Care Home Sends Christmas Cards to Schoolchildren and Orphans in Kenya

Elderly residents at the Edensor Care Home in Clacton have used their art and craft sessions to make Christmas cards for underprivileged orphans and schoolchildren in Africa

The Edensor nursing and dementia care home in Clacton on Sea is run by care providers Diagrama Foundation who support vulnerable children, young people, and adults to live their best life. Earlier this year the Foundation opened a Go Fund Me page to raise £5,000 to provide the basics for the 300 orphans and schoolchildren who attend the Friends Spotlight School in Homa Bay, Kenya.

Moved by seeing the images of the children and learning of the basics they needed, the team at Edensor decided to make Christmas cards to send to the children in the resident’s weekly art and craft sessions.

Ewa Ruskowiak, Care Coordinator, Edensor Care Home said,
“Many of our residents enjoy participating in our art and craft sessions and they are busy making Christmas decorations for the Home. We explained that Diagrama Foundation is trying to support the schoolchildren who attend the Friends Spotlight School and they were very keen to make Christmas cards to send to Kenya. My heart melted when I saw the photos of the children with our cards and we are so happy that we can do little things to put smiles on their faces.”

Tom Amuka, Rusinga Friends Spotlight School said,
“The children were absolutely delighted when the cards arrived. We met David McGuire, the CEO of Diagrama Foundation UK when he visited us in the summer and we cannot thank the charity enough for their kindness in trying to raise much needed funds to give our children the best opportunities to learn.”

David McGuire, Chief Executive, Diagrama Foundation said,
“Diagrama Foundation supports vulnerable children, young people, and adults in the UK to live their best life, so it feels so right that we are trying to raise funds for this Kenyan school to give their underprivileged children the best chance to learn. I was particularly moved when I learned that Edensor had made cards and the images of the children smiling as they opened the cards was a joy.”