By Vic Hancock Fell
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We are thrilled to be able to announce that earlier this year, Danish charity Help Every Day, donated an amazing £25,000 to Raising Futures Kenya to support our work with specialist schools for children with disabilities. Help Every Day is a not-for-profit organisation that invites people around the world to make their compassion count […]
To all of our wonderful regular monthly donors – THANK YOU! Your regular support is invaluable to us, it enables us to plan our future work and to support even more young people in Kenya. The past year has been transformational for Raising Futures Kenya – we’ve changed our name from Vision Africa, registered […]
By Kirsty Erridge
Written by Sherry Waweru, Senior Programmes Officer at Raising Futures Kenya. Seed of Hope provides more than skills training to our young people across the counties we are working in Kenya. The majority of the young people have said that Seed of Hope has enabled them to grow; spiritually, mentally, emotionally and also in different […]
We are delighted to welcome Kirsty, our new Deputy UK Director, to Raising Futures Kenya. Kirsty has over 9 years’ experience in the charity sector, with a particular focus on international development in sub-Saharan Africa. “I’m really excited to join the Raising Futures Kenya team, especially at a time of exciting growth for the charity. […]
Back in March I received an unexpected message through our website from an entrepreneur who wanted to donate to Raising Futures Kenya through their business. This doesn’t happen to small charities like ours often, I was so excited! I replied right away and started to get to know the woman and the business behind […]
Raising Futures Kenya has been announced as the winner of National Small Charity Big Impact Awards 2019! On 21st June Raising Futures were announced as a winner of the national FSI Small Charity Big Impact Awards, fighting off competition from hundreds of other small charities. The award recognises the impact of our Seed […]
Update written by Sherry Waweru, Senior Programmes Officer The term begun well as learners reported back to school after spending the school holiday with their families. According to the head teacher of Kirunguru school, learners who board at the school always excited and eager to come back to as the school has become a safe […]
Update written by Sherry Waweru, Senior Programmes Officer Harrison joined Seed of Hope Kariti centre in January 2019 after being expelled from a college due to bad company that introduced him to drugs that made him miss classes regularly. When he came to Seed of Hope he was hopeless, dejected and feeling guilty since […]
Blog written by Sherry Waweru – Senior Programmes Officer, Raising Futures Kenya The month of May begun with lots of activities at Kirunguru and Percy Davies special schools as parents brought back their children for the second term after a one month recess. Apart from the daily lessons and physical therapies, both special schools […]
Blog written by Sherry Waweru – Senior Programmes Officer, Raising Futures Kenya Meet Abijah, a grade six student in one of the public schools in Embu County. She is the last born in a family of three. Abijah was placed in an orphanage at a tender age after both her parents died. Life took […]
