Diary for Education is Light


Justin and Wycliffe`s wall!!

2007-08-19

Well another night has passed when I have woken at about 3am thinking about Justin and Wycliffe`s bedroom wall, or should I say lack of it! I can`t believe that we left Mtwapa without doing anything about it really, so I have a plan........ Croft Car Boot!!

Pray for sunshine on Sunday 2nd September as Me, Gail and Mum Fletcher are going to Croft to do a car boot sale!

Mum Fletcher was already going to do a car boot to raise funds for Hamisis and Abdallas house improvements so thought we could combine the project and once we have hit Mum`s 250 target the rest will start the bricks in the wall for Justins house. Last time we did car boot we raised over 360 quid!

If any of you are at a loose end and want to come and buy something off us you will be very welcome, even more so if you come along armed with a flask of tea!! Also if you have any expensive things you would like us to sell please feel free to donate them!! Alternatively if you like the sound of singing birds at 6am on a Sunday morning come and set up a stall next to ours, we could lay the foundations together!!


Meet the sponsored children

2007-08-24

Here are some pictures of the 35 sponsored children. As you can see their ages vary greatly, as do their personal circumstance. They are all simply great kids who just love to learn.

Enjoy the photo`s.


Photographs from our most recent visit July 2007

2007-08-25

We spent 2 weeks with the sponsored children in July along with 31 staff and students from John Cleveland College. The sponsored children had a wonderful time and made lots of new friends.

It is impossible to pick out any one particular high of the visit, please enjoy the photographs as we feel that they really summarise the grwat time the sponsored children had for the two weeks.

Some of our best memories are:

Touring the village was such an emotional experience for all involved... and a shock for our students to actually see inside the mud huts that the children of Mtwapa live in, that experience certainly made us all value the things we take for granted here in Hinckley. Giving out presents to the children of the village that don`t go to school was also a very special time, as was hosting the sponsored children at the hotel for the day, it was great to see how quickly they became confident jumping into the pool and their enjoyment at being treated to chicken and chips.... the differences really hit home when some of the sponsored children wrapped up their piece of chicken to take home to their family.

Other great times were face painting 9the sponsored kids were always at the front of the cue!), circus skills days, sports on the field, all taught by JCC students, music lessons and the JCC students doing their very own assembly.

Another great expericence was the football tournament for all the local schools, many of the sponsored children played - Vidzo (who missed a penalty!!), Samson, Shaddrack in goal and Joseph.

By the final game there must have been 1000 spectators, most of the players were in bare feet as they have no shoes and everytime a goal was scored it was pure excitement and a full pitch invasion.... many people sommersaulting across the pitch - this in particular brought a tear to my eye.

If you would like to visit your sponsored child then we can easily arrange for that. Simply book a package deal to any of the North Coast Mombasa hotels (particular areas to aim for would be: bamburi, Nyali, kikimbala, Shanzu). Let us know the dates you will be arriving and we will arange for Moses to pick you up from the hotel and give you the grand tour of the village, school and indeed the home of the child you sponsor. you could visit Mtomondoni for an afternoon, a day or your entire holiday if you wish!


Introducing Mapenzi - our new recruit.

2007-08-26

Please find below an extract from an email from Rehab the director of mtwapa Academy regarding mapenzi, the most recently sponsored child. She will start school in September 2007.

Thankyou for catching Mapenzi from list that Reuben gave you.

Mapenzi is realy a case of concern to me also.

She is totaly orphaned .

She has 8 brothers and 2 sisters.

Her elder brother is a standard 4 dropout , I sponsor (With what i can )the second brother who is in High school,The third brother is in Mtomondoni primary school,

The other 2 are in Mtwapa Academy on our support.

The Elder sister is married and the oth youngest sister is in mtwapa Academy supported by us in KG1.

They live with their elderly Grand mother and meal a day is by grace of God.

Right now i inted to take them to the Hospital because their wole bodies are full of Rushes from the poor eating orders and diets and health conditions at home.Anyway ,Sarah/Gail you have arround and you know what i mean hrere.

I attach her picture and the markes you might be able to notice on the hands are now so multiplied.

Thankyou for your time and God bless you untill you want no more.

Good after noon.-Rahab Rugendo.


Welcome our two new recruits - Sheila & Albert

2007-12-09

Well we are now up to 37 sponsored children at Mtwapa Academy.  The two newest students are called Sheila and Albert. 

Albert will be starting standard 1 next year and Sheila will be in Standard 6.  Both children were in dire need of help therefore being part of the programme is going to be very much appreciated. 

We are just awaiting some more details from Mtwapa Academy so watch this space.


A big Christmas in Mtwapa

2007-12-16

Well we have just sent the second order of Christmas pressies through to Moses..... and what an order.  The families in the sponsorship programme are going to have the Christmas of a lifetime, thats for sure!

The tally of items so far is as follows:

So much stuff that Moses is going to have to hire a lorry, he can`t drive so that should be fun!

The families are going to have a big party at the Garden Bar when they will receive their Christmas gifts and a soda, as well as a chance for a bit of boogie!!

Gartree School are also donating some money so that every child at mtwapa Academy can have a soda and a present on the last day of school.

In addition to all that good news the sponsorship programme is going well and has now grown to 37 kids - Albert and Sheila are the latest recruits!

Thanks so much to everyone who has helped to make Christmas this year in Mtwapa a very memorable one

xx


Mambo!,`habari ya Christmas`?

2007-12-28

Hope everyone has had a very merry xmas, I know some people that have!!

Hi! Gail and Sara.
  Thanks for the money you sent last Sunady 23rd,i safely collected it on Monday 24th.                    Mambo!,`habari ya Christmas`? Hoping that you  both had a good Christmas with every body at home,us too.With me i was very busy the whole day,yesterday issuing out the goats,the chicken to parents and kids and also treating the kids at the Garden bar.Thanks God the goats arrived in time infact by Monday 24th the goats were at school/they slept in one of the classes then i went  with the chicken at school in the morning Tuesday,25th the very Christmas day,in the afternoon i called back the kids and we went to the Garden bar for the sodas/sweets and finally gave out their money.I had also done other shoppinngs i.e charcoal,jikos,mats,cooking pots,plates and cups and i was waiting for the rest of the money to finish up with the shopping of the other items.It`s ok as you had said on the rest of the money,also here in Kenya the government have declared a public holiday as from Christmas up to Friday 28th,so all banks are closed and almost all shops are closed.Tommorrow 27th all Kenyas are going out to vote for the next president,MPs and councillors to serve for the next 5 years.If you send the money before Friday this week and the banks/western Union agents are opened by Saturday 29th then i can issue the rest of the gifts by Sunday,if it will be hard for you to make it over this week then we can make it early next week.
         NOTE; During yesterday occassion 4 kids were absent due to un avoidable circumstances i.e they had travelled with their parents/gurdians to visit their relatives far away from Mtwapa and they had not yet returned by yesterday,their names are; Shadrack,Baraka,Happy and Mapenzi.
                   However am told that they should all be back by 3rd January.Soon they are back i will give them their presents and take their pictures.
          Good news,the Std 8 (KCPE) results rae out!!! and Mary has passed with 294 marks out out of 500.The following are the actuall marks according to subject and grades attaine in each subject.
               Subject               marks        grade
            (1)English                61              B-                         
            (2)Maths                 46               C-
            (3)Kiswahili              67              B
            (4)Science               53              C
            (5)Social studies       67             B
                             Total      294
 
                  Hopefully,Mary will get a chance to join secondary school (form 1) next year 2008,by February next year the admission letters will be out and its when we will get the fee structurs and any other kind of requirement.
                  Lastly,Gail and Sara ,all the parents and kids have sent their greatest Chrismas greeting to all the sponsors,today this afternoon i happened to visit some of the kids hope to see what they have done for their goats and chicken and so them feasting and cooking.Infact some of the parents after slaughtering thr goats they invited their neighbours to feast together!!! i have taken pictures while going round some of the homes for you to see.I also thankyou for my goat,we slaughtered it and cooked pilau with and invited my inlaws.Merry Christmas too and a Happy New year.
                         Bye for now,take care with lots of love,from
                                                                           Moses.

 


No news is good news!

2008-01-02

Hi everyone. 

I`m sure you are all aware that there are some political issues in Kenya at the minute, infact many of you have been asking us if everyone in mtwapa is ok.  At present we are still awaiting word from Moses, Raymond and Daniel in Kikimbala and Mtwapa Academy. 

We presume that we have not heard from them as they are struggling to get a line through to England or indeed that there is nowhere to buy phone credit as the shops are all closed.  Moses only puts credit on his phone when he actuially needs to make a call. 

We have however been watching the news very closely and surfing the net for news and as yet there has been no mention of Mtwapa - we figure no news is good news!  The trouble in mombasa has been mainly focussed around Likoni which is a port area about 30 minutes from Mtwapa.  We will post a message as soon as we have heard from Moses so that you all know everything is ok.

The issues have arisen due to the election results for the new President of the country, we have included some information so that you understand the background to the problems.

Political veteran Mwai Kibaki, he was the President when we were out there, claimed victory in controversial presidential elections in December 2007. His swearing-in for a second term in office prompted a wave of unrest across the country.

His rival for the post of president, opposition candidate Raila Odinga, rejected Kibaki`s victory and accused the government of rigging the result.

International observers also expressed doubts about the poll, and called for an independent enquiry.

