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Update and the Future of Caring Hearts and Hands of Hope
Saving and Transforming the Lives of Vulnerable Children in Kenya We are pleased to announce the new web site for Caring Hearts High School.
These challenges included unexpected disruption of studies due to strikes by public teachers or students and government mandated school closures for simple events like voting or voter registration, unexpected and unwarranted fees added to regular tuition (students were constantly suspended from school if they could not pay these other fees), inability to closely monitor students’ performance and offer remedial programs until it is too late and lack of counseling and guidance opportunities for very vulnerable students during the time in their lives when they need it the most. These factors made it necessary for Caring Hearts and Hands of Hope to operate its own girls and boys boarding schools. We purchased a boarding school facility for girls and started operating Caring Hearts High School in 2015. Plans are in plan to build a boarding high school for boys in the near future.
About Katy Benoit Life Skills Centre-- Soon after we started operating Caring Hearts High School, we learned of a heartbreaking reality—innocent children from poor families, especially the girls, who are born without AIDS/HIV, too often contract it as they nurse their ailing parents. These children have no basic healthcare training or protective hygienic resources. We had planned to start vocational training programs, sewing, home economics and other skills for independent living. The Life Skills Center has an inspirational aspect. It is a lasting memory of Katy Benoit, a young Boise girl, whose short life taught us about kindness, accepting others and the ability to achieve and thrive in academic endeavors.
Katy Benoit Life Skills Dedication Since Caring Hearts and Hands of Hope (CHHH) started helping orphans, children of widows and those from poverty-stricken families, more than 1,000 high school and university/college students have received financial support. Today, there are hundreds of families and children with hope for a better tomorrow that they never had, because of the support they have received from Caring Hearts and Hands of Hope. Recent Idaho Stateman articles about Vincent and sponsors 2016 trip to Kenya: A land of constant surprises: Woodward reflects on his visit to Kenya - August 26, 2016 Boisean to Kenyan kids: ‘If you have a dream, you are not poor’ - August 19, 2016 Boiseans meet the children whose futures they hope to change - August 12, 2016 The Future:
What we have done 
Sponsors and Dr. Kituku visit the house where one of the sponsored girls and her mentally ill mother were living. CHHH sponsors built a new house with a living room, two bedrooms, cement floor and an iron roof.  
The type of houses CHHH has helped families of sponsored move from to better ones (right) built with funds donated by sponsors and other well-wishers.
Because of sponsors’ kindness and generosity, the lives of destitute children have been transformed. How Caring Hearts and Hands of Hope has and is transforming lives. Currently:
Residents of Kyumbi, Kenya receiving food donated by CHHH
 Kangundo Primary School blind children receiving blankets, mattresses and bed sheets donated by CHHH sponsors. What we have learned is that we are not just paying tuition and fees but saving lives and transforming families and communities. There are hundreds of girls saved from child labor or forced early marriage or prostitution. The circle of poverty is being broken continuously.  
Left is a photo of a student before CHHH sponsor, Carrie, started helping him. The photo on the right is him and Carrie, four months after he joined high school with tuition, room and board paid for. You are transforming lives! Challenges: Our main focus remains education for needy children in high school. But some of the girls we sponsor live in structures completely unfit for human habitation. There is no human language that can describe what they sleep on. Even with better housing, the poor children may have no food or what they need for private studies, especially during holidays. We have faced several other challenges that have warranted our review of what we are doing and how best we can use the funds sponsors entrust to us. These include:
Caring Hearts and Hands of Hope has been blessed with in-kind donations that have made it possible to use 100% of your donations for the purpose they are intended for. Here are services provided pro-bono:
Caring Hearts and Hand of Hope is the recipient of 2013 Community Champions Award that is presented by Molina Medicaid Solutions to organizations and individuals who are making a difference in other people’s lives and their communities. 
Dr. Vincent Kituku receiving the 2013 Community Champions Award What sponsors are doing is beyond touching lives. I cried when I met and heard the stories of some of the sponsored. 
