What We Do
The Daily Food Programme
Feeding over 2000 Children and School Staff a hot meal everyday costs about $1,500 every month. That is less than $1.50 per child.
Future Building Projects
To better Baharini Primary School, a Dining Hall, Permanent Kitchen and Secondary Schools are all in the plans...
How YOU Can Help
How YOU Can Help
How YOU Can Help
As the saying goes " It takes a Village to Raise a Child"...and that is exactly what our family of supporters are to us. Thank you.
H4H Facts
How YOU Can Help
How YOU Can Help
Hope 4 Help has been going strong for 18 years with the help of some amazing people. Check out how it all got started....
The Daily Food Programme
We believe that every child has the right to a hot meal. Even in our own countries, we see this right violated. But when you see it affecting almost every other child in one village, you have the ability to help.
Right now the Daily Food Programme feeds the entire Baharini Primary School children and staff a hot lunch meal once a day. This cost is less than $1.50 per child.
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Breakdown
All children, teachers and volunteers receive one hot meal consisting of maize & beans daily. These are the two most filling combinations to curb hunger for longer.
The Food Programme is supported through Hope 4 Help and Dr. Hanz Meisemann (Germany). Hope 4 Help hopes to raise an estimated $1,500 CDN per month to support this program.
Future Hopes?
Typically, this is the only meal of the day for most of the children. Ideally we would love to have a Breakfast Program implemented, and are consistently looking for partners and sourcing out costs for Porridge, which would be a great start to the day for most children.
An example of a Breakfast Porridge could consist of; Millet, Sorghum, Maize and Groundnuts
Consistent Building Projects
Classrooms – Estimate of 900,000 kes = Approx. $8,000 Cdn
Baharini Dining Hall – Estimate of 1,000,000 kes = Approx. $10,000 Cdn
Baharini Dining Hall – Estimate of 1,000,000 kes = Approx. $10,000 Cdn
The biggest issue for all schools are the amount of children in a classroom. Currently Baharini is seeing upward of 80 kids to a class and one teacher. We would love to give them better odds. The Government does build classrooms but they do it very slowly and classrooms get spread around to all district schools. Not just ours.
Baharini Dining Hall – Estimate of 1,000,000 kes = Approx. $10,000 Cdn
Baharini Dining Hall – Estimate of 1,000,000 kes = Approx. $10,000 Cdn
Baharini Dining Hall – Estimate of 1,000,000 kes = Approx. $10,000 Cdn
The children have no space to eat, and typically eat outside on the ground during lunch. Having a dining hall, will help with organization, food safety and children not eating on the dusty ground.
Day Secondary Schools: Estimate of 2,350,000 kes = Approx. $29,500 Cdn
Baharini Dining Hall – Estimate of 1,000,000 kes = Approx. $10,000 Cdn
Day Secondary Schools: Estimate of 2,350,000 kes = Approx. $29,500 Cdn
The secondary school will be composed of 4 Classrooms, Administration Block, School Toilet, Laboratory Block and a School Hall. The above cost is inclusive of only 2 classrooms.
Past Projects That Helped
Chicken Dancing for Charity
In May of 2017, the children of George Peck Public School and their teacher Sanjai Kumar, came up with a GREAT idea to raise money for a Chicken Coop at Baharini Primary School in Kenya! They would dance the "Chicken Dance" song for 2 hours straight! The whole school participated and the energy in that gym was MAGICAL!
DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA
The result! The kids danced their way to $1,200...enough funds to build the chicken coop at the Baharini Bryson Greenhouse at Baharini Primary School!
What A Chicken Coop Means
Buying a chicken in Kenya is relatively cheap, and once you get your flock started, chicks can be sold from between 200kes. Crates of eggs can sell for 550kes ($5) to an established market. These profits could be purposed to roll back into the Daily Food Programme to provide a more self-sustainable platform for the Daily Food Programme itself.
The Baharini-Bryson Greenhouse
Total Cost and Overview: 508,250 kes = Approx $6,000 Cdn
With the land generously donated by the Dena Family, (Locals of Mtwapa Village themselves - and Hope 4 Help's On-the-Ground Manager)....the next purchase to "GROW BAHARINI" was a Greenhouse Kit! The Kit was purchased and installed over a course of a year, comprising of a 500 L water tank, irrigation drip lines, plastic sheet, seeds and chemicals. The plot of land can grow 1,000 plants, and this initiative was placed in the student curriculum to help create and understand self-sustainability.
The Greenhouse was erected January 16th, 2013
Students from Class 3-8 participated in learning about the Greenhouse.
The Baharini-Bryson Greenhouse – 2024
Unfortunately Covid hit the Greenhouse hard. With the community not able to work together during the pandemic, the greenhouse dried up and was not able to be maintained. We know this project worked and COULD work again with the right donors. If you have interest in "Growing Baharini Again" drop us a line.
The Beginning of Hope
Tumaini Then 2006-2008
The original makeshift school called Tumaini Community Orphan School was our first introduction to the village and children we have come to love. Starting with 311 students, “the little school that could” had heart!
Under the Village Development Committee situated in Maweni Village itself, Tumaini was a center for a period of time to train children in scouts, girl guides, and girls and boys football. The V.D.C. provided a piece of land, designated for any village development projects. On this land, Tumaini Community Orphan School was created (Tumaini means “Hope” in Kiswahili). Operating without sufficient working materials for their first year. Lacking in construction of proper classrooms, toilets, desks, tables, chairs, textbooks for children, teaching guides and most stationery items, among many more. The most important of all these factors lacking, was food. Without food, children would not attend school due to their lack of energy.
Hope 4 Help, along with many other wonderful donors, aided Tumaini starting in 2006, building the foundation for a safe learning environment that would eventually become a mainstay in the village of Maweni.
Baharini Now - 2009-2024
A school literally only a few hundred feet away from Tumaini, Baharini Primary School (meaning “By The Sea”) opened its doors in January 2006 as well. A primary school that was built by the parents of the village, and a local business Doshi & Company Hardware Ltd., Baharini had a good start. With only 20 students registered when their doors first opened, Baharini grew to over 400 students in their first year.
In January of 2009, we (the village committee and Hope 4 Help) decided to give Maweni Village a united front. With the union of the two schools, almost 1000 children were joined and could achieve more than either of us could on our own. Baharini is now a government supported primary school secured on 2.5 acres of community land, and has full support of the community.
All decisions regarding the school require full approval of the board council, as well as members, and parents of the community of Maweni to ensure the administration at Baharini is run efficiently and in order.
By joining the 2 small schools together, we now created " Hope By The Sea", and it is this HOPE we hope to keep alive with the generous help of others like you!
Today's Hope
Our aim is to educate, inspire and create a solid foundation for this school to grow on, by providing the same opportunities to the children of Baharini that are so readily available to our own children here in Canada.
The “Hope 4 Help” organization, with the support of individual and corporate donors seeks to support 3 key initiatives.
- The building of Baharini Primary School as a foundation to educate the children of Kenya in a safe and positive environment.
- The support of the Daily Food Programme, providing daily meals and the means to be self sufficient in cultivating their own food.
- To create and maintain access to secondary schools for older students, providing the opportunity for growth within their own community.
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