Life Bloom Services International

Every gift of $10 helps one child receive therapy. Children in Kenya, just like other parts of the world, experience some aspects of life that cause trauma. Very often trauma experienced stems from separation/divorce, abandonment, sickness, violence and death in the family. The growing number of children experiencing violations of various forms, especially sexual exploitation, child labor, early marriages, threats of or actual female genital cut are left with marks that turn around their lives. The good part is that there is a growing number of children stepping forward seeking for help. Unfortunately, some of the children remain silent: locked up in a world that shut down for them with the experience. They need to be supported to live through the emotions, unlock the gates to their inner beauty in-order to thrive now and into their future. Counselling is not commonly programmed for children in our community, thus not accessible to majority of the children, especially those living in very vulnerable circumstances. Life Bloom celebrates 20 years (2004-24) of supporting more than 13,800 children, girls, women and men through a dynamic holistic approach (www.lifebloomservices.org). Among the GIFTS planned for our children providing professional counselling for 1000 needing children in the year 2024, children who have not experienced the gift of counselling, yet wallow in psychological stuck-ness. Life Bloom has operated with a pool of qualified counsellors ready and already holding up this project. Child Centered Art and Play Therapy approaches are used. Continued counsellor related up-skilling, de briefing and counsellor supervision is part of the planned. What remains is for some of the children to receive sponsorship for this life -changing transformative healing journey. This is the reason we come to you with a request: SPONSOR A CHILD WITH A CONTRIBUTION OF $10 (USD 10). Gift one or more children and be part of celebrating LifeBloom@20 family!

There is an urgent need to train community women on basic counseling skills and as volunteers at the community level to ensure psycho-social services are available and accessible (at no cost) for those households who are not able to put meals on the table on a daily basis. This is the rationale for this fundraising campaign, to train a community of community-based counselors who will: Be the first respondents for their peers and offer the first safe spaces so urgently needed. Refer cases to Life Bloom staff for more professional or advanced counseling. Be able to identify potential gender-based violence cases in their neighborhoods before they happen. Support the Life Bloom staff who need to be firm on psychological self-care. Gradually pass on compassion skills, including: non-judgment, acceptance, and active listening, skills needed to make people feel valued and respected and thus become more productive. US DONOR's GIFTS ARE TAX-DEDUCTIBLE Friends of Life Bloom Projects are hosted at KBFUS, a U.S. public charity within the meaning of Sections 501(c)(3) and 509(a)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code. This means that donors are eligible for a U.S. income tax deduction for their contributions to the extent permitted by U.S. tax law.