The Nyanya Project Update:
January 2008
Recent News
You have no doubt read and heard on the news that the situation in Kenya has been volatile at worst and unsettled at best since the election there in late December. In the cities, especially in the slums of Nairobi, where some of our nyanya live, the biggest threat has been lack of food and general disruption to daily life.
Will the Recent News Affect The Nyanya Project Mission?
No, the fundamental grassroots mission of The Nyanya Project is to care for grandmothers who care for their grandchildren orphaned by AIDS. Although our initial efforts have been in Kenya, if the political situation makes it impossible for us to continue our work there in the short term, we already have programs in development in Tanzania and potential sites elsewhere in Africa. Long term plans are for programs internationally.
Will the Recent News Affect The Nyanya Project’s short term operations?
Yes. A trip by the founder and vice president scheduled for early January was rescheduled for March. However, we have been able to provide emergency funds to two of our programs. In Nairobi, we sent funds for food distribution to those in Kibera, one of the hardest hit areas. Some 50 families will now receive food, including our nyanya who live there. For another of our programs, funds have been sent to provide daily care, clothes and school fees for nine orphans whose grandmothers brought them to the home of one of our Kenyan partners for safety. Funds will also allow her to check on our grandmothers in Kisumu in western Kenya, where violence has also erupted. Our people in Kenya report that everyone involved in The Nyanya Project is well and all are praying for peace. Donations received in this time of crisis will further our goal of providing security to grandmothers of AIDS orphans who are already overburdened.
Further Questions?
We will continue to provide updates. Meanwhile if you have any questions, please contact us at info@nyanyaproject.org. Donations to help with immediate needs of Kenyan grandmothers affected by the uprisings will be gratefully accepted. Mail tax deductible checks to The Nyanya Project, 2200 Allan Easley Street, 3B, Winston-Salem, NC 27106.
5 responses so far ↓
1 denis oduor // Mar 26, 2008 at 3:09 am
We are very gratefull, for those that offered to support the Nyanya project during the time of the political crisis, ecspecially in the slum of Kibera the grandmothers were very appreciative and thank all that had the big heart of givin through the founders.ahasante sana
2 Fran // May 31, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Thank you for the update and continue to send light your way for this upcoming pilgrimage.
Thank you for what you do.
love.
3 Thomas Ndivo Muema // Jan 7, 2009 at 5:30 am
You are doing a nobel course,hope you will contact me so that i can take you to Makueni District were the nyanyas are suffering more as they care for thrir grand sons and daughters who some are HIV Posotive.Keep up the good spirit.
4 DENNIS NYAKUNDI // Feb 17, 2009 at 7:13 am
the work that you are doing deserves a nobel price that is why i conqratulate you your highness nobel raurete mary martin niepold. thank you very much for the hope that you brought to the kenyan grannies . may God help nyanya project
5 betty Mutere // Feb 2, 2010 at 2:31 am
in 2004 I did a masters Thesis on Third ggeneration (grandparent) Caregivers to children orphaned by AIDS in kenya. Budalangi area. I am gratified to see the Nyanya project come up since then. Where is the kenya office?
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