Poor Kenyans see hope with Glad’s House Foundation, caddying for players at Barclays Kenya Open Part-1
Glad’s House Foundation made the best use of the star-studded Challenge Tour event, the Barclays Kenya Open, last week and introduced its contingent of caddies who were picked up from abject poverty.
The foundation, which works through the charity donations from the European Tour, specialises in rehabilitating the poor people from the streets of Mombasa, transforming and training to work as caddies.
Julius Amos Ndeta is one such rehabilitated guy from the streets of Kenya who was salvaged by the foundation.
He worked as the caddie for the three-time Challenge Tour winner Phillip Archer at the Barclays Kenya Open, who lauded the work of young Ndeta.
Ndeta said, “Being a caddie has transformed me. I now have a house, and before I lived in the streets. I have many different experiences from this and it has changed my life”.
The 24-year-old now works as a full-time caddie at the Muthaiga Golf Course and is now able to send money to his family. He has been lurking on the streets of Mombasa since the age of nine.
Glad’s House Foundation was initially started by Englishman Dr Clifford J Ferguson in the year 2006 and has grown to be a full-fledged foundation in a short period of time.
Ferguson was immensely helped by her daughter, Victoria, in establishing and promoting the organisation.
Glad’s House Director, Fred Bokey Achola, also spoke on the occasion and lauded the work done by the organisation in all this time.
He said, "Golf is something even I could never have experienced before because it’s quite exclusive. However, as an intervention strategy it is extremely effective".
"If I talk to the street boys, it’s very hard to put them in skilled training because they are usually very impatient. But working as a golf caddy, the results are there and then".
Glad’s House Foundation is supported by the Tour Players Foundation, which was set up by the European and Challenge Tour players.
Glad’s House Foundation receives continuous support from its source on regular basis.
The foundation has transformed the lives of no fewer than 60 players from the streets of Mombasa and has turned them into effective caddies at the Vipingo Ridge Golf Course, some 30 miles from Mombasa.
To be continued...
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