This is Mary Imri a member of staff at FSC (Friends of Street Children, Kitwe, Zambia), and to her left one of the ex-street children in her care. They have been harvesting vegetables from the garden of the Kibusha girls home run by FSC.
Than that…..
The photograph below shows a child sitting on a pavement in Kitwe. The bottle he holds contains glue which he sniffs. Sniffing glue dulls the mind, taking the edge off cold, hunger, pain and unhappiness. It can also damage the brain, hearing, heart, kidneys, liver and lungs. It can lead to coma, and sudden death.
Staff from FSC are a regular presence on the streets of Kitwe working to gain the trust of street children, to encourage them to return to whatever remains of their families, or to come to the FSC shelters. Street children are also brought to the FSC by the social services. FSC staff provide a lifeline for these very vulnerable children, who are prey to every kind of abuse. Thanks to the generosity of Romilly’s supporters her charity has been able to send £1100 to £1200 a month to cover the staff salaries at FSC.
Please make a small monthly donation at https://checkout.justgiving.com/c/3333173
The only salaries paid for by Romilly are those of the staff at FSC, without whom the lives of many children of Kitwe would be a lot poorer and a great deal more dangerous.
If you would like to receive information about Romilly’s charity, FSC and our fund raising activites to support the work they do please email Jame Forshall at jamesforshall@gmail.com