Project Harambee 2010

This upcoming December and January, the College of Charleston’s fourth group of students participating in Project Harambee’s Kenya-based service-learning experience will travel to Salama and Amboseli (rural villages in Kenya’s Eastern Province) to  implement medical outreaches. These medical outreaches  will serve these communities with life sustaining treatments that they would otherwise not receive.

Harambee is a Swahili word that means “Let’s pull together!” It is through Harambee that we attempt to unite student communities from the U.S with rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa in order to eradicate global misperceptions surrounding poverty and the developing world, and to bring hope and promise to the lives of adults and children struggling under the burdens of poverty and disease.

Over the past 4 years, Project Harambee has successfully raised $150,000 to support College of Charleston students in service learning opportunities  in rural communities in Kenya. They have done the following:

a)      built a medical clinic for 50  AIDS/HIV orphans

b)       sponsored and participatee in bringing sustainable agricultural technology to the orphanage and surrounding communities

c)      Sponsored and participated in medical outreaches  that have provided over 730 poor rural community members with basic health care.

The focus of this year’s trip is to sponsor four medical outreaches to rural communities in Salama Town on the Nairobi-Mombasa AIDs corridor and to Amboseli—An Isolated Masai community facing a serious  HIV/AIDs epidemic.  There will also be environmental portion that will focus on effective farming techniques that will help the communities have sustainable food production.

We are writing to request your help in completing the lifesaving/changing work that we started in December 2007 (reaching approximately 1000 people). Each student is required to raise $3,500 to cover the  project costs. 

If you are to make a tax exempt donation towards this cause, please send a check  made payable to “Possibilities Without Borders”the fiscal sponsor of this project. 

Please mail the check to:

Dr. Mutindi Ndunda

School of Education, Health, Human Performance

86 Wentworth Street, Charleston, SC. 29401.

Please include the following information:

a)      First and last names of student who donation is in honor of to keep track of the donations.

b)      Email address to send the receipt and keep you updated. We will not be able to mail receipts through the USPS service!

If you have any questions about the project or our organization, please feel free to e-mail us at projectharambeecofc@gmail.com or find us on facebook: Project Harambee