News
Excellent news from the Eldoret School
The school has achieved full Government recognition as a private school, and every local authority department has completed its inspection, awarding full marks in every case! As a result, when the children reach the end of their primary education, the school will be able to hold the state examinations in-house, awarding leaving certificates and grades that enable the most able youngsters to go on to Government secondary education, providing that fees can be found.
In the Kenyan system children “graduate” formally from level to level through school, and great celebrations marked the graduation of the first nursery group into primary class 1.
An update on the Famine in Lodwar Region
Although the East African famine has slipped out of the international news, it remains a real problem in the desert region, where even in normal times the nomadic peoples of the area find it more and more difficult to find food and water for the animals on which their traditional way of life depend. FKC’s feeding programme, which provides for the needs of up to 200 children on a daily basis, is a lifeline to many families, and the small number (28 at present) who are able to board at the school in Eldoret are especially fortunate, receiving an excellent primary education.
The effects of the famine in Eldoret
Since the height of the crisis food is more readily available now in Eldoret but prices have stabilised at very high levels. The value of the currency remains at the new lower level, so everything costs far more than previously. Water is a particular problem. Since the famine, the town supply is irregular, being turned on and off seemingly at random, sometimes only available twice each week. As a result, further water storage facilities are needed urgently at the school.
Notices
THREE-DAY
CHARITY SHOP
THREE-DAY
CHARITY SHOP
Alvaston Methodist Church, Brighton Road
Derby DE24 8TG
Thursday and Friday April
19th and 20th
10-30am until 5-30pm
and
Saturday 21st 10-30am to 1-30pm
Everything you would find in a Charity Shop and much more!
Good quality clothes, Loads of household goods and soft furnishings, small furniture, toys and games, hundreds of books, videos and CDs, home made cakes, herbaceous perennial plants and houseplants. Daily raffle and Saturday tombola
All day refreshments and light lunches in the Coffee Bar
Come and browse – take all the time you want – find just the thing you were looking for at a very, very good price.
Proceeds for Friends of Kenya’s Children
The Saturday Charity Shop
THE SATURDAY MORNING "CHARITY SHOP" at the church continues to be a success. It reopens after the half term break on Saturday February 25th and runs until March 31st 2012. Goods for sale are always welcome, and volunteers to work in the shop will also be much appreciated. The shop sells everything usually found in charity shops, and in particular is very grateful for clothing, soft furnishings, household materials, shoes and handbags in any condition. These items, even if not suitable for direct sale, are recycled through an agency that pays for them at a fixed rate. For more information, contact us via our website contact page.