Mr Kibaki first came to power when he won a landslide election victory in December 2002, promising to fight endemic corruption and to address Kenya`s economic woes.

His election victory marked the end of almost 40 years of Kanu party rule, and it was third time lucky for Mr Kibaki, who lost two elections in the 1990s. The constitution barred his predecessor, Daniel arap Moi, from standing. Mr Kibaki`s National Rainbow Coalition (Narc) won a parliamentary majority.

Economic recovery has accompanied Mr Kibaki`s leadership. Economic growth in 2006 was 6.1%, compared with 0.6% when he took over.

But despite the tough talk about graft, his government has become mired in a major corruption scandal. Former and current ministers have been implicated in an alleged scam involving shadowy deals and large sums of public money.

The president was thwarted over another key policy when voters rejected a proposed new constitution in 2005. Mr Kibaki had portrayed it as modernising measure; critics said the charter left too much power in his hands.

A respected economist, Mwai Kibaki served as finance minister and vice president in the 1970s and 1980s. He left Kanu in 1991 and founded the Democratic Party.

Mwai Kibaki was born in 1931 and hails from Kenya`s largest tribe, the Kikuyu. He studied in Uganda and Britain before joining the push for Kenya`s independence in the 1960s. He became an MP in 1963.

 

We hope that we will be able to let you know soon that everything is ok.


Everyones ok

2008-01-07

At last we have heard from Moses and received the fantastic news that all of our friends in Mtwapa are safe and well! Thank god it appears that Mtwapa has not been too badly affected at present, lets all keep our fingers crossed that it stays that way . Many thanks to everyone for the concern shown and constant enquiries about our friends out in Africa. Here is Moses`s e mail for you all to read.

Hi! Gail and Sara.

             Happy New Year!!! thanks God we`ve all seen the New Year,and i hope you all ushered in well the  New Year 2008. Sorry for all the disturbances and worry you`ve both been having about the situation here in Kenya,really it sounds bad and scarery when you read and here about it.Today i want to assure you that am very much ok with my family and all of our sponsored kids with their parents.Briefly i`d like to tell you  how it all started.I hope i had earlier informed you of the general elections our country was holding on 27th Dec.07 and we were waiting for the final results which were announced on 30th Dec.Unfortunately the final results didn`t come out according to what the Kenyans  were expecting it was vice  versa especially on the presidential results,almost all Kenyans were expecting the then president to be voted out but it wasn`t the case,they are allegations that the electrol commision of Kenya helped the then presindent to rig the election results and made him to be the president unlike the Kenyan wishes. As a result it brought about skirmishes,chaos and hooliganism among the Kenyans and especially the opposition who want the president to resign on the other hand the president has refused to resign.Actually the problems are mainly in the big cities i.e in the central business districts of  the country major towns and cities,Mombasa included,more than 300 people have died so far across the country and hunderds injured though the government security is trying to calm down the situation.As a result it has therefore made almost all shops closed,all cybers and internet cafes closed,all banks closed for almost a week now and its only today some of the businesses have started to reopen,this has further resulted to an increase in almost all commodities to almost double price and even it was hard to get a phone credit card from the shops.                                  Thanks God the situation in Mtwapa is not bad,there is no chaos though shops were closed but as from today they have started to reopen.Due to the current Kenyan situation the government has today announced that all schools will reopen on 14th January but not 7th January thus the reopening date has been postponed.Hopefully next week Monday all banks and western union agents will resume their business,i was in town today to check whether i could get a bank or western agent open but they were all closed,soon they are open i`ll collect the remaining x-mas gift money you sent and let you know , infact the situation in town was abit tense when i was i town though they are police patrols in every corner of the town to stop any kind of violence.                            Please tell Amy that she should not worry on her coming to Kenya as soon as she arrives i`ll be with her all the time and looking after her,i know all the places of going in and not going in especially outside Mtwapa,in generally Mtwapa is cool and peacefull and businesses are returning to normal.               p.s There might be delayance in the parcel arrival which i had sent due to christmas and the election problems but i believe it will soon reach you,please let me know soon you receive it.                     I`ll send to you all the pictures on the x-mas gifts giving out soon i collect the rest of the remaining money and do the remaining shopping.                              With that i say,thanks for your concern on me,my family and the kids we are all safe and we and continue praying for peace all over Kenya.Take care,with lots of love,   from,       Moses.


News from Mtwapa and Thank-you Val

2008-01-15

We would just like to start by saying a massive big thank-you to one of our sponsors Val Murphy who has kindly fundraised 135 pounds to help towards building Wycliffes and Justin`s house, that brings us up to a grand total of 743 pounds towards the project.  Thats great especially if you read the information below that we have received from moses today about the project.  Thanks to everyone for their help with getting some land and building a house for ALL the Benson`s!!  The car-boots and individual donations will be life changing!

We have today received an email from Moses, we thought you would all like to see some of the latest news from Mtwapa.......

 We have also included some of the most recent photo`s sent from Moses in the last week:

  Birth certificates; Am happy to tell you that so far I have made good progress in obtaining the above certificates and am now on the last stages of the process of which I was told by the head officer of registration of births that they should be ready to collect before the end of this week thereafter we will start on the second stage i.e. passport processing, God’s willingly I believe before the end of February will also be through with the passport processing. However Gail and Sara there are extra costs Ksh.350/= for the birth certificates apart from the initial ksh.150/= per certificate totaling to Ksh, 500/= per certificate. The extra cost came up as a result of the kids not having their maternity birth notification card which are normal issued at the hospital/maternity of birth. Due to this reason there is that extra cost of Ksh.350/=, they call it a ‘search fee’. Sorry I had not informed you before coz also the concerned office had not told me of this extra cost at first. For the first Ksh.150/= for each child I was able to pay out of the petty cash account which by then I still had some balance but by last week Friday my petty cash was finished. The total extra cost is Ksh.2, 800/= so with the slush fund you had sent to me last Friday i.e. Ksh.727/= and today i. the Ksh 1,113/= I will use it to start offsetting the extra cost thus I’ll still need Ksh, 960/= so as clear the extra cost and collect the birth certificate.

 

 X-mas gifts; Am happy to tell you that I completed purchasing the x-mas items yesterday Mondays for all the families the shopping has been abit hectic coz most of shops were not opening due to the political tension of which most shopkeepers were fearing that if they open their shops their properties might be looted by the demonstrators, am now on the process of arranging the gifts according to each family before giving them out to the respective families in this coming Sunday coz I can’t give them out during school days.

                       Due to the political situation here in Kenya the prices of commodities have gone up as a result I was unable to buy the agreed quantity of some of the items especially the food, previously a packet of maize flour’unga’ used to cost Ksh.50/=per packet but the prices are now varying from Ksh.60-70.In beans the prices is now double the former price i.e. from Ksh35/= per kilo to Sh.70/=per kilo, rice price is almost 50 per more per kg.So almost all the food prices have gone up. However I tried my level best to get each family a satisfactorily package as per the account of each family. Please Gail and Sara inform the sponsors of the above changes in prices.

 

The Benson’s family house project; As I had earlier told you that already Mr. Benson has seen the new plot and was happy about, I believe soon the house is complete it will save the entire Benson’s family from housing problem coz as I speak to you now already Zena’s mother house has collapsed and so they family is depending on the Justin and Wycliffe`s house as you know Zena’s brothers are William and Samuel Benson. While Pendo’s mother house is also about to collapse especially the roof and mind you they are now not allowed to do any repair and building. All these family is now depending on success of the new house project. Also I needed to inform you that we were lucky to get the plot at that price which I think its fair coz currently most of the plot in Mtwapa are highly priced, so the sooner the better so that nobody else buys the plot.


Some more great pics from the kids in Mtwapa!

2008-01-20

Hi,

Thought you would all like to see some more great pics from Moses and the kids. 

Its great to see some of the new recruits on the web site.


The Xmas Treats!!

2008-04-22

At last after all the problems of the past few months in Kenya, we have some of the pictures from our xmas gift appeal. The final round of gifts were not handed out to the families untill  the end of january and so there has been a slight delay in getting the information and pictures through.

Looking at the pictures its clear to see that all the families had a great time and really appreciated the gifts bought for them and not only did each family receive gifts for the home but also food to eat for xmas dinner.

We would just like to say a huge big thank you to everyone who contributed to the project and we will certainly be doing a similar project next year.

 


The Trip is Booked!!

2008-04-23

What fantastic news, the flights are booked and 8 kids along with Moses and Rose, headmistress of mtwapa Academy, will be arriving in the UK on June 18th!!  Its so exciting!! The itinery for their visit is almost complete , they are going to have such a fantastic three weeks. We are just waiting for the last few passports to come back and then the visa application process will commence. The kids will have to go to nairobi for an interview as part of the visa application process so lets wish them all good luck

We will keep you up to date with the itinery once it is published and there will be opportunities for sponsors to spend time with the kids and take part in some of the planned trips.Keep checking this web site  for details.


Sponsors invitation to meet the kids!!

2008-05-14

MTOMONDONI SPONSORSHIP PROGRAMME 2008

 

Dear Sponsor, 

We would firstly like to start by saying a very big thank you for your continued support and sponsorship. The programme is going from strength to strength and we now have 38 children sponsored.

The children are very happy at Mtwapa Academy School and the staff are very committed and working hard to ensure that the sponsored children reach their full potential. 

