Footprints OrphanageShimba Hills. Kenya

Home to 19 Children

School for 67 children

Footprints is located in Kenya

Life in the villages around Footprints is very basic – a subsistence existence

There are no taps from which to get water

Water has to be carried by the women, on their heads, for miles back to where the families live. The water comes from a couple of small muddy springs. The women

spend many hours EVERY day carrying water home for cooking and washing.

Houses are made of mud with

tree branches used for the roof

The houses have no

furniture. Usually just a

home made bed.

The mothers cook in a simple pot placed on a fire on the ground outside the house

The children who come to Footprints are orphaned –

that means they have no mother or father to care for them

This is Matua. This is where Matua slept before he came to Footprints

This is where Uchi slept before she came to Footprints

This is Uchi with Kerry

JIGGERS: Uchi’s feet were infested (filled) with tiny worms called Jiggers which, because children are usually bare foot , get in under the skin where the worms live and multiply. The only way to get rid of them is to pull them out one at time.

FOODMany families do not have enough food to enjoy a meal every day.

When the children come to Footprints they are often starving. Many of the local children who attend the Footprints school only have food because of the meals

which they get when they come to school.

Kerry buys food in a town called Ukunda which is about 10 miles away

Baby George

Baby George lost his Mum and Dad in the same week. George weighed less than a bag of sugar at 15 weeks.See how thin his legs are in relation to the mobile phone placed beside them.

George is now 3 years old.

The children do not have a BIRTH date when they come to Footprints so we give them an official BIRTHDAY. George’s Footprints Birthday is 20th February.

Here are some of the Footprints Children

Dotty, Tumani, George

Njoki

Bakari, Jane, Raphael, Mary - inset Jane, Hadija, Eliza, Mary

Ali Eliza Kijana

Samwell Matua

Footprints AcademyOpened in January 2013 Footprints Academy now has five classrooms in which five

Teachers educate 67 children from villages around Footprints Children’s Home