Support our Mama Jean's Home boys....

Christmas and 2017 (where has 2016 gone!) are just around the corner.  It's the hustle and bustle time of year of baking, shopping, wrapping, and decorating. 

For us, it's also the time of year, to prepare the 2017 year of finances and budgets and support for our Mama Jean's Home and the boys who live there. 

Mama Jean's Home is a safe place for boys who've been abandoned on the street or have come from abusive or neglected homes. We currently have eight boys living at Mama Jean's and are contacted on a regular basis to take-in another boy who's come for a horrible situation.

We need your support in order to care and provide the necessities for these boys and any new additional boys that we welcome into the home in the future.

What does it cost to support a boy at Mama Jean's Home?

The full amount of sponsoring a boy is $150 per month.

Here are the different options for sponsoring one of the Mama Jean's boys:

Full Sponsorship:                            $150/month                                       $1,800/year

Partial Sponsorship:                        $100/month                                       $1,200/year

Partial Sponsorship:                        $50/month                                         $600/year

One boy can have a maximum of three sponsors, depending on how each of the sponsors set up their support for each boy.

What does the $150 per month cover for the boys? 

It covers home and staff expenses, food (well-balanced meals), education (fees, supplies, uniforms), medical care (therapy, counselling), and any emergency needs that may arise.

Should you support one of the boys, you will receive a complete profile, picture, and letter from your sponsor boy on a yearly basis. At any time, you can send letters, pictures, and small gifts to your sponsor boy.  You can also send an extra donation around his birthday and/or Christmas and we can purchase a gift for him here from you.

If you would like to do a yearly donation and would like it to apply to your 2016 tax donation receipt, please ensure your check/cheque are delivered to the US or Canadian addresses (depending on where you live), NO LATER THAN December 16th, 2016. This will ensure the time of having the checks/cheques processed.

To read some of the stories on our boys, go to http://www.one5ministries.com/community-based-care/sponsorship/mama-jeans-home/ and click on each of the boys' profiles. 

Should you have any questions, please email us at support@one5ministries.com

Thank you!

Martin, Christmas and A New Year Need...

I can't believe that Christmas is just over 5 weeks away!! Where has the year gone?

It certainly has flown by for us here in Kenya.  This year brought on a big but wonderful change for the ministry with the add-on of Mama Jean's Home (MJH).  We are so incredibly thankful for the staff and the children at MJH and all the great changes we have seen and the foundation that has been laid this year.  God has certainly had His hand on this place and it's awesome to be a part of it, leading, loving and discipling these young men, both staff and children.

With the year coming to a close, we would like to open up a way for you to donate and assist Mama Jean's Home's needs in a few different ways.

                                                                                                                                            

Martin's Assessment

We took Martin to a clinic today to get an assessment done on his hands. The clinic is a mobile one that travels around the country on behalf of CURE Children's Hospital in a town called Kijabe, near Nairobi.  The doctor we saw stated that Martin needs to get an assessment done very soon by the plastic surgeon at this hospital. The tendons on Martin's hands will need surgery in the near future so the sooner the better. 

We estimate the total trip to Kijabe will be about $200 US. If you would like to donate toward this need, please see the end of this note for where to send the funds.

Please designate this need specifically on the donation to say:

In US: Kenya: Martin's Medical

In Canada: O5M: Martin's Medical

Anything that we receive above the $200 will go toward his necessary surgery in the future. 

Maize and Beans

Maize (corn) is a staple food in Kenya. The maize is ground up into a flour and cooked to make ugali which is a staple meal and the majority of Kenyans love. Beans (with rice) is another Kenyan favourite.

It is much easier and much cheaper to buy the necessary amounts of bags of maize and beans in bulk for the year rather than buying a few kilograms of it each week.

We would like to buy 15 bags of maize and 3 sacks of beans. This will cover our year of these two items as well as be a bit extra as we bring in more boys into the home.

The total cost for the maize and beans and all that is needed for them (bags, transport, products to keep them clean/safe) is going to be $600 US.

Sacks of maize

Sacks of beans

Business/Financial Management & Meat

We would like to purchase a rabbit hutch and some rabbits as well as a few roosters and chickens. We would like to have the boys learn:  1) how to care for animals, 2) how to be able to use these animals to raise and sell, put the income back into the business and keep it going, and 3) be able to eat meat once or twice a week from the rabbits and the chickens as well as have some eggs to either eat or sell out.

Example of the rabbit hutch

The total cost to start these two projects up will be $200 US.

Christmas with Families

The MJH boys will be spending Christmas with the staff members and their families at their homes. It gives the staff the time to be able to spend the holidays with their spouses, children, parents, etc. It also gives the boys the opportunity to spend time away from MJH and in a typical Kenyan home setting.  We would like to send the boys and the staff off for the holidays and a meal for them to all share together for Christmas Day.

The total cost for this will be $300 US.

So the total amount that we would like to raise in the next few weeks is $1,300 US. 

If you would like to donate toward this end of year event, please click on the links below to donate online.

If we are able to raise more than the total amount, we will put that back into Mama Jean's Home for other needs like new sitting room furniture (couches, chairs, and tables) or a stove for the kitchen (minus Martin's overage as stated above).

To donate in the US (for Mama Jean's Home/Martin ONLY):

http://wordsower.org/contact_info

Click on the "Donate Online" button in the middle of the page and follow the steps.  Please indicate Kenya:  Mama Jean's Home Christmas in the designation/notes box provided in the steps.

To donate in Canada (for all items)

http://reactkenya.com/about/contact/

Click on the yellow "Donate" button on the left hand side and follow the steps. Please indicate O5M: Mama Jean's Home Christmas in the designation/notes box provided in the steps.

If you have any questions or would like more information, please email us at info@one5ministries.com.

Thank you so much for your support!