Kanduyi children’s home to open Eye clinic

Written by Omukhana Mucharia and Daniel Saenyi

Orphans at the Kanduyi Children's home in Kanduyi wait to be served lunch as the world marked Orphans Day. [Photos/Mukhana Mucharia-WestFm] BUNGOMA COUNTY: As the world celebrates worlds orphan day it is clear that many of these orphaned children undergo a lot of sufferings and rejection from their respective communities. Most of them are left wondering why they were brought into this beautiful but turned cruel world with many wishing for the ground to open and swallow them as they pass through hard times. At Kanduyi Children’s home in Bungoma County normal activities went on even as the world marked the international Orphans day oblivious of the significance of the day. Kanduyi Childrens home, established in 1976, is under the management of the Child Welfare Association of Kenya and is home to 45 orphans but currently has 36 who have been either abandoned, whose parents died, or whose parents have HIV/AIDS and are unable to support them and those that have been defiled and those who have fallen victims of incest. Speaking from her office the home administrator Mrs. Violet Mwaniki (pictured above) appealed to the public and well-wishers and the community at large to help the children in achieving their goals in life by providing counseling, love and support. She further said that the home’s plans to open a medical clinic were underway and it would be opened officially on Wednesday of the 11th may 2011 saying the project would act as a sustenance strategy for the home. Mrs. Mwaniki urged members of the public to seek medical services from the facility at a cheaper price. A seven months old baby rescued by the Kanduyi children's home after she was found dumped. “For many years the children have suffered and had to travel to other hospitals for treatment and the hospital would come as a relief for them and the whole community,” said Mrs. Mwaniki. She however added that they had other income generating activities that enabled them to run the home saying they have a farm where they practice agriculture, make bricks for sale and rental houses. In the days event Moses Onyango who is also an orphan at the home had his message for the people to love and never to discriminate against the innocent and urged the community to visit the home regularly as a way of showing their unending love and support to the orphans.