“….Life starts with Education..” Sven Tumba

“….Life starts with Education..” Sven Tumba. I agree with this saying. education is the most fundamental right of a child that most developing countries don’t give to its citizens. Today I was speaking to some children in the street and they had a logics about kenyan system of Education. They told me ” … We are ready to go to school but we need not to be beaten in school, We need not to go to formal system we need freedom. We at Friends Pioneer have chose To reach these children we have chosen sport as the medium. Sport gives us the chance to meet children on common ground, regardless of our age, gender, social and economic differences. If these children cannot come to us, then we must go to them. This is an idea of sven Tumba and it is a working Idea that could be implemented all over the world.

Sport for Education

Friends Pioneer have started Organizing Sport for Education with teams participating boys 13 and boys 17. …(Friends Pioneer Team has stressed that it is Important for girls to participate in such event therefore Friends Pioneer will donate Free uniform for Girls Team who have shown Interest in such events we have an offer and donation of Uniforms from Lahom Scottopp in Sweden and we have Promised to Unite and make sister Team in Kenya. This will help girls nature there talents.

Teams who have registered for the Sports for education tournament in Kisumu

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A child who can read is a child with a future. …Every Penny Counts,

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
Friends Pioneer have taken them to heart and operate on that basis. We believe in helping people to help themselves. That’s one reason why Friends Pioneer believe in sustainability . The other reason is that these small Organization make a relatively small amount of money go a very long way.

How does your support help?

* In Kenya children cannot go to school unless they have uniforms. It costs just €30 to provide two uniforms and a exercise books and pens for a child – but when you are poor that’s a huge sum.

* € 10 – to protect someone from a deadly disease.
* It costs €50 SEK to help a woman buy a reconditioned sewing machine so that she can run a little business and feed her family. This will make the woman not be a sex commercial worker..

Pretty good value for money eh?

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Friends Pioneer Child Sponsorship

Friends Pioneer child sponsorship program unites children in need with individual sponsors who wish to address the children’s immediate, basic and educational needs.

Education is a basic right for children everywhere and of vital importance for the development of a country. 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.
Friends Pioneer child sponsorship is basically going to have a turn by this some children have sponsors while other do not have. Therefore we are planning to budget for all our sponsored children together. This is to inform all our Sponsors that if we really help specific child it will create a class other will have good shoes, cloths and uniforms while other will not have. Friends Pioneer does not want to create any class within our children in school and in community. So we are requesting our sponsors to accept our request of burgetting for all the children within friends pioneer together to avoid creating class
We thank our sponsor for Understanding our requests.

A story from a former street boy

We are back from Sweden now and have had a very BIG welcome. I met Vincent who we stay with and have help part of his education.

Read his story:

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF VINCENT OCHIENG (A FORMER STREET BOY)

I was born on 20 November ,1991
In a small town of Kisumu suburbs known to be the dwelling place of the low class in the town .I was born and brought up in a family of four ,and third born of all my other siblings .Our family was one happy family because my father and mother did all the best they could to make b merry and live very comfortable and luxurious lives . My early childhood was filled with love and joy that I got rom my loving and caring parents and from my other siblings who always made my life complete .Truly speaking ,I enjoyed my childhood days
As the old adage states, everything that has a beginning, has an end. All my childhood joys and happiness turned into sorrow and bitterness as my loving father fell terribly ill .My mother took him to different clinics and hospitals ,both public and private but his disease could not be treated .Since I was only a toddler boy , I could not understand what kind of disease he had that even the most skilled and train doctors could no cure Up to now ,I don’t know that disease but (it being said that it was HIV –AIDS) I wish I could because believe it or not ,my poor father passed away the ear 1996When I as only five years old, leaving us under the solo care of our mother.

My fathers sudden death caused a lot of distress to all of us and it was indeed a bitter pill to swallow .He left a hollow gap in our lives and the realization that I would never set my eyes on my father again soon dawned on me and I became very miserable because I really adored him very much , I guessed that’s why the say like father like son .My mother became so lonely and stress and as time flew by she soon became ill and e had to care for her we really struggles to keep her in hospital and or cruel relatives took this chance to grab or few belongings They took everything that once had had existed in our humble home and sent our mother packing and chase her away .We never set our eyes on her again.

The sad happenings around us made my elder sister become stressed and worried and she soon kicked the bucket leaving u all alone. We were taken under the care of my cruel uncle who always beat us with any petty mistake we did .My other siblings could not bear this anymore and as a result, they all ran away and I have never known where they went to .I was left alone and I was denied food and education .This went on for sometimes and I made up my mind to solve the problem of child labor by running away and join the street life where all the other desperate found comfort.

You an imagine how life is at the street there was no food ,no water no education and no shelter ,people everywhere look down upon us and they always chased us away from public places claiming that we were only thieves waiting to grab the ladies and gentlemen purses an wallets .During the cold nights ,we could look for old sack and clothes thrown away by rich people and cover ourselves then light fire in old tin can and sit squeezed and hurdled close b each other and ponder on how our lives are cruel and miserable .Due to all the struggles and hardship in our lives ,we sought our comfort by sniffing shoe-gum and car diesel .Thts when a few of my friends and I collected some money by begging from people so that we could go to school.

