Oh, there are so many things $10 can buy! From tuk-tuk
transportation for children to the doctor's, field-trips
and school, to art supplies for a month to shampoo and soap
for all our classes.
Breakfast for an entire class of our Grade Schoolers or
Kindergartners (with a snack!) for a month. Most of our
kids are malnourished. Simple local meals with eggs, fruit
and access to lots of clean water makes a huge difference
to their basic health.
Food Box programme for a young girl at high risk for
trafficking. Without food support, her family would be
forced to send her to work and she would be unable to study
full-time. We buy basic nutritious groceries wholesale and
make sure she can attend school well-fed, rested and most
of all - safe.
A housemother's monthly salary. We find compassionate older
women living near the slums who works six days a week at
the house, turning it into a second home for our kids. She
keeps it clean and tidy, prepares meals, helps the children
bathe and brush their teeth, looks after the sick ones from
band-aids to fevers, and all the little things children
need to be cared for. Together with our social workers,
housemothers are the 'front-line' for Riverkids.
We keep our costs super-low by renting right inside the
slums. Kids don't need fancy facilities, just a roof that
doesn't leak, walls to put up finger-paintings and space to
play. Renting the Kindergarten house, grade school and
space for our Family house makes everything else possible.
Well, you're just about the loveliest person we know then!
We'd just be thrilled to bits if we could get a couple of
people to pitch in like this. It means stability to plan
for these kids' futures, resources to provide more
counseling, sponsor kids into individual tuition,
microfinance loans.... so much can be done.
THANK
YOU!