Originally established as a makeshift school in the Eldoret showground IDP camp in 2008, St. Elizabeth has continued as a permanent facility. The remaining transition camp continues to be ‘home’ to the majority of students at the school following the post-election troubles.

The installation and wiring of electricity by The Kenya Power & Lighting Company Limited (KPLC) will improve the learning environment for existing students, as well as opening up a number of possibilities for the future, such as computer learning.

The surplus uniforms from Kidzone, Melton Mowbray were delivered by a team from Kenya Aid Foundation 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.

Kenya Aid Foundation 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.

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.  

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 Foundation 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.

A team from Kenya Aid Foundation visited projects in Nairobi and Eldoret during a visit in December 2009.

The Foundation visited schools in Nairobi, Eldoret, Iten, and Naivasha, and also Eldoret transition camp. A number of sites were also put forward for our water pump project in Eldoret.

Thank you for a warm welcome!

Kenya Aid Foundation would like to thank St. Elizabeth School, Lorwa School and Kipkaren School for a warm welcome in Eldoret. In addition, our best wishes go to Arise and Shine Academy in Iten, to Naivasha Highway Primary School, and to Fort Smith Educational Centre and Barnardos orphanage in Nairobi.

We also extend our thanks to Cokethorpe School in Oxfordshire, and to Abbots Bromley Girls School in Staffordshire, on whose behalf we were able to deliver Christmas shoeboxes, books, stationery and school uniforms to children in Kenya.

“It has been a pleasure supporting your charity.” – Maureen Marchbank, Charity Coordinator, Cokethorpe School, UK.

The team visited Barnardos orphanage and several schools in Nairobi, including Fort Smith Educational Centre. A further trip was made to visit Kibugat Community Projects. Several projects submitted proposals for support from the Kenya Aid Foundation, and we look forward to providing assistance where we can.

The team also received a ’sotet’ as a gift while in Kibugat. This traditional milk guord / calablash is central to the life of the Kipsigis and Kalenjin tribes as a milk storage facility and an extension to their love of cattle rearing for milk. We are told that the ’sotet’ is given to people to bless the productivity of their work.