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Western Focus Community Organisation (WEFOCO) is an organization in Shianda village in Western Kenya and consists of young people and 21 women groups in several areas, who want to improve the lives of their village people. WEFOCO is mainly focused on orphans and families suffering because of HIV/AIDS. The prevalence of HIV/AIDS is very high in this area of Kenya: 14% of people are infected and more people are affected. The orphans and families, where one parent has died, are often lacking funds for food, medical care and education.

Wefoco seminar on microloans

In September and October, WEFOCO has hosted 5 volunteers from Estonia who have been working with the program families, each of them had his/her own sublocations to manage. Due to the work done, WEFOCO has updated information about the situation of the orphaned and vunerable children. The volunteers fundraised before coming to Kenya as well as while being in Kenya and the report of the expenditures a available here.
WEFOCO is appreciating the donations that have already made a change in the lives of the local children.

In case of any questions feel free to contact us: info@wefoco.org

We are currently continuing to collect money for the following projects:

  • Food – maize flower for cooking ugali (local porridge) or other cheap basic food for the families/orphans most in need
  • Education – to support the orphans that they could continue/ start going to school, co-operation with the organisation Mondo, more information and contact here
  • Medicine – medical care is not free (except medicines for HIV/AIDS) in Kenya, helping orphans with the serious health problems to get the most basic treatment.
  • Empowering local families – we buy animals (chicken, cow) and either divide them to local families, that they could use the animals to be more financially stable, or the local organisation will sell the newborn animals in the local market to use the profit to support the orphans

Azina was taken to hospital by Wefoco in June 2009 to treat osteomyelitis

Some examples of the costs in Kenya:

  • Primary school uniform – 400 shillings (3,8€)

    • School uniform is obligatory for all the students. Many families in Shianda can not send their children to the school, because they do not have money for the uniform.

  • School bag – 500 shillings (4,7€)
  • Maize flower for 3 people for one meal – 47 shillings (0,4€)
  • One week old chicken – 55 shillings (needs additional vaccination costs) (0,5€)
  • Cow – 15 000 shillings (143€)
  • Hospital bill for food and bed for one week – 2 800 shillings (26,7€)
  • Hospital treatment costs depend from the illness, for example: malaria – 350 shillings (3,3€)

Download the information file and table to record the donations here.

Asante Sana!