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Project: JIMBA | Partner: Star of Hope Kenya.

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Madaraka Day is a national holiday celebrated on June 1st every year in the Republic of Kenya. It commemorates a day in 1963 that Kenya attained internal self-rule after being a British colony since 1920. Madaraka is a Swahili word for "authority, ruling power".

 

Project: TOBA SPONSOR NUEVA POBLACIÓN | Partner: Fundacion Evangelica El Buen Pastor

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Dear friends, we wish you a blessed week filled with joy and happiness. Our work continues but so far with some pandemic limitations, but hopefully, we will be able to do more soon!

Thank you for all the support.

 

Project: HESSE | Partner: Star of Hope Haiti

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Football is the biggest sport in Haiti by far. And the kids in our school love to play on breaks and after school.

This school year we gave each school four new good quality footballs to enjoy. These images are from a recent game between classes in the schoolyard at the Rigaud school.

Good fun and good exercise!


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Progress report Star of Hope April  2021
By: Dennis Thern

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Argentina
The schools in Argentina started in February and March according to the regular schedule with restrictions. For Chaco, where we work, the schools began in March. Our preschool Jardin Alba started in mid-March for the 5-years old kids. In April, the preschool will also welcome the younger kids. At the same time, we inaugurated the new playground (with the high wall for security) in the preschool's backyard. The monthly food distribution continues. The distribution is spread out over more days than usual due to pandemic restrictions.

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Belarus
For our local partner in Belarus, BelAPDIiMI, the work has run mostly normally under 2020 until now but with some program changes due to Covid-19 and local restrictions.

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Brazil
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Our seven schools in the São Paulo area are open. Not all parents let their children attend schools in general, so our schools are not running at full capacity.

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Ghana
Schools were closed down for almost ten months due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but Ghana's government has announced the reopening of schools since January 18, 2021, for school children to go back to school by observing all the safety protocols. Recently we carried out a health screening in our projects where about 1,000 children were screened. Overall ok, but there were many cases of malnutrition in Moree. The parents were given diet recommendations. In all, there were also 20 cases of malaria, and they received prescribed medication. The biggest issue was dental problems, where parents got advice to help children take care of their teeth better. A number of the children with teeth problems got treated on the spot.

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Haiti
The schools are generally speaking up and running. There are almost 3,600 school children in seven schools this year. They get education, lunch and have access to water and toilets. In Bois Negresse, there is a significant water shortage in general. In April, we start a fundraising effort to build a new water reservoir in the village. There several other projects the Haiti team wants to implement. Due to security reasons, our team doesn't travel to the projects as much as before, or rather seldom. The projects have received cameras to document the work in general, especially for special activities and events. 

Mark Presson CEO spoke with Myrta in Haiti and she talked about the prevalent violence. "Haiti needs a revival and the love of Jesus to quicken their hearts as this violence is too long lasting," said Mark. Myrta also said "Tony was away and could not travel back to their home just now due to violence". Please pray for Haiti. 

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Kenya
The school in Jimba has now finished several construction projects. There is now classrooms for each grade up to grade 8, the final grade in primary school. The dining hall is completed with a proper floor and furniture. There are more projects on the wish list for Jimba to develop the school further. At the end of March, the second school semester ended in Kenya. All classes except grade 8 are now on a break until the beginning of May. Grade 8 pupils sat for exams at the end of March. All 68 eighth-graders in our projects did the exams and are now waiting for the result. The result will is crucial if they qualify for high school. Twenty-seven of them were from Jimba. It was the first time we had pupils from Jimba sitting for exams, a significant step forward.
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Latvia
The state of emergency continues until the first week of April. It will maybe be continued. The current restrictions will continue for April. These government-issued restrictions mean that the Velki Association staff cannot travel to visit the projects and children. Schools, special schools, and centers are opening and closing on a local level to various degrees. For example, the special school in Riga that we work with lets the children study outside. The schools we sponsor have been available and closed to various degrees.
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Philippines
Distance learning still ongoing. The classes are organized online when possible. For children without internet or proper devices, their parents pick up homework and assignments in school and return weekly. The construction of the new school building is moving forward and is near completion. The classrooms still need furniture and other equipment. Thanks to a recent large donation from Norway, the school building and building for abused girls can now be completed.

Metropolitan Manila, together with nearby provinces Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal (including Taytay), are under enhanced community quarantine (ECQ). There are hard lockdown and extended curfews, and all this until April 4, and maybe longer. This makes it difficult for the children and their families at our school in Taytay.

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Romania & Moldavia
Star of Hope centers have been up and running for the last couple of months but with restrictions. The staff works hard to support the children in the best possible way during the circumstances. The resource center for Roma children in Pantelimon is permanently closed! In February, we carried out a relief distribution to needy families after fundraising in January. Families received firewood, food supply, winter shoes, and more. In some areas in Romania, older school children are bound to homeschooling which is complicated for many disadvantaged children. Our resource centers are a great relief for these children so they can do their tasks and homework.

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Trinidad
The teachers are still working with the children with a computer in their homes; they also put work in the school books and drop it off for the parents to pick up every week. The teachers would put in enough work for a week and interchange with the parents on Fridays. There are also occasional food distributions to the children that are in need.

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Star of Hope wishes you a really happy and pleasant Easter, we wish all our donors, sponsors and friends worldwide a joyus time in celabration, He Is Risen!

 

Our switchboard will be closed over the Easter weekend, but you can always email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Here is an update for Easter from Riga, Latvia. In Riga, we work with children with special needs.

Riga has a population of about 65,000 and Latvia has a total of about 2 million.

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Owls are important in Latvia as many varieties flourish there.

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Dear sponsors!

As you celebrate this wonderful Easter holiday when Christ gave His life for us willingly and unconditionally, we should extend the same love to family, friends, and others around us.

God reminds us that His faithfulness and power have no end, and His ability to work in us, through us, is not having been in vain.

Thank you for your tremendous love and blessings over the lives of children and their families. Your support and favor towards children in Latvia have been appreciated very much.

Happy Easter!

Velki Association Riga Latvia

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Feedback Christmas "living gifts"

by Dennis Thern | March 19, 2021

The distribution of goats and chickens after the Christmas campaign 2020 has ended. Many thanks to everyone who donated a gift to this popular campaign. Without our donors, nothing would have happened.

Again, thanks to all the generous donors, we have now distributed these gifts to vulnerable families in our projects. They were especially appreciated this time because of the prolonged pandemic that lingers on and affects the poor in the world at a much higher rate.

Since the goat and chicken program was initiated in Haiti in 2009, thousands of goats and hens have been distributed to children in poor villages in our project countries. These animals are popular as they are cheap to operate and manage very well on their own. Yes, we feel it is a micro-business too.

The gifts were ordered, among other things, in our gift shop www.starshop.us/shop, and the customers who asked, received gift certificates to give away to loved ones. Our warmest thanks to everyone who chose to give away these Christmas presents for the benefit of the Star of Hope and the children we help!

Thanks to you, families now have an opportunity for a better and more hopeful future. Each gift makes a big difference for the recipients.

Feel free to visit our gift shop to give away a gift with added value by clicking here. Enjoy some chosen photographs from this year's delivery. 

 

See more reporting from Christmas here, https://www.starofhope.us/christmasMMXX

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