Kipsongo Project

Health Program expenses for the 2018 year totaled $13,854. These expenses include both preventive and curative health measures In 2018, we distributed approximately 100 bed nets to pregnant women and children. These bed nets are aimed at preventing the transmission of mosquito-borne diseases, primarily malaria. We also distributed approximately 100 ceramic water filters to families in the Kipsongo community and surrounding rural villages. These water filters help prevent water-borne diseases such as typhoid Our curative health program supported a number of women and children. We covered the expenses of diagnostic imaging for some of the women in our programs, as well as treated children for various illnesses such as malaria, typhoid, and respiratory infections As a result of a road accident that involved a number of the women and children in our programs, we also covered the hospital surgical, medicine, and physical therapy expenses resulting from this accident

Economic empowerment expenses for the 2018 year totaled $10,550.90. These expenses include salaries paid to local staff including academic tutors, jewelers, seamstresses, cooks, and our project manager, and also our microfinance program, our welfare program and our farming projects. Our farming projects in 2018 included mainly dairy cow projects and agricultural projects - mainly maize beans, and onion farming. Our welfare program assists elderly members of the community who can no longer work and earn an income. The women partaking in our microfinance program started and/or expanded a number of small businesses ranging from farming charcoal businesses to second-hand clothing businesses

Qur education program expenses for 2018 totaled $9,260.50. These expenses covered school related expenses for 23 children from the Kipsongo community and nearby villages. Expenses included schoo! fees, test fees, schoo! materials - books, pencils, notebooks etc., school uniforms and shoes, field trip fees, and personal effects for our boarding students. Six of these students were boarding students and 17 of them were day schoolers