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A basic starter pack of household supplies consists of essential items such as maize, cooking oil, salt, vegetables, matches and soap. It gives the chance to improve an average family’s well-being for a month when otherwise they would have nothing. -
Nights are cold at 5,000 feet above sea level, especially for young children sleeping on bamboo mats on an earth floor. This gift buys 5 local blankets. -
This energy saving stove is designed for use in East Africa. It reduces charcoal consumption by over 50% and harmful emissions by over 60%. Better for the pocket, the environment and for general health! -
A foam mattress will give a tired widow a much better night’s sleep than a bamboo mat on the floor. -
Many of the community group members' houses are in a poor state and either have thatched roofs which are at risk of leaking in heavy rain or their existing iron roofs are rotten. You will be buying the materials and the community group members will supply the labour to complete the roof. -
A set of cooking pots is such a basic requirement but is often too expensive for a poor family which instead will have to use old tins for cooking. -
Most homes in rural Kenya rely on dangerous and smelly kerosene lamps as their only source of lighting. These solar lamps are a real step forward, especially when young students need to study in the evenings.
