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Fund-Raising Updates
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Further fund-raising updates and photo’s related to the following can also be found at ‘CCI-Kenya’s blog Postcards From Kenya’.
· In 2007 a total of £160 was kindly donated towards the purchase of materials for the construction of a pit latrine & washroom at the traditional Maasai Cultural Manyatta at Musul, in Western Mukogodo, Laikipia. Construction of the new facilities was completed in early 2008 and these are now ready for use.
· £50 was also kindly donated in 2007 for the purchase and distribution of a Community Health Care handbooks and HIV/Aids Awareness Resource Materials, copies of which were presented to members of Friends of Kinangop Plateau for use of the local community in December 2007. Another copy of the handbook and resource materials are shortly destined for the Mathare Roots Youth Group in Nairobi .
· To date £65 has been raised through the sale of Maasai beadwork jewellery to help sponsor local girl-child’s education at Sherston Musul Nursery & Primary School at Musul in Western Mukogodo, Laikipia. This new sponsorship programme is in the process of being set up and further details will be posted here on the website as they become available.
· In 2005 & 2006, Fair Isle Primary School in Shetland kindly sponsored the setting up of the ‘Shimwelo’ Kakamega Forest Cooking Basket project run by KEEP (Kakamega Environmental Education Programme) in the Kakamega Rain Forest in the Western Highlands of Kenya. Additional Environmental Education resources were also donated to KEEP’s Saturday Conservation Club by CCI-Kenya.
· Donations of books have also been made by Shetland schools with transport assistance to Kenya kindly being provided in 2006 by the charity Books Abroad . · A special thanks is also due to Ilamaiyo Youth Group for assisting with the delivery of the Community Health Care books to their final destinations in Laikipia in 2005.
· As a result of promotional activities in 2004, funding donations from individuals & local schools in UK also kindly contributed towards the purchase & distribution of Community Health-Care books to dispensing nurses in Mukogodo, Laikipia during Dec 2005, as well as supporting KEEP’s Environmental Education & Sponsor a Tree programmes in the Kakamega rain forest.
· In 2003/2004, KEEP (Kakamega Environmental Education Programme) was presented with a ‘Where There’s No Doctor’ health care handbook for the use of the local community at Isecheno, as well as a selection of resource materials for use by KEEP’s Saturday Conservation Club for local children.
Thank you all very much for your help and support.
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