By Mansi Kotak | Co-Founder & CEO
COVID Relief Update - October
We are getting close to 200,000 MEALS from our COVID Relief efforts. This is on top of the 260,000 meals we had already served as a part of the School Meals Program before the pandemic. And even as we reflect on what getting closer to the milestone of half a million meals means, we can’t help but feel a deep sense of AWE at the support you have offered us since we started this work in 2016.
In the month of October, an additional 16,430 meals were served through 85 new food packs to families in different communities within Kisumu County. In total, 4,537 families (12,360 beneficiaries) have so far received 192,369 meals since the start of our relief program! As the new cases of COVID-19 in Kenya are lower than the 2% positivity rate and with the easing of restrictions, our team has now started re-introducing on-site school meals. We hope to share an update on this in the coming months.
3,343 students have benefited from education packs and 351 Sanitary kits (1,820 reusable pads) have been distributed to at-risk teenage girls.
ImpactStory
Serfina is a parent who has been a continuous recipient of the COVID Relief Food Packs.
She is a single mother who like many other people lost her job due to the pandemic. She says, "Now I do things (small jobs) here and there to get a wage. This program has been supporting me and my family. My children now don't have to compromise, it gives me satisfaction to know that they are eating well."
The savings Serfina makes from the packs helps her buy extra vegetables to add in the food and sometimes even pay rent 2 months in advance."
(Translated from Kiswahili)
An Update from Our Environment Project
"If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it.“ – David Sobel
With our first official environment workshop, we tried to do just that! During the 3 hours that the students were in the mini botanical garden, we had a discussion where everyone was a part of the conversation about our earth and different ways in which we can show it some love. Many young students chimed in with: “plant trees”, “throw garbage in the dustbin”, “don’t pollute the water” among other suggestions.
Read more about this project here: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/environment-in-education-planting-100-000-trees/reports/?subid=179776
Giving Tuesday 2021
#GivingTuesday is only 19 days away! This year, GivingTuesday will be on 30th November 2021.
We need your help to reach our goal of raising $10,000 in support of the various communities we serve in Kisumu County—and with GlobalGiving’s incentive fund, the more you give, the larger share The Rahul Kotak Foundation (RKF) receives out of the $1 million USD in bonus funds available!
If we reach our goal this year, RKF will be able to reach nearly 4,000 students with a daily school meals program and build 2 brand new libraries... but we can’t do it without you.
Mark your calendars to #MoveAMillion: it’s almost time to help RKF!
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