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volume 1 issue 1 newsletter date june 2012 a note from the director we work closely with refugees living in dadaab and kakuma refugee camps in northern kenya as well as helping with local projects like tree planting see article below our organization aims at conducting emergency relief aid of food and nonfood items in the refugee camps in northern kenya south sudan somalia dear readers zimbabwe congo and chance in life international ethiopia we focus on is a newly registered non humanity as the focal point governmental organization of existence by improving ngo in kenya east livelihoods of the chalafrica lenged through provision of education medical facilities agricultural training and in all circles of basic human needs in times of catastrophe we would intend lending a hand to the refugees through provision of emergency relief aid conflict resolution and reconciliation post-conflict community development and provision of agricultural and technical skill transfer that would be beneficial to the people edwin chege wanyoike director lending a hand to disaster victims across africa

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kasaka primary school north­ baringo north­ rift valley province the students at kasaka primary school were curious and excited to see us as we visited their classrooms and saw the needs of their tattered walls desks and doors as we walked through their school the walls­ made of mud straw and sticks­ were crumbling student s wooden desks were shared to two or three students while their pencils were less than one inch many students share basic school supplies like pencils and erasers as others do not have any this is common amongst village schools to support the students of this school kindly contact our office by phone or email a kind donation can help these children with school supplies school uniforms and basic daily needs like school lunch.

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transitional shelters daadab over 2,000 refugees continue to arrive every week ­ even more have come as drought worsens across the region abdul aziz his wife and four young children were among them looking forward to a new beginning they walked and hitched rides for 18 days and 500 kilometers to reach dadaab the transitional shelter approach recognises that reconstruction lasts two to five years but that a tent only lasts around one year this approach is not another phase of response instead it involves building and upgrading a shelter incrementally from plastic sheeting to sustainable local materials which are all then reused as part of reconstruction assistance to displaced and nondisplaced populations is often delayed as housing land and property rights cannot be resolved quickly however transitional shelter can be relocated and can therefore be supportive immediately and continuously until reconstruction is complete uted over a year ago even the tents that are existing at the moment cannot stay intact during the rains chance in life international has hope that we can prevent a future disaster if we take precautions now we can provide these families with a better form of shelter to save them from what they will go makeshift shelters in through when the daadab refugee camp are rains catch them in made of plastic papers and tarps that were distrib this condition.

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tree planting in ngarau forest chance in life international recently visited ngarau forest in baringo north rift valley province kenya we were able to plant and donate over 13,000 indigenous tree seedlings to the local community it took about 3 days to add needed value to the forest in kenya and we were able to meet a few primary students during our venture statistics ·there are over 500,000 refugees in north eastern kenya contact us email edwin@chil-international.org phone +254 729 806 388 ·one in twelve children is malnourished mail po box 15519 langata kenya 00509 ·there are diseases outbreaks such as cholera whopping cough dysentery among many others affecting mostly children and women website www.chil-international.org

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