Expenses & Needs

Below is a list of Monthly expenses.  As you can see it costs just over £1000 a month to meet the day to day to expenses of Rainbow House.  And while its understandable that you might not feel you can regularly give a large amount regularly giving, however small, is so helpful in meeting these monthly expenses.

Further down the page you will find the Needs List.  These needs are in addition to the regular monthly expenses and are mainly for one off items and projects. By their very nature these require more resources in the short-term, but are of course one offs.

Please note.  Lynda is supported independently of Rainbow House, so the amount of £3000 that Rainbow owes Lynda is a real debt!  Lynda really has spent money meant for herself and her well-being - She needs to be paid back.

If you feel you are able to help with any of these things, either regularly or a one off item, please contact Tony Johnson




Rainbow House Monthly Expenses

Maize Flour = £30  (for Ugali)
Rice (100kg)  = £50
Beans (90kg) = £50
Dried Peas  = £50
Eggs  = £25
Wheat Flour  = £30  (for Chapatis)
Tea = £10  (for Breakfast)
Sugar = £70  (to go in the tea)
Bread = £35  (for Breakfast)
Fruit = £25
Spaghetti = £65
Oil = £25
Meat/Fish = £60
Soap = £25
Water = £60
Charcoal = £80  (for cooking)
Paraffin = £45  (for lamps)
Medicines =   ? (variable) ( worming tabs, de-scabies, fungal cream, razor blades)
Toiletries = £220 (including cleaning products ie; soap, toothpaste, loo roll, ST’s, toothbrushes, bleach, mosquito repellent, disinfectant, insect killer)
Petrol  = £120  (for car and motorbike)


Total : £1075 (without medicines)

Rainbow House Needs List

Large Items       Approx. figures

1) Staff wet rooms. (male/female toilet/shower room)                      £2.000
2) Fix the guttering around 2 large buildings before the rains in Jan       £350
3) Laundry House to be converted from old hen house               £2.000
4) Mattress and plastic covers               £800
5) Classroom                               Pending    ?
6) Electricity                                       Pending £350

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Smaller Items

1) Staff Uniforms  (this is desperately wanted by the staff)                        £100
2) Bedding (40 pairs sheets, blankets & pillow cases)             £300
3) 3 Clothes wardrobes/cupboards (to put the kids clothes in)     £250
4) School Uniform’s @ £4.50 each             £275
5) Cook’s stoves (to put the charcoal in)                     £150
6) Garden tools (shears, hoe, spade, fork, steps etc)             £100
7) School bags (needed for Jan)             £55
8) Curtains for all windows (there are none at the moment)     £45
9) Clothes from market (needed twice yearly, £135 a time)    £270

Christmas Day Outing for all staff and children (Yearly)                       £100

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Repaying Lynda

We also need to repay Lynda for the money she has lent Rainbow in                   £3.000
times of hardship, as this was money put aside for finishing her own
house which is still incomplete, we need to repay her. .………………………………................................................................................
Future Needs

Tech College (for the children that don’t go to High School)      =  2 yr course         £250
High School Fees (Secondary Sc.) Once the child has reached STD 8..  Per year    £140
(This will be for 4 years, for each child that attends)


Prices based in Sept 2011, 140/- = £1.00

Thank you for whatever you can do!
George