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Gifts with the story from the FairTrade Shop support children from the Island of Hope in Kenya
Community Center Island of Hope can be supported by donation SMS
Who is in the team of Center Narovinu? We would like to introduce our volunteers and new support for our team in Prague
Reaction to the article When children in Kenya write letters from June
We would like to introduce our team of Island of Hope in Kenya
Health insurance and an example of an interesting extra payment
Club of Friends of Adoption
Visit of Francis in Kilingili
Project „Kenya“ at Kojetín grammar school

Bulletin – February 2019 (printed version for download)
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Dear adoptive parents, dear supporters and friends of Centrum Narovinu, we deeply thank you that you were with us even during this year ☺

We supported together education, health care and standard of living of kids and whole families in Kenya – there study 1745 children in kinder-gardens, basic and high schools and at universities, there are over 500 children who find daily background at Island of Hope and we provided health care for 826 kids in terms of health assurance.

We wish you calm Christmas holidays and good health, love, satisfaction and joy in new year.

Your Centrum Narovinu

Individuals, groups, families, organisations, classes or schools are involved in the project. We thank especially to one of the schools – basic school Volary – and we share received contribution. Get involved! You can be in touch with particular kid from Kenya already from January 2019 and follow his/her life and dreams.

» Children database

Fair shop - these are presents with the story
Community Center ISLAND OF HOPE can be supported by DONATION SMS
Who is in the team of Center Narovinu? We would like to introduce our volunteers and new support for our team in Nairobi
Club of Friends of Adoption
What are the typical names in Kenya
Asante sana, Africa, and sometimes see you again
Health insurance programme in the year 2017/2018
Gifts with a story

Bulletin – October 2018 (printed version for download)
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Antony Mbugua Gitau is in the 7^th grade and is 12 years old. His mother died when he was still small, he now lives with his father and grandmother. Without the support of adoptive mother Sandra Antony would not be able to go to school. He likes football and skating. What does he want to be and what makes him happy? And how is the program perceived by his family? This is what Antony, grandma Rachel and father James will tell you in the video… The Adoption of African Children Program – The Long Distance Help Project has been in operation since 2002 and helped over 4,000 children with education. Join us and change one human fate!

» AdopceAfrika.cz – 15 years of powerful stories
» Adoption of African children – project of distant support

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The fair-trade shop – presents with a story
Who is in the team of Center Narovinu? Introducing volunteers in Kenya
10 years of health insurance!
When children in Kenya write letters
Fish cage farming of Hope Island
Examples of interesting extra payments
Club of Friends of Adoption
When there is a will, there is a way: Support of students, classes and even schools

Bulletin – June 2018 (printed version for download)
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This is a true story about adoption number 52223, Beatrice Mueni who is in standard two. Her adoptive parents supported her family in 2015 when her mother wrote a letter of what they were going through as a family. Thanks to the adoptive parent who gave some extra payment and I supervised the family in doing shopping.

We bought a bed, mattress, bed sheets, blankets, mosquito nets and kitchen utensils. We paid rent which was in arrears and bought food which lasted for two months. When we delivered all this items, their neighbours were shocked but later on they rejoiced for what Betrice’s adoptive parent had done to her family. Imagine the family was sleeping on the floor without a mattress and a blanket, and when it rained, the water flooded their one roomed house. There was a big relief when the extra payment was brought to the family. The area chief paid them a visit to confirm what the neighbours had shared with him in his office about Betrice’s family and the good work that Centrum Narovinu is doing in Kenya.

The adoptive parents brought another extra payment, I discussed with the family and we agreed that they should start a small business. So we bought a machine for making chips, chips dryer, chips cutter a chips warmer, two big spoons, twenty litres of liquid cooking oil and two sacks of charcoal. Betrice’s started preparing chips next to her house and her first customers were children from a near by school who came to buy from her everyday. Her other customers were the community members who promoted her. She would start her job at eight o'clock in the morning until seven o'clock in the evening. After a month, she employed two ladies who are now working with her.

In January 201, Betrice’s mother told me that she can now educate her daughter on her own. So she decided to relocate her business to her rural home in Kitui County where she is continuing with her business.

Thanks to Betrice’s adoptive parent for her committed support to this family.

