Our purpose:

The objective is to have our children become self-sustaining themselves, and in Kenya, by ensuring they have a Secondary School education, training in a trade, while appreciating their heritage. To do this optimally, the program has to be sustainable as well.  We're tackling our targets and achieving them.  Imagine what we could do with your help:

Target 1:  Feed the Children

 Purchase a sawdust burning stove (cooking fuel savings add up to more money for food) Thank you!

 Purchase a cow for milk (Friesian, 20 liters a day) Graduating orphans can take on the care. Thank you!

 Purchase goats to raise and sell to purchase school supplies. Thank you!  Just a few more to reach our goal.

Purchase chicks for eggs and protein, retaining breeding stock.

Purchase a second sawdust burning stove so kids don't have to wait in line until midnight for dinner.

Purchase livestock (cow, and goats)

Implement trade school options for graduating students: Bakery, farming (more under development)

Acquire partnership with another orphanage to develop crops  (Kisii site)

* Acquire 10 acre parcel of land

* Build infrastructure

* Drill well

* Plant crops and trees

* Build campus

* Build dorms

*  Build library, arts and sports facilities

* Build trade school

Land = Food + Security

The center could qualify for ongoing support from the U.S. Orphans fund to Kenya if they owned their own property (right now the center is squatting on a cramped 1/4 acre lot.)  By purchasing an available 10 acre parcel for roughly the equivalent of just $100,000 we will ensure ongoing support and a spacious new sustainable campus.

We are approximately $96,000 away from completion of the purchase of the property that we have secured with initial funds.  With your help we will have acquired our property by the end of 2008, and the new campus start date by October 2009.

With the purchase of a 10 acre parcel of land, the orphanage will have room for ample dorms, quality classrooms, a library, arts and sports facilities.  The additional land will provide means for much needed crops and small livestock.  In addition accommodations for teachers, visiting artists, interns and medical volunteers, an administration wing & a much needed Community Cultural Center with a computer lab, laundry facility and a library with public restrooms.  A rotating crop of fast growing trees will provide shade in the first year and much needed cooking fuel in the second.

Trade school options will provide technical training and much needed commerce so that graduates of the centre who can not go onto college still have a means of  becoming prosperous while creating sustaining funding for the centre.

Upcoming  Events:

Golf Fore Good  Classic  July 17th, 2009  at Homestead Golf Course in Lynden, WA.  The kick-off for Lynden's Raspberry Festival. To download registration and sponsor forms visit www.lynden.org .  For more information email info@clayforearth.org.

Project Thrive Sustainable Solutions for Vulnerable Children Conference -  Sept. 2009  More information to come.  info@clayforearth.org