Easter Orphanage Visit and Opportunity to Donate
on The Road Less Travelled (Cameroon), 04/May/2011 10:39, 34 days ago
Over Easter, I delivered food to the Good Shepherd Orphanage in Abangoh (Bamenda, Cameroon) on behalf ofThe Cameroonian AIDS/HIV Nutritional Health Care Foundation (CANHCF). CANHCF a Canadian non-profit association, aimed at reducing the impact of HIV/AIDS on the Cameroonian population by providing the essential nutrition and nutritional education to individuals infected with the disease. I had previously delivered CANHCF donated food in September 2010, and after having visited the orphanage and having met the children I organized the Christmas event for the orphanage thanks to the donations from friends and family abroad. You can read the recap about the Christmas event athttp://ailingshih.blogspot.com/2010/12/cameroonian-christmas-miracle.htmlThe staff and children with some Easter visitors from Yaounde and BamendaMy placement in Cameroon will be soon ending and I will be coming back to Canada on July 4th2011.  I will be starting an MBA/MPH program at Boston university in August 2011.  Before I leave Cameroon I would like to do one last fundraising event for the Good Shepherd Abangoh orphanage.It is my hope that before I leave I can deliver food to sustain the orphanage over the summer so that the children can go back to school in September healthy and happy and ready to learn. I visited the orphanage the other day for Easter and it was so evident how much of a difference the Christmas food made towards improving the health of the children.  Children who before were thin and lethargic, had chubby rosy cheeks and were running around and laughing.  The donations from my friends and family really did make a difference in their lives. The Sister who runs the orphanage couldn’t stop expressing how grateful she was to everyone for making such an impact on the children’s lives. The kids express their happiness over the foodThe Orphanage’s need for support for its children continues to grow. Since Christmas the orphanage has received two new orphans. The first is a baby who arrived just before Easter and is only 2 weeks old.  This baby was abandoned by its mother at the health clinic right after he was delivered.  The second is a young girl who was abandoned by her family because she became ill which resulted in her losing the use of her legs.  The burden of having a disabled daughter was too much for her family and so they left her at the orphanage.The staff and children including the two new arrivalsIn order to ensure the children have a healthy summer, I would like to purchase, rice, oil, milk, sugar, garri (porridge), soybeans, groundnuts, and dried fish.  These items are rich in nutrients and will provide the children with a healthy base diet over the summer.   Everyone was very excited when the food was unpacked from the taxiIf you would like to donate to my“Healthy Summer” initiative please contact me.