LIVES
OF CARE TAKERS CHANGED BY SMALL GRANTS.
SUPPORTING INCOME GENERATING ACTIVITIES
The biggest number of people in prisons
are breadwinners whose predicament has adversely affected their
families and entire community. Children and spouses of prisoners
living with HIV/AIDS are usually left in a vulnerable and worrying
situation without any one to provide for them. Some children have
been abandoned by their mothers/fathers/relatives upon arrest
of their parents while others are left in the care of grandmothers
who have nothing much to offer hence forcing these young children
to drop out of school. In the end, the children of the prisoners
living with HIV/AIDS and their spouses are forced to engage in
hazardous, exploitative child labour and sexually abusive work
such as prostitution and engage in early marriages for survival
exposing them to the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. Through support
of our partners we are empowering families of prisoners living
with HIV/AIDS through various income-generating activities by
providing them with boosting capital of Sh.100,000/= each and
training . The profit attained from these businesses is helping
the caretakers and spouses of prisoners living with HIV/AIDS sustain
their families and raise their standard of living. This has helped
prevent them from engaging in jobs that put them at a risk of
getting infected with HIV/AIDS hence preventing the spread of
the deadly disease.
Wells of Hope is supporting families of Prisoners
by donating small grants to care takers of Prisoners Children.
This has really helped them sustain their families and the lives
of these children have greatly improved. Hadijah is one of the
beneficiaries of the Income Generating Activity Support project.
She emphasized that the IGA support had greatly created a big
change in her life. She informed us that she immediately used
the money that was given to her to boost her sweet Potato Business.
She sells one bag of sweet potatoes everyday and earns an average
profit of sh.5000 to sh.7000 per day working 7days a week. Before
this she used to sell for other people and get commission but
now she has her own business.
She revealed to us that before she received IGA support, she used
to borrow money from friends, which she used as capital and paid
it back after she has sold the potatoes and earned her profits.
The children too have been able to benefit from this business
in that she is now able to feed them at home and provide for other
needs. Most of these care takers before could not afford providing
for the children basic needs but now most of them confess that
the help Wells of Hope has rendered to them has really been of
great help .It hasn’t left their lives the same.
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