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DICKSON CHILDREN CENTRE Newsletter
Dear Dickson Family Friends,
Much greetings from all of us in Mombasa. We are all doing well and thank God for giving us health and protection.
We added one boy to our family, his name is Kelvin.
He is the little brother of Cynthia. Their father is in
prison and their mother is an alcoholic and living on
the street. Kelvin was admitted in another boy’s
home, but the Children Department requested us to
take him in our centre so the siblings could be to-
gether. Cynthia is very happy to have her brother
close by; it makes both of the children to feel more
at home. Kelvin is 4 years old and is now in our Dick-
son Nursery School. We look for sponsors for Kelvin.
Easter
Why are we painting eggs with Easter? Most of the
Dickson children know the answer, because we nor-
mally keep this tradition every year with Easter, but
the new children and most of our volunteers don’t
know. We tell the children that with Easter we cele-
brate that the Lord Jesus has risen from the death
and He gives new life to all who believe in Him. The
egg symbolizes the new life when it hatches. The
children have a lot of fun painting the eggs and it
has proven over the years that it is not possible to
keep those eggs to Easter morning, so ……let’s wash
hands and eat them!
June 2012 Newsletter
Since we have been able to trace most of the children’s
birthdays, we started to celebrate them. Every end of the
month we celebrate all birthdays from that month. Due to
some delays we celebrated this time 2 months so we had a
big party of 10 birthdays at one go!
Birthdays
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Teenager camp
The Youth mission YWAM organized a teenager camp
and all our teenagers were invited. In the morning there
were bible studies and discussion groups and in the after-
noon sports and creative activities, which were organized
by a team from South Africa. They had a lot of fun, as
well as good quality time with the youth leaders and
prayer times. The theme of the camp was “it’s possible”
and the themes of the day were divided in the “Faith”,
“Love” and “Hope”.
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Dutch Water donates every week drinking water to our cen-
tre. This time we were also blessed with a laptop for the of-
fice. Thank you very much Dutch Water!
Ria celebrated her birthday with both centers. The older girls
made the cake and when the candles were lightened the chil-
dren counted this time with ten at a go (10, 20 …)!
Dutch Water
We had a volunteer from Holland and one from Belgium;
they are a blessing to us in helping in the house, in the nurs-
ery school and helping with the home work. They also or-
ganize games and give much needed personal attention to the
children.
Volunteers
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Our nursery school starts every morning with happy songs
for God and prayer. We have 3 classes with their teachers.
There are in total 36 children, whereby 20 children are in our
sponsor program, from the nearby slum areas. Two new
boys in our sponsor program are new; Chris and Rocha.
Chris comes from a family of 3 children. His parents came
to town to look for work, but up till now his father is jobless;
his mother sells some vegetable. Chris was some years back
in the nursery school in the village, but because of lack of
school fees dropped out; since than he is at home. Chris is
now 7 years old and very happy to come to school.
We admitted also Rocha, he is 7 years old. He comes from a
family of seven children. The family had to move when their
houses were destroyed. The father is a fisherman, their
mother has died. Rocha has not gone to school yet, he is a bit
anxious but happy to have a chance to go to school.
We are still looking for sponsors;
If you would like to sponsor
Chris or Rocha, you can contact
us through our website.
Dickson Academy – Montessori
Nursery School
We get many requests
for help, but we normally
say we can help only
orphans and destitute
children, who are spe-
cific brought by the Chil-
dren Department. How-
ever mama Lilian case
was so desperate that we
could not sent her away.
Orphan herself, she has
struggled throughout her
life. As a child she
looked for jobs, so she
could pay for her own
school fees. Unfortu-
nately she got a husband who was not faithful and through
him she attracted HIV/AIDS when she was pregnant from
Grace, who also got infected. The husband ran away leaving
mama Lilian alone, with three children. She is often very
sick and not able to work. We pay house rent and electricity
for her, give her sometimes some food when we have and
pay school fees for the children, when we are able. We look
for sponsors for this family, so that mama Lilian can con-
tinue to care for her family.
Community help
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Mama Asina takes care of Beth since she was 3 weeks old.
Beth is now 3 years old and got a nice present from her
sponsor. Asante sana – Thank you very much sponsor!
Mama Asina has finished the Warembo Project program and
is now employed in Dickson Nursery School as a Montes-
sory teacher assistence. Well done Asina!
This is baby Esther dressed in clothes we got donated from
friends. Esther was on the street, but now her mum is in the
Warembo Project and her three bothers go to the Dickson
Academy Nursery School. Esther you lo ok beautiful, you
could become a queen!
Warembo Girls Project
Hooray ! Blessing can walk; she was behind in her develop-
ment, but is now starting to walk and everyone is cheering
her on. Unfortunately her mum is not doing so well, she is
still in the program of Warembo Girls Project but continues
to make wrong choices, she gets counseling.
Thanks very much for your support; we also appreciate your
prayers very much. With your and God help we will succeed
and make a difference in the lives of our children and young
mothers.
ASANTE SANA, MUNGU AKUBARIKI – THANK YOU
VERY MUCH, MAY GOD BLESS YOU!
“Blessed is he who has regard for the weak; the Lord
delivers him in times of trouble.” Ps 41:1
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www.s2sinternational.org
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