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We double the size of our school
An extra 45 children living around Neema Nguuni can now start school thanks to the efforts of our fantastic sponsors. We’ve employed another teacher and built a new classroom, so a total of 90 children...
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Upgrading school facilities
As well as the new classroom, we’ve built two extra latrines for the extra children. The busy road nearby has always been a worry for parents, so we’ve fenced off the area around the school to make it...
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College training for our staff
We are funding our new teacher’s college training to teach at primary level. We now have two teachers – Fatuma Maulida and Milca Ogweno. Milca is currently trained at nursery level – and will work...
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Small business support is not chicken feed
The trust has funded two small chicken farms in operation that helps provide income for the community. We hope this will become a self-sustaining business. The first farm was started during our visit...
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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...
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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 to...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Recent trip to the village
Arrival at Mombasa airport fully loaded up with goods to distribute in the village and surrounding area A very happy Women’s Group Knitted blankets, jumpers and hats donated by the knitting group...
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New Solar Energy Centres
Solar Energy Centres donated by Freeplay providing lighting for villagers – none have electricity New School Committee
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Indestructible footballs donated
Indestructible footballs donated by Chevrolet (OneWorldFutbol Project). They were given to two Primary schools and Mtwapa Utd FC.
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More from our last visit
New school uniforms Children with their knitted teddies Chicken farm Literacy class with their new T Shirts supplied by PromoThreads in Market Deeping
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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Marian’s November 2021 visit
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...
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