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Impact of Kenya drought

The Guardian reports “an estimated 2.1 million Kenyans face starvation due to a drought in half the country, which is affecting harvests.”   Whilst the impact of COVID-19 continues to impact unemployment and poverty levels in Kenya, many of our students in our two rural Seed of Hope training centres are now facing an even […]

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Meet the UK & Kenya team! 1st Dec 1-2pm

  As a valued member of our Raising Futures family we’d love to invite you to a special event to meet the team.   Join us online on Wednesday 1st December 1-2pm where you’ll hear from Andy, our Chair, sharing stories of our Seed of Hope graduates. Mary (Operations Director) and Florence (Seed of Hope […]

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By Kirsty Erridge

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By Kirsty Erridge

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Your donation DOUBLED! 30th Nov – 7th Dec

  For ONE WEEK ONLY your donation through the Big Give Christmas Challenge website will be DOUBLED!   One donation = twice the impact!   We are taking part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge – a fantastic matched funding opportunity where all donations to Raising Futures (made via the Big Give website) between 30th November […]

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Step Up September raises £2,380!

In September we launched our first virtual challenge, Step Up September – to walk, run or move 50 miles (80kms) in a month.   This is the distance between our Seed of Hope training centre in Nairobi and Kariti.   9 amazing people took up the challenge and covered 500 miles between them in a […]

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By Kirsty Erridge

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By Kirsty Erridge

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Step Up September

Walk, run, cycle or move 80km / 50 miles with our Step Up September challenge!   September means back to school in the UK, but 1.5 million young people under 25 in Kenya are out of the formal education system and unemployed, living in poverty.   Young people, particularly young girls, are at high risk […]

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New students join Seed of Hope 🌱 – July Update

It’s been an exciting few weeks here. We have welcomed our new cohort of students to Seed of Hope, the first time since January 2020! We also have some new Seed of Hope teachers who are very experienced and excited to be welcoming the new students. Our new Educational Business Hub construction is coming along […]

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By Kirsty Erridge

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By Kirsty Erridge

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Parents now able to pay 70% school fees!

As part of our Family Strengthening project (re-uniting children from children’s homes to their families) we have been empowering families to become financially independent so they can support their children to grow up at home, not in an orphanage.   We have been working with families over the last year to provide business skills and […]

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New Beginnings at Seed of Hope – May Update

Hello,   Welcome to our May update.   In March Kenya went into another lockdown, thankfully this has now been lifted and the vaccine rollout is well underway.   As I’m sure you understand, it will be a long time before things return to normal. Sadly unemployment has doubled in Kenya since COVID-19, with a […]

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By Kirsty Erridge

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By Kirsty Erridge

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Annual Report and Accounts 2020

Our Annual Report and Accounts 2020 have just been published on the Charities Commission website.    Our Chair, Andy King, shares his thoughts of 2020 in the report;   “Throughout this incredibly difficult year, we found ourselves increasingly drawn to the power of young Kenyans and their stories to keep us going. I personally found […]

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Dunfermline Rotary Club – Our Story

As we approach our 20th anniversary we’ve been asking our wonderful supporters to share their stories of how they first got involved.  Huge thanks to David Chalmers from Dunfermline Rotary Club for sharing their story.   Our first contact with Vision Africa (now Raising Futures Kenya) goes back to 2009 and came about through a […]

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