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Out of Afrika Child Sponsorship |
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".....OOA Individual child sponsorship unites children in need with
individual sponsors who wish to address the children's immediate and basic
needs"..... OOA Founder
Education is of vital importance for development and children everywhere
have a right to a basic education. Education will revolutionize a child's
whole life, bringing a permanent change to the child and their entire
family. Education will also begin to remove the curse of poverty from the
country and the rest of Africa.
Children's rights should not have to depend on the economic capacity of
their blood parents. The right to a good education is the most fundamental
right of a child. Health care, loving parents and other rights follow suit.
Unfortunately due to poverty many children miss out on education. Parents
are expected to provide everything from classroom construction, to books and
uniforms for their child, as well as maintenance of the school. Consequently
many parents simply do not have the money to send their children to school.
Many Kenyan families are subsistence farmers and for those lucky enough to
have employment earn very little. One of the aims of Out of Afrika is to
link sponsors with needy children to enable them to continue their
education.
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Sponsor a Child today
How much does it
cost to sponsor a child?
The sponsorship pays for school uniform, shoes, home clothes, activity fund,
books, stationery, medical fees and basic/general needs for the child.
Sponsorship costs for a primary school child is £15 a month or £180 for a
year
Sponsorship for a secondary school child is £20 a month or £250 for a year.
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How can I pay the sponsorship money?
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To set up a
direct debit (in the UK) for child sponsorship
<<
click here >> to download, print the form
complete and return to your Bank or Building Society.
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You can pay
online from anywhere in the world using credit cards.
<< Click here >>
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You can send
cheque (check) to our address: 19 Cannon Close, Broadstone, Dorset, BH18
8HP, UK. Tel 01202 694492 (please make cheque payable to Out of Afrika
Child Account)
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<< Click here >> to make a online
donation to our projects or child sponsorship projects through an online
secure server. Donations as well as online
applications are encrypted as they are sent using SSL (secure sockets
layer) to ensure your information is secured. https://secure.efundraising.org.uk/security.asp
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If you are a UK
tax payer, paying income tax and/or capital gains tax, you can make your
gifts worth almost 28 per cent more, at no extra cost to you. For every
£10 donated, we can claim an extra £2.28 from the Inland Revenue, making
your gifts worth even more to the communities that Out Of Africa supports.
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<< Click here >> to download, print a
copy of the gift aid form which you can fill in all your details and
return it back to Out Of Africa.
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Which
currencies can be used to pay for sponsorship?
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Currency |
Amount per
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Sterling Pound |
15.00
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US Dollars |
27.00 |
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Euro |
22.00 |
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Australian
Dollar |
38.00 |
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Canadian Dollars |
38.00 |
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Japanese yen |
2993.00 |
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Sponsor a Child
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Many of the rural
primary schools in Kenya are terribly poor, under resourced and under
staffed. These schools have no electricity or water. The Kenyan government
will pay the salary of a teacher but classes usually have about 50 or more
pupils per teacher. We currently have around 150 children currently being
sponsored. Our sponsors come from all over the globe, including the USA,
UK, Europe, and the Far East.
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Additionally, many of the rural primary schools in Kenya are terribly poor,
under resourced and under staffed.
These schools have no electricity or water. The Kenyan government will pay
the salary of a teacher but classes usually have about 50 or more pupils per
teacher. We currently have over 100 children currently being sponsored. Our
sponsors come from all over the globe, including the USA, UK, Europe,
Bermuda and the Far East.
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Below is the breakdown of how sponsored Primary and Secondary Schools
children benefit from the sponsors money.
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Primary Schools
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1 |
Uniform – dress/shorts, blouse, pullover |
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2 |
Shoes and school bag |
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3 |
General Clothing |
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4 |
Medical care |
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5 |
Text books, supplementary and story books
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Stationery, exercise books, pens, pencils |
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7 |
Extra tuition, weekends and holidays |
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General child expenses |
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Secondary Schools
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1 |
School Fees and Exam Fees |
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2 |
Uniform – dress, trouser/Shorts, blouse,
pullover |
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3 |
School bag, Shoes and Socks |
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General Clothing |
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5 |
A hurricane Lamp (for evening studies) |
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Medical care |
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7 |
Text books, supplementary and story books |
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8 |
Stationery and exercise books |
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School activities; Drama, Sports and
school trips |
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10 |
General child expenses |
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If you have any questions please user the
contact us form on this website or (Tel 01202 694492) and we will do our
best to help. |
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" The textbooks provided by
the government are not enough for every child. They are shared between
several children. This means not every child will carry a book home and so
no homework can done. The only books provided by the government are the
course books for English, Maths and Kiswahili. The guardian is expected to
provide the rest and if they are unable to, the child will have to do
without".
These
facilities shown here are not enough for the whole year so the guardian
has to buy more to cover for the whole year and some of them are not in a
position to provide anything so OOA does appreciate those sponsors who
contribute towards food and if you wish know more about how you can help a
family please do contact us and we will be happy to respond.
The
current condition is no teacher has the right to send a child home whether
the child has the above facilities or not. We have provided all the
sponsored children with all the facilities required to enable her or him
to do well at school. This is why we had so many of our children being the
best in the National Exams.
Since the
OOA educational sponsorship was started we have managed to take many
children to High School and some of them being admitted to some of the
best high schools in Kenya. We will always inform the sponsor which high
school their sponsored child has been admitted to. The fees are high and
only if the sponsor is willing to pay then the child is then admitted to
that school. The Alternative is always for the child to go on to the the
local schools in the area. where they will still continue to perform well
This is due to having the child provided with all the requirements needed
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