Please help I have adopted 150 children!!

Dearest Angelic Friends. I pray my note to you finds you well & smiling. I have received what I feel is a very heart wrenching appeal & I only hope that you will be touched by my friends bravery & desire to help these children & support her in her quest.
I personally will be sponsoring a child & will be giving all donations that come through our service "angel aunty" to the Mogra Rescue centre.
Please contact me for Megan's details or if you feel you can help.
Thank you for opening this email & your heart to those in need.
Blessing
MIchelle x

Mogra Rescue Centre is a school that takes street children and feeds and educates them for free, it also has an orphanage which has 151 kids. It is based in the Mathare Valley Slums, about ten minutes drive from the school, but a different world to our lush, spacious campus. It also has a new, overflow orphanage closer to Braeburn that they have not finished building, but is in use.

When I visited the orphanages and the school, I could not get over how happy and optimistic all the children are, despite the most appalling poverty. It was also quite clear that they were sorely lacking in the basics. It is run, almost single-handedly, by a volunteer called Hannah Njoroge, she has been helping in the slums since the 80's and is completely devoted.

I did some research and found out that they were partially sponsored by a small American charity. I wrote them an email offering to help write their newsletter and help the Kenyan children keep in contact with their American sponsors. I wasn't prepared for her reply...

The woman, Anne Trufant and her friend run the charity on a very small scale. Anne said that she was based in Louisiana and since hurricane Katrina and the recession, the amount of sponsors had fallen dramatically and very soon there will be no money left. She said it was great that I had got in touch as it would give Hannah and the children some hope!

Of course, this is all a bit too much for me;
I went to tell Hannah this and mid-conversation, a girl the same age as my daughter Ella walks in with one of the elder girls. She was a new admission brought by the children's services. Her mother had died and she had been 'adopted' by an uncle. He got a job in Dubai and left the girl in the care of a neighbour. The girl has obviously been severely abused. She has a scar on the back of her neck from a human bite and a ring shaped welted sore around one thigh where I imagine someone has applied a tourniquet. Hannah said she has many other scars, but the poor little girl seemed so frightened, that I didn't want to add to her trauma by seeing them. Hannah looked at me and said 'how can I turn a child like this away?' almost as if she knew what I was going to say next.

So anyway, I have decided to help them. I have loads of ideas to assist them in becoming more self sufficient and they have just been donated land that they can farm to partially feed themselves. I have spent the past two days looking for potential sources of funding, both in Kenya and in the UK. There is a lot out there, but it is going to take a while and Mogra is going to have to register as a charity in the UK (anyone fancy being on the board?!).

In the meantime I am asking for a big favour from you. Could you sponsor a child for six months? It costs £20 a month and I will make sure that you get the details of the child you are sponsoring and, if they are old enough, I will get them to write to you or they could come to my house and email you! It would help keep the whole project's head above water whilst we get things sorted.

Thank you so much for reading this.If you want more details or want to get involved in any other way, or have any ideas of things I could do, then please let me know.
If you know anyone else who can help, then please forward this email.

Lots of love and best wishes
Megan x x x x