Start-up capital to help families earn an income
The local SOS social workers in Eldoret have identified 23 families that do not earn enough to ensure that their children have enough to eat and get adequate health care and education. With your donation, the SOS social workers can:
- support the families to identify a potential source of income and make a business plan
- co-finance or provide the families with things needed to get the business going such as hairdressing equipment, sheep, poultry, tools, etc.
- train the families in technical skills such as animal breeding, growing vegetables, trading with their own or purchased products, etc.
When the families earn an income, they are able to create a stable home for their children.
Solar Support – electricity for better health, education and safety
SOS Children’s Villages in Eldoret hopes to give 78 families solar support. Depending on the families living conditions, the families will be provided with solar lamps or solar lighting systems that will help supply clean, affordable lighting and phone charging to those who are not connected to the national grid. This idea came from an Xellian from Copenhagen, who visited a caregiver that needed to walk 45 minutes from her house to charge her phone every day.
Lack of electricity forces people in Eldoret to rely on expensive, toxic and dangerous lighting sources such as candles and kerosene lamps or cut their day short at around 6 p.m. when the sun sets. This has a negative impact on every facet of life and traps people in poverty. Children cannot study and do their homework in the dark. Lack of light and electricity make it harder for people to make a living. Kerosene flames are harmful to people’s health. Burning fossil fuels harms the environment. People risk their lives in the night, by relying on flammable light sources such as candles and kerosene lamps.
With just a small donation, you can light up the lives of vulnerable children and families in Eldoret. The impacts of the solar support are better education, health, safety and daily savings.
Total amount raised
~35,845 USD
246,525 DKK
Our target is to raise at least 200,000 DKK (Approximately 28,000 USD)*.
The first 75,000 DKK* raised will support 23 families to boost their businesses.
The remaining money raised will be earmarked to solar support. The aim of this amount is 125,000 DKK* – for that we can help 78 families.
The history of the Annual Fundraising Event
In 2015, all donations went to the SOS Primary School in Eldoret, Kenya to ensure that some of the most vulnerable children in Kenya could attend school and make a better future for themselves.
In 2016, all donations went directly to scholarships for the SOS Secondary School in Eldoret, ensuring that children from a poor background have a chance to continue to go to school.
In 2017, Xellia employees helped the young generations from Eldoret, Kenya by giving them the opportunity of getting a higher education after Secondary School, which will allow them to live an autonomous life as adults.
In 2018, Xellia employees helped young women and men from vulnerable families in Eldoret by giving them the opportunity of technical and vocational training, business start-up support and life skills training sessions.
In 2019, Xellia employees helped the laboratory at SOS Medical Center Eldoret to fund purchasing of a new biochemistry machine for pathological testing, especially targeted at vulnerable families and their children. And thereby saved lives!
In 2020, all donations went towards a new vehicle to enable the social workers to visit vulnerable families. This will ensure that programs remain relevant and social workers can track the families’ progress.
In 2021, all donations went towards improving the facilities at Early Childhood Development Centers in the local primary schools. This includes minor renovations, furniture, play and learning materials and construction of ECO toilets and other sanitary and eco-friendly solutions.