Coordinator Alice Kavulani Mugivane on behalf of Betrice Mueni’s family

» 15 years of AdopceAfrika.cz

Do you forget to help for free while internet shopping? Add GIVT helper to your browser and you will never forget again. Here is the link for free download of the app: givt.cz/aplikace. In April, we received another financial contribution. This time we will use it to buy medicine and medical supplies for the Island of Hope clinic on Rusinga Island.

Keep supporting us through your online shopping, thank you. Through the following link you can find Center Narovinu at GIVT: bitly.com/Centrum_Narovinu

Are you interested in the problems of developing world and would you like to obtain experience within a non-profit organization? Do you have good communication skills, are you creative and do you enjoy learning new things? No difficulties using computers and speaking English? You must be the right person for an internship we offer within our organization.

We offer fellowship for university students who study the problems of development cooperation

Center Narovinu has been established in 1995 and it is a charitable organization. Its main scope of activities are projects in the area of the foreign development cooperation and education. Center Narovinu collaborates on the campaign called Czech Republic against the poverty.

All projects are managed with the strong focus on long-term sustainability, self-sufficiency and transition from passive to active approach towards responsibility and independence. Additionally, its goal is the development of volunteer’s works in the area of development cooperation.

Main projects of Center Narovinu
• Adoption of African children – sponsorship
• Community centre at the Island Rusiga in Kenya called “Island of Hope“
• Water for Kauti in Kenya
• Small shop in Africa with the theme of “Fair Trade“
• Project called “Africa in remarkable eyes“ – programs in the schools and public
• Courses for the volunteers in Africa
• Partnership between Czech and Kenya’s schools

Duration of the fellowship: upon agreement
Location: Sokolska 32, Praha 2 (metro I.P. Pavlova)
Working hours: upon agreement, start immediately

Work Responsibilities
• Administration for adoption of African children project
• Administration for small “Fair Trade“ shop / E-shop
• Advertising (organization of charitable activities, support with the materials, social networks media – facebook, youtube…)
• Fundraising (preparing the presentation for the sponsors, contact search, emails distribution)
• Project “Island of Hope“ (support materials for the project implementation such as contact search, validation and search of information, budget preparation etc.)
• Help with the development of printed materials (information search, development of advertising leaflets and text, proofreads etc.)

Requirements:
• Excellent English language – verbal and written
• Interest in development cooperation (the studies focused in this area advantageous but not a must)
• Individual with strong communication skills, thorough and due-diligence, organizational skills, interest to learn, friendly and team player
• Good knowledge of PC (MS Office, database creation etc)

Fellowship is not paid, but we offer:
• Opportunity to gain experience and knowledge of working in the non-profitable organization and development cooperation
• References and confirmation of fellowship
• Friendly working environment in the small team

Please send your application to Lenka Čumpelíková, email: lenka.cumpelikova@adopceafrika.cz,
mobile 732 203 196, www.adopceafrika.cz

Fellowship for University students who study the problems of development cooperation
Who is in the team of Center Narovinu? Introducing volunteers and new helping force in Nairobi
Health insurance programme
Education system in Kenya
January news from the Community center The Island of Hope
Examples of interesting extra-payments
Club of Friends of Adoption
DINO SCHOOL supports project of Centrum Narovinu

Bulletin – February 2018 (printed version for download)
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Dear adoptive parents, friends and fans of Centrum Narovinu.

Thank you for all your support which we appreciate very much.

We wish you a merry Christmas and a great new year filled with joy, love and happiness.

Looking forward to another year spent together.

Get to know Maureen and her story. Thanks to the support, she is studying at university now and wants to be a journalist. Become a part of someone's story too! Supporting education makes sense!

» 15 years of AdopceAfrika.cz
» Adoption - List of Children

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Extra payments are extraordinary one-time payments that adoptive parents can send to their children in addition to the regular payments for school fees. The extra payments can serve various purposes: they can be used to help the family in a difficult life situation (for example by buying food), to buy a bicycle or a  laptop (which will help the students in their studies), to support a business idea (of students that have already finished their education), etc. We have decided to limit the number of extra payments due to organizational and personal reasons to  one payment per trimester and we always try to make sure the payment is really needed.

Mark Omondi (ID 41876) studies at Nairobi Industrial Institute. He lives far from school and it takes him 3,5 hours to get there. The boy has to get up at 4 o´clock in the morning in order to make it to school on time. He doesn´t get back home until 9 p.m. Mark asked his adoptive parent to buy him a bicycle which would help him get to school faster. Now, it only takes him an hour to get there and so he has more time after school to study and prepare for the next day.

