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Our Work Past and Present In 2009, KBF is supporting the Sambavna clinic in Bhopal India, site of the worst industrial disaster the world has ever known. Read here about it. 2008: In 2008, KBF supported the rights of Congolese children. In May 2008, Kids For a Better Future organized our SECOND ANNUAL WALKATHON on May 31! We are still counting the money, so we don't know how much we have raised, but around 65 people came. Click here to read more! In May 2008, Akash Mehta, founder and director of Kids for a Better Future went to San Fransisco! He traveled alone, and he stayed with his Aunt and Uncle there - Monica and Anand Mehta. There he held a fundraiser which raised $1303.33. He also made a presentation at Head Royce School. Click here to read more! In June 2008, KBF held a lemonade stand. We had made the juice completely from scratch (except for the actual lemons, which we bought from the store), and then we sold them right outside our house - 9th street between 7th and 8th in Park Slope, Brooklyn. A few other kids came and helped us make and sell it, and we would like to thank Gautama Mehta, Patrick Soto, Eleanor and Sadie Krichmar, Ariel Drouault, Akash Mehta, and Nissim Ram. We raised around $160. 2007: In 2007, KBF raised $7,000 to support two girls' school in Herat, Afghanistan. In May 2007, KBF organized a Walkathon in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. SUPPORTING CONGOLESE KIDS This year, money raised will support an organization called Ajedi-Ka working for children’s rights in the Congos. We are supporting Ajedi-Ka because it works with children. It mostly works with child soldiers of both sexes, trying get them not to join the army, and trying to get them to leave the army, and go to school. Fifty percent of children in the Congo do not go to school, and $100 dollars is what it costs to send one child to school for one year. Ajedi-Ka works with former girl soldiers and other women victims of sexual violence. We have learnt that sexual violence has been a huge problem during and after the terrible war in the region. Children that were born out of rape are called by the Congolese “Children of The Enemy”, and those children are outcasts of the society. That term “Children of The Enemy” upsets me greatly, and I will never use this term except to say how awful it is. We will ask Ajedi-Ka to spend any money we raise on the rights of the Congolese girls and children who were born of rape during or after the war.
KBF SUPPORTERS MEET BUKENI On Febuary 24th, we had a wonderful gathering at the home of Akash V. Mehta. We were honored by Bukeni Beck, the executive director and the founder of Ajedi-Ka who came to meet the members of KBF, and also many of the supporters who donated to Akash's birthday appeal. Bukeni spent time alone with the core members answering our questions and giving us advice on running an organization. We were then joined by about twenty people who had supported this particular appeal which raised $4,000 for Ajedi-Ka. he gave a formal presentation about his own life, the work of Ajedi-Ka and the situation in the Congo.
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