Vincent and his son, Kithetheesyo mixing sand and cement to construct one of the houses< br />sponsored by Caring Hearts and Hands of Hope in July 2013.  One of the structures where a Caring Hearts and Hands of Hope student lives in. The family now has a new house sponsored by Caring Hearts and Hands of Hope.  Joseph, a sophomore student at Tala high school, was expecting to be sent home the second Saturday after schools opened early in January. That day, he woke up, washed, dried and packed his clothes to wait for the school accountant to send him home for the lack of tuition and fees for first term of 2011.
Remember, this is the boy who, as a freshman walked for miles searching for someone who could help him with tuition and fees. He had passed the high school entrance exam with flying colors. Yet he had no one to help. Bishop Matheka took his information and emailed it to me. I wrote his story and a sponsor paid his tuition and fees. But Kioko, didn’t know how his tuition and fees had been paid. You can imagine his desperation and hopelessness when he saw the school accountant approaching him. But instead of being sent home, he was given a tuition and fees receipt, paid in full for the 2011, 1st term (January-April). Kioko, like most of the orphans, children of widows and those from poverty stricken families we are sponsoring, is a top student. He was number one in his class of 60 students. I had not notified the school that I was to visit. After meeting with the school principal, he arranged for me to see Kioko. He was not told who I was.  An amazingly confident student, he revealed to me the miracle of that Saturday he was expecting to go home and languish until a merciful person helped him. I just said that I had heard of him and wanted to know how he is faring in school. I can’t write about his reaction when he finally learned that I was somehow the reason his tuition and fees had been paid. He was speechless. He at last said, “Oh my God!” and covered his mouth with both hands.
The next student I met is Pascaline but I am unable to put the suffering of that girl into words. How do you write about a girl who hid herself from teachers so that she could do the end of year exams instead of being taken to the hospital to have her pneumonia treated? That illness did not prevent her from putting her feet in cold water in order to stay awake and study for the exams. I remember doing the same thing, but not when I was suffering from pneumonia. Pascaline, a top student (position 2 out of 80) wants to be a medical doctor. Her academic performance proves that she has what it takes. A sponsor has re-kindled her hope. 
Vincent Kituku addresses parents at Kangundo Redeemed Gospel Church about the importance of educating children on January 24th,2010. These four children are a testimony of how sponsors are transforming young lives! 
 Keegan, Quinten and Will building a bench for Kangundo Primary School pupils.  Keegan, Will, Niki (showing off her traditional basket) and Quinten sitting with Kangundo Primary School pupils on the bench they (sponsors) constructed. 
Francisca Mwende Katunge of St Josephs Girls Kibwezi receives her term 3, 2012 fees from Jones Kaindu, CHHH Chairman, Kenya. 
The CHHH Sponsored students enjoying a lunch of bread and soda after receiving their fees. (Front row from left to right – Rebecca, Fredrick, Mbete and Victoria) 
Motivational session for the CHHH sponsored students during the occasion of handing over of fees for term 3, 2012. 
Students of Bishop Paul Mutua High School, where Caring Hearts and Hands of Hope is supporting ten students, stand in line to receive lunch and enjoy it under the shade of nearby trees 
Dr. Vincent Muli Kituku speaking to Matungulu Girls High School in Jan. 2011 
Dr. Vincent Muli Kituku with Tala High School students after his presentation in Jan. 2011 
Dr. Kituku speaking to 8th grade pupils at Kangundo Primary School in Jan. 2011 
Bags of maize, donated by Caring Hearts and Hands of Hope at Baraka technical college. 
Students at Baraka Technical College standing in line to recieve food donated by Caring Hearts and Hands of Hope.  Rev. John Mutuku Katundu, Director of Baraka Technical College, wrote, "…the situation of hunger and drought is an extremely bad story in this village. Last Thursday I found two young girls in the school compound who were very week and looked like sick. I gave them some milk because I thought they were sick. They told me they had gone for three days without any food and had come for at least a meal in this school. I was moved with compassion and found my self shedding tears. I couldn't sleep when I imagine their situation…"  |
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