Joe Miller-Howes will be travelling to Nairobi in July this year and we are supporting the fundraising efforts for the school he will be helping to build.
Here’s Joe’s explanation of the project:
The project is on the outskirts of Nairobi in an area called Ruiru and we will be helping an orphanage, The Ruiru Rehabilitation Centre (RRC), build a two storey nine classroom school on an adjacent plot of land to be used by the children in the orphanage as well as the locals from the surrounding area. The need for the school is great as children have to walk up to four hours every day to and from school along a 6 lane newly built highway; there have been fatalities of young children over the past two years.
Our plan is simple; raise £63,000 to allow the school to be built (in stages), and send a group of 18 pupils (from my school) and 4 members of staff each year from 2014 to help at the school for 3 weeks and then, once the project is self-sustaining (through a small payment from the local children who will use the school) we then withdraw our support as our part of the project will be complete. When successful we may then look to implement the same blueprint at another site in another part of Kenya.
Tonight Andy and Sian are braving a quiz battling our knowledge vs. that of intellects, academics and worldly wise folk at Joe's school BUT then on 4th April 2014 The Pollicott Belles will do what they do best and pull out all the stops to host a Kenyan School Dinner in Ashendon.
Please let a Belle know if you are able to join us for this (dress accordingly) night out in what was our old schoolroom: Ashendon Village Hall.
Watch this space for more about Ruiru in our next blog.
It has been almost three years since the Belles set a challenge. We haven't stopped, we simply need to re-set and re-focus and find time to get ourselves back in the zone.
