Take a look at the progress house mama Mary has made since joining fws.

progress report (october 2008)

Mary says 'the pin has been taken from my pupil', which means now she can see a future. She has moved herself out of substandard accommodation where violence and theft threatened her safety. Mary has been able to afford medication and little Norah for the first time is rid of the ear infections that have troubled her for her entire life.

progress report (july 2009)

Mary reckons she was born to do farm work, so the fws shamba is her idea of heaven. She’s a big fan of the sewing and health classes, too. Mary’s younger sister Happy and daughter Norah (an inseparable pair, who were born in the same month of the same year), have now have good things to wear and plenty of fruit and veg to eat. It’s a wonderful sight, the two traipsing off in matching brightly coloured kanga cloth to find Bibi Helen, the fws education manager, for their afternoon lessons at Kesho Leo.

Seeing Norah now, it’s hard to believe that she was really sick with malaria and typhoid earlier this year, and plagued by ear infections. All is now well and Mary is hoping Norah’s schoolwork will go from better to brilliant, because she’s back in peak form.