Winnie
Ojanga is not only a fabulously creative and talented award winning designer.
She is positive minded,Humanitarian,Kind,humble,focused, hard working,self-motivated,friendly and a mentor.She is very passionate about giving back to her community. From Small and humble beginnings she is slowly
and steadily creating a name and niche for herself in the fashion and beauty industry Internationally. The Swiss-based Kenyan award-winning fashion designer is a strong believer that nothing comes easily in life
without hard work, persistence, discipline, consistency and faith in God. She is also the founder and president of The Ukarimu project for Africa. The project was founded to help bright orphaned and deprived school going children in Kenya. Ukarimu is a Swahili word that
means generosity, kindness, charity,giving from the bottom of your heart. The Ukarimu School feeding
project aims to feed deprived and orphaned school going children in Kenya. A warm
nutritious meal is provided in participating schools 2 times a week. This
enables the children to gain basic education that would allow them to escape
from poverty. The pilot project was succesfully conducted at Pedo primary school in
Homa bay County (in Kenya) for 2 years. Over 600 children benefited. The Ukarimu project recently
started a program to pay school fee to very bright orphans and deprived children in
Homa Bay County in Kenya. This happened when designer Winnie Ojanga visited Pedo primary school in Homa Bay County (Kenya) during the normal weekly feeding and found out that the best pupil that
year after K.C.P.E had gone back to repeat due to luck of school fee.
She was also was confronted with
a story of a bright girl who dropped out of school one year long and was even
willing to be a domestic worker to help her raise money to pay her school fee
and many more devastating stories that disturbed and touched her heart. Winnie
Ojanga decided to take action by starting the Ukarimu Education Fund to help
solve this problems in her community (Kenya).
The Ukarimu school feeding project for Orphaned and deprived school going children was started on the 7th , July 2012 and has been running smoothly to date.
The Ukarimu education fund program for very bright orphanes was started on the 13 February 2013 and we have enroled some students and paying their secondary school fees.
The project also started the Ukarimu school libraty/and books donation program. With the help of this books children now have book clubs where they can read the books in rotation. This has tremendiously improved their performance in english/litrature. The rate at which girls were missing classes due to lack of sanitary towels was also alarming. This affected their performence at school. Some of them were also dropping out of school because of early pregancies or even contracting HIV after giving sexual favours in order to get sanitary towels from older men.Ukarimu girl child sanitary towel and mentouring program was launched and has been supporting and mentouring these girls.
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| A Swiss-based Kenyan award-winning fashion designer Winnie Ojanga feeding the children. |
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| serving a warm lunch to the children.. |
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| A Swiss-based Kenyan award-winning Fashion Designer Winnie Ojanga serving a warm lunch to the children.. | |
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| Award-winning Fashion Designer Winnie Ojanga sharing some love with the children during the feeding.. |
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| The children loved Winnie Ojanga so much and did not want to let her go.. |
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| What a lovely day.. |
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| More hand shakes. Winnie Ojanga sharing some light moments with the children..It was fun.. |
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| Children being served a warm and nutritious lunch.. |
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| Winnie Ojanga with the some of the children who enjoyed her feeding.. |
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Also check out our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ukarimu-Feeding-Project
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Ukarimu school library/books donation program
Ukarimu girl child sanotary towel and mentouring program
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