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.”
To support the not-for-profit care home and contribute a gift to brighten the residents’ day, you can see their Wishlist online at https://linktr.ee/diagramaamazonwishlist or to donate to the fundraiser for Rusinga www.gofundme.com/f/rusinga-friends-spotlight-school-fundraiser
About Diagrama Foundation
Diagrama Foundation is a Kent based charity that supports vulnerable children, young people, and adults to live their best life.
Diagrama has a Supported Living Service across Bromley and Mid Sussex, three homes for adults with learning disabilities in Orpington, an eight-bed care home for adults with learning disabilities in West Sussex with a Community Services Programme a fifty-bed care home for the elderly with nursing and dementia needs in Essex, and a fostering and adoption service in the southeast. Plus, a 100 acre property offering farm and craft day Services cross West Sussex.
- The Supported Living Service, cares for 33 adults with learning disabilities, in seven schemes across Bromley and one scheme in Mid Sussex, helping them to develop skills and confidence to live in their own house either on their own or with others.
- At Cabrini House in Orpington the charity promotes the development of core skills for 23 adults with learning disabilities so that they can lead independent lives integrated within their community.
- Duckyls Farm, a 100 acre residential care home in West Sussex for residents with learning disabilities, allows the charity to explore the physical, mental and social skills and benefits that working with animals and in nature can offer to people with a learning disability.
- Diagrama Community Services operates at Duckyls Farm and across Sussex. This is a day care provision Hub and Outreach Support for people with a learning disability, physical and sensory impairment, acquired brain injury and/or autism.
- The team at their nursing and dementia care home, Edensor Care Centre in Clacton on Sea, support vulnerable residents to live life to the full.
- Diagrama’s voluntary adoption agency and not-for-profit fostering service cares for children who wait the longest for homes in London, Kent, West and East Sussex and Surrey.
Many vulnerable children and adults don’t get the support they need to develop their true potential, but the Diagrama team know that when someone has time and belief invested in them, they come alive, because that investment has made them feel valued and worthy.
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