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Welcome to Tumaini Home of Hope

As you may know two of our long standing members Board members resigned recently and their resignations have caused some confusion particularly amongst our long term supporters who have known both Mary and Michael personally for some time

To dispel any confusion our commitment to supporting the children at TCH remains steadfast: the children remain dear to our hearts. Following our recent meetings with the Chair of the TCH Management Committee, we are working to identify need and ensure accountability: we are sure that you will understand that any charity we fund in Kenya must comply with rigorous policies on accountability and transparency so that we can ensure our donors that the money they donate reaches those for which it was intended. We are exploring the possibility of providing speech and language and HIV counselling amongst other things and will let you know about these developments.

Over the years our charity has grown and this has enabled us to support even more orphaned and vulnerable children. As the charity grows so does our responsibility as trustees and we are rising to that challenge. We never want to lose the connection with our supporters and want always to be able to tell you exactly what your donation was spent on. Transparency professionalism and accountability are key to ensuring that donations reach those most in need. We are committed to this principle and any projects that we fund must also share these values. As trustees our role is to protect the funds donated and ensure that they are spent on achieving our objectives.

Over 2 years ago the Board of Trustees of Tumaini Homes of Hope took the unanimous decision to develop prevention projects alongside its existing work with orphaned and vulnerable children. Supporters were informed at the time that any funds donated to Tumaini Homes of Hope before that date would be ring fenced for the children of TCH and anyone wishing their donation to go solely to the home should notify us and their donation would be ring fenced for Tumaini Children’s Home.

Once a home, a school and a clinic had been built for the children of TCH we felt that we had an obligation to pursue some of the charity’s other objectives which had been put on hold because of the more immediate need of providing health and education for the children. During this time we have never lost sight of the fact that we are a charity that works at grass roots level to help the most vulnerable children in Africa.

The charity’s original objectives included reference to ‘preventing the spread of HIV’ and we agreed to extend our portfolio of work to include support of projects that focus on prevention work as well as provision for orphaned and vulnerable children. To this end we developed the Mother to Baby project. This weekend we made the decision to fund two further mother to baby clinics focusing on preventing the spread of HIV from mother to child. We have also agreed to fund a food programme and health care for vulnerable 0-5 year olds living within the slum areas of Mombasa. We have also agreed to support a charity working with special needs children. Details of these new projects will be forwarded shortly.

It is wonderful that with your help we are able to provide health and education for so many orphaned and vulnerable children whilst working to reduce the number of babies born with HIV and reduce the number of children orphaned due to maternal death.

We thank you for your continued support and apologise for the recent confusion.

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andy day patron

"The first time I visited tumaini, I was greeted with the warmest welcome, the children sang, danced and smiled, and it was clear that this was a very positive and loving place for them to be. So I wanted to join the team who made this possible and help raise awareness about the disease and also help to support them and many other children in their position."

Andy Day, CBeebies
& Patron.