On June 18th, as part of the links we have established with John Cleveland 

 College, 8 of the sponsored children will be visiting the UK along with Rose, the Deputy Head of Mtwapa Academy and Moses our sponsorship coordinator in Mtwapa. This is a very exciting development and as part of the visit we are planning to invite all of our sponsors along to some of the trips scheduled in on the kids itinerary. The kids will be here for three weeks and during that time they will get to meet as many sponsors as possible. 

They will be attending JCC for specially prepared lessons as they all have their end of year exams when they return to Mtwapa. They will also be visiting London, Sandringham, Hunstanton as well as going on many local trips to the cinema, bowling, snow dome etc. During their stay they will be hosted by families from JCC and kids who either went on the Kenya trip last year or indeed some of the lucky kids selected to go on the Kenya trip in 2009. 

The children visiting (visa permitting) will be; 

Samson Mandela

Joseph Mgodo

Teresia Kahindi

Vidzo Michael

Ben Kilonzo

Mary Mwatstuma

Magdaline Robert

Getrude Wamberwa 

Detailed below are some of the trips we are inviting sponsors to attend if they wish. We do however need some idea of numbers for booking purposes and so if you are interested in taking part on the trip could you please contact us by the deadline date of 26th May. 

We will also keep you updated on the progress of the trip on our two web sites detailed below;  

                                               www.getjealous.com/mpenzi 

                                                                   or

                                             www.getjealous.com/jccmtwapa  

 

 

Trips Information  

27/06-  Evening Meal at the Butlers Pub, Burbage.  

01/07- Trip to the Snow Dome at Tamworth. (Evening)  

03/07-  Sponsors Day, if you directly sponsor one of the kids visiting the UK you may wish to have some individual time and take them out for the day, half day, to get to know them better and show them some of the sights in the local area. Contact us if you are interested in this very rare opportunity.  

08/07- Farewell function at Marstons Stadium, Hinckley ( Disco/Food/Bar) 

 

Thanks again for your support and if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact us.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Gail Hammonds and Sara Fletcher

 

 


We have a bit of a problem... can anyone help????

2008-06-13

We have encountered a bit of a problem!

Just wanted to let you all know that we have hit a bit of a snag with the Visas for our Kenyan visitors. 

We have been working very hard all day to try to sort it out, moses has been in Nairobi working hard and we have even been on the phone to Gordon Brown!!! 

Just wanted to get you all to cross all your fingers and toes as it may just help!!!  You may see a feature on the problems on Central News tonight as we have also enlisted their help.

David Tredinnick our MP is also helping out immensly - he has also written to the British High Comission.

So as you can tell it has been all hands to the pump today!!  If any of you know anyone with any international influence then let us know!!!!  We mean that!  we have even text the head chef at the British Embassy in nairobi just incase he can help..... don`t even ask how we know his number!!!

Evdryone has worked too hard to make this amazing experience happen so believe me we will exhaust every avenue!!!

See you all at the meeting next week.

xxxxxxx


The kenyans are here and having a great time!!

2008-07-01

It was touch and go for a while but the kenyans are finally here and having a great time.

As well as having settled into life at John Cleveland College they have experienced so much in the first half of their trip, they have;

Visited London and seen Buckingham Palace, Big Ben,Parliament,Westminster Abbey,been on the London Eye, travelled on a train,been to a Westend Show-Blood Brothers,visited Leicester City football club and had a tour including lunch in the directors box,been wall climbing and in the fitness suite at Beaumont Leas Leisure centre,watched Indiana Jones, been bowling, been out for a meal at the Butlers in Burbage, played in the amusement arcades and been on the dodgems, Joseph has been on his own personal flight and got to fly the plane and tonight they are off to the Snowdome in tamworth!

Talk about jam packed!! Here are a few pics so that you get a flavour of their experiences so far!!  Enjoy!


Christmas Projects 2008

2008-11-19

Hi all, just to let you know that we are starting to pick up momentum with our fund raising campaign and there is a lot going on in the next few weeks that you all can really support and  help generate that fund raising spirit .

Quiz Night - This night has been organised by Boris who is due to go out to do some voluntary work in Mtwapa on New Years day.  Boris will be undertaking many projects related to the sponsorship programme during the three months that she is in Mtwapa.  Her main aim is to build and stock a library in the school, the quiz night has been organised to fund this project.  The quiz night will take place on the 27th November at JCC.  Teams of 8... Good luck to all who enter.

Curry-oke - This is always a great night.  It`s basically curry and kareoke!!! It`s planned for December 3rd in Praha, Hinckley.  Don`t miss out on your chance to show off your singing talents!!

Christmas Calandars - This year for the first time we have invested in putting together a Sponsorship Programme calandar that really captures some of the best photo`s of the sponsored kids in action.  The calandar is an ideal stocking filler for Xmas, especially as all the money goes towards our fund raising target.  If you would like to buy one of our very professionaly produced, desk top calandars please just give us a call or leave a message on the board and we will get back to you.  They only cost £5 so a bargain stocking filler.

Big Brother - Watch this space for the next Big Brother footage.  December 12th see`s the fourth Big Brother school lock in event. All involved have payed £15 to enter he Big Bro house, all proceeds are being put towards re-building some of the classrooms at Mtwapa Academy so that the sponsored kids really are getting the best education possible.  Brick built classrooms rather than very hot iron sheets will make the world of difference I`m sure you would agree?

Christmas Unwrapped - Mtomondoni Style!!!! - Instead of sending a costly parcel to Mtwapa this year or indeed instead of buying a Xmas pressie for someone at home, why not buy a family in Mtwapa something special for Xmas, the list includes a goat,chicken months supply of food,mattress,cooking pots,mat,stool,charcoal supply etc Lets make sure they all eat well at Xmas again this year and have some lovely gifts from their friends and sponsors in England.  If you purchase a Mtomondoni unwrapped item the family in Mtwapa will be presented with the gift you have chosen and then we will send a christmas card to the person in England that you have bought the pressie for!!!  So instead of roaming the shops to find a Xmas pressie we will do all the hard work for you and the reciever in England will know that this year your pressie to them really has made a massive difference to the life of someone in Africa.

Well I think that`s it for now... if anyone would like to get involved with any of our projects or would like any further info on some of the events please don`t hesitate to contact us.

Ashante Sana

x


Mtomondoni Christmas Project

2008-11-20

After the success of last year’s Xmas project we are once again running the Mtomondoni Christmas gift project giving you the chance to give Christmas gifts that can really make a difference. Instead of trailing around the shops this year to find a pressie for everyone one you know, only for that present to end up in the back of some cupboard, un-used and wasted. Why not send a gift that really does make a whole world of difference to a needy family living in Africa.

How does it work?

STEP 1: Decide who you would like to buy a very special Christmas present for and then have a look through the list of gifts below and decide what it is you would like to purchase.

STEP 2: Complete the form, or contact us online.  Once we have recieved your payment our co-ordinator based in Kenya will then find a suitable family in Mtomondoni to present the gift to, a family that is most in need. You will then receive a gift card to give to the person that you have bought the present for detailing who the gift was given to and their situation. 

STEP 3: You can then send the gift card knowing that your present this year really has made a difference.

STEP 4: You can then check the website to see the family in Africa receiving the gifts so you really will see exactly where your money has gone. All gifts will be presented to the Kenyan needy families before Christmas day.  Website: www.getjealous.com/mpenzi


And a great Christmas was had by all... Asante Sana

2008-12-25 to 2009-01-05

Hi Everyone,  we Hope you had a fabulous Christmas and New Year and that Santa bought you everything you were wishing for?  That was certainly the case in Mtwapa.  This year the Christmas project has again been a massive success and many families in Mtwapa have been touched by your kindness.

There are still a few gifts to be given out as some of the families have been `up country` as they would say. 

We have uploading some of the first photographs for you all to enjoy.  Unfortunately some of the photos are a little over-exposed, we hope when we get the parcel to be able to improve them so that you can all see them a little better, but for now please enjoy the photos that we have.  Some of the photos are too exposed for us to properly identify the recipient family of the gifts therefore we have left the comment blank until we can get hold of the negatives and have a go at developing them in England.

Over the nest few weeks we will be posting some feedback from the families on the website as we currently have an ex-JCC student in Mtwapa for 4 months, she flew out to Mtwapa New Years eve to work in the school, and work alongside Moses as well as carry-out some of her own special projects, one of which is to build a library open to the whole community.  So keep checking the site as the family that you donated to may well have a blog put on the website!!

