Festival Month
December air in Kibera carries music from shops, extra traffic, and the quiet stress of parents doing math with too few shillings. In that month, our children’s feeding programme held its line — Saturdays like clockwork, bowls steady, the line sometimes longer than last month.
Festival lights do not pay rent. They also do not quiet a hungry stomach. So we kept the programme consistent while others were planning fireworks — because reliability is a kind of love.
Growth is good news. It is also a budget conversation. More children means more maize flour, more vegetables, more fuel — more everything except automatic funding.
We are honest about the strain. We would rather name it than pretend. Next year’s budget will need to grow if the numbers keep growing — otherwise portions shrink, and that is not the deal we want to make with children.
We are grateful to everyone who kept our programmes breathing this year: feeding, environment, learning spaces. Without that support, the wins would have been thinner — and hunger louder.
If you are ending your year with a little margin, put some of it here. A December gift to ETCO helps us enter January with the stove already warm.
From Participation to Agency: ETCO at the SAIIA Youth Programming Innovation Lab
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Creating Impact, Building a Better Tomorrow
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Planning Meeting with PSN - Waste Management Project
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