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| From Kenya Album 2007 |
Brenda Oliver, who is a traveling volunteer for the Canadian Charity, Sleeping Children Around the World, characterizes the slums of Nairobi, Kenya in a most poignant fashion. She writes that “we witnessed the children living in deplorable conditions…no running water…unsightly garbage strewn everywhere…open sewers…” Brenda and her team mates, four of whom are from the Toronto area, now better understand why an African child under the age of five dies every thirty seconds from malaria!
This team of volunteers distributed 4000 bedkits to impoverished children in Kenya Africa. These bedkits contained not only desperately needed bedding items, but also an insecticide-treated mosquito net.
Sleeping Children Around the World is an exemplary Canadian Charity that pledges to its donors that every penny of a $30.00 donation will be invested in the bedkit. The six person team that traveled to Kenya paid all of their own expenses.
Mr. Murray Dryden and his wife Margaret, parents of legendary hockey stars Dave and Ken Dryden, registered this Charity in 1970 and to this date this unique organization has delivered over 869,000 bedkits in over 30 different third world countries.
The bedkit distributed in Kenya included 13 different items intended to provide each child with a safe and peaceful night’s sleep. Bedkit items included such things as:
- mattress
- blanket
- bed sheet
- pillowcase
- pillow
- mosquito net
- shorts
- t-shirt
- towel
For more information please contact Tamara Kaftalovich, Account Executive, Maverick Public Relations Inc. @ 416-640-5525 or Grant Clark, Sleeping Children Around The World @ 416-231-1841.
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