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Cool runnings
Our brilliant fundraiser, Kim, is dusting off her running shoes to take part in the Great North Run on 11 September – and every penny she raises will go towards educating girls in Ndhiwa. We are so grateful to Kim and all our other GNR runners for taking on this challenge, and so we caught up with her to have a chat about the blood, sweat and tears as she gets ready to join the starting line… Nice to meet you, Kim! Tell us a bit about yourself! I’m a nearing 30, chocoholic diabetic who spends her weekdays trying to…
Read moreAnnual Review 2015
Our Annual Review 2015 is out! You can read it here: Team Kenya – Annual Review. Below is a message from our Founder and Chair of Trustees, Valerie Wilson, on how 2015 was a year of exciting growth and change for Team Kenya. It has been an exciting and important year for Team Kenya. After an extensive period of refection, including consultations in both the UK and Kenya, Team Kenya and NCEDP both launched new ambitious five year strategic plans for 2015-2020. Our strategy draws on our learning and experience, we have set ourselves five main goals to enable us to…
Read more£10,000 donation from The Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust to fund girl-friendly schools in rural Kenya
We are delighted to announce that our recent funding application to The Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust was successful! We are absolutely thrilled to have received a generous donation of £10,000 towards our work with girls in rural Kenya. What will this grant pay for? We plan to develop and expand our Success for Girls in Schools programme through promoting Girl Friendly Schools and increasing parental and community support for, and awareness of, girls’ education, gender equality and children’s rights. Project aims: Increase recruitment, retention, and performance of girls in school Improve the quality of primary education Prevent and reduce School Related Gender Based…
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