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Boys’ Dorm

Once completed, the dormitory will provide shelter for 40 boys aged 5 to 18. Here, the boys can enjoy their living space, sleep safely, have a better study environment and a place to call home.
  • Local solution

    International Peace Initiatives (IPI) creates spaces where orphans can find who they are and thrive. Our homes provide a place where vulnerable children find love, care, shelter, food, education and a roof over their heads so that they can break the cycle of poverty in their lives and that of their families.

    With 63 orphans living at Kithoka Amani Children’s Home (KACH), the home has outgrown the space we currently have, especially in times the schools are closed because of COVID-19. We have been desiring to do this for four years now without success due to lack of funds.

    Lives improved

    40 lives of the boys aged 5 to 18 years will be improved directly. The boys who will be housed in the dormitory will enjoy the living space, helping them to sleep better, study better with less noise and disturbance. An extra space they deserve to enjoy while playing and helping other boys to get on with their day-to-day activities so they can thrive.

    Community impact

    When we bring in workers, builders and their families, as well as – in the long run – the boys’ families the project will impact an estimated 30,000 lives:

    • The community has already benefited from a piped water project we have shared with them as it wove its way to our site.
    • The women’s group members who have benefited from our water-filtering systems that we shared with them.
    • The community with which we share care for our environment – we planted 1,000 trees around the place where the boy’s dormitory is built in April, 2021.
    • Several schools that are around where the boy’s dormitory is will interact with our children in school and attend holiday programs that we set up with the KACH kids for the community kids; the shared playgrounds we share with the community children and youth during the holidays to compete in various games (soccer, netball, etc).
    • and the annual community exhibitions we intend to organise (they bring around 2,000 people together) to show case items our children make (soap, jewelry, weaving, wood work, construction using recycled items like plastic bottles and stabilized soil blocks).
    • The international guests (students, interns and volunteers) who visit us annually totaling 1,000 annually – we hope the numbers will increase after COVID-19 is over).
    • The community members who will learn permaculture and integrated land use design from our farm.
    • The radio programs we hope to create as well as social media platforms to share our approach to regeneration and creating resilience in our communities; and so on – these people numbers add up and we actually impact many more through our radio and television presentations – (as we have done at the current KACH site).
    Budget

    Donations totaling Ksh 779624 (or €6,000) will be used for the roof, doors, windows, toilets, plastering, paint and the floor.

    Extra donations will be used for a kitchen and dining.

    The total budget for the entire boys’ dormitory to accommodate 40 boys was Ksh2,500,000 (or €19,531). With the donations through iMACT direct, IPI could buy bags of cement and sand to finish the walls.

  • Local solution realised

    Our long term goal is to create Amani Homes for peace where children grow in a wholesome and loving environment in-order to build resilience in their lives. Through the care provided at Kithoka Amani Children’s Home (KACH), the children will be able to break the cycle of violence in their lives, families and communities. Our purpose is to transform the lives of 100 children with a Home that models that love is everything a vulnerable child needs to thrive!

    Our short term goal with the Boy’s dormitory project is to expand the living space for our children so that they have more space to read, eat, sleep and play by the end of June 2022. We would also like to help the surrounding community members to learn from our example so that they can take the initiative to transform their environment.

    Lives improved

    We will consider the project completed when we complete the 40 bed dormitory for our boys. The space will comprise four dormitories each holding 10 boys. Each room will have 5 bunk beds, 2 toilets and 2 showers.

    We have completed three rooms that comprise the boy’s dormitory and they have been plastered. What remains to be done is to paint, put doors, windows, toilets and showers; and beds. We also will need to buy bedding for the three dorm rooms. The fourth room is not yet done – we need to do the roof, doors, windows, plastering and furnishing it. The project is currently 45% done.

    Community impact realised

    The community wanted to bring their young men to help our youth build the dormitory. The local leader came by and wanted her son to join our boys because they had observed that our children were very hard working. Also, the local football club invited our boys to play soccer with them.

    Our youth invited other youth from the community to help and learn at the food forest at IPI. Dr Karambu Ringera: “[What surprise me is] how mature the children became because of COVID-19. They had a sense of unity and inclusiveness that I had not seen before. They were ready to share their food and ne learnings with other youth in the community.”

    Overall, the project became an entry point for our kids to get to know the local community youth.

    This land used to be a waste land, that we use for the dorm AND for growing our own food in the food forest we created. Already the youth harvested 10 bags of beans from this land. It is a place that will ensure food security for the home. Other crops we grow include cereals, fruit trees (lemons, oranges, avocados), tubers (cassava, sweet potatoes), bananas and indigenous trees.

    Budget

    With the donations through iMPACT direct IPI was able to buy cement and sand. At least three of the rooms have been plastered with the last donation from iMPACT direct as the report shows and one extra room was built. We are now looking into roofing and furnishing the building. We are also working on the dining hall.

    Follow up

    We need to raise more money to complete the dormitory – fit in the doors and windows, finish the floor, paint the walls and furnish the dorm so that the boys can move in.

    Other stakeholders can play their part too. Water is a huge problem here. We are fetching water many miles awa and the water source near us was commercial water that we have to buy. Drilling a borehole in this region will be amazing.

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Project Details

  • Project
    Boys’ Dorm
  • Campaign
    Finished
  • NGO
    IPI
    Women-led
  • Location
    Kenya
    Meru
  • Sustainable Development Goals
  • Quality Education
  • Start date
    October 21, 2020
  • End date
    June 30, 2021
  • Total amount raised
    € 891
  • Lives improved
    40 persons
  • Community iMPACT

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IPI

International Peace Initiatives (IPI) creates spaces where orphans can find who they are and thrive. Our homes provide a place where vulnerable children find love, care, shelter, food, education and a roof over their heads so that they can break the cycle of poverty in their lives and that of their families. Besides, IPI works with women living with HIV/AIDS, survivors of violence and communities with the tools and resources to move to stability and self-reliance.

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