Feed School Children in Kenya

Another school year has started in Kenya (albeit two weeks late due to a nationwide teacher's strike) and, thanks to your support, our pupil feeding programme is continuing too.

We are still feeding 1,200 pupils (including all 400 pre-school/kindergaten children) every school day with a meal of rice or maize and beans. This equates to around 6,000 meals a week.

Ultimately we have ambitions to extend the feeding programme to reach all pupils, to ensure that no child is left to learn on an empty stomach, and we hope that we will be feeding all 2,400 pupils each day by the end of the year. However this requires an enormous financial commitment (at least £4,700/$7,300 per month) and we have to be sure that we are able to maintain and sustain the programme at this level.

We continue to secure donations, like yours, through our project page on GlobalGiving and we have had a number of donations from our institutional funders in the UK. Furthermore, we are in discussions with one of our corporate supporters who have pledged 50% of the funds required to meet the cost of delivering the programme throughout 2016 & 2017 on the condition that we raise the remaining balance from other sources in the next few months.

The head teachers of our partner schools in Kenya continue to feedback to us on the impact of the programme, and they are reporting increased enrolment and attendance levels, in particular. The head teacher of Bungule Primary School, Lennox Mshila, where we have been feeding all 350 pupils since January 2014 had the following to say recently:

"Thank you once more for the lunch programme. It has zero-rated the problem of absenteeism and 99% of students were able to sit exams".

Thank you for helping to make this possible.