Personal Letter To Balm Foundation

Program Report - 19TH SEPT 2005

MISS A.

We met her on this day, she is an 1 8years old pregnant mother who has visited the hospital only twice during her 8 month period of pregnancy. She also complained of severe abdominal pains and general body weakness. She has difficulty feeding trice a day and most of the time she eats Banku without fish twice a day. Balm foundation gave her financial assistance to visit the hospital and also take care of some of her needs.

MISS H.

She is also an 18year old Primary six pupil who is 2months pregnant she has never visited the hospital and finds it extremely difficult to feed herself. She lives with only her mother who works in a rice plantation from 6am to 6pm for a small amount of money. She also came to us when she heard that we were around and we promised to assist her financially so that she can visit the hospital regularly.

MISS N.

She is a J.S.S graduate who gained admission at Ada Senior Secondary School but could not go to school because she had nobody to support her financially. She lives with only her mother, her father died when she was only six years old and she had nobody in her family to support her. She also came to the office of Balm Foundation when she heard that we were around. She does not even have money to pay for her transportation to collect her admission letter. She is willing to continue her education but the only problem is money.

UNEMLOPYED YOUTH

About six unemployed youth from the village with various level of education also visited the office of balm foundation on this day and they were all appealing to the founder to get them jobs to do since they are finding it extremely difficult to feed and clothe themselves. One of these people is a potential father, which makes his situation very pathetic.

AGED GROUP

The fifteen (15) aged and needy people which Balm Foundation have decided to help by feeding and finding befitting accommodation for were all visited and later on invited to our office at Natriku where they were fed and entertained for the whole day. These aged people include four blind people and all of them are having various degrees of health problems these include high blood pressure, general body weakness among others. One of these blind people lives in a very small hut alone with nobody to guide or assist her whiles she moves about both in the house and in town. She cooks her own food and does everything by herself with a lot of difficulty. From the look of things these aged people seriously needs medical attention as well as basic social attention for survival.

Program Report  - 27 SEPT 2005

STUDENT GROUP

We visited the Junior Secondary School in the community and had a talk with them on very issues such as teenage pregnancy, pre-marital sex, drug abuse and HI V/AIDS. After this meeting it was announced to all the girls to visit our office after school for an important discussion, it was at this meeting that they were counseled on individual bases and it was found out that out of the 45girls who came 18 of them ranging from 15 to 20 years engage in active sex, some are just like prostitutes. They were encouraged to stop and most of them promised to quit. The virgins were grouped into an already existing virgins club, which is being fonned by the foundation. We now have a detailed record of the 18 girls who we shall be calling for counseling and other youth programmes that we shall organize in order to help them.

AGED GROUP

Our agents� staff also visited all aged group members to see how they are faring in their home after which they were all invited to the offices of balm foundation where they relaxed and discussed their problems with us.

MISS N.

She brought her admission letter and the acceptance form to the offices of balm foundation and we started with our efforts towards helping her, which includes applying for scholarship and talking to some individuals who could be of help financially.

TEENAGE PREGNANT GIRLS

MISS A. and MISS H. also visited the offices of Balm foundation to tell us how they were fairing and also to present their medical bills to the organization.

AGED GROUP

Our maintenance staff visited them throughout the past two weeks on daily basis and on Sunday the 6 of November 2005 they were all invited to our office where they were feed with rice after which they were counseled and entertained till evening when they were all dispersed to go to their various homes.

MISS H.

She was also given a form to attend hospital; she was accompanied by one of our staffs who assisted her with all her needs at that moment. The hospital bill as well as transportation to and from the hospital were all catered for by Balm Foundation.

MISS A.

She is also in her last month of pregnancy and her feeding for several days is being done by our staff since without that she will go to bed without eating anything for the whole day.

Program Report  - 18 NOVEMBER 2005

We visited additional five (5) aged people at Akuse they were all between the ages of 70- 85. They also live under very deplorable conditions with two of them having nobody to look after them at all since all their children are dead. They also had various degree of health problems. They seriously depend from people around them to survive which is definitely not readily available and also not reliable. They came from the surrounding villages mainly Somanya and Torgorme.

We also had our second group which was the PLWHA we had seven (7) of them their ages range between twenty-eight (28) and sixty (60), they were really frank with us by telling us their names, how they got to know they have the disease, the person catering for them, problems, their health conditions among others.

We also talked about how best they think they can be helped and how they can contribute towards that since we have to know about the best way t o help them thus the most prudent way to tackle the problem since resources are scarce.

We paid the Transportation fare for each and every individual that was present there and also provided them with their feeding for the day.

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