Our Charity - Our Mission
WHO WE ARE AND THE CHARITY'S MISSION
We are a small group of people who have formed a registered charity to help others to achieve the things which we take for granted, education for our children, a healthy environment and the opportunity to get on in life.
Rosemary and Jim, Mike and Dilys, the founders of the charity live in the village of Emley in West Yorkshire.
Our work is concentrated in Msambweni a small town south of Mombasa on the Kenyan coast of Africa.
The aims of our charity are :-
To advance education of school children by funding educational resources, buildings, furniture and equipment.
To advance education and training of disadvantaged children by financial sponsorship.
The relief of sickness and the preservation of health.
- To advance health, skills and education of orphans by funding educational resources, buildings and equipment in an orphanage.
On the following pages we will tell you about the work we have done and the plans we have for the future.
Please contact us if you would like to learn more or assist us in any way with fund raising and sponsorship.
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News from 2018 to 2021 under Schools News
January 2022
Another busy year in Kenya but due to Covid no one could visit from the UK. Hopefully JIm and I will go out this year in the autumn.
Last year the school fully opened in January and remained fully open all year with thankfully no cases of covid. In order to open , the school had to provide running water at the school entrance and outside classrooms. The pupils had to have their temperature checked at the entrance and all had to wear masks. Sanitisers were also used for hands. The school had to use the library and the new classroom to keep pupils at 2m distance from each other. New desks were donated by a sponsor and the old desks cut in two wasting a half each time.
As the government rules said all food must be prepared on site the new kitchen and dining had to be finished rapidly and a kind sponsor paid for the two very expensive cookers.
A local school paid for the breakfast club to go ahead this year as we had no spare funds.
Water measures needed
Desk cut in half New single desks
300 masks made Temperature checker
New kitchen diner Benches in the dining room from recycled wood
Special charcoal cookers
EDUCATION CHANGES IN KENYA IN 2023
At present there are 8 classes in primary education, 4 classes in Secondary schools and 4 classes at university. Before covid the government was changing the curriculum away from emphasis on exams to a competence based learning with younger pupils. It decided to have a new system starting January 2023 which would have 6 classes in a Primary school , 3 classes in a Junior High School and 3 classes in a Senior High School. The Junior High schools would not be boarding ( at present most secondary schools are boarding and expensive). The new Junior High Schools can be attached to Primary schools if room to build labs and an extra classroom or attached to Secondary Schools.
The trustees of Emley Education Centre had to decide whether to drop down to 6 classes so reducing income and teachers or to build 4 new labs at huge expense. Luckily there was enough land for this and the Primary and Junior High School could be separated. Buildings like the library and computer lab and dining room can be shared but not the teachers or toilets.
Two generous donors have paid for the labs to be built and so it just remainbs to find funds for the new toilets . A septic tank has already been built.
Septic Tank One lab at ground floor the poles are to support the roof which needs to be re-enforced with metal and then concreted.
This is to enable a second lab to be built on top.
More photos to follow as progress takes place.
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