Archive for June, 2010

Having delivered donated school uniforms from Melton Mowbray in the UK to our link project in Nairobi in May 2010, Kenya Aid Programme was delighted to read of the story here in the Melton Times.

The surplus uniforms from Kidzone, Melton Mowbray were delivered by a team from Kenya Aid Programme to our link project in Nairobi, Fort Smith Educational Centre.

“My husband Robert was born in East Africa and we’ve seen for ourselves how poor the children are but also how keen they are to go to school and learn.” – Debbie Dziura, Kidzone, Meltwon Mowbray.

After offloading school equipment in Nairobi, the next stop for our container was Kelunet Secondary School on the Maasai Mara route. This secondary school is part of local efforts to improve education facilities within Kibugat community.

Kenya Aid Programme became linked with Kibugat Community Projects following an initial visit in October 2009. Our subsequent shipment of classroom furniture and sports wear to these projects was carried out with assistance from Kibugat ICT Centre and the Hon. F.K. Bett, M.P, Minister for Roads.

Within the community at Kibugat, our donation will also go to assist Kibugat Secondary School, Kibugat Primary School, Kibaraa Primary School and Kibaraa AIC Church.

Kenya Aid Programme is delighted to have been able to donate new school uniforms and equipment to our link project in Nairobi, Fort Smith Educational Centre.

A container of goods arrived in Nairobi in early June, containing school uniforms, classroom furniture, stationery and IT supplies donated by schools and offices in the UK.

“Please accept our gratitude for the kind donation that you sent to us. We the Fort Smith Education Center community has greatly benefited from the donation you sent. We write this note to thank you dearly for the generous contribution you gave us.Surely you have turned the small slum school into a center of excellence.” – Principal, Fort Smith School.  

Kenya Aid Programme returned to Kenya in May, this time to see in a container of donated educational equipment that we had collected, packed and shipped from the UK to Mombasa port via DHL Aid & Relief department in April.

Several barriers are encountered in shipping aid into Kenya, particularly with a customs bureaucracy that discourages the generosity of aid agencies. After several weeks of tough negotiations over arbitrary demands for payment at the port of Mombasa, our shipment of furniture and school supplies was finally on the road to our link projects in Nairobi and Kibugat at the beginning of June. For this eventual movement we thank Kenkal Ship & General Contractors Ltd.

Kenya Aid Programme returned to Fort Smith Education Centre in Nairobi to distribute school uniforms and stationery donated from the UK. For this we thank Kidzone in Melton Mowbray and Abbott Laboratories in Oxfordshire. We were also able to return to Barnardos in Nairobi and were shown around a new textile project being developed at the orphanage.