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.
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Following the devastating famine in Ethiopia in 1985, the Government of Ethiopia, a host of Non Government Organization and the citizens embarked on rebuilding the country and her population
Peter Bachmann Foundation, PBF, later joined hands with the efforts to help citizens recover not just in the areas of food, health education and shelter but also with but also their self-worth; PBF sponsored children education needs support to health centers and support for small businesses, Agriculture in this effort with wonderful results. PBF helped build Peter Village in Lalibela which was highly appreciated.
Although Ethiopia has continued to register great double-digit DGP growth in the past 20 years or so, this growth actually has widened the gap between the rich and the poor more so in the countryside and the small cities.
The Housing Project is to provide shelter to the poorest of the poor mostly very elderly widows living in the slums of the great and Historical city of Lalibela.
These are people evicted from a slum village that live in ‘World Vision’ village; this village is formerly site for World Vision camp during the work and food distribution during the famine of 1985.
These poor people occupied the sheds and warehouses and for the past 30 years, paid some little fees to the Government. They suffer during rains and respiratory sicknesses as the sheds are made of iron sheets both walls and roofing and are very cols during the rainy seasons and very hot in the sunny days.
The Government is evicting them to give way for a road construction without compensation but has allocated them plots of land of 120 square meters and no money or construction.
PBF responded to this need and lead by team leader, Mesay Mekuanent, 29 families being the poorest of the poor were selected as beneficiary.
The town of Kobo, which is known to be the far-end border of the Amahra National Regional State from the two neighbouring regions of Tigray and Afar, is located 570 KM far from the capital Addis Ababa towards the north-eastern direction. This town and its surrounding villages were in the main scenes of the recent BBC documentary report about the current drought and its devastating implications on the lives of the people and their cattle.
I am very happy to have the opportunity to express, however briefly it be, my sincere thanks to the Peter Bachmann Foundation for the great contribution it has made in establishing our Inter-cultural English Education Centre. If not for the financial assistance given by the PBF our institute would not have been able to render to society the service it renders today.
This project lean-to the highly rated health service project which PBF is providing in the town called Gashena to the surrounding poorest people in the area. Because of the very hilly topography and the lack of safe transportation system as well as the incapability of the people to afford the cost of the available transport services, quite numbers of patients were dying on their way to the clinic. Most of the times, in view of resolving lack of transport facility, people usually have to carry the patient or they have to use a traditional bed -wheelchair made up of wood. Others have to take animal transportation system by using Donkeys or Horses to bring the patient. These options even worsen the health condition and pain of the patient before she/he reaches to the clinic and get the appropriate medical treatment as it causes irresistible physical and psychological discomfort and weakness to the patients which further complicate medical treatments. Disappointingly, the most vulnerable patients are Pregnant women who wish to deliver a child in the clinic, old and long aged persons who are suffering with senility and persons who are victims of crimes of rape, physical assault and bodily injury and people who experience accidents that demand urgent treatments.
Understanding these challenges, PBF has endorsed a project which appeals for the purchase of a Minibus car that can minimise the transportation problem. PBF believes that the minibus will make ease of access to the clinic so that people will get medication before their cases reach to the stage far from being treatable. The fact the road construction from Gashena to Lalibela will also accelerate the function of the minibus in a more comfortable and minimise the accident-prone transportation system in the area.
Background
Back forty years ago, 40 % of the overall land of Ethiopia was believed to be a forested land. Between the years 1990 and 2000 alone, Ethiopia has lost an average of 140,900 hectares of forest per year, which shows the loss of 14.0% of its forest cover, or around 2,114,000 hectares only within ten years.
Senegal is a coastal West Africa nation located 14 degrees north of the equator and 14 degrees west of the prime meridian. The country’s total area is 196190km2 of which 192000km2 is land and 4190km2 is water. Dakar is the capital city over 1 million people live in Dakar making it Senegal’s largest city. Today Dakar is a sprawling, lively cosmopolitan city.
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