Night of the Stars
In early March Footsteps was lucky enough to be chosen as one of the beneficiaries of the annual Night of the Stars Bridge tournament, hosted by Richmond Bridge Club.
The cattle are lowing… at Rae.
Our sponsored children at Rae are looked after by carers who have formed their own self-help group to try to build on the work done by Footsteps.
Dressed for Summer in Rae
The Study Prep School in Wimbledon donated their surplus summer dresses to Footsteps and as we see from the photograph, they have been put to good use by the girls of Rae Primary School. Thanks you to the parents and teachers of the Study for your kindness.
Academic success for Jackline
We are very proud of Jackline Achieng of Magunga Secondary School who now at the end of her first year was the top girl in the class.
Three more of our sponsored children (really we should call them young adults now) have done their final year 4 exams and now Kevin, Denis and Sharon have to wait on tenterhooks before getting their results. With any luck they'll get the B grade necessary to ensure they can go onto University.
One helluva dinner party beats previous record!
Thanks to all the people who joined us at the Light House in Wimbledon on the 11th November and to the splendid service provided by Hugo and his staff. Including some fabulous donations and an excellent piece of original art donated by Marc Quinn, we raised £65,000 in the most successful fund raising event we have ever held. We will now be able to build our school at Kobeto. Thanks again for all your help and support.
Obingo Primary to get 2 new classrooms
February 2013
Obingo Primary has already benefited from 4 brand new classrooms, something which has made the rest of the school look a bit shabby!
Our next project here is going to be to complete 2 classrooms that were built a few years ago but left unfinished: the block only has walls and a roof. The floor is compacted mud and stones. We will put in doors, floors, windows, a new roof, plastering and painting on this block of 2 classrooms together with new black boards.
First desks delivered for our Buy a Desk campaign
Our campaign to get fundraisers involved from a young age has started to bear fruit.
The Buy a Desk Campaign gives our youngest fundraisers the opportunity to provide a desk for their contemporaries living in Kenya and get a nice teddy and badge in recognition of their work.
The first two desks have been delivered, sponsored by Brandon Chan and Erin Southey.
These desks will start their active service this week at Rae Primary School.
Clean water for the medical centre
After building the new Children's ward and laboratory for the Katito Health Centre we were disturbed to discover that the facility relied on rain water catchment and an old water connection that hadn't worked for over a year.
We were approached by the Management of the centre to see if we could add a water connection to our project.
Given that the facility was really unusable without water, and providing clean water to schools is one of our priorities, this project fits in very nicely with what Footsteps does.
Rokeby raises another £860
Rokeby School has donated another £860 to Footsteps from money raised from the sale of Rokeby desks and from the parents and boys on ‘Bring a Teddy Bear’ day with the author David Benedictus whose most recent work is the Winnie-the-Pooh novel Return to the Hundred Acre Wood (2009)..
It is our plan to put the funds raised towards buying desks for the schools we have built in Kenya. Although there are now many more good classrooms in place, there is often a dire shortage of desks.
New website launched
We are delighted to show off our brand new website design. And an updated logo which restores the missing footsteps toe!
Our previous website, lovingly hand made by footsteps trustees, no longer reflected the professionalism with which we have developed Footsteps over the years.
