Nasio News Issue 13
Our 2021 issue of Nasio News has arrived!
You can download a PDF version here or read here in-page.
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Mary can now read the messages on her phone!
Mary Mushi is among the 42 current Nasio adult learners, and now has the ability to articulate sounds, read and write.
She comes from Ebwasi village in Kenya, and being able to read and write has changed her life for good.
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The importance of a good night’s sleep
A lack of sleep can have detrimental effects on a child’s education and ability to learn.
But many of our Nasio children in western Kenya are without a bed, and sleep every night on a blanket laid on the mud floor of their family home due to poverty. This is why The Nasio Trust is launching an appeal to raise £8,000 to provide beds for our 115 children who currently have no beds.
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Case Study: Salome Atera
Salome is a 52-year-old mother of 14 children but sadly 9 have passed away.
When she joined the adult class, she was unable to read or write, but through gritty determination and hard work, she has learnt to hold a pen and can now write her name and sign documents with clarity and understanding and can read simple English sentences.
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Sylvia’s Story
My name is Sylvia Omurunga and I am 24 years old, a second born in a family of three siblings.
My parents divorced when I was 9 months old and my mother took me back with her to her parents home. I was brought up at my maternal grandparents. My mother died in 2014 when I was 16 years old. After my mother’s death we were left alone and we had to manage ourselves in a child headed family alongside my sibling and cousins for one year before the family members brought in one of my elder cousins to take care of us.
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Riziki’s Story
My Name is Riziki Hamisi from Mumias and one of the NASIO TRUST beneficiaries as well as one of the Peer educators in the program.
Peer education program has enabled me to gain guiding and counselling skills and knowledge, with this knowledge I have been able to educate my fellow peers and show them direction on what is right and wrong in their peer life, I also do guiding and counselling to some of them.
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Nasio Recognised As Gold Standard Internship Host By Oxford University For 2021
As many of our supporters may know, we regularly welcome interns from Oxford University to come and work with us for a period at The Nasio Trust.
Over the years - these groups of interns have been responsible for some incredible ideas that have repeatedly helped us take the charity to the next level in the ongoing fight to break the cycle of poverty.
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Nancy Interview Featured On The Oxford Blue Website
Nancy was recently interviewed for The Oxford Blue on themes of empowerment through education.
"Since 2001, Nancy has helped to build day care centres, a medical centre, a school and countless sustainable projects that encourage individual empowerment instead of reliance and dependency on aid. Oxford students have continued to support the charity through internships and volunteering and the University of Oxford awarded Nasio the Gold Standard for the opportunities given to students."
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An Exciting Project in Partnership with Play Action International
We are pleased to let you know about our recent collaboration with Play Action International.
At the end of 2020, and in just 9 days, we installed exciting and safe playgrounds, hand-washing facilities and delivered play training to schools, Early Childhood Development Centres and a local hospital in Kenya.
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PRESS RELEASE: Empowering girls’ education to end poverty in Kenya
We welcomed the recent BBC news article by Sean Coughlan, ‘Boris Johnson says girls’ education key to ending poverty’, as we have long championed the importance of educating girls in poverty stricken areas.
Nasio wholeheartedly agrees with Helen Grant, special envoy for girls' education, who said: “High quality female education empowers women, reduces poverty and unleashes economic growth.”
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