Many thanks once again

From the people of Mtomondoni, Mtwapa, Kenya.

x

 

 


Messages from Kenya

2009-01-29

Ibrahim Omar (22nd Jan 2009) To everyone in england How are you? i hope fine. i am happy for all what you have done to me. thank you see much.
(2 pictures)   Kahindi Benson (22nd Jan 2009) Dear Charlotte Hopewell How are you Charlotte? I hope you are fine there in England. How are you and your family i hope all are fine there. I am thank for the presents, i got a lot of presents like goats, maize flour, net , wheat flour, rice , beans and many others. These all are christmas presents. But i am still going well with my studies in Mtwapa Academy School, i was with you last term but one in Mombasa Beach hotel we enjoyed very well in
Mombasa beach hotel you were was friend of my sister whos name was pendo i know you enjoy very well with my sister. i hope you are well i am thanks for here you are well there in england. i hope you celebrate merry christmass and happy new year very well. your sposored child Kahindi
(picture to come)   Pendo Benson (22nd Jan 2009) Dear Jane Marr How are you Jane? I hope you are fine there in England. I am thank you for hear that you are well with your family, relatives friends and many other. WE have got a lot of problem in our house was broken but not it is build. I think that jane you will in kenya this year if you come in kenya i will show you my brother`s house. his name is called Kahindi Benson. I hope you will enjoy it this letter.
Many bless come to you Amen. New happy Year.
(picure to come)   Mapenzi Kahindi (22nd Jan 2009) To Brockington school How are you? I hope you are fine. how is the weather like in england in kenya it is cold and dry. how are your parents, relatives and also you friends. I hope they are fine. My family is alright n the name of almightly God. How are you going on with your education. i am doing well with my education.i am imprving!
I would like to take this opprtunity to that you for what you did for me last year to brought for me a goat, two hens, a packet of milk, a tank and mony others. I thank you for that. Please great you family, you friend and my friends fiona, l c r, gatree and Terresia got you greatings from me your loving daughter Mapenzi.
(picture to come)   Dennis Mbura (22nd Jan 2009) To Corrina`s Parents How are you? i think and know you are well. As you know it`s i younge man Dennis Mbura from Mtwapa. As you said that though am kenya i should know english. so am not so bad in it and on it, I would like to tell you that on december i was going on with douchland speaking. for now i know a language speaking and thoses are mothers language, douchland speaking. English and Kiswahilli. ok i know that you are now going to enjoy that i can speak in english. as you know am just very younge but can do more. for now what i can do with my bare hands is to make envelopes. remember that we should pray for one another.
Good god bless corrina`s parents.
(picture to come)   Happy (22nd Jan 2009) To Vicky How are you? I hope that you are well. Its I Happy you little young girl. During the new year moses awarded me a goat. For now am in class 1 and think you expect something good from the school. I know one day i would be in upper primary like Dennis and I will work hard as he does. For all in all i have none to write but what was the best it was thank you for sponsoring me. oh wait before i finish tell mum and dad that there letter would come from dennis the younge little funny boy. please remember that we should praay for each other. bye may god bless you
(Picture coming soon)     Hilary Morgan (21st Jan 2009) Magdaline Robert Hello Alice, glad it`s all going well for you. Can you please say hello to Magdaline for me. It was lovely to meet her last year. Can you ask her if there is anything in particular she wants me to send her? Take care.
Hilary.   Samuel Benson (17th Jan 2009) Dear Alex and Amy (Hewitt) How are you their in England? I think you are fine i am fine too. i am in std four net year i will be in std five with my brothers are Kahindi and Justin These are my brothers i have one sister. she is in std 7 next year she will be in std 8. my brother he is in std two next year he is going to be in std three. my family wants too se you again in our country Kenya. i think you enjoyed merry christmas and new year. i was very happy to for christmas presents it was three hens, one goat, flour, jiko, a tank and a sack of charcoal we devided into seven children, greet for me your family and your friends there in england. may goid bless you love from samuel benson   Shila Rachael Mwaniga Kazangu (17th Jan 2009) Dear Sharnford methodist church. How are you? i hope you are fine. Here in Kenya it`s hot and dry, how about the weather in England. The reason as to why ive written this letter is to thank you for all the wonderful things you sent for christmas you were my santa claus. I enjoyed my christmas very much because of all those stuff you sent, for the goat we slaughterd it and made a barbecue and the goat slain was dried and was given to a traditional man and he made a drum. The kitchen i cooked it and made a very delicious stew we cooked rice and bean to on the following. thanks for the shoes and the bag that that are going to last for more than two years. the uniform and books too. and the net no more mosquito bites the net is helping me a lot. iknow some are coming this year and i want you to met my friend kate, im wishing you a prosperous and happy 2009 and bless you,
yours thankfull
Shila   Albert Mwasamb (17th Jan 2009) Dear Lorraine Now i am in std 2, what you got for christmas, chicken, thank you for give me the gift
Lala Salama   Justin Benson (17th Jan 2009) To Fletch Hi Sara How are you their in England? i think you are fine, i am fine too. i am going on my studies in Mtwapa Academy school. i am in std four next year i will be in std five with my brothers Kahindi and Samuel. My brothers are Wycliffe Francis peter patrick and Kahindi. These are my brothers but i have no sisters. my brither is in std two next year he will going to be in std three my family wants to see you again in our country Kenya.i think you enjoyed merry christmas and new year. Was very happy for christmas presents it was three hens one goat flour jiko a tank and a sack of charcoals and we divided into seven children. great for me your family and your friends there in england.
May God bless you their in england
Your loving fried Justin Benson   Francis (17th Jan 2009) To Teresa Hallow, Teresa and the rest of your family. Is any body sick? Ihope you are all fine, i thank for the presents which you sent for me christmas day i received presents like green nuts, flour, suga, charcoal and cooking fats, i could not recieve the christmas day becaus i had travels for a christmas holiday and it was very nices that i enjoyed myself but when i came back Moses gave me those presents. I am still joining my school and i love gone to a new class which is standard seven and i have also new teachers. I can also remember last year you told me that on august you will recieve a visiter, i am eager to know wether it is a boy or a girl and also pass my greeting to all peole in your area and God bless you so much with your family.
Your loving friend Francis   Samwel Mbugwa (17th Jan 2009) Dear Lear Its my hope that you are well. How are you going with your studies. How was teh christmas over their? How did u cerebrat it. What about the new year? Its my hope that you are in another stage of life. When you came to Kenya you were sixteen years but now you are eighteen years please correct me if i am wrong about your years, by replaying back another later. I am well with my studies what about u. I am in class seven and i am 14 years old. every thing change and your and me we have change in every way. The weather has change it is now suny now we are back to school what about you. WE are going well with my family and my frends. bles great all your friends and your family and wish them a good and blessed year. tell them its from Samwel Mbugwa that all about me. bless write back.
Yours Lovely Samwel Mbugwa lots of love xxx   Dennis Mbura (17th Jan 2009) Dear Coz I hope that you are fine, i thing the weather in your country to nice the minning of writing this letter is to thank you for the sweets you brought for me. dear i am always thinking for you. I always think and remember the days we were together here in Kenya. Dear i think you love that picture down wards. Lots of blessing and may the God bless you. Yours Sincerly Dennis Mbura
(the drawing is in with the photos)   Zeina benson (17th Jan 2009) Dear Jilly (gill ward i think) Dear Jilly, How are you? I hope you are fine and i am fine too here in kenya together with my family. What i want to tell you is that i am now in class seven. I am going on with my studies. My best subject is science and my science teacher is Mr Mwanguza and he is my class teacher. My favourite colour is blue, red, orange and black, greet for my Sarah Chandler and Rachel, thank very much my the lord bless you so much.   Hamisi Said (16th Jan 2009) Dear Kayliegh Priestley How are you there in England? i hope you are fine yopu and you family. me here in Kenya i am fine. This christman i got chicken, flour, milk, hotpot and a big sufuria. i was happy to get the present 2 year past, the way you came to kenya you told me that you will sent for me a camera. my best friends are shammy, benjamn and omar. they like me and also me i like them. we play togetheer football and ther games. at break time we lay together and eat together and also time for going home we together.
Best wishes your lovely friend Hamisi   Joseph H. Mgodo (16th Jan 2009) Dear Danny, Alison, David, Emily and Francesca Jambo, How are you? It`s my great hope that you are all fine and healthy. How was you x-mas and New year as well. David where did you went during you holiday? To me, i never went anywhere out of Mtwapa, but my x-mas and new year was fantastic.
First and formest i warmly appreciate for a very brilliant gift that you sent to me during x-mas. For surre it was helpful. Hello David once again. When will you be going back to school. Do you know one of your students who finished schooling in
JCC? Her name is Borris she is here with us for about three months. She will eventually have a quite a long story to narate to you, how kenya is , although she had been here one time. My family says hi to you all. Goodbye and hope to here from you all.
lots of love from Joseph H. Mgodo
p.s did you receive the email that i sent last time?   William Benson (16th Jan 2009) Dear teresia Dear teresia, now im in std 2, welcome to school what i got got for chrostmas kitismasi banana chicken toraza titichati books uga can boris chidren sewta welcome school mtwapa academy jambo teresia.
teyou teresia jabo to you goo to abasa bichi hotel sigipul caml cati jesus to help to you hop.

(thats what he wrote not quiet shore what it means but thort i would pass it on haha)


Getting to know the children and their homes

2009-05-10

We hope you enjoy getting an insight into the sponsorship programme and Mtomondoni through the videos and photographs on the site.

There are currently 42 sponsored children in the programme who are sponsored for their education, medical care, uniform/equipment and they get one good meal a day.  

Of the 42 in the programme we are very proud to announce that this year we have 5 students in further education.  These students are Mary, Vidzo, Samson, Ben and Getrude.  This makes us especially proud as it highlights the excellent work of Mtwapa Academy in preparing the children for their exams enabling them to qualify for the next level of education.  All of the children in Further education were involved in the 3 week trip to England and we feel that this trip worked as a catalyst in helping these students achieve their goal of moving on in their education.

To sponsor a child for a year costs £55 however the full cost of each child in the programme is £165 per child at Mtwapa Academy and then £200 for each child in further education. 

The children involved in the programme live in Mtomondoni which is a shanty town about 30 minutes from Mombasa.  Most of the children live in mud huts and their families struggle to meet the everyday basic requirements for their family.  The sponsorship programme is invaluable to the families involved.  The programme is far reaching and also touches those not actually sponsored as we run several spin off projects.

