Author: tyfairclough

We’re all totally buzzing here over receiving an email from Leonidah Ayuma, one of the talented, gorgeous girls living at the Mercy Home in Maseno, Kenya, our main hosts. Our fabulous 2007 volunteers who set up the Home’s Foundation have only just got over the shock of receiving our first “Report” from Edward Mbenda Buyengo,…

Tomorrow I attend a meeting with Nidderdale High School, my childrens school, about a cross cultural project we’re part of. Local primary schools, Glasshouses and St Cuthberts, along with 3 primary schools on the Kenyan Coast are taking part in a DFID funded exchange program initiating curriculum activities promoting Global Dimensions education between the two…

Zoe, AVIF volunteer in 2007 and active member of the Mercy Home Foundation was enrolled to do the Edinburgh Marathon at the end of May alongside James. Unfortunately Zoe was injured in training .. but “determined to start again … and entered the British 10km run on 12 July”. Zoe’s hoping to raise £1000 for…

Marie’s now upcountry in Kisumu and wrote to update us : ” Greetings from Kisumu! The first time I have made it to an internet cafe!!!So a short note of whats been happening……. I spent a wonderful day at Ingrids Education Centre in Nairobi – where they have now 6 little iron classes – I was…

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