What we do
Footsteps is focused on the transformation of Magunga Primary School
and the local community that surrounds it. To this end we have started
a number of initiatives:
Connection
of the school to running water
The school had no running water when Footsteps first arrived. Water
was collected from the river, 5 kilometers away, when there was
no supply of rain water.
Promoting ‘self reliance’ is key to the future of the
community. Therefore In partnership with the community we agreed
to connect the school to the mains supply if the community could
raise the money for an enormous water tank to be used in cases when
the mains water was not consistent.
Clean water saves lives and is a considerable step towards self
reliance.
Our aim is to help schools and medical centres have access to
clean running water.
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Local children filling their water cans
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School infrastructure
Through fundraising efforts in the UK and through
the distance adoption programme footsteps will give grants to the school
to help with teaching materials, building projects and other such items
as agreed.
Distance adoption programme
The distance adoption progamme
enables UK based families to take an active role in the future success
of a Kenyan child. This support greatly improves the chances for the child
to become a successful, active and contributing member of the community.
An child that finishes their primary education is less than half as likely
to contract HIV. Education is one of the best weapons in the fight against
AIDS.
Footsteps
cyber cafe
The aims of the cyber cafe are two-fold:
- To provide gainful employment
- Generate funds for distribution to community schemes like
- Education
- Development of individuals within the community.
Rafiki programme
The Rafiki programme takes UK based volunteers
to Kenya to work in the school during the summer holidays. No experience
of teaching is necessary, just bags of enthusiasm and a willingness
to get stuck in. |
Footsteps cyber cafe, Nairobi |
This year's programme is being carried out in conjunction
with another UK based charity, relayNET.
Together we are running a programme of sport, art, education for non-violence,
natural medicine, solar cooking and a school trip to visit the hippos
and the local museum among other things!
Medical
facility
We are working on plans to build a medical facility
in the Magunga area that will be able to treat out patients in phase
one and expanding in subsequent phases to take male and female in-patients.
For more information on any of the above contact
us here.
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Proposed medical facility |
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