometimes they send our kids home until tuition is paid.

 

Goal 11.  House Purchase.  Currently MSLO Ogembo Orphanage uses a house belonging to Josh Orina, it includes an old orignal and smaller house now used as the kitchen and they light fires in the earthen floor amid bricks and mortar sides which support cooking pots.  So these two buildings, are currently part of daily activity at MSLO, on load as well as a small garden plot.  The older girls stay in the house with Douglas Makori’s mother.  The living room is the main gathering place at night for Douglas’ family.  Likely the couches are used for sleeping there in the living room.  $2,000 is the request from Mr. Josh Orina, who owns the property and is away at work in Nairobi, and allows the use of the property for free, for now.  Douglas cares for his cows, chickens, and watches over the two adjoining houses as well.  It is a symbiotic relationship benefiting everyone involved.  God knows how to orchestrate harmony out of chaos.  Deeds many times are issued but never filed as this brings in a request of lawyers for $700 in closing costs to record the deeds.  Total for house is 2,000 dollars.  Recording the deed is expensive at $700 usd.  Much of the time the deeds are just not recorded at all.

 

Douglas owns the house on the left and when we say “the orphanage” that is what we are referring to.  Landlord Josh Orina is willing to sell the property on right includes the House on right, the cook shack, a small garden, and a chicken coop, which is size for maybe six birds.  We are currently allowed to use all this space. Mr. Orina is away on work in Nairobi, but on adjoining property built two houses for him and for a son.  The latrines a triple is used for bathroom and bath alike.  So effectively a latrine / shower could be added to MSLO property, maybe between small chicken coop, and rocket stove.  The church Douglas pastors is beyond the two Orina houses, and beyond that is a larger garden Douglas is allowed to plant with maize, we call corn.  Douglas:
Land 50 feet by 70 feet

House 21feet by 18 feet

Dad Bruce
includes garden?

Douglas
Kitchen 14 feet by 13 feet.  I just got Douglas to measure again and he gives: Let me check

20 by 18

13 by 11

 

 

Wrong house but looks just like the other one for sale.  This is Douglas’ house.

 

This is why we do what we do:  Orphans in need in Ogembo Kenya.  My Savior Lives Orphanage since 2012.

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School measurements 72 by 24 feet.

$2,000 Needed to complete school house for excess kids attending Itare Primary.

Goal 12.  Finish the roof on the kids school, see the photo below.  The school has 200 children, none have any money.  MSLO orphans all 16 in school attend Itare Primary School.  Help us help them have additional classroom space.  Let’s put a roof on it, windows and doors.  It makes sense that about $2,000.00, the price of one missions trip, could do the job.  Laborers there make $3 a day.  A single piece of sheet iron for the roof is $8.  A door will cost 20 dollars.  Windows are steel and welded, with glass and fabrication about $60 each.  Timbers for the entire roof about $400, cut locally.  We’ve walked in their forests planted for such wood they utilize for rafters and beams.  For concrete forming and concrete they will need bags of cement about $12 and many of them, plus sand and gravel.  Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither will this project, but right now it’s going no where.  Let me know if you would like to help.  Text or call Bruce Dickey at 479 970-0077 or hit the donate page for more info.  Douglas informs me that completion with all that is needed would be more like $4,000.  Possibly we can do fundraising in Kenya at the same time we raise half from USA?

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26.Jan.2016
Food Purchase MSLO Orphanage. Kenya.by Douglas Makori.

Rice 50 kg 3700,
Baking flour 1520
Soap 1000
Sugar 450
Tissue 200
Salt 30
Washing powder 450
Boda fee 300

(we got a good deal today, wave to mpesa funding to Doug’s phone allowed him to call for a boda taxi to retrieve Moneygram funds at Ogembo kiosk, normally a 50 minute walk one direction)  our normal fee is 200.  Shillings and pennies are near equal currently so we think of 3700 Ksh as 37 dollars usa.  Team MSLO member said $30 donation cost $9 to send from USA.  He also said, MoneyGram should be MoneyGrab, ha ha, we agree.  I attempted at a Walmart Kios to send $50 to Kenya.  How much?  $49 to send $50.  I passed.  Our best deal going is Wave, 4%.  Funds came today from outside the USA, cost was 4.3% Paypal International.  It’s already in Arvest Bank, that was fast.  That cash will fund a week’s food for MSLO Orphanage on 2.Feb.2017.  Many Thanks to MSLO Team Member*.

*anyone who feeds an MSLO orphan

Food for the week of 26.Jan.2017, 110 pounds of rice, 48 pounds of flour, and other essentials.

https://msloogembo.wordpress.com/2017/05/09/completed-goals/

Click here for some of our completed Goals. Many Team MSLO members who help have done so since 2013. This blog and the current effort began in June 2015. We need additional interest and help for this Christian effort. James 1:27 to visit the widow and fatherless. And we did just that completeding a mission trip to Kenya in April 2017. This ministry to the poor orphans in this tiny part of Kenya is legitimate and this blog is one effort to let folks know, these kids deserve our love and care. That is precisely what Douglas and Damaris set out to do, help these kids.