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www.eatingstonekenya2008.org
EATING STONE -USA - NON-PROFIT (EATING STONE CHILDREN'S HOME AND WISDOM ACADEMY PRIMARY SCHOOL NEAR KIKUYU TOWN IN KENYA)
My Story - I was fortunate to lose my parents in my early twenties and not as a child. Their passing caused my younger siblings and me much mental anguish and altered our lives forever. I've long accepted that I will always feel like an orphan. Meeting these beautiful orphans in Kikuyu Town in Kenya opened my heart to want to protect them.
SID Small
Eating Stone Children’s Home near Kikuyu Town in Kenya provides essential refuge – food, shelter, and education – for over 65 children who were orphaned by the AIDS pandemic, orphaned by the 2007-2008 post-election violence, or otherwise abandoned.
The meaning of Eating Stone: For children who are orphaned and have no access to food, nutritious or otherwise, it is like eating a stone and offers no nutritional value.
In Kenya, it is common for pregnant women to crave stones (minerals they lack). They can buy these in various shops and suck on them. For children who are orphaned and have no access to food, nutritious or otherwise, it is like eating a stone and offers no nutritional value. Also, sucking on a stone creates saliva and orphans often don't have access to water to slake their thirst or hunger.
Eating Stone Organization Kenya 2008 was officially registered in 2008 as a community-based organization (CBO) by the Government of Kenya and became a registered non-governmental organization (NGO) in Kenya in January 2015.
Our board of directors consists of community representatives and trustees from Kenya, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. Eating Stone Organization Kenya 2008 operates Eating Stone Children’s Home and Wisdom Academy Primary School.
Eating Stone's mission is simple: We provide loving care and support for children who would otherwise be living on the streets, so they can take their place as successful, contributing adults in Kenyan society. Eating Stone USA wants to create a niche for supporting children's education.
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- 104 East 98th Street, New York, NY 10029, USA
- P.O. Box 287203 1617 3rd Avenue New York, NY 10128
- +1-646-381-2249 - Eating Stone USA
- eatingstoneusa2021@gmail.com
- Monday - Friday 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Eating Stone - USA Non-Profit is Eating Stone Children’s Home near Kikuyu Town in Kenya provides essential refuge – food, shelter and education – for over 65 children who were orphaned by the AIDS pandemic, orphaned by the 2007-2008 post-election violence, or otherwise abandoned.
Team
Africa in our soul
Friends forever
Donna Stimson, Sandi Carlile, and Sharon Small met in the Spring, March 1994 on a Gerber Trip. It was a Bush Camping Trip from North Africa to Kenya.
BBFs
In 2018, twenty-seven years later we all met again in Kenya, Sandi Carlile, Donna Stimson and Sharon Small, and the incredible Dr. Cyprian Lumumba
It takes a village
Friends, Family, Board Members, and some of the incredible Staff that keeps it all together
We invited a college male choir from the Mall, and this was so much fun. We all participated in the singing, we had lunch with the kids and staff, and we all played games and soccer.
John Forsythe is forever in our hearts.
Unfortunately, we lost a ES family member who supported ES.
Eating Stone Family Members: Tracey Farleigh and Gerald Ngugi
Along the circle of life, we create our own ES family.
