INTRODUCTION
Bring a smile is a non – profit, charity organisation based in Nanyuki, Kenya – Laikipia county.
This initiative was founded by MS.MALINI, with the help of her daughters NATASHA and NEHA.
Malini had always had a soft spot for children and always found herself working in NGO’S. After working in these organisations and helping children for 5 years, she realised that she was destined to help others and so she founded ‘BRING A SMILE’ in 2016.
She started by giving out mattresses and bedding to homeless people, giving food to homeless people, providing art and craft classes, providing counselling services and donating whatever she could to children homes and schools.
She then went on to start her first project, rudisha mtoto shule, where she, with the help of her daughters tried to keep children in school by providing them with basic necessities.
Bring a smile has various focus points / programmes;
- RUDISHA MTOTO SHULE ( TAKE A CHILD BACK TO SCHOOL) – Under this programme try to keep children who come from disturbing backgrounds in school. We do so by providing them with uniform, fees, lunches, stationary and other necessary items.
- WATOTO WETU WAJIBU WETU ( OUR CHILDREN, OUR RESPONSIBILITY) # NOCHILDHUNGRY – this is one of our newest projects. We will be providing hot nutritious lunches in underprivileged schools where they do not have the funds to feed children.
-We would like to start this project first at ‘NKONDONE PRIMARY SCHOOL’ .
-According to our budget, it only costs ksh 20 per child each day to feed them with ugali/rice, beans, cabbage and a fruit.
- COMMUNITY – We also give donations to the community e.g wheelchairs, tissue paper, clothes, beddings e.t.c.
We also organise days where we sit with the children and talk, play, do art and craft and just have fun. We have realised these children do not receive love in their homes as either they have alcoholic parents, absentee parents or they don’t have parents. So they miss out on that love that every child deserves and needs.
- We try to encourage the children to talk to us and have counselling sessions with MS.MALINI as she was a counsellor. Therefore, they can open up to us and recover from their past. We show them that they deserve love and nothing less and that they can always talk to us as we are family.
We try to help out where we can and in whatever way we can with the help of well-wishers and friends of ‘BRING A SMILE’. We would like to appreciate all the friends of bring a smile as all this would not be possible without you. We know even our new project will become a reality soon for these little angels.
Our main objective is to put a smile on everyone’s face that we cross paths with.
Thank you so much for taking an interest in our initiative. Join us in making a difference in this world.
