What we do 2024
July 2024 Charity concert for Gargar Charity at the ‘Boma of Kenya’, Nairobi, Kenya
From 5 in the afternoon until the next morning
Organized by Fatuma Nabosu
June 2024 – Our school and the surrounding neighborhoods will be connected by road to the nearest town of Kargi!
The district government is financing a road to the nearest town of Kargi (population 10,000).
At last, transport is no longer so difficult! A grader is used to build a road in the bushland. It clears away vegetation and stones and creates a smooth, level surface. This is the road.
June 2024: Construction work on our teacher’s house has begun!
We have just received the building materials for the teachers’ house from the capital, Nairobi. We can finally build a house for our four teachers. This means that they no longer have to sleep in the classrooms. Since each teacher will have their own room, we can now also hire female teachers. The Kenyan Drylands Education Fund (KDEF), represented by its CEO Ahmed Kura, is financing the construction of the teachers’ house. He wants to support our fight for more rights for our girls, to stop FGM/C, early marriages and all kinds of gender-based violence (GBV) through more education. We are very grateful to him for this!
We are not defined by religion, ethnicity or skin color. Our local culture teaches us that we are one family, one human family. We embrace our brothers and sisters by celebrating our successes together.
May 2024 Demonstration against female genital mutilation FGM in Bremen
According to the World Health Organisation, more than 200 million women and girls worldwide are affected by female genital mutilation (FGM/C). On 25 May 2024, Lundu e.V. is organising a demonstration against FGM/C and we are delighted that Fatuma Nabosu has been invited to speak. This enabled many people in Bremen to get to know our work and Gargar Charity e.V., for which we are very grateful.
May 2024 The beds for the girls’ shelter have arrived!
On 9 February 2024, we received 100 beds, 100 sheets and 100 mattresses for our dormitory. All donated by the First Lady of the Marsabit district. We received the donation with great joy. Nevertheless, our girls are still unable to sleep in our dormitory as our school still has no solar panels – i.e. no light at night – and no fence. But both are absolutely necessary for safety reasons. We are looking for a way to finance this.
We also planted a lot of trees to change the landscape of our school. We have become green!
The whole village celebrates with us and sings thank-you songs that have been specially written and rehearsed for the occasion: the beds have arrived!
The whole village is celebrating with us! The beds are there!