Author: tyfairclough

Preparations are underway and folks are getting excited about this years Summer Programme of volunteering. 3 young ladies from UK will be spending a month with the Maasai Askari Enkito village in Amboseli. There was “a relocation, in February 2010, of 7,000 wilderbeest and zebras by the Kenyan wildlife Service to Amboseli National Park, famed…

Early this year one of our long-term volunteers, Zoe, as well as friends, organised a fundraiser and raised money to send to the Rabuor Self Help Group near Kisumu, western Kenya. Funds were handed over during my visit in April and Tony Odek, director of the group has now updated us with progress on the…

I would like to thank Deby Atkinson of Paca and Mary Wright, a trustee of AVIF, for organising a fantastic fundraising event last night in Harrogate. Mary (right), who a few hours later jetted off to Armenia with A2HW.org.uk, was helping us raise money towards the shipping costs of sending an entire container-full of surgical…

Within a few hours we’d unfortunately received word that the Ukwala High School in Nyanza Province had suffered from a major fire in the student dorm on Monday. Fortunately no one was hurt but Pius Onyango Mbeka studies there. Pius (now 18) lived with his mother and brothers and sisters in Kano, Kisumu. Two of…