Category: Blog

  • Leo is off to University!

    Miss Leonidah Ayuma (pictured here with UK volunteer, Beckee) of the Mercy Home in Maseno, western Kenya has been accepted into a 2-year Business Management program at MMUST in Kakamega (Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology) C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S !!!Such awesome news.…

  • AVIF and Expedia

    AVIF webshop newsletter AVIF and Expedia Expedia is working with AVIF so that you can book a great break and raise funds for AVIF at the same time. Expedia will help you to create your perfect trip, if you need some help take a look at these offers. Visit Britain, bag a bargain! Book before: April…

  • Update from Marie 2009

    Marie has managed to email, here are her words: Hello to all my beautiful friends and family! I had so forgotten the long slow internet process – err if working at all! I have tried several times to download pics for you all – but have not had any luck so far. Time is flying!…

  • Mercy Home girls are on t’internet

    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,…

  • Kipepeo Butterfly Projects and card-making

    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…