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thanks to the acitvities of the Integra Foundation and Civic Association Malaika, and mostly thanks to Caulene Bussard our schools - Narnia and High School - constantly cooperate with Children’s Garden School and support children from Nairobi
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Children’s Garden was begun in 2001 by a Kenyan couple, Moses and Sylvia Ndungu.
They saw the needs of many children in the slum Kawangware and desired to help them. They began by teaching a few children outdoors under a tree and later began to bring homeless children into their home.
Children in Kenya can attend state schools only if their parents buy them shoes and school uniforms. Many of them are so poor that they can not afford these. This is why the Children‘s Garden school provides education for a lot of children from the surrounding area who would otherwise be unable to attend school.
Currently Children’s Garden School helps to educate 240 children. They are taught by 15 teachers. 160 orphans or abandoned children live in Children’s Garden Home where they found their “new family”.
Coming to Children’s Garden Home means to those children: have food 3 times a day, providing their nutritional needs, have a safe place to live where they are wanted and cared for, can go to school. All can attend school from nursery to class 8. After this, they are given the opportunity to attend high school or a technical training school. The vision of the home is that children will receive care and support until they are ready to enter the work force, are given clothing, medical care, instruction in life skills, values and choices and counseling when needed, as well as help to chose a career. They have options to learn and participate in sports, drama, music, debate, sewing and scouting clubs.
Our school has managed an informal partnership with the school in Kenya. Many families of our school are sponsoring children from the “child sponsorship” project. In October 2009 we welcomed some of the children at our school.
In the record from the TV news children can be seen performing drama “Our lives”. This drama has been a help for us to understand how difficult their lives are. Many of them do not know their parents; only hunger and violence. Because of Children’s Garden project their lives have been changed. They have got relationships, food, accommodation and education. They have found what they sought.
In cooperation with Integra Foundation we are trying to help the children within our school opportunities. We want to teach our children that there are countries of much lower economic performance than ours. The obligation of a stronger is to protect the weaker. There are many disputes about the way how to do it, however, we are glad to help at least with the basic – teach children with the values of solidarity, fellowship, quality and cooperation.
More information you can obtain on the webpage of Integra Foundation - www.malaika.sk. 
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