Kate Wilkinson

Charity

Kenyan Schools Project - We are a husband and wife team called Bill & Lynn Morris from Ellesmere, Shropshire who travel to Kenya twice a year currently helping eleven schools, five orphanages & one other charity called Feed The Children in Dagoretti, near Nairobi. We supply educational and sports supplies, which are donated by people in the UK, then sent out to Kenya where we distribute them ourselves to all the children we are helping. We have been travelling to Kenya since 2004 and have been a registered charity since February 2007. KSP have raised funding to complete numerous projects such as a kitchen and toilet refurbishment, solar powered lighting, new floors and even provided electricity. We have also donated over 1,700 desks which are made by local carpenters in Kenya. The desks are only £20 to sponsor so they make a great gift for Xmas, Birthdays or even a memorial for the loss of a loved one. If you are interested in sponsoring a desk for just £20 please visit our website click on 'Donate' and you will be able to download our desk sponsorship form. Simply fill it out and send back to us with payment. When the desk is made and delivered to the chosen school you will receive an emailed image of two pupils proudly sitting at your donated desk. Not only are you making a 100 per cent donation you are providing work for Kenyan carpenters and helping them feed their families. and we want to raise more so we can continue to change the lives of children in Kenya. Please visit our website: www.kenyanschoolsproject.co.uk Thank you for visiting our Virgin Money Giving Page.
Kenyan Schools Project
We are a husband and wife team called Bill & Lynn Morris from Ellesmere, Shropshire who travel to Kenya twice a year currently helping eleven schools, five orphanages & one other charity called Feed The Children in Dagoretti, near Nairobi. We supply educational and sports supplies, which are donated by people in the UK, then sent out to Kenya where we distribute them ourselves to all the children we are helping. We have been travelling to Kenya since 2004 and have been a registered charity since February 2007. KSP have raised funding to complete numerous projects such as a kitchen and toilet refurbishment, solar powered lighting, new floors and even provided electricity. We have also donated over 1,700 desks which are made by local carpenters in Kenya. The desks are only £20 to sponsor so they make a great gift for Xmas, Birthdays or even a memorial for the loss of a loved one. If you are interested in sponsoring a desk for just £20 please visit our website click on 'Donate' and you will be able to download our desk sponsorship form. Simply fill it out and send back to us with payment. When the desk is made and delivered to the chosen school you will receive an emailed image of two pupils proudly sitting at your donated desk. Not only are you making a 100 per cent donation you are providing work for Kenyan carpenters and helping them feed their families. and we want to raise more so we can continue to change the lives of children in Kenya. Please visit our website: www.kenyanschoolsproject.co.uk Thank you for visiting our Virgin Money Giving Page.

Event details

03 September 2011

I am fundraising as a personal challenge. My challenge is climbing Kilimanjaro...to build a kindergarten for a school in Kenya!



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Kate's climbing Kili for Kenya

Fundraiser: 
Kate Wilkinson

My page: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/KateWilkinson2

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I am climbing Mount Kilimanjaro on the 25th August 2011 to help build and fit out a kindergarten classroom for children aged 4-6 years with the Kenyan Schools Project. (Registered charity 1117886) The school is called Mbuwani Primary School in Ukunda, near Mombasa. After a dream New Year spent on safari I stayed in Diani Beach where I visited a couple of primary schools. The children are taught in large classes and have one textbook for every six children.  They get to school at 7am to clean the school before lessons. Despite this, they are still highly motivated to learn and achieve. I want to do something to help children in the area have a better place to learn and more resources to use.

The Kenyan Schools Project is a small charity whose previous projects include one similar to my proposed project at the Mvindeni Primary School, providing solar panels to a school in Nairobi, donating books and teddies to an orphanage and their sponsor a desk scheme. (www.kenyanschoolsproject.co.uk)

Desks cost £20, buy a brick for £5, a window will cost £50 and a door £80, the roof is costing a whopping £1115!! All of the work is going to be done by local builders, using a local architect and will provide young children with a better start to their education, which they value immensely.

Kilimanjaro is going to be a challenge in itself with the prospect of altitude being an unknown.....not that many places I can acclimatise in the UK as its 5895m above sea level!!! Please help me raise enough money to build the kindergarten in Kenya and I promise to reach the summit! (Coming down with my knees may be the problem!!) Kate xx

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Recent donors

30.10.11 Edinburgh teaching

06.09.11 Well done, I hope you are extremely proud of yourself.

03.09.11

26.08.11 All the best Kate!

25.08.11 From friends in Hillies

23.08.11 Good luck Kate I know you will do well

21.08.11 Happy climbing in Kenya.

21.08.11 Best of luck kate

16.08.11 Go Kate!

14.08.11 From boot sale no 3....

12.08.11 from alan S & books etc...

09.08.11 Good Luck. Enjoy every moment, its amazing!!

02.08.11 I guess this only represents 2 bricks but I'm hoping that every little bit helps! Hope the altitude doesn't get you and that your're successful with the Kili climb.

23.07.11 Keep going!

22.07.11 I think this is an amazing thing to do - Well done you! x

19.07.11 Great cause, Kate, go for it!

13.07.11 Some money for the crates and a bit extra as well! Good luck from me and a "woof" from Toby

02.07.11 Good luck Kate, you are almost there!

28.06.11 Good luck Kate. Its a great cause and you will be fine. Just worried that your new fitness level will make you even tougher on my hams!

26.06.11 From sue t

26.06.11 Car boot sale!!

19.06.11 This is a terrific project! Good luck, Kate.

15.06.11 Hi Kate - sorry havent' gotten round to doing this sooner just been manically busy! You're doing such a good thing for the school - where we stayed in Amboseli we were really near the bottom and you could see the whole mountain! good luck!

14.06.11 Go for it Kate!

13.06.11 What an adventure. Lucky you and lucky children too. Perfect!

12.06.11 Good for you Kate and good luck! Wendy

12.06.11 Congratulations on raising so much and good luck with killimanjaro

08.06.11 Your Mum told me about what you are doing and I think it is great.

08.06.11

06.06.11 Great stuff Kate. Best wishes for a successful climb and a successful project.

06.06.11 Good luck, Kate.

05.06.11 Good luck Kate.

04.06.11 Enfield chase Rotary fete fundraising

03.06.11 I hope you get to the top AND the bottom! A very exciting challenge and an excellent cause. We're moving out so if you're having any more sales let me know!

03.06.11 From the Rotary club of Edmonton members and the car boot sale!

02.06.11 Good luck Kate. Hope the climb goes well (rather you than me). L. x

01.06.11 Good luck Kate, a great cause. x

17.05.11 Go Kate!! You'll run up Kili knowing you. x

10.05.11 Good luck Kate. This is really from your dad as I owe him the money!

07.05.11 Wishing you the very best of luck.

20.04.11 GOOD LUCK! thank you so much for all the help and support over the last 3 years, couldn't of done it without you :)

13.04.11 maybe more later!!

05.04.11 Good Luck, you are doing an amazing thing, go for it!

04.04.11 Good luck and well done young lady

28.03.11 Good Luck Kate! What an amazing challenge, I can't wait to hear about it when you get back x

26.03.11 Good Luck Kate!

25.03.11

£6,364.00

Running total

Target:
£7,000.00
Total raised incl. Gift Aid:
£6,815.09
Total donors:
47
Biggest donor:
Anonymous
£2,000.00  
Last donor:
Kate Wilkinson 30.10.11  
Offline fundraising:
£0.00
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