About us
Kipawa Trust International is a charity dedicated to the creation, maintenance and development of feeding programmes and counseling facilities for impoverished school children in Kenya. How we started: Kipawa was set up and registered in the UK by a group of friends who had spent time in the Thika district of Kenya. During their time [...]
The Team
Find out about the Kipawa team below and visit the contact page if you wish to get in touch. So far, the team consists of the initial five trustees. Most of the trustees have already spent time getting involved in volunteering work in Kenya, and while there, have visited the schools that Kipawa intends to [...]
Donate
Please consider making a donation. We want to see the children of Kenya use our feeding and counseling programmes, ultimately encouraging them to stay at school and benefit from their education. Kipawa makes use of virginmoneygiving.com a new fundraising website that helps charities and fundraisers raise more money online, without taking a penny in profit. [...]
About us
Kipawa Trust International is a charity dedicated to the creation, maintenance and development of feeding programmes and counseling facilities for impoverished school children in Kenya. How we started: Kipawa was set up and registered in the UK by a group of friends who had spent time in the Thika district of Kenya. During their time there, they had witnessed a real need for additional feeding facilities and facilities at schools targeted largely at its slum children. With support from friends and other contacts in Kenya, they decided to establish a charity to help address some of these problems. Our plan: Kipawa has determined a need for several feeding programmes in existing schools in the Thika district of Kenya, about 45 miles north of Nairobi. These feeding programmes, as well as being of value in themselves, have the additional benefit of encouraging children to attend school. As of Autumn 2010, we have determined a suitable school for the first of these programmes, and now require...
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Kipawa & Macheo presentation
Macheo & Kipawa March 12In February, our friend Marnix Huis in’t Veld from our partner organisation Macheo came to visit some of the trustees in Edinburgh. During a series of events in February 2012, Marnix met some of our supporters and helped us spread the word to new audience through a series of presentations. The slides from those sessions are attached Read More
Autumn 2011 trip to Kenya
Two of our trustees, Kirsty and Kieran flew out to Kenya to visit the feeding programme at Mukuya School in September. It was important for us to see what progress our charity is making and to find out what Kipawa could do to improve things or to further assist the children there. They were treated to a fantastic welcome by the entire school, including songs and poems of thanks. Without your donations we wouldn’t be able to support this school and the entire community were keen that...
Kipawa Quiz Night!
The inaugural Kipawa Quiz Night is finally here. Please come along and support our first ever fundraising event! Venue – Bangholm Rugby Club, Craighall Gardens, Edinburgh EH6 4RH Time 7.30-10.30pm (bar will be open after that too) Cost £3.50 a head (max 6 per team) Great prizes and raffle on the night Read More
