Wednesday, July 9, 2014

NEWS from Kids Helping Kids.... July 5, 2014



Hello Papa Jack and Mama Val,

I have received your two e-mails and I was happy to read them. Thank you for your prayers and paying all your attention to us. Sorry for this long moment of silence. It happened because I postpone to write to you every day up to now.

About the KHK, since May we had many activities: pic-nique, games, singing in the chapel of the hospital. We had celebration during the African Child Day by eating the meals and juce made by our children. We had also two meetings with food distribution on June. Many photos of all the activities were taken but nevertheless our camera had been stolen with many belongings of Thomas in his house when he brought it at home to fix the problem known by you. I have some of the photos in my small camera, we'll send them to you.


We planed to work with Rev Besong Marie, but she was sick last week. I would like to inform you that Mr Gaknone Salomon is no more in charge of EELC Finance Department, it is Mr. Taki who replace him. You can contact him for the availability of KHK funds.


We will have our usal meeting next Sunday althougth some children have traveled during these holydays. We are preparing songs to sing at Bethanie church in town at August if the leaders of that congregation accept our request.


Finaly, I know you are waiting for the activities and financial reports with details. I want to do it with Rev Marie as soon as she will be available. Presently the number the orphans is 60 in the list. The difficulty is that all of them don't come at the same time in the meetings. I think it is important to send you the entire list of the children.


For school results most of the children have succeed and are promoted to higher classes. I don't have the exact numbers as some didin't bring back their report cards.


I hope to write to you very soon for the other information.


Stay with God Blessings,  FANTA





NEWS from Kids Helping Kids... April 3, 2014



Dear Pastor Jack and Valerie 

i have just read your mail and think it is important to reply to it now. We are doing well and you too are also doing well.
We have done the handout  31st of march. The foods were packed today by Thomas and i. Wi will organise the distribution on the 6th april  after the spiritual retreat from 12 'O Clock. On that day we will take again the photos of new orphans. The problem still remain to send the photos to you because they are heavy but we will try to send them one by one because last time we did not succeed to send them to you and then the internet connection is  very slow.
I'm supprised you ask for the emergency  report since i and pastor Felix  we already send  to you and also for the scholarshipt last year.. However i will send you  again the details of both emergency and scholarship reports.
Please i wish you to send separetely the funds for emergency,food and scholarship to permit us to well mnage and clear reports.
So we will make our best to limitate the emergency care to 25.000 if i will have a case in which a child exceed the limit i will inform you to have your opinion.

Last time i told you about spiritual retreat, we will go in the protestant college with the children to pray,  study bible,sharing ,sing and many others.

I wish to write to you after the sunday activities.

STAY IN GOD BLESSINGS - FANTA 

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NEWS from the Kids Helping Kids...February 16, 2014


Dear  Jack and Val,

I’m very sorry to write to you now after a long time of silence, since the last report that pastor Felix and I sent you. I think about both of you every day i hope that both of you are very fine and strong in this New Year. How about your grand daughter who has a heart problem?  As medicine is very developed in your country and God almighty can do a miracle for her health situation to give a smile and joy to all the family. Here in Ngdere everything is going quite well, all my family is doing fine. The main problem is that since December we don’t have an internet connection and our computer had some little problems and was with Daouda the informatician of OSEELC the computer you left is working better now.


 About the program we have being a little bit disturbed by a problem of connection to send you regularly and progressively the information about the activities. We still have the problem of Camera and actually is with a hospital informatician but he cannot solve the problem.  The last photos we send you were taken with pastor’s Felix camera, now he is in Banso. For this year we already had 3 meetings. The children are very active; we began to design uniforms for them. Now, 15 children have their uniforms. We have chosen blue shirts for everybody boys and girls but black trousers for boys and black skirts for girls. We planned many new activities this year; you can find details at the end of this document.

Please we have a question about the health fund, is there a limit amount for every child who felt sick? We ask this because last year some orphans medical care took much money,  others like Peguy Jean Calvin went up to 100.000 Frs  and personally I want to ask the families to contribute if the bill amount of one child has reached the limit.
Otherwise, I propose for this year to replace immediately a child who missed the meeting 3 times successively after a home visit if the family doesn’t have a convincible reason.  We want to make you know that every time people bring to our service new orphans who loosed both parents. If it s possible we want to reorganize the program so that we can obtain 90% - 95% orphans without both parents.

We still wait for your suggestions about the program. We want to work better than last year. We reiterate that we will do our best mainly in communication to make you know everything or any changes in the program.
As you know the human being is never perfect so please forgive all the lack of our work during 2013 and considering that everything is now new. We want to continue working for the program with the wisdom and strength given by GOD.  We know that you are praying for us thanks very much for that.
May GOD continue to bless every one of you in your synod, all of you show us love and help the KHK orphans with education and food supply.




HERE IS OUR ACTIVITIES PLANNING FOR 2014
*    Spiritual retirement; Place; College Protestant. April 06 2014
*    Pic-Nique; Place; behind Military Camp. June 15 2014
*    Animation; Place; Bethel 1. May 04 2014
*     2nd Animation; Place; Station 1. September 07 2014
*    Home visits to all KHK kids;
§   Burkina
§  Norvegien
§  Gambara & Sekabara
§  Mbiden
§   Baladji & Onaref & Mbitou & Beka
§  Namoukala

 NB: These 10 neighborhoods’ will all be visit.  We plan to begin home visits in March.