The adoptive parent of  Ruth Akinyi Kipasi (ID 51634) wanted to help Ruth´s family to be more self-sustainable - Ruth has 8 siblings who are taken care of by their mother while their father is old and sick. She wanted to buy something for the family, which would bring them a long-term benefit. In the end, she decided buy them two cows, which will give them regular supply of milk. The rest of the money from the extra payment was used to buy food for the family as well as for the animals.

Jitka Motejzíková

The Narovinu Center started in 2014 a campaign ‘Pay it forward’ to support its development projects in Kenya. In this campaign, it is possible to contribute with one-time donation to specific items for Adoption of African children – long distance support project or community centre of ‘Island of Hope’ on Rusinga Island.

The fair trade shop of Narovinu Centre offers many gift certificates of different value in three main categories:

1) Donate education (school bag, school things, school books, school fee…)
2) Donate health (regular medical treatment, specialized treatment, birth…)
3) Donate hope (for children in orphanage in Island of Hope: mosquito- curtain, food, books, chickens, mattress…)

Anyone can support with what makes the most sense to him or her and meets his/ her idea of ‘real’ help. For example, you can buy school books and in this campaign you can ‘pay it forward’ – which means to send them directly to child in need in African Kenya. You then get a gift certificate with photo of the school books which confirms your purchase of the given value. As thank you, you will also get an original African good luck bracelet directly from Kenya. These gift certificates have such an interesting graphic design they are also very nice present for your beloved ones or your friends. And it is always very good to have such an option if you want to make someone happy and do not want to spend money on silly things and support consumerism, but you want to do a nice gesture and support someone else on the other side of the world in a meaningful way.

Since the beginning of the campaign ‘Pay it forward’ until the end of 2016, the following amounts have been collected and used for those who needed them most during this period of time in Kenya:

1) Donate education – 60 150,– CZK
This amount was used for purchase of school books and school things for primary and secondary school of Island of Hope.
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2) Donate health – 26 200,– CZK
This program covers medical treatment costs for those who have no other way of paying for urgent medical care. Unfortunately, as these medical care costs are always very high, this amount was just a small contribution to save 2 very small patients – small Emmanuel from Mombasa and new born baby Marie Kitha from Rusinga Island. We are very happy that also thanks to this contribution, we could literally save life of these two children and today, they are both doing well.

Emmanuel from Mombasa – this handsome boy was found as new born baby by the dust bins in Mombasa in January 2016. Our volunteer coordinator Doris is taking care of him since then as she found him by coincidence and saved his life with her fast reaction and help. Unfortunately, at the end of 2016 Emmanuel got sick with very serious inflammation of intestines. After several rounds of antibiotics and incorrect treatment he was dehydrated, undernourished and with strong inflammations in his body. His serious health issues required immediate hospitalization and long medication on dropping funnel and alimentation artificial.
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Marie Kitha from Rusinga Island – this baby girl was born on our clinic and everything seemed to be fine. Nevertheless, after few days, it was obvious she is loosing weight as she is not able to ingest food. Her digestive system was not developed enough and was not working well and she needed an immediate operation. Our doctor diagnosed her and confirmed intestinal atresia. She was hospitalized in specialized hospital in Kisomu and well-timed operation saved life of little Marie Kitha – small sister of one of our long term ‘adopted’ students.
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3) Donate hope – 21 580,– CZK
This amount was used for purchase of equipment needed for the orphanage of the Island Hope – matrasses and mosquito curtains. Since the island on Victoria Lake is highly malarious area, the new impregnated mosquito-curtains are very import for health protection of our children. Sleeping under mosquito- curtain is ‘must do’ in this area.
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Thank you for supporting children in Kenya.

