Tapping into the spirit of Africa
Through the revenue generated by its range of projects, iCare for Africa supports a number of disadvantaged communities in various ways.
The Malteser International Community Health Workers are instrumental in the success of the Malteser International Tuberculosis Programmes. They are a group of approximately 60 volunteers who live in the slum communities that they serve. They are well known to the people who live there and this makes them approachable to those who need help. Their duties are many, but most important is the visiting of the housebound patients with TB and HIV to ensure they are taking their life saving medicines and the family and close neighbours are educated on the importance of this also.
iCare also helps to feed destitute households and families, and provides much-needed training for teachers in non-formal Kenyan schools, also providing pupils and schools with basic resources such as stationery, books and a small computer centre.
The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and Malta, better known as the Sovereign Order of Malta, has a two-fold nature. It is one of the oldest Catholic Religious Orders, founded in Jerusalem in around 1048. At the same time it has always been recognised by nations as an independent subject of international law.
The Order's mission is summed up in its motto "Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum" - defence of the faith and assistance to the suffering.
Links:
The Companions: www.companions-orderofmalta.org
Foreign Aid Service: www.orderofmaltafas.org/
BASMOM (British Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta): www.orderofmalta.org.uk/
Malteser International: (the Order of Malta's worldwide relief organisation) www.malteser-international.org
Team
Alice Murphy:
Alice has many years experience of the charity sector in the UK. She arrived in Kenya in the summer of 2009 to work as First Secretary for the recently established Order of Malta Embassy. Her particular focus is on the humanitarian aid projects; both those already up and running and the development of further ideas.
Her work is led by the need – with particular emphasis on enabling those we assist to become self sufficient in the long term.
Email: amurphy@smomkenya.org
