The Power of Small

We’ve said it before: the staff at FSC (Friends of Street Children in Kitwe) are tremendous. They clean cook, feed, teach and care for children who have no home. Their aim is to give these children a better life, bringing them back to whatever exists of their family, getting them back into school, getting them out of the filthy, dangerous, abusive life on the streets. Thanks to Romilly’s kind, generous donors her charity has been able to send funds to cover the salaries of these dedicated people. It is a double positive. People who give small monthly amounts are paying for the living of really heroic local people and through them caring for very vulnerable children. At the moment this costs about £1300 month, which exceeds Romilly’s charities monthly income, but just 130 people donating £10 a month would cover the cost of staff salaries as well as allow us to pay for essentials like mosquito nets and repair FSC’s buildings.

Please make a small monthly donation here: https://checkout.justgiving.com/c/3333173

Boys at FSC’s Kawama shelter, Kitwe, Zambia.

They say, ” Please make a small monthly donation here”

If you would like James Forshall to give a short talk with slides on FSC and Romilly’s charities please email him at jamesforshall@gmail.com

Better this….

Better this….

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

Seven Days before Valentine’s Day

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A fading photo of a smiling girl,

A flame upon a vase of flowers,

The sun upon your shining hair,

A smile that shines through all these years,

Eyes of fun catch old heart’s tears,

Bring back the warmth of long ago

To this cool February day,

That waits beyond my windowpane.