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Award Winning Leadership

On September 11th our founder and Chair of Trustees, Val Wilson, was awarded the Prime Minister’s Points of Light Award for her work with Team Kenya. We are very proud! An excerpt from an article in the Chronicle: In 2008 the 56-year-old left her job as head of sixth form at Seaton Burn Community College to set up Team Kenya. “Valerie has dedicated her time to changing the lives of the local community in Ndhiwa,” the Prime Minister said. Through Team Kenya, she has given hundreds of girls an education and provided young people with loans to set up their own enterprises. “Valerie has changed the lives…