This report covers a whole year but more specifically a period between April, 1st 2015 up to 31st December, 2015 because the other prior months had been accounted. The report covers micro-credit programme and shall comprise both narrative and financial.
February is a very short month but we had some activities going on this month, Our dear Samuel, completed his first semester, and on his free time, he recites poets, He has been training and our sisters and brothers here in mathare once every Friday of the week.
Why for too much fascination?
It might seem just allegory, myth or metaphor or rhetoric…!! Is that? No it is not! Seriously not! Honestly, my obsession or special alliance to Lalibela and its people is simply an inexorable feeling that I couldn’t untie myself easily! Why? Is that because I got extra-ordinary reception there? Not really! I would feel even the other way round had it been on such ground. I knew that I am from another culture, faith and social background so that it wouldn’t be easy to develop such close affiliation with that place and its people! So what did clicked in to my mind to build such a special sensitivity? What did they plant in to my heart? What was injected in to my blood? What was installed in to my hands that made me desperate and fully determined to share the pains of these people? Here is the story:
The Peter Bachmann Foundation has been in Sri Lanka since its inception in 1994. The very first contacts to Sri Lanka date back to 1964, Peter was alone on a very adventurous journey by road from Zurich to the Orient, up to the former Ceylon. Until the creation of a legal foundation in Switzerland (1994) Peter was allowed to build a large network of friends among the locals, buddhists, christians and muslims. He could implement countless small or larger projects.
INTRODUCTION
Peter Bachmann Foundation in Srilanka completes thirteen years in the training of special children in 2015. In gratitude and appreciation we remember the founder chairman of Dr. Peter Bachmann & all the other magnanimous Swiss sponsors in high esteem, who have been supporting the services here in every possible way specially financially since the very inception of the services in 2002. Their support and corporation are not in vain. They have brought success to the special children by way of making them for independent living. Here we state successful achievements of the services in the past and near future.
PAST
Since the starting of the services two hundred & ten children have gone through the training here. While some of them are engaged in jobs others live independent life with their parents & siblings. Thus the training here has given hope to the parents who came here without hope and their negative attitude towards their children that they will always be depended on others have transformed into positive attitudes that they are a vital component of the family and they are to be appreciated for what they are.
Uganda: IPOA Orphans and Widows AssociationGeneral Background Before it came in to the attention of PBF, the normal functioning of the association was solely dependent on small amount of funds and material support contributed by the Catholic Church of the area and from the personal pockets of the members which has left in question of its operational continuity and effectiveness. It was later in the same year 2008 that the founders of the Association have got a chance to meet Peter Bachmann and share with him of their justifiable aim of forming the Association. Since then, PBF has been supporting the Association financially and materially as a key empowering partner to keep it’s persistent service to the target beneficiaries. Apart from the direct beneficiaries, the community in general is also benefiting mainly through the water supply projects to the village. the community is also benefiting from the cheap and easily accessible products produced by the association. Aiming to put this objective practically on the ground, the association has been active organising the member beneficiaries to work on hand craft using the locally available materials, offer trainings and then let the group work on the preparation and processing of traditional herbal medicine, making homemade soap and ointments, facilitate awareness creation seminars and workshops on HIV and other transmitted diseases, nutrition, natural birth control and provide financial support for the very needy. |
Background:
Being one of the most pivotal projects undertaken by PBF, Gashena health project is operating in the smaller town called Gashena – a town in North Wollo, Amhara Regional State of Ethiopia.
Background:
My name is Dan Amolo.I met Peter at Rosa Mystica Guest House in Nairobi in 2004.He was a guest there but I was a Street Children Workshop attendant. I introduced myself to Peter as an Artist!I was not sure of what he expected to hear from the skinny enthusiastic ,energetic and open minded person I was. My assumption was that he was just another tourist or even a Missionary.I was at that time working with the Benedictine Fathers of Nairobi where I was Street Social Worker whose main activity was to entice, interest and recruit Street Children in the streets of Mathare Slums which is actually the second largest slum in Nairobi.
Little Angels Founder: EmmahNjanjuMwangi (My mummy) was theformerPrincipal at St. Michael Nursery School -Kibera-Laini Saba; She had headed the school for over 20years and had experience on the situation and needs of the Kibera children.
Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine!!!
(Slovakian Proverb)
1. BACKGROUND
Water, unquestionably the source of all life, is one of the key strategic issues of our time. Moreover, it is a naturally endowed common, economic, political and social good. Despite the best efforts of the international development community to improve water resources and access to sanitation facilities worldwide, as of 2002, some 2.6 billion people – half of the developing world – live without improved sanitation. Lack of clean water remains a serious problem – 1.1 billion people are still using water from unimproved sources in sub-Saharan Africa and 42 percent of the population is still not served at all.