Helping reconstruct a street boy emerging from the tough life in the Kenyan streets is not about the talk, it’s about the walk. It’s not about the what, it’s about the how. And it’s never about the will, it’s about the will. But how can you get it right if you are on the wrong part of the world? Naivasha Horticultural Fair is doing it again this year. Their generous contribution in many areas has helped enormously. They have involved themselves in plentiful charitable projects which are of great help to the community at large.
One of the greatest secrets of the rich and mighty is giving to the needy part of what they profit. This not only goes in tandem with the saying that “For every action, there must be some reaction” but also unleashes some power that the smartest of all investors in the world has never been able to explain. This could not necessarily be a reason the hortifair but the greater need for the horticultural growers and exporters to look at the problems of the local people with a human eye.
The corporate involvement in development in this regard has been left a-new concept based on the traditional belief that it is only the government that is mandated with the responsibility of initiating development. NH Fair has in this regard created a great possibility in a short time since it takes the government quite a while to study the feasibility of any needed project before approving and hence implementing it.
The Naivasha Horticultural Fair, which marks the joint initiative of horticultural growers and related stakeholders in the industry, will be held in September. The aim still stands as convening to raise some funds towards the needy in the communities within which they operate.
Naivasha Horticultural Fair started in 2003 as a much limited initiative attracting a small bundle of the industry investors. The few participants in the fair barely filled the provided space and were scantily spread in it that it could take only an ambitious and optimistic person to look up to a bright future for the event.
This year’s event comes at a time when the sector has faced the most traumatizing experience and tremendous challenges of global financial crisis/credit crunch, devaluation of Euro and ugly famine. All the stakeholders of the sector felt the effects.
Compliments
Naivasha Children Shelter thanks the NHFair Trust for its amazing support every year. In the past, they have sent more children to Government schools and have been able to buy more educational books, equipments and tools for their own school.
The Safe House, a rescue shelter home for abused children, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Naivasha, has received millions of shillings from the NHFair Trust. NHFair also donates to many other Joint Effort community projects with the Rotary Club, who are very active in improving the quality of life for people in Naivasha, and make sure that every cent raised is used diligently.
NHFair Trust sponsors the Red Cross office in Naivasha, the Naivasha Disabled Persons, the Kijani Clinic (a community clinic at the Chief’s Compound in Karagita); have donated millions of shillings to build a maternity wing at Karagita Dispensary; the Feed the Hungry Campaign has been implemented and numerous HIV AIDS Projects exist because of the effort of NHF, updating and/or building toilet facilities in many local schools, and many small scale water projects.
As this goes on, it is anticipated that the fair will continue to brighten more lives in Naivasha and make it a symbol of human effort of supporting one another for a better tomorrow.
