🎅 Happy Christmas! Thanks for all your support this year. 🎅
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We are delighted to have four lovely Christmas card designs to choose from this year. All are priced at £4 for a pack of 10 and the message inside them all reads "With Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year". To order, please email your choice of cards (Crafty Robin, We Three Kings, A Child Is Born, Santa and Presents) and your name and address to kipawacharity@gmail.com. Payment can be made by cheque or bank transfer (we'll email you details when we receive your order). Thank you to MainStreet Consulting for choosing Kipawa as one of their charities to support this Christmas! Happy Christmas from everyone at Kipawa.
http://mainstreetconsulting.co.uk/charity/ Did you know that today - Saturday 19th November 2016 - is World Toilet Day? You may not even have been aware that there was a World Toilet Day? However, the lack of toilets and decent sanitation in Kenya and in other countries across the world, is a very serious health issue. Throughout the world,
Our Kipawa Christmas Appeal We have been so pleased in 2016 to have begun working with a second primary school in the Ruiru area - Oaklands School. Oaklands School is a more rural school than Mukuyu and is on a coffee plantation. The school's buildings and facilities are in a fairly run-down state, much like Mukuyu was five years ago. The toilets are in such a bad state - the back wall has collapsed - that they can't be used. This means that the children have to use the bush, which is unsanitary and, particularly for the girls, unsafe.
How can you help? This Christmas we would love to give the gift of new, safe toilets to the children at Oaklands School - and what better day to kickstart our Christmas Appeal than on World Toilet Day? It will cost around £7,500 to build two new toilet blocks for the girls and boys at Oaklands School but whatever little you can give will go a long way to helping.
Happy World Toilet Day from everyone at Kipawa!
We are delighted that once again, we have Kipawa Christmas cards for sale and have three attractive designs to choose from:
All three designs come in cellophane-wrapped packs of 10 cards and cost £3.99 per pack. The greeting inside each card reads "With Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year" and each card features an acknowledgment that the card was purchased to support Kipawa. How to order To order, please email us, including the following details:
Payment Cards cost £3.99 per pack of 10. If possible, please pay by bank transfer to: Kipawa Trust International Sort Code: 20- 29-23 Account Number: 33368750 IBAN: GB71 BARC 2029 2333 3687 50 SWIFTBIC: BARCGB22 Please put 'Christmas cards' in the reference If you want to pay by cheque, they should be made payable to 'Kipawa Trust International' and sent to Clare Jones, Fidra, Main Street, Gullane, EH31 2HD. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with any questions or queries. Thank you to the 27 donors who dug so deeply and donated over £3,600 for our new Kickstarter class. There were a few donors who were exceptionally generous – McGinness Associates, Main Street Consulting and Sam McGinness - so a special thanks to them. For those of you who don’t know, the Kickstarter class will aim to help reintegrate children who have dropped out of school or who have never attended school in the first place, back into the school environment. These are often the kids who are least well off and they will benefit from a smaller class size, focussed intervention and dedicated social worker support. Once they are ready the children will rejoin their peer group in regular classes. The great news is that we have raised more than our target and so we will be going forward as quickly as possible to get this new class off the ground. The first step will be to build a new classroom for the class – our success with the feeding programme has meant that the other classrooms are very full. At the same time, our partners in Kenya will be identifying children who would benefit most from the programme. We will keep you posted as the work progresses. In the meantime, here’s a message from the kids.  Four weeks ago we launched our Christmas Appeal to raise £2,500 to fund a new Kickstarter class at Mukuyu school. I am delighted to let you know that we have raised £3,168.75 which is well over our target and will allow us to help even more vulnerable children get back into school and kickstart their education. The Virgin Money Giving page is still open if you haven't managed to give yet, or donations can still be made into our bank account: Barclays Bank Sort Code: 20-29-23 Account Number: 3368750 Please mention “Christmas Kickstarter Appeal” in the reference. So this is what the children want to tell you. They say it so much better than we could. On behalf of everyone at Kipawa and all the staff, pupils and families of Mukuyu School thank you for giving the gift of education this Christmas.  Kipawa's Christmas Appeal this year is raising funds to support a new 'Kickstarter class' in Mukuyu School. A Kickstarter class is designed to help reintegrate kids that have missed large parts of their schooling back into the school environment. These are often the children who are least well-off and who will benefit most from the smaller class size, social work support and focussed intervention to Kickstart their education.  So far, we are delighted to say we have managed to raise £2,046.25 – over 80% of the total of £2,500 needed to set up the class! Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed so far.
We know it's an expensive time of year for many of you, but please support us if you can – whatever you can give will really make a difference to the lives of all the children that get a second chance at an education. You can donate either by visiting our Virgin Money Giving Page here or by transferring funds directly to our bank account: Barclays Bank Sort Code: 20-29-23 Account Number: 3368750 Please mention “Christmas Kickstarter Appeal” in the reference. Thank you to everyone who has supported our vital work this year.  Thanks to your very generous donations, we have already raised nearly 40% of our Christmas Appeal fundraising target! We are very grateful, but there's still a way to go. This year we are raising money to open a Kickstarter class in Mukuyu School. A kickstarter class is designed to help reintegrate kids that have missed large parts of their schooling back into the school environment. These are often the children who are least well off in the community and they will benefit from a smaller class size, focussed intervention and dedicated social worker support. Once they are ready, the children will helped to rejoin their peer group in regular classes. We need to raise at least £2,500 to get this idea off the ground. Please help these vulnerable children to Kickstart their education. You can donate either by visiting our Virgin Money Giving page here http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fund/KipawaChristmasKickstarter, or by transferring funds directly to Kipawa's bank account. Details are as follows: Barclays Bank Sort Code: 20-29-23 Account Number: 3368750 Please mention “Christmas Kickstarter Appeal” in the reference. Please share this post or our Facebook page with your friends. Thank you once again for your support.
Firstly, we want to say thank you for your support since we started Kipawa in 2010. You have helped us to:
Here’s what the kids want to tell you: This year, our Christmas Appeal is to raise funds for a Kickstarter class and we are asking you to support us once again.
A Kickstarter class is designed to help reintegrate kids that have missed large parts of their schooling back into the school environment. These are often the children who are least well off in the community and they will benefit from a smaller class size, focussed intervention and dedicated social worker support. Once they are ready, the children will helped to rejoin their peer group in regular classes. We need to raise £2,500 to Kickstart this idea. Please help these vulnerable children to Kickstart their education. You can donate either by visiting our Virgin Money Giving page here http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fund/KipawaChristmasKickstarter, or by transferring funds directly to Kipawa's bank account. Details are as follows: Barclays Bank Sort Code: 20-29-23 Account Number: 3368750 Please mention “Christmas Kickstarter Appeal” in the reference. Thank you, once again, for your support. |
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