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We are a group of Grandmothers and Grand-‘others’ in Kings County, Nova Scotia, who need your help to ensure that a group of grandmothers (gogos) in Kikima, Kenya, having lost their children to AIDS, don’t go hungry in their old age. Just $4,300 will provide 1 year of food so 6 Kenyan grandmothers won't go hungry. Having lost their children to AIDS, they are too frail to provide food for themselves. Here is the story of the Kings-Kikima Grannies.
In 2008, a group of Kings County, Nova Scotia women, came together after being touched and inspired by the documentary “The Great Granny Revolution”. This documentary chronicled the kinship between two groups of women an ocean apart; the women of Wakefield, Quebec and the grandmothers (gogos) of Alexandria, South Africa. It told the story of the struggles grandmothers in South Africa faced raising their grandchildren as a result of the AIDS pandemic and how humans, when united, can create powerful change.
Moved by the need and ability to help, the Nova Scotia Grannies reached out to former Acadia University graduate and friend, Ruth Kyatha who lived in Kikima, Kenya. Ruth worked as a community development worker and shared with the N.S. Grannies the needs she witnessed in her community. With Ruth’s guidance and knowledge, the Kings-Kikima Grannies were formed. Each Nova Scotian grandmother was paired with one of the 27 gogos who, having lost their children to HIV-AIDS, were now raising their 67 grandchildren. The Kings-Kikima Grannies committed to raising funds to support the education of the children but, in the last 11 years, have extended their support to emergency food assistance and the development of an irrigation system when the region struggled with drought.
Our fundraising efforts have consisted largely of collecting and selling donated, ’previously loved’ jewelry and an annual yard sale. We are also supported by other community organizations for special projects such as water tanks and HIV/AIDS educational workshops in Kikima.
As the children get older, they must leave the village to attend school, leaving the aging gogos without the physical help of their grandchildren. Many are increasingly unable to keep up with the labour intensive job of meeting their day to day needs such as fetching water or tending crops. With the wonderful gogos now in need of additional support to ensure that they have sufficient food, the Kings-Kikima Grannies are asking for help to support these amazing women
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