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.
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(News from 2018-2024 is under the Menu "School -> News Items"
ENPOWERING YOUNG GIRLS
This is Samantha Akoth Grade 8 in our school. There was a competition recently in Kenya to find 3 girls in the whole country to be offered a place on a course run in South Africa . It is an Ambassadorial program to empower Black Africans. She was picked amongst the thousands of hopefuls in Kenya and will attend in July 2025. This is a wonderful achievement thanks to the excellent teachers and hard working pupils in the School.
NEWS in 2025:
NEW EXCITING BUILDING PROJECT of a Secondary High School
The government has finally decided what the secondary education provision will be like in 2026. Secondary Schools have to decide on 2 pathways from Science and technology, Humanities, Sports, or arts.
The increasing cost of sending children long distances to secondary school which are boarding has put huge burdens on parents and we were approached by several parents and the Headmaster to see if it is possible to extend our school to secondary education and therefore have a complete education system on site. We already have a science lab a computer room and a home science lab so it meant just building 6 new classrooms.
This is a big undertakking at a time when we were winding down but it will make the school financial self sufficient so we said we would have an appeal our end and the school will try also to get funds.
We are therfore appealing for any DONATIONS however small to enable this dream to come true.
PROGRESS SINCE APRIL
The foundations have been dug which involved much deeper trenches than expected as they had to reach the coral bed for a firm foundation. We also were a little delayed as a mango tree and all its roots had to be removed. Building in Kenya in the countryside is all done by hand so yoiu can imagine the difficulties removing a mature tree. They managed to source a chain saw.
The building is now slowly progressing upwards as you caqn see by the photos below. It is the rainy season so frequiently building is delayed. We have to build 3 classrooms by September to be inspected and a secondary license issued. The new intake will arrive in January.
Deep trenches being dug manually.
tree removed tree stump tap root removed
wires bought reinforced floor and wall supports which will be inbedded in concrete
steel reinforcements before cement steel reinforcenments in cement.
Buiding to date
MARCH 2025
The school started the new school year on January 6th with the High school now having 3 classrooms.
The new Baby class has an excellent teacher who is the headmasters wife. The classroom got painted in the holidays and also the Junior High School walls had scientific drawings painted on them.
At the moment there are only 5 pupils in the baby class but we hope for more soon.
Harrison had carried out 2 suitcases of good quality toys from the uk as the quality in Kenya of toys is poor. He managed to buy slides and scooters in Kenya
In March Jim and Rosemary went to Kenya to see all the projects. They also took 2 suitcases of wooden toys jigsaws and books.
The government has finally decided what the secondary education provision will be like in 2026. Secondary Schools have to decide on 2 pathways from Science and technology, Humanities, Sports, or arts.
The increasing cost of sending children long distances to secondary school which are boarding has put huge burdens on parents and we were approached by several parents and the Headmaster to see if it is possivble to extend our school to secondary education and therefore have a complete education system on site. We already have a science lab a computer room and a home science lab so it meant just building 6 new classrooms.
This is a big undertakking at a time when we were winding down but it will make the school financial self sufficient so we said we would have an appeal our end and the school will try also to get funds.
We are therfore appealing for any DONATIONS however small to enable this dream to come true.
Rosie & Harrison
Good Quality Toys
Story Time
Sleeping area
Paddling pool for the young children
The Junior High School now has 3 classes nearly all full. There are 117 pupils the maximum being 120.
Rosemary and Jim took part in a science lesson on preparing onion cells to look at under the microscope.
Rosemary took part in a computer lesson where the children were designing animations
The Home Science teacher wanted Rosemary to teach the children how to do crosstitch embroidery and loom knitting.
We gave out mosquito nets again
We brought out with us some football shirts for boys and girls
The School had been repainted
The children always want to shake our hands And celebrate a birthday
Recently the School had been broken into twice with an attempt to steal the lap tops which had been secured in another room and thieves stole the school flag pole to sell the metal. While we were in Kenya we bought and saw 3 security cameras and a system of security set up.
photos of building to follow