From the end of this week Moses (Sponsorship co-ordinator-Kenya) will be putting a blog on the site twice a month featuring news on individual sponsored children.  I`m sure it will make exciting reading.

One of the extension projects is a link exchange programme involving John Cleveland College and Babington Community Technology College.  This aspect of the programme is having a very big impact upon all the children that go to Mtwapa Academy.  The next planned school trip leaves on 7th July.  The aim of the fundraising this year has been to build permanent classrooms at the school.  The 280 children at the school had been studying in iron sheet classrooms.  As you can imagine in the African heat this really is not conducive to the students being able to fully concentrate.  The aim of the fundraising has been to build as many brick classrooms as possible.  We are pleased to announce that building work is continuing and the fundi`s (thats swahili for builders) are currently laying foundations for the 4th, 5th and 6th classroom.

A further spin off from the programme is the gap year opportunity for students that have been involved in the trip.  We have had 2 students spend gap year time working in Mtwapa and in August the third students will be travelling out to Mtwapa to live with Moses our sponsorship co-ordinator.  She will be completing her dissertation project examining the impact of the Mtomondoni sponsorship Programme on the local community - we are looking forward to reading her findings.

The most recent student to go our to Mtwapa linked to the sponsorship prgramme has set up her own website www.getjealous.com/borisinkenya    Its well worth a look.  Whilst she was in Kenya she made a fabulous impact turning one of the new classrooms into a library.  She fundraised for this project independently and we are very proud of her achievements.

So as you can see there is plenty going on.  If you have any questions about any of the projects or the individual children then please don`t hesitate to contact us via email at gailyhammo@yahoo.co.uk

Enjoy the photo`s and video`s.  Following the trip in July we will update the site with more up to date photographs.

Thanks for your continued support and interest.  It would be nice if you would like to leave a message on the message board.

 


Diary entry from Moses (1)

2009-05-11

It`s my sincere hope that everybody is doing fine.Here in Mtwapa we are all doing good.Please receive lots of love from us all here in Mtwapa, Mombasa.It`s exactly a week now ever since the schools reopened after the Easter holiday and all of the of the kids are going on well with their studies.Thanks God the Mtomondoni sponsorship programme is growing big as we now have 5 kids in secondary school, 1 in the polytechnic and 36 kids in primary school bringing a total of 42 kids.We thankyou all the sponsors and friends of the programme for the tremendous and tireless efforts you are putting in bringing up the programme.As you can see in one of the pictures(group picture)is me with all the 36 kids in the primary school i.e Mtwapa Academy, in their school uniform among others , happy and appreciating all what you are doing are doing for them.
Also featured in one the pictures is Mary(dressed on a white short sleeved shirt and a dark brown skirt), the eldest girl kid in the programme who was sponsored since she was in class six in the primary school and now doing her second year in the secondary school.Mary now schools in one of the girl`s boarding seconadry school about 100kms from Mtwapa.I do visit the kids in their different secondary school and so this is one of the pictures i took with Mary in one of my visits to the kids schools.Mary is really working hard in her school examinations so as she may achieve her vision of being an air hostess after completing her studies and be able to help her needy family.I asked Mary what she felt after being sponsored and this is what she said and i qoute `I never knew that i would be able to continue with my studies smoothly as at the moment because my family was unable to cater for my education well because they always hard difficulties in taking me to school.As a result i never knew i would study upto secondary school level but through Mtomondoni Sponsorship programme i have been able to see the secondanry school doors, meaning that i might be able to achieve my dreams and vision of getting a good job and being able to help my parents, brothers and sisters`end of quote.Mary has sent lots of love to everyone involved in the programme.
With that i say`kwaherini nyote` bye all for now i`ll speak again to you soon with lots of love, from,
Moses(sponsorship co-ordinator)

With, with lots of love from all in Mtwapa


We need your support!!

2009-06-12

Hi everyone. There is only a month to go before the latest trip out to Mtwapa happens and everyone is getting excited.We need a major push to top up the fundraising total and raise as much cash as possible to continue the fantastic rebuilding work that is currently going on at the school.

Today Miss Levison has organised a fun run at JCC which I'm sure will be a great success like last year with the kids having lots of fun and raising lots of cash for the fund in the process.

Also, we have a  further couple of activities happening over the next few weeks. Firstly, its Quiz night next friday ( 19th) at JCC which should be great fun. Everyone is welcome, tickets are £3 each, there is a bar and plenty of fun to be had by all!! Tickets are available from myself, Sara,Vicky,Roger,Margaret and in the event you decide to join us at the last minute you will be able to pay on the door!!

Also, we are currently collecting items for the Grand Car Boot which we are all doing at Croft on Sunday 28th June. If you have anything you want to donate contact us at JCC and it would be great to see you supporting the cause on the day in question, come along and see what a bargain there is to be had!!

Moses is very excited about seeing everyone again in July and we all can't wait to see his new baby along with the rest of the kids at Mtwapa Academy.....bring on the 7th July!!

 


Diary entry 2 from Moses (Sponsorship co-ordinator)

2009-08-01

Hi!everyone.
Hope you all enjoyed your weekend just like Kabibi, one of the sponsored kids whom over the weekend had a shopping treat courtsey of her sponsor in one of the leading retail supermarkets in Mombasa called Nakumatt supermarket in Nyali situated along the Mombasa- Malindi highway as shown in the pictures.Among the things she bought for herself were hair food, shampoo, soap, faminine sanitary pads, washing powder, sugar, margarine, baking flour, cakes, tomato sauce, milk, toothpaste etc.When i asked her how she felt during her shopping, this is what she said and i quote 'today i feel nice as i have never done such kind of shopping for my self in such a big supermarket and also be able to buy things which i really longed to have them but i couldn't because my parents are unable to buy for me, thankyou to the sponsor' end of quote.Kabibi further promised to work hard in her studies so as to become a doctor after her studies, that's why she says she wakes up as early as 5.00am in the morning during schoool days to prepare herself for her day classes.
Kabibi, curremtly in class 7 at the Mtwapa Academy has 2 sisters and 2 brothers.She feels happy to be in the Mtomondoni sponsorship programme and so she sees a brighter future ahead.Her favourite subjects are Maths, science and 'kiswahili'.During her free time she likes studying, playing football and plaiting her hair.Finally she is looking forward to welcome the England visitors in the next month.
Wish you all a lovely weekend and the week ahead, bye'kwaherini'.
With lots of love from, Moses
(sponsorship co-ordinator)


2009-08-01

Hi everyone,

Well we have just about caught up on our sleep from our wonderful trip over to see the kids.  As you are aware we took a school trip out to Mtwapa Academy (21 students in total).  It was a great success and so lovely to see the programme kids as we haven't seen themfor a while.  It's good to report that the kids are doing really well although the credit crunch seems to be hitting the people of Mtwapa very hard.  All the kids in the programme are working hard in school but we did encounter a few issues that some of them were experiencing in their home life as money is so tight.  Some of the families are struggling to provide food at tea time for their children, a fact that really exemplified how important that sponsorship feeding programme is to the people within the programme. 

Thankfully with us being out there we could see first hand some of the issues and managed to ease some of the problems.  One solution has been to attach extra sponsors to the families that are struggling so that they can have regular food parcels sent out to meet their basic food requirements.  Hopefully this should ease some of the fundamental issues faced by the families.


Secondary students updates

2009-10-21

Child 1-Samson.
Am aged 20 years old, current school is called Kingwede mixed secondary school situated in the far south coast of Mombasa and now in form 1.My school uniform is a navy blue trouser, cream shirt and a navy blue tie. I normal wake up at 4.00am, start my classes at 8.00am and go to bed at 10.00pm.Before sleeping we have night studies(preps) then pray for 15 minutes and i go to bed. My favorite subjects are biology, chemistry, geography and English while am weak in history, maths, biology and physics. So as to improve of my weak subjects i try to interact with some of my friends who are good in the subjects. My best friends are Suleiman and Bakari, i like them because they perform well in class. In secondary school we have a total of 11 subjects which will be phased out to 8 subjects when doing my final examination and no choices in answers unlike primary school where i did 5 subjects with choices in the answers. In the end term exam. 30% of the continuous assement tests(CATS) is included. Now that am grown up i see that there is need to work very hard in life because nothing good comes easily, I have therefore taken life very serious than before. I hope to be an engineer in future after my studies when i hope to help my family by building for them a good house. While at school i do some extra curriculum activities like taekwondo.Also am a school prefect and next year i hope to be elected as dining captain. On Sundays we go to church within the school and in the afternoon me may do sports. Incase i or my friends get sick we have special room with a bed to relax and have some first aid then every Sunday a special nurse come to our school to examine us and incase its a serious illness we get referred to a nearby hospital.Thankyou, from Samson.

