Badilisha means change in Swahili and that is what our organization is striving to create. Our goal is to create sustainable villiages in Kenya which cares for itself, people and the land. We do this by supporting orphans, schools, those affected with HIV/AIDS, and Mother Earth.
There are over 2,000 orphans in Kenya's Rusinga Island. Our goal is not to place them in an orphanage but rather provide them with basic needs such as food, clothing, medical care, and schooling. Some of the causes of ophanhood include loss of life to HIV and AIDS which sweeps bread winners and makes children lose parents and past glories. There is also tropical diseases during pregnancy (e.g.: malaria & cholera outbreakes). Traditional practices like wife inheritance which makes men to inherit wives of their dead brothers without knowing their HIV status. There are also children born out of wedlock and single parenthood by unemployed youths who suffer so much and that is why sometimes we use the words orphans to refer to children in the society who are destitute. |