Marian’s last visit to the village was in early March 2020 as the world descended into the COVID crisis so you can imagine she was chomping at the bit to get back out there. She finally got that chance 20
We’ve been busy, we promise!
We thought we would post a quick message to say sorry for not having kept the website completely up to date over the last few years. We’ve been concentrating on fundraising and our projects that have really made a difference
Help our Buy a Brick Campaign
We desperately need to raise £6,000 to rebuild two classrooms. We built a permanent stone classroom in February 2017 but now need to replace the original temporary classrooms which were built in 2010. One of these was destroyed during tropical
Cycling for the Magnificent Seven
On 9th September 2017 Stephen Davies and Michael Huggins, who both work for Mondelez International (Cadbury’s), will begin their nine-day adventure cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats. The journey is just short of 1000 miles and they will be
Support the skydive for our classrooms
We desperately need to raise £6,000 to rebuild two classrooms. We built a permanent stone classroom in February 2017 but now need to replace the original temporary classrooms which were built in 2010. One of these was destroyed during
More from our last visit
Indestructible footballs donated
New Solar Energy Centres
Recent trip to the village
Meetings with our local primary schools
Children from our school feed into two local primary schools. We want to find out if we can support them through partnership working with the Kenyan Schools Improvement project (KENSIP), the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) and Action Aid. KENSIP have
Partnerships and research – more from our November visit
We continued to make lots of good contacts during our last visit. We want to work closely with other groups to achieve more in the area. As Marian says: “we want to support people in our area to access more
New school nurse comes to visit
We are funding a health check for all our school children every month. Good food, education and health are all essential to give young children the start in life we all expect. At our school, we already provide a good
Funding for literacy classes
Local people asked us to support literacy classes for adults, so we started in late 2012. Our census of the area around our school revealed many adults wanted help with reading and writing. They had either not been to school,
Loans not grants
There is a huge need in Kenya for help and our charity is just not able to support all the requests we get. But there are other reasons why we are experimenting with loans to groups. If we are asked
New women’s group
The trust is especially keen to work with the women in the community. So we’ve supported the formation of a new group in the village. “Getting the women’s group up and running was the most satisfying part of my visit