DIRECT LINK AID TO AFRICA - Scottish charity SC020111

 

Direct Link helps to bring together the peoples of Kenya and the rest of the world.

 

We find sponsors for very needy children, many of whom are HIV/AIDS orphans, who would otherwise be unlikely to be able to attend school.

We organise visits for sponsors to go and see 'their' children in their own setting, and we also enable the visitors to help in the local primary school and join in local activities.

We buy cows and other livestock for families so that the children can drink milk and not spend the day on an empty stomach. One of our Kenyan volunteers has to walk ten miles with the cows as there is no transport between the market and the village. The photo on the right shows new cows arriving in the village, to be greeted by the grannies and children. 

We have started a new self-sufficiency programme in which grandmothers are given cross-breed cows, which produce more milk than their native counter-parts, meaning that there is a surplus of milk to sell to the local dairy.

We link schools in Kenya with British schools and we raise funds for school equipment, first aid boxes, buildings and libraries. We also help deaf children to receive an education that they otherwise might not have. 

However, not one penny raised goes on administration. All donations are sent direct to their target, with no deductions, as all administration costs are borne by our volunteers in Britain and Kenya, and by the very generous Gift Aid funds that we receive annually.

Browse through our website to see what work we are doing in Kenya, and have a look at our gallery of photographs to see how much work has been done, as well as how much there is still left to do.  Have a look at our page 'Direct Link can offer you' to see how incredibly rewarding it is to help the children and grannies.

CHECK OUT OUR LATEST FUND RAISING PROGRAMME IN AID OF THE KIDS' KITCHEN. This year, over the 2011 Christmas period, we will be raising money to pay for the primary school children to receive a hot meal at lunchtime every day during termtime.  We provide the food that is cooked by the grannies and widows.

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In the midst of plenty, others are living in abject poverty. Can we be free when we are poor? (Caux 2006)