What do we do?

Our acitivity is destined to three projects for the street children and girls managed by Amani:

The Kivuli Centre, Casa di Anita and Mthunzi Centre

We started our activity in 1996. We chose the method of long distance adoption because it offers the guarantee of a uninterrupted support, which allows the local responsible people to plan the development of Amani’s projects in a proper way.

At Kivuli Centre 50 children residentially housed and additional 70 children living in their families.
At Casa di Anita 24 little girls and three Nuba children living in three extended families “African style” as we like to remember.
At Mthunzi Centre 67 children residentially housed.

The “long distance adoption” fee is 312 euro/a year (26 euro/a month)

The “long distance adoption” proposed by Amani does not mean adopting one child only, but the entire Kivuli, or Casa di Anita or Mthunzi Centre projects.
In this way, no child will run the risk of being excluded and the adoption will guarantee to those children crying out for help the possibility of eating, studying, making constructive choices for their future and of experiencing the security and love of an adult.

Moreover, in this way we respect the privacy of the children housed at Kivuli, at Casa di Anita and atl Mthunzi, avoiding to spread too personal information on the previous story of our small guests.

Thus, on making a long distance adoption, we do not supply you with documentation concerning a single child, but printed material or videocassette about all children living in the Community you have chosen to support.

We use to send to those who support the “long distance adoption” project two newsletter a year giving information on the progress of the supported project, written by the responsible people for Kivuli, Anita’s Home, Mthunzi Centre and by some of Amani’s friends who have been guests in the communities where the children stay.

Those who support the long distance adoptions receive, by mail, also a free copy of “Amani” a four-mounths newsletter issued by Amani Association.
On “Amani” you will find several news on the Association, on the progress of its projects and of its initiatives, articles investigating African subjects, especially on the Nuba emergency, and Father Kizito’s letter to our friends.

We would like to point out that Amani, as a rule, entrusts only local people with every project and initiative to be carried out on the African land. For this reason, the responsible people for the three Amani Centres for street children are Kenian or Zambian people.

With the contribution of those who support the “long distance adoption” project, we can meet the management expenses for Kivuli, Anita’s Home and partially for Mthunzi, paying the school fees, chothing, food and medical treatment for all housed children.

Often, thanks to specific initiatives and to particular contributions we can extend the projects, strengthening the structure of the Centres, as it has been done with the Kivuli medical dispensary or with the hen-house at Anitas’Home.