We are gearing up for Rafiki 2023. This is most definitely going to be our very last trip and we are determined to make it a good one. For those of you thinking of coming you can download the full information pack here, but the most important points are as follows:
The Rafiki volunteer trip to Kenya in 2019 was a wonderful experience for the volunteers and the schools. On 21st June this year we took 18 volunteers to Kenya to work with the children at Obuon and Magunga primary schools. The trip was a tremendous success thanks to an enthusiastic and hard working group who developed a strong link with the children at the school. During the trip we visited our thriving Health Centre and Maternity Ward and the new Agricultural College in Katito.
In our Rafiki 2019 programme, we took the opportunity to visit the Katito sub-county hospital which we have supported over the years with a comprehensive care centre for HIV patients, a children's ward and a laboratory facility.
Over the years since we built the first building (2008) the whole facility has gone from strength to strength with more and more services being added. Now the hospital has asked us for help to buy the equipment they need to do blood transfusions.
Once again the Lighthouse Restaurant, Wimbledon did us proud with an extraordinary dinner on the evening and an auction prize of a dinner party prepared, cooked and served in your home by Hugo and his team that we didn't sell just one, but 4 times!
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Many thanks
Thank you to all those of you who joined us at the 11th Footsteps dinner at the Light House in Wimbledon Village. The evening was a great success - the food provided by Hugo and his team was truly wonderful and the atmosphere was fun and relaxed.
Furthermore we raised over £6300 to go towards providing electricity at the new Agricultural College in Katito. The college will provide the opportunity for local young people to gain much needed skills that will enable them to make a life for themselves and their families.
The book of photographs from our trip is now ready to buy and preparing it has brought back so many happy memories from our week in Kenya. Below are the links which will allow you to review and order the book for yourselves along with the prices for the different formats and sizes.
After months of work and planning, we at Footsteps were finally able to open our extension to the Katito Vocational Training Centre facility.
The new piece of land, a short drive from the existing facility, will be dedicated to agricultural studies and is also the location for a new girl’s dormitory and matron’s house.
For the last 12 years we have run an immensely popular, voluntary 'Rafiki' programme aimed at broadening the experience of the children in Kenya & the volunteers themselves: a team of volunteers from the UK run a 'summer camp', introducing sports, arts, life skills & some understanding of the world outside their village.
The trip allows the children to engage with activities that wouldn't normally be available & it also reinforces the relationship between Footsteps & the communities we work with.
Thanks so much to everyone who joined us at The Lighthouse on Sunday evening, 13th November 2016!
The evening was a great success again with fabulous people and wonderful food and service from Hugo and his team.
Thanks also to the volunteers from Rafiki 2017 Oliver Godding, Nicky Pollard, Alex Arnold, Matthew Burditt, Ed Wilkinson and Olivia Greenwell, who worked hard to help with fundraising on the evening.