Each on of us sit in a public place like supermarket s ,hospitals ,petrol station and school waiting for any well-wishers to give us even a penny .fortunately enough after some times we had collected some thing to begin with and we joined primary school in a local school I Kisumu. That’s when good luck fall on us and God sent us an angel on earth .A well wisher from no where came and decided to accommodate us sometimes and sometimes I went back to street to beg for money. Things went on until I finished my final year in which obtain 364 out of 500.The sorrow that I was experiencing soon turn into joy when some one again decided to give first term fee for first term because of my performance.

While in secondary ,school , I loved mathematics and physics and soon I liked chemistry and biology .I studied very hard and soon I became the first student in the school .i was the teachers pet and all the teachers loved me .I joined different clubs and liked sport as well. My greatest achievement in school s that I started Christian union club which is still active .My hobbies are reading novels, bibles and visiting the cyber café where I browse in the internet and browse with friends, preaching to youths while in school I develop to be strong liking to the science subjects and my ambition is to be a mechanical engineer or electrical, or study actuarial science In future . I soon got over my problem but on thing to recalls that I was once a mere street boy.
I liked helping my friends and always ready to lend my listening hear to any one who needs my advice .For now I do not most of my family members except my little sister who stayed with a good hearted mother though life is not good but she has to live no where to go. At the moment I stay with my good friend wo has always showed me the love and affection .My God always is with me and that’s why am not afraid to tell the world that I love Him and I don’t know where I could be without him. The things that makes me happy always is that I know God always there for me and that I have friend who care for me ,JESUS .i intent to help most of other street children and orphans who find themselves in a situation like this mine through mine new found Hope to the hopeless and inspire them through its branch called Jesus is the Answer Ministry and I believe that I can make it .Please help me to achieve my Goals by supporting me financially and spiritually to run this my projects. Any sponsorship should contact me through ochiengvincent74@yahoo.com.or ochiengvincent37@yahoo.com .God bless you all fo supporting me.Any arrangement for me to visit you so that we arrange everything especially for running my project .I have the proposal for the project if anyone is willing then I an ready to give it to you.

GOD BLESS YOU FOR SUPPORTING ME; SHOW LOVE IN HELPING STREETS CHILDREN

Last presentations in Sweden

We Friends Pioneer community at large wish to extend their gratitude to all the Universities,Folk High School, Gymnasium,Volvo,Rotary,VUH Board, Lions Club,Red cross SIF Football Team all in Sweden.For there cooporation and accepting to Listen to Our Presentation extending a hand here and there where it was needed.We would also be pleased to inform you that we will be more than happy if you would follow the Development of Friends Pioneer Project.We are also requesting those who would like to Join the Friends Pioneer Team to contact us.

As Chrismas is approching we are also informing you that Friends Pioneer is Going to start BUY A CARD to support our programmes,which will come in handy to expand our street children project called LIFE BEGINS WITH EDUCATION.However in January we will be starting a coin drop in box in various shops and supermarket both in Sweden and Kenya To keep on facilittating the simmilar programmes.We are therefore requesting People who would like to be enganged in this type of Projects to also contact us.
With all the due regards
Friends Pioneer Team.

`We can not talk about HIV/AIDs, Drug Abuse to Kids who have not gone to School´( Sven Tumba) Kids umbrella.

We would like to know what you thought of the presentations..

Now Lucky is back home in Kenya and Joseph is doing he´s last week in Sweden. We met some really nice people and done great presentations, we hope to see many of you in Kenya!

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Media:)

We vistited Latice, a Latino organisation in sweden and chared our experience with contacts with Sweden. Read abour our meating in spanish or in english via google translator.

Laholms newspaper made an artical about us after our visit there, check here or in english via google translator.

Meeting with Tumba Fondation- Sports for education.

While in Sweden Friends Pioneer met Sven Tumba of Tumba Educational Fund and the wife Mona, who was very jovial. We will describe her as a Kind hearted woman who welcomed us to her place with an open heart. We had a meeting with Mr Tumba and we are still having talks on how we would build a sustainable School in Kisumu to help mostly street Kids and make this project be a reality. The Talks are still on, though but hopefully we may get this Project moving. I will discribe Mr Tumba as an old kind hearted Man with Youth and kids at heart. Mr Tumba talked to us, discribing the project too late for the world and he said- “How can the kids learn about AIDS, Drugs and they have not gone to school”

We then met Mr Algren who intruduced us to RECOBA, a Fomer player, which Friends Pioneer did presentation of the Projects. He was touched with what Friends Pioneer was doing. He promised to work hand in hand with friends pioneer and he will follow our projects to the latter.

FRIENDS PIONEER IN SWEDEN

We have had 34 meetings and approximately 2,125 people listening to Friends Pioneer in Sweden. Major liseners being Chalmers University, KTH with INUG and Student Union SEEK Organizing. Sports For Education is the Key and We have been Talking to Skottorp IK who have given us Sports Equipment to organize a girls football Team and series of Tournaments, This Ideas Has been said to Organize sister Teams.