We have started a lunch program for the Edith Junior School (The Vihiga Children's Home). The children have little to nothing for lunch and cannot study properly without food. This program supplements the childrens' lunches of beans, rice and cabbage.
The Edith Junior School is located in western Kenya near Lake Victoria. Priscilla, a retired Kenyan social worker, is the director of the orphanage. She started the orphanage with twelve boys living in a dung hut located in the village of Gesimbi. The town was extremely hostile to the workers and children at the orphanage because of the fear of AIDS, and they were forced to leave Gesimbi in 1997, moving to a different part of Vihiga. Vihiga District has one of the highest HIV/AIDS rates in Kenya, (25% currently). It is registered under an NGO: The Foundation for Economic Social and Cultural Organization - which works for poverty reduction programs. Now, 265 children live or are schooled at the orphanage. The home educates children in grades kindergarten through eighth grade.