FANTA GAKNONE

Friday, January 24, 2014

Happy NEW YEAR - Good Health and Happiness

God's abundant blessings for all in 2014

A bitter -40C cold winter morn
passing over the Winnipeg River to Pinawa
Our five munchkins from Left:
Mae Rose, Alexander, Josie, Lainee, Nicholas 
Dear Jack and Mama Valery and all friends of KHK program in Cameroon,


Happy new year 2014.

May the blessings of God precede you in everything you will undertake in this new year. Here in Ngoundere we are doing fine and we hope you as well.

We celebrated our “Christmas” feast last December 21st and we had food distribution. All the parents of the children were invited but just a few came. I don’t know the reason of their absence on that day. There were seventy five children so as fifty seven from KHK and eighteen invitees from their friends of the KHK.

Things happened so fine and the Christmas feast was very nice with songs, dances, sketch (role play), poems and bible verses. In fact we set up a small choir group made of girls and boys of KHK program here. For the moment our uniform is white tee-shirt and black trousers (for boys) and skirts (for girls). Each meeting, we then have fifteen minutes for prayers and other stuffs. Last time the children proposed that we pray for you those helping them. It was exciting to listen to a small girl who prayed in French asking God to watch over the children and grandchildren of the helpers through KHK program in Cameroon.

I will mention that this year the protestant hospital (through the chaplaincy department and pastor Abdoulaye) brought Christmas gifts to KHK children. You can just imagine how happy they were this recent end of year 2013.

The food distribution occurred that day at my old office. In addition to food usually distributed, there were beignets, popcorn and candies. We took some photos by phone. Our fear now is wether we’ll succeed in sending them to you. There was no video.  We preconize to send some of those photos to you as possible as it will be.

One more time, thanks to all of you brothers and sisters, friends and neighbors in Christ who pray and support the beautiful and weak children of KHK in Cameroon. Other details of our work will be sent to you very soon.

Happy new year 2014 to all of you.

Stay blessed in Jesus.

Gaknone  Fanta  & Rev. Felix Ndoyama

Thursday, January 23, 2014

KHK activities... September – October – November 2013

During the period of the three last months we had three main activities.    Firstly, we had our monthly meeting on 15th September, 6th October and 3rd November. We have already sent some reports and photos to pastor Jack and Valerie. 

September 15th the Hospital Church
  welcomed the KIDS to sing at their two services 


According to the new list, we have 60 children. We have 13 new children this year because some don’t come again others who already passed 18th year old we replace them by those who really need help. Five kids out of 13 do not yet have their photo taken because they forget the dates of the meetings; the eight others have already taken their photos taken in the camera of Pastor Felix. We have already sent some sent some photos to pastor Jack and Valerie Frederick.

We are working on KHK with Pastor Felix but these times he is very busy since September part of his family is in Meiganga, and he has to take care of them, he co-ordinates the chaplain and social workers and these days he loosed his mother and sister in-law in Meiganga, so it is not easy for him to work with me every day on the program but he is informed about all the activities of the program.

The activity which most takes time is paying scholarship. First, we have to evaluate the school level and the school needs of every kid. Secondly, we evaluate the cost of books and scholarship. Thirdly, we buy and distribute the willing books of each kid need. Fourthly, we went to different schools and we paid the fees of those could not pay as in the bills attached last time.

About school, our statistics are that 12 children could not pay anything at all no books, no school fees and no school uniforms. 38 children have some books and a part of school fees. For these two categories of children we paid all of them their school fees some we paid part of their school fees and writing books, pens, pencils, erasers, rulers for all of them.

50 children need few writing books to complete what families paid.

Only 7 children have all their writing books totally bought by their families.

2 children were sent out of school because they did not have their school uniforms. We also bought the uniforms for them now they are going school normally.

Nevertheless there is still 7 people who said during the last meeting that they will be sent out of school soon if they do not have their school uniforms, so they are really in need.

We are very upset because there is no much money of school found of the program left to help them. There is now 13.000 FRS CFA. We would like to ask Pastor Jack and Valerie what to do with this petty cash. We hope that some parents will buy some things for some kids as we ask them during our visits.

We also want to inform Pastor Jack and Valerie that the camera is not still working up to know to take pictures we use the camera of Pastor Felix or for my husband to send them to you so we need another camera please.

For the health care from June to now we had 5 children who were ill and have been to the hospital. We paid medicines for all of them. All the bills are not yet available because the financial administration of the hospital wants to gather the entire bills together to send to the program so that we can pay (we please you to be sure that all the bills will be sent to you at the same time with the financial details of the health care of the children later when we will have all the bills).
Here are the others details of the KHK Program activities;
   
      At every meeting we share the word of GOD, singing, pray and give lessons about daily life.
            The topics of the lessons we teach are for example
                        To be polite
                        The obedience
                         Faith to GOD
                         The love of GOD
                         The work at school and at home
                         The success etc…

       Last Sunday we had our monthly meeting, we prayed, sung songs, talked about how to pray, why sometimes GOD cannot answer to our prayers and the children gave their opinions and some advice were given to them about prayers. We also talk about how we can organize Christmas feast. So, all the children agreed that we can begin to celebrate Christmas from now.
We will meet every Sunday at 12 O’clock to organize our Christmas activities. But the only difficulty we will have is the absence of some of the children amongst the 60 children. We think that if we can have gifts, toys, sweets provided for them they will all be present without any absent.
We are very thankful to you for your LOVE for us , you pay more attention to these orphans and vulnerable children , all what we can say is that may GOD bless you and give you more strength in this assistance and these words are also for all the brothers and sisters in your SYNOD.
  Thanks you again.    Stay with GOD peace.      Gaknone  Fanta
Memories of our 2013 with KIDS