BARAKA-NANYUKI

Carmel Garden, Naromoro colabrated with THE NYERI-NYAHURURU DIOCESIAN Youth GROUP and IRIGITHANI Holy family PARISH CONDUCTED ANNUAL MISSION WEEK from 25th June to 3rd July 2017 The Nyeri-Nyahururu diocesian youth group is an affiliate group of Moi University Catholic Students’ Association (MUCSA). It consists of students from Nyeri Arch-diocese and Nyahururu diocese. The group takes part in the annual mission week conducted during holidays in our Carmel Garden, Naromoro. This year, the group was joined by visitors such as friends and alumni of the group, giving a total of 40 people. Staying in our Carmel Garden cottages. Activities: 1. Charitable activities: - Visiting the sick, aged, orphans and less fortunate in the society  Conducting prayers in the homes visited  Giving donations to the homes  Engaging in home chores in the visited homes 2. Mentorship to the nearby schools  Jupiter Boarding School  St. Charles Lwanga Academy  Irigithathi High School  Nd

INTRODUCTION It is imperative to share our gratitude with you all for 31st May 2017, the Presence of Rev. Fr. Provincial Fr. Joy Kolengaden CMI, Fr. Joy Chirayath CMI, Fr. Johnson Valiyakulathil CMI and Fr Mathew Thomas Kodappannamkunnel CMI. The decision and implementation of our exercise was paved way from the home based survey done by our site staffs, so it was the beneficiaries felt need. Most of our beneficiaries hales from rural areas a few are from town, therefore some faces challenges Such as water shortage and rationing, Electricity power installation and Lack of warming and cooking fuel in form of firewood and charcoal. It is from this that the site came to a consensus to provide the most newly enrolled children/parents from Mwichuiri, sweetwater and Town areas with ,Tanks, Solar lights and Energy savings jikos. SOLAR LIGHTS BENEFICIARIES It was discovered that some of the children do not study or complete the assignment due to lack of adequate domestic light

Following the outbreak of drought disaster we decide to conduct a school feeding program to some schools with the help of nutrition program. We managed to distribute the daily food to Muthaiga primary, Katheri primary, Gitero primary and Tigithi primary schools. The food item which was in the package was Maize, beans, carrots, onions, tomatoes, cabbages, rice, green grams, salt and cooking oil. The feeding program has helped in these schools because the children get enough food in school and therefore they are always present in class. The schools are very grateful to the Chalice organization and Baraka Community Care Center, Nanyuki for such a grate assistance which is very positive to the school. Katheri primary were very grateful because it was their first time to receive such a donation although their population was very high. We are playing a big role in these schools that we support because most of these children depend on one meal a day and it is too challenging to pe

Together with the social workers we planned to have an outside classroom activity for the school children so we decide to host a football tournament at Wathituga primary school on 16th June 2017 along with the tournament we celebrated the day of the African Children’s day. Due to lack of time and also proper funds to facilitate on the event, we decided to invite few primary schools, boys’ football teams only. The event started at 9:00 am and ended at 4:30 pm. It was a good competitive match but finally Muthaiga Primary School emerged the winner by beating Katheri Primary School for the goal 2:0 and they became the winners of the day and the tournament champions as well. We gave the winning team that was Muthaiga Primary a first position trophy which was received by the school team captain and the games teacher trophy was presented to them by the Wathituga Primary School deputy head teacher. Muthaiga Primary School went home with smiley and happy faces having emerged the winners