Dana Feminová

7^pm City Cultural Center

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Who is in the team of Center Narovinu? Introducing Ken, Carol, Irene and Mercy
Fish Farming on Lake Victoria
School project of adoption for distance
Actress Barbara Munzarová supports the project AdopceAfrika.cz
What can influence the performance of children in Kenyan schools?
Examples of interesting extra payments
Club of Friends of Adoption
Gift certificates “Pay it forward” help children in Kenya

Bulletin – October 2017 (printed version for download)
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Saturday November 25^th, 10^am – 6^pm, Centrum Narovinu, Sokolská 32, Praha 2, metro I.P. Pavlova

The seminars allow the participants to get to know all necessary about problems and work in projects of developing cooperation, stress on permanent sustainability and active approach at work with local communities, sensitive attitude to cultural differences, respect to heterogeneity. They will get to know work of coordinator of the project “Adoption of African Children”, developing awareness and education at Czech schools as well as community centre “Island of Hope” on Rusinga Island in Kenya.

After the seminar the participants can take an active part in the projects of Centre Narovinu in CR. We are looking for responsible coordinators for the project “Adoption of African Children”, project “Island of Hope in Kenya”, volunteers for exhibitions and promotion of the projects, helpers for making videos and presentations, graphics, administrative help, specialists in promotion on the Internet...

The leader of the course is Dana Feminová – the founder and chairwoman of Centre Narovinu, organizing projects in Kenya and CR over a long period, for instance the project “Adoption of African Children – project of help for distance” and “Island of Hope”.

Information and registration: dana.feminova@adopceafrika.cz, mobile: 777 711 911

We would like to thank to all adoptive parents, children and volunteers from the program for their touching stories they sent us. We very much appreciate your help. Jitka Ježková, Marcela Březinová or Filip Rajmont also belong to the group of the adoptive parents. You can read the stories of 15 years of adoption on AdopceAfrika.cz or look at the photo gallery on facebook. It makes a difference, please share it!

Have a look in the manufactory of the Island of Hope, where the soak stone products are made, decorated and painted. Fair shop, it also means direct import from Kenya without any middlemen – coffee, tea, soak stone products, jewellery, earrings, wood and iron products. And also gift certificates and packages, bags, t-shirts, badges. Find an inspiration for presents for your family, business partners or employees… 100 % of the income goes to the Island of Hope Community Centre on Rusinga Island.

We want to thank you for thinking of us while shopping on Internet. You can support us by 1 click only in the internet project Givt.cz, and it does not cost you any additional money. You just have to install a simple add-in of your web browser that will make sure that you do not forget to click on GIVT while shopping. Whenever you visit an e-shop supported by GIVT, the application will make you aware of this option.

We are celebrating 15 years of experience with the project Adoption of African Children – project of long-distance help. And we say YES, IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE!
Who is in the team of Center Narovinu? Introducing Dana and Simona
The difficulties of pregnant girls in Kenya
Strong human stories of adoptive parents, children and volunteers
Visit of Christine
You can contribute also via one-time contributions to the Club of Friends of Adoption!!
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Island of Hope on Rusinga Island

Bulletin – May 2017 (printed version for download)
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on Sunday 18.6.
on Cargo ship on the bank of the Vltava river in Prague

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Press release
Centre Narovinu
22^nd May 2017

On the occasion of the Day of Africa on May 25 2017 AFRO TRAM will pass through Prague. This event starts a month of the campaign of strong stories from long distance adoption.

Thursday May 25, 2:15 PM, Vozovna Střešovice (Patočkova 4, Prague 6). Tram will leave at 2:30 PM and will be seen in the city centre until 5:30 PM.

15 years of Distance Adoption Project - more than 4,000 children got a chance for a better future! The project helps not only to particular children, but also to the whole families and communities. After 15 years of experience we say: It Makes Sense! Our children have graduated, now they have a job, they have become responsible parents, they are helping as volunteers and spreading the help within communities...

This project and the Day of Africa we perceive as extremely important and symbolic these days! Every day, starting from May 25, we will publish one strong story of adoptive parents, children from the program and volunteers. One of the stories about how the project specifically helps is available at: centernarovinu.org/it-makes-sense-15-years-distant-adoption-project

Campaign will be ended by Multicultural Festival „Narovinu Afrika Fest“ on June 18 2017 on the boat Cargo on Prague „Náplavka“. Symbolically on the occasion of the Day of the African Child celebrated on June 16. Every child on this planet deserves a chance for dignified life!

For 15 years, the Czechs have been helping to diminish tendencies towards intolerance, xenophobia and racism (originated from fear of migration) via long distance adoption. Solidarity and willingness to help is the only way out of the current world situation.

We wish you beautiful days and thank you for paying attention to our activities!
Kind regards, Simona Heřtusová

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