Secondary school kids interview.
Hi! everyone
Its my sincere hope that everyone is doing fine just like us here in Mtwapa, Africa.The schools are closed now since 7th July for a month and all of our kids are on holiday.As you are all aware some of the kids in our sponsorship programme are now in secondary schools i.e 2 girls(Teresia and Mary) and 3 boys(Samson, Vidzo and Ben) are in the secondary school while 1 girl9Getrude) is in the polytechnic undergoing a tailoring course.Since these kids are the senior most in the programme and now on holiday i therefore had some interview with them so as they give out their views on how they view life and schooling in general now that they are growing up to be adults and in preparation for their future.As you all read through i therefore hope you'll enjoy and learn lots from the kids, so keep in touch always in our get jealous website to read more about the kids.Thankyou, yours in service, Moses Kopulo-(sponsorship co-ordinator)


An update from our Sponsorship co-ordinator

2009-10-22

Hi! Everyone.
It's my sincere hope that you are all doing fine.We are all ok too here in Mtwapa Kenya.Over this week on 20th was a public holiday here in our country, we were celebrating Kenyatta day.This day is a very important day in our calendar as we celebrate the heroes who fought for our independece and one of the greatest hero among the list of heroes was the late Kenyatta who was the first president of Kenya from 1963-1978.All of our kids are doing fine and carrying on well with their studies.Eearly next month i.e as from 9th-13th November 2009, our programme kids i.e Magdaline, Shadrack, Timothy and Joseph who are now in class 8(final primary school class) will be sitting for their final examination.This exam determines the kids to proceed to secondary school, fingers crossed we wish them all the best of success.On behalf of the programme i also wish all students in England who are now in their new classes all the best.Bye for now with lots of love,
from,
Moses(sponsorship co-ordinator)


An update from Moses

2009-10-25

Benson's family receives food.
Hi! everyone.
Recently the Benson's family received some food courtesy of Roxanne, they were all happy to receive through the sponsorship co-ordinator and said thanks.The Benson's family comprises of 7 kids i.e Zena(class 7), Kahindi(class 4), Justin(class 4), Samuel(class 4), Pendo(class 3), William(class 2) and Wycliff(class 2).The family leaves in Mtomondoni village in their newly built three bedroomed house.The family is also happy to be in the Mtomondoni sponsorship programme because through the programme the above kids are benefiting in their education and even enjoying their new house.The family therefore has sent lots of thanks to all the sponsors and the friends of the family in the programme.On behalf of the family i say bye for now with lots of love,
from,
Moses(sponsorship co-ordinator).


Christmas Unwrapped in Mtwapa

2009-10-26

Hi everyone,

After the success of last year’s Xmas project we are once again, for the third year, running the Mtomondoni Christmas gift project giving you the chance to give Christmas gifts that can really make a difference. Instead of trailing around the shops this year to find a pressie for everyone you know, only for that present to end up in the back of some cupboard, un-used and wasted. Why not send a gift that really does make a whole world of difference to a needy family living in Africa. You may have seen the news footage recently of the problems faced by those living in Kenya and other countries in East Africa at present, as the lack of rains and indeed the credit crunch are really hitting people hard. So this project gives you an opportunity to help.

How does it work?


STEP 1: Decide who you would like to buy a very special Christmas present for and then have a look through the list of gifts below and decide what it is you would like to purchase.


STEP 2: Complete the form and return it with your payment by November 30th so that we can ensure the gift gets to the family in time for Christmas. Cheques need to be made out to Mtwapa School Account. Our co-ordinator based in Kenya will then find a suitable family in Mtomondoni to present the gift to a family that is most in need. You will then receive a gift card to give to the person that you have bought the present for detailing who the gift was given to and their situation.


STEP 3: You can then send the gift card knowing that your present this year really has made a difference.


STEP 4: You can then check the website to see the family in Africa receiving the gifts so you really will see exactly where your money has gone. All gifts will be presented to the Kenyan needy families before Christmas day.

Website: www.getjealous.com/mpenzi


This year’s gifts and prices are below. If you are interested in being involved then please let me (Sara) or Gail know via the message board. We will be sending out letters from the kids in the next day or so therefore we will also include a form in the envelopes for those sposnors receiving letters.


Thanks for your support.

Gift Cost :
A Chicken £6
A Goat £28
A weeks supply of food for a whole family £10
A months supply of food for a whole family £40
Sponsor a child for a term – this includes education, school dinners, uniform/equipment, medical treatment. £20
Sponsor a child for the year – this includes education, school dinners, uniform/equipment, medical treatment. £60


Standard 8 students talk about their exams

2009-12-03

Jambo! Everybody, it’s my sincere hope that you are all well just like us here in Mtwapa, Kenya. As you all know four of our kids in our programme i.e. Magdaline, Joseph, Timothy and Shadrack sat for their final examination over last month, hopefully the results will be out this month just after Christmas. Thereafter they’ll be proceeding to secondary school for 4 years. I therefore managed to interview the four kids so as to let us know how well they were prepared for their exam, and this what they said;

Magdaline - ‘In preparation for my exam. I made sure that I revise a lot from my school work and notes, did lots of reading from my books and attempted lots of past exam. papers from other schools and some from my school. Soon I would arrive at home in the evening from school I would first assist my mother in doing some domestic work, get time to relax abit before I start revising and reading on my school work i.e. from 9.00 pm 11.00pm when I would then go to bed and sleep until 6.00am in the following day, prepare myself and ready for school.’
‘While in class at school I made sure that I get assistance from my teachers in case I had not understood any kind of topic in any subject. During preps.(special set aside study times) me and my friends used to have special discussion groups whereby we could get to-together and brain storm some relevant exam.questions, revise and discuss where anyone in the group was good in a certain subject/topic she or he could stand up and explain well to all the members of the group and eventually we get to understand more.’
‘By the time I got in the examination room, I did not panic at all because I was well prepared though I had little difficulties in math’s exam. paper especially in the hire purchase topic questions. The programme exchange also gave me lots of courage and practical experience in terms of English knowledge. While in England I experienced through hearing and talking with my friends in England lots of English rich in good grammar and as a result it made me improve lots in grammar which helped me in the English grammar exam.questions.I therefore hope to get 320 marks in the results which will enable me get a good secondary school and hope to be a doctor in my future career.’

Shadrack -- ‘In preparation for my exam. I used to do lots of revision from my school notes while at home but before that I would assist in the house doing some of the domestic work then after that i would do my class assignments up to 10.00pm.In the morning soon I wake up at 4.00am I would start reading and revising my school books and work until 6.00am whereby I would start preparing for school.
‘While at school I had a discussion group with my friends where we would meet in the evening soon after classes for some revision exercises on past examination papers. We could get difficulty answers by going through some useful related books. While in class I could ask my teacher any question which I felt it was difficulty for me to get the answers. By the time I got in the exam. room I had full confidence and courage that I will attempt the exam well because I was well prepared. I must admit though that English exam. paper was abit hard and tricky for me especially on essays(composition)writing part of it. The school library has helped me lots because u used to read lots of story books which made me develop good essay writing skills. Hopefully I hope to get 400 marks so as to proceed to secondary school and hope to be a lawyer in my future career.’

Timothy - In preparation for my exam. I used to attend extra tuition classes while at home from Monday up to Friday after classes in the evening. A special teacher used to come to our home whereby I and some of my friends used to get extra coaching in all the subjects. Each subject had its specific day and by the end of the week the teacher would have covered all the subjects. While at school I used to attentively listen to my teacher and whenever I could not understand a certain topic I would not hesitate to get proper explanation from the teacher till I fully understands especially in math’s subject where I had some difficulties in understanding some of the questions.
Also I and my friends had formed a discussion group during preps. whereby everybody in the group could stand up in front of others and explain how well he or she understands a certain topic. Soon I went in the exam room I had the full courage of answering the questions well. I must admit though that mathematics was abit hard to me especially in the last 25 questions where lots of calculations was involved, In total there were 50 questions in the math’s exam.paper.Hopefully I will get 375 marks so as to proceed to secondary school next year and hope to be an Engineer in my future career.’

Joseph - In preparation for my exam. I used to get assistance from my friends who were good in certain subjects e.g. math’s and science. Also once I could come across any relevant relevant information especially from a book I would go through it well and extract out any useful notes while at home after school or during weekends. While at school soon after classes maybe at break time or lunch time I would approach my class teacher or any other upper class for assistance on specific topics which seem to be hard to me.
Also I had formed a discussion group with my friends where I could forward any difficult question to the group so as it can be tackled and eventually get to understand it better soon the answer is got. Soon I entered the exam room I first prayed to God so as He gives me courage though I was well prepared. I must admit though that there were some subjects which were abit hard i.e. English specifically in comprehension answering part of it in regard to time which to me it was short. In mathematics I had some difficulties in algebra, hire purchase and scale questions. However I hope to get 320 marks and above in my results.
Being one of the students, who went to England in 2008, let me say the exchange programme really helped me a lot. Apart from learning a lot in the JCC School and all what we learned outside during the tour, I was able to come back with 3 reading books given to me by one of my sponsors (Janet Patterson).1 book was for English while 2 books were for science. These books were really helped me in my final exam.’

 


The pressies have been given out - Thank-you

2009-12-25

Hi this is Moses here, the Mtomondoni Sponsorship co-ordinator in Kenya.

Well am writing this email to wish you a very MERRY CHRISTMAS, and please pass our christmas message to everyone at home both of your families and relatives.

Am also happy to tell you that i have today managed to give out the christmas gifts to our programme kids with their parents.They were all happy to receive the gifts and they have sent their christmas greetings to both of you and to all the donors. Madam Rahab also received her chickens,she was also happy to receive and Rose too.

However their were 7 kids who were absent out of the 42 i.e Mayee.Rama,Timothy,Gibson,Francis,Mapenzi and Shilla. All the mentioned absent kids had travelled to visit their relatives in their variuos distant rural villages soon the schools were closed though they are coming back soon.  I have kept safely all their belongings and i'll issue to them soon they arrive and take pictures of them.Tommorow in the day i'll send you some of the pictures showing the kids with some of their parents receiving the gifts.


With that i say bye,thanks for everything, enjoy your christmas,take care with lots of love,
from,


Moses.


Photos of the Christmas gifts

2009-12-26

Hi! everyone.
Hope you are enjoying your christmas holiday with everybody at home.Well as i had promised you yesterday that i'll send you the christmas gifts pictures for our programme kids and parents so here it is as attached in this message.In the pictures you'll see Rahab also receiving her chicken and also Rose receiving her food with the chickens.Another picture of Rose with her new born baby girl.Am sending more pictures in another attachment.I hope pictures will open well so please let me know,they should be at least 79/80 pictures.
With that i say bye,take care with lots of love,
from,
Moses.


School re-opens - an update from Moses

2010-01-10

Happy new year 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its my sincere hope you all ushered in the new year 2010 well with everybody at home.  lots of new year greetings to all of our programme kids and their parents.All of our kids have reported back to school except Salwa whom for the whole of this week she has been absent from school as she had travelled to Naivasha a town beyond Nairobi to visit her father ,i was told by madam Hadija that she should be back by this weekend.Otherwise the rest of the kids are going on well with their classes.The total no.of weeks in this term is 13 weeks.

On the remaining christmas gifst am yet to give out to the remaining kids in this weekend as they had reported to school in the mid of this week.The kids remaining are Shila,Mayee and Francis while Mapenzi and Gibson received their gifts just before the school opened.It was great to see the other christmas gifts pictures on the website!!!

On food programme,i safely collected the first lot of money for this term which you sent over to me and given out to the cook,Amina Yusuf.The kids are getting their meals as usual since the school opened on Monday.


The 2009,STD 8 exam. i.e Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exam results are now officially out and so the results of our 4 programme kids are as follows;-

1.Timothy Mwamwiri.

Subject Marks out of 100 Grade.

-English...................67..........................B

-Kiswahili.................70..........................B+

-Maths.....................65..........................B

-Science..................65..........................B

-Social studies.........63..........................B-

total marks......... 330





2.Shadrack Fondo.

Subject Marks out of 100 Grade.

-English...............49..............................C

-Kiswahili.............66..............................B

-Maths.................53..............................C

-Science..............70..............................B+

-Social studies.....70..............................B+

total marks....308



3.Magdaline Mwatsuma.

Subject Marks out of 100 Grade.

-English................42..............................C-

-Kiswahili..............53..............................C

-Maths..................32..............................D

-Science...............44..............................C-

-Social studies......50...............................C

total marks.....221



4.Joseph Mgodo.

Subject Marks out of 100 Grade.

-English.............53...............................C

-Kiswahili...........63...............................B-

-Maths..............44................................C-

-Science............62...............................B-

-Social studies...59................................B+

total marks....281



From the results,Timothy and Shadrack are definately going to get good government secondary schools because they attained more than 300 marks.For Joseph he might also get a government secondary school which maybe slightly lower in standard than Timothy's and Shadrack's schools since he was above average but less than 300 marks while for Magdaline her chances are 50/50 i.e since she is a girl,she might get a government secondary school the same as Joseph's school or end up getting a private secondary school.Already the secondary school selection process is on and the above kids may expect their secondary school calling letters as from next week.



For our previous secondary school/polytechnic kids i.e Vidzo,Ben,Samson,Mary,Teresia and Getrude they have already reported back to their respective schools.



Parcels and Christmas cards;- Am happy to inform you that since christmas i have been able to collect parcels and christmas cards to our programme kids,few kids at Mtwapa Academy(not in our programme),for Rose,Gambo and Rahab sent by the following senders.



SENDER RECEIVER CONTENTS

1.Jane Stafford.........................Zawadi............................Christmas card.



2.Jane Stafford.........................Kahindi............................Christmas card.



3.Fae Jane...............................Grace.............................Christmas card.



4.Ladies of Sen Team at JCC.....Esther............................Christmas card.



5.Louise...........................Joseph Kyuta(not in our programme)..England football.

-football pump.

-pencils.

-note books.

-two tiny toys i.e ball and duck.

-crayons.

-letter.



6.Coz parents...........................Denis Mbura.......................letter

-colouring pencils.

-mini drawing books.

-yoyo

-coloured pencils.

-toy sport car.

-mini balls.

-playing cards.

-building straws.

-sharpener.



7.Hilary Morgan and family......Magdaline............................-blouses

-slippers

-purses.

-socks

-christmas card.



8.Gill Ward..........................Diego....................................Father christmas spring toy.

-chocolates.

-wooden flute.

-cakes.

-maltesers.

-colour flyers.

-note book.



9.Hannah and Jasan..........Lukeman.................................sweets

-T-shirt.

-letter.

-wedding picture.

-mechanical pencil set.

-fibre pencils.

-note books.

10.Rosemary Kalwa........Joseph Mgodo..........................vests

-letter



11.Val Murphy................Wycliff....................................toy car.

-colour puzzle.

-track trouser.

-letter.

-pictures.

-T-shirts.

-disc.

-christmas cards.



12.Val Murphy..............Mr. and Mrs Benson.................christmas card.



13.Anna Pang............Hamisi.......................................christmas card.

-track pullover.



14.Louise..................Earnestina Raha(not in our programme)...letter

-bracelet.

-wind up torch.

-skirt and blouse.

-mini teddy bear.



15.Louise...................Unitar(not in our programme).............mini note book.

-bracelets.

-chain attachments.

-hair bands.

-pencils.

-pullover.

-blouse.

-letter.


16.Paula Dunne............Magdaline Blazi(not in our programme).....christmas card.


17.Steve and Karen Taylor..........Samuel Mbugua....................christmas card.


18.Linda Barratt........................Happy.................................christmas card.


19.Linda Barratt.......................Loice...................................christmas card.


20.Boris..................................Samuel Benson....................christmas card.


21.Boris...................................Rose....................................christmas card.


22.Boris..................................Rahab and Husband...............christmas card.


23.Roger and Sue...................Rahab....................................christmas card.


24.Roger and Sue..................Gambo....................................christmas card.


25.Val Murphy........................Moses.....................................christmas card.

On behalf of the above receivers,please send our many thanks to all the above senders for everything.


School report from standard 8 students

2010-04-07

Hi! Jambo everyone.
I guess you are all doing good.We are all fine here in Mtwapa, Kenya,except for the weather which has been very hot in the last 3 months i.e ranging between 34 degrees and 32 degrees.The schools are closed now for the easter holiday since Thursday,31st March.As you all know this new year the school kids have joined new classes as a result we have 8 new students in class 8 i.e 4 girls named Grace,Kabibi,Mayee,Zeina and 4 boys named Francis,Samuel Mbugua,Diego and Rama who were all in class 7 last year.As you all know class 8 is the most senior most class in the primary school in which towards the end of the year i.e in November,all class 8 kids will be sitting for their final primary school examination called Kenya National Certificate of Primary Examination-KCPE and its after this exam whereby the results will determine their secondary school.This time round i therefore managed to interview the class students so as to let us know how well they are prepared in their final year of their primary education and here below is what they said i also hope you'll enjoy viewing some the pictures which i took while the class 8 kids were in school.Thankyou and from all of us here in Mtwapa,Kenya we all wish you a happy Easter holiday wherever you'll be and may God bless you for your generosity and the great contributions in the Mtomondoni Sponsorship programme.Thankyou once again,from Moses (sponsorship co-ordinator).

1. Grace.
Since i was elevated to class 8 i find lots of difference in terms of work load in class compared to the previuos classes.In class 8 there is much to do and some subjects like mathematics seem to appear a little bit hard to me and i've therefore realise that with more effort and practice i'll be able to perform well in Maths.However there are two subjects which i believe am very good at i.e English and Kiswahili.Since am good at these subjects i find myself useful to the rest of my classmates as whenever i have time i help them by explaining to them properly until they understand the topic which they felt they were not good at.Also to improve more in my subjects so as to be able to perform well in my final KCPE i always do lots of revision and practice by attempting past exam.question papers.While at home in the morning before coming to school,i wake up at 4.00am and read my books for at least 1hour up 5.00am thereafter a start preparing myself for school.Over this holiday and in preparation for my exam.i want to work very hard and continue lot of revision so as am able to achieve good marks which will enable me get a good secondary school.Soon i finish my studies and for my future career there are three careers which i would like to pursue in either one of them and these are being a doctor,air hostess or a manager of any reputable company.Finally i want to give lots of thanks and appreciation to the Mtomondoni sponsorship programme and to my sponsors for providing me with all what i need for my education here in Mwapa Academy and i promise that my hard work and success will be reflected in my final KCPE results.Thankyou

2.Kabibi.
Since the start of thi new year,i have seen the importance of working hard always in school,this is because as you reach class 8 you won't have much difficulties.Surely class 8 is a challenging class and somebody has to be attentive and follow up the teacher in whatever he teaches.I therefore work hard in class and i believe i will do better in my final exam.In class i have my friends whom we always get together to discuss on different topics which we may find them hard and incase we are stuck we ask our teachers to show us and good enough our teachers are willing to help us always.While at home i make sure i finish up with all of my school work i.e maybe some few questions which our class teacher might have given to me before going to bed at around 10.00pm.In the morning i wake up at around 4.30 am and study for at least an hour then i prepare myself to go to school.Soon i finish my school i would like to get a well paying job so as am able to assist my parents.By being in he sponsorship programme i hope i will be able to complete my studies.Finally i want to thankyou all of my sponsors for what they are doing for me always and making it possible for me to learn.Thankyou.

3. Mayee.
By being in the school's most high class isn't easy,i have realised that it needs lots of struggling so as to achieve the best results.My best subjects are science,Kiswahili and social studies.In order to perform well,i wake up from bed in the morning at 4.30 am and read on my books upto 5.30 am,thereafter i start preparing to go to school.While in school i attentively listen to my teachers during lessons and make sure i do lots of reading and revision during my free time especially after lunch and in the evening before going back home.So as to help my friends in class who are weak in the subjects which am best at,i therefore listen and explain to them whenever they bring questions.I still need to put mor efffort in my studies so as achieve my ambition of being a nurse as my career.By being a nurse i believe i'll be helpfull to my community and to my family as in my community there is no person who has done any medical career.I really thankyou the sponsors,through the Mtomondoni sponsorship programme for providing me with quality education which i get at the Mtwapa Academy which is far good compared to the education which i used to get while in the government school before being sponsored.Finally i want to promise the sponsors that,let them expect good results in my forthcoming KCPE results.Thankyou

4.Zena.
Class 8 seem to be a tough class to me compared to the rest of the classes as i find most of the questions hard but i always ask my teachers for help whenever am stuck.However my best subject is science.So as to well prepare for my forthcoming KCPE exam,i borrow past exam.question papers form my teachers and do group discussions with my friends in class during any of our free time,during the discussions i also help my friends in coaching them on how to be good in science.In the morning at home i wake up at 4.00am and read for an hour then prepare myself to come to school and by 6.30 am at school ready for the day.In my future career i'd love to train and work as a nurse.I want to thank all of my sponsors for their help and making me see a better future ever since i was sponsored as i get good education and being taken care of interms of my education needs under the Mtomondoni sponsorship programme.Thankyou.


5.Francis.
Since i joined class 8 i find the class a bit hard but am still determined by doing lots of reading and revision from different books and attempting different questions from past exam.question papers. While in class i do ask my teachers questions for whatever kind of topic which i was not able to understand and because of that it makes me to have moe understanding for the subjects or topics which i might have found it hard and feel also good whenever i explain to some of my classmates who are not good on the subjects which i see am good at.Maths and science are my favourite subjects.In the morning before coming to school,i normal wake up at 4.30am and read on my books up 5.00am then prepare myself for school.I finaaly give much thanks to all of my sponsors for making me get quality education and so i believe i'll do better in my forthcoming KCPE exam and hopefully soon after my studies i hope to be an engineer.Thankyou


6.Samuel Mbugua.
Am very happy to be in class 8 this year.It's like a dream come true as i could not imagine i will be educated upto this level so far of which i give much thanks to all of my sponsors.Actually the class is challenging but i try soo hard so as to get better results in my final KCPE exam.My best subjects are social studies and science.So as to achieve good results i wake up very early in the morning i.e at 3.00am read for almost two hours upto 5.00am thereafter i prepare myself for school.Just for a word of advice to my friend students is that,they should put kore effort and practice alot especially in subjects like maths.For my career,i would like to be a car desighner and finally to all of my sponsors i say thanyou for their co-operation in the Mtomondoni sponsorship programme and for helping me to achieve my education goals.Thankyou.


7.Diego.
To me i find class 8 to be tricky because some questions are confusing but not hard nor easy,they only way to succeed in this class is that it needs lots of hard work always.My best subjects are science and social studies.In readiness for my KCPE exam. i normally wake up at 4.00am and read for 1 and a half hours then i prepare myself for school.In order to perform well in my studies i find being displined in class and listen to teachers advice is very important,alos lots of revision and planning your study time table is also good.In my class i do help my friends too who may be in need of help is terms of the subjects which am good at.In my career i would like to be a captain.To my sponsors i give them much thanks for giving me the chance to learn in a private school whereby the quality of education is good much attention is realised to an individual child compared to the public schools whereby the classes are crouded and not much attention is made to the individual student.I pray that the sponsors keep on their good work on what they are doing to the programme.Thankyou.


8.Rama.
To me there seem not a big difference in terms of studies and work load,infact i find the class so interesting and have great hope that i'll perform well in my final KCPE exam.I love maths subject as i hope to be an astronaut in my career.In the morning i wake up at 4.00am and read upto 5.30 am then i prepare myself for school.While at school i borrow past exam.question papers from the teachers and have group discussions with some of my classmates in the evening.Also i preparation for my exam.i do lots of revision.I thank the sponsors for making it possible for me to continue with my education and i promise them that i will get good results in my final exam.Thankyou.


letters collected

2010-06-02

Jambo! everyone.
First and foremost please receive lots of greetings with love from Mtwapa, Kenya!!! We are all doing good with all the kids in school.Yesterday was a public holiday for all Kenyans as we celebrated the 47th year independence day.Its now a month ever since the schools reopened for the second term after the easter holiday and all of our programme kids are settled and busy learning back in their respective classes.I want to thankyou to all of our sponsors who have been contributing towards the Mtomondoni sponsorship programme so as the less priviledged kids in our Kenyan and especially here in Mtwapa are able to achieve their goals and vision through education.On behalf of all the programme kids parents and guardians, please receive lots more of greetings to every sponsor, well wisher and friend of the programme.I personally say thankyou for those who have personally visited us and got time to meet with our programme kids, surely the list is long , for those who haven't been able to come to Kenya i acknowledge all of your efforts in our programme who have also been sending letters, greeting cards and presents for the kids through parcels.Here below is a recent list of parcel senders and receivers which i collected from our post office box;

Sender receiver contents.
1.Clive and Joy Kidd.....................Abdalla............................ .....letter
2.Becky......................................Baraka......... .........................letter.
3.Teresa......................................Francis....... ..........................lettter
4.Sue and Davies.........................Francis...................... ...........letter and photo album.
5.Isabella Waddington..................William......................... ........greeting card, toy cars and a puzzle pad.
6.John and Isabella.......................Kabibi....................... ........... letter and greeting card .

On behalf of the kids, i say thankyou for everything.With lots of love from, Moses(sponsorship co-ordinator)


Letters collection

2010-06-04

Kids letters and parcel collection
Jambo! everyone.
First and foremost please receive lots of greetings with love from Mtwapa, Kenya!!! We are all doing good with all the kids in school.Yesterday was a public holiday for all Kenyans as we celebrated the 47th year independence day.Its now a month ever since the schools reopened for the second term after the easter holiday and all of our programme kids are settled and busy learning back in their respective classes.I want to thankyou to all of our sponsors who have been contributing towards the Mtomondoni sponsorship programme so as the less priviledged kids in our Kenyan and especially here in Mtwapa are able to achieve their goals and vision through education.On behalf of all the programme kids parents and guardians, please receive lots more of greetings to every sponsor, well wisher and friend of the programme.I personally say thankyou for those who have personally visited us and got time to meet with our programme kids, surely the list is long , for those who haven't been able to come to Kenya i acknowledge all of your efforts in our programme who have also been sending letters, greeting cards and presents for the kids through parcels.Here below is a recent list of parcel senders and receivers which i collected from our post office box;

Sender receiver contents.
1.Clive and Joy Kidd.....................Abdalla............................ .....letter
2.Becky......................................Baraka......... .........................letter.
3.Teresa......................................Francis....... ..........................lettter
4.Sue and Davies.........................Francis...................... ...........letter and photo album.
5.Isabella Waddington..................William......................... ........greeting card, toy cars and a puzzle pad.
6.John and Isabella.......................Kabibi....................... ........... letter and greeting card .

On behalf of the kids, i say thankyou for everything.With lots of love from, Moses(sponsorship co-ordinator)


An update on Gibson

2010-06-04

Also as you all know i've been featuring some of kids in the programme so as you all get to know how they are getting on in school and how they feel on what the Mtomondoni sponsorship programme has done to them in terms of education.Today therefore i've featured the youngest kid in the programme by the name-Gibson (Kindergarten 2).
Gibson now aged 8 years is one of the youngest kid in the programme and learning at Mtwapa Academy in kindergarten 2 class.Unfortunately Gibson has been suffering from 'down syndrone' since birth and his parents had lost hope for their's son's future in terms of education since apart from finding a school for him, the parents had no money to take Gibson to school as he also needed special attention and needs.Lucky enough Gibson got sponsored into our programme which was a great relief to his parents.After assessment at the school it was found that Gibson could learn in a normal school, though he showed to be slow learner.For sure his parents could not imagine that Gibson could one day be able learn anything with little or no support. Suprisingly, ever since Gibson was sponsored to our programme he has tremendously improved in almost everything day by day.At the kindergarten 2, the following are the kind of subjects Gibson does;
1.Language-includes reading, oral skills and writting.
2.Number work-includes counting, recognition of numbers, addition, subtraction, shaping of number.
3.creative activities-includes recognition of colours, drawing, constructive modelling and folding of paper.
4.Social and environmental studies-includes recognition of family members, role playing in form of drama and poetry.
According to his class teacher, madam Angeline, Gibson can now read, copy, recognise letters, sounds and be able to pronounce some few words.He is also now able to do some colouring work, draw, model and construct.On extra curriculum activities Gibson likes playing musical instruments and playing football.He can also feed himself unlike before where he was dependant.Generally Gibson looks happy, determined and improving, his parents are happy too, thanks to his sponsorship. With that i say bye to all with lots of love from Moses(sponsorship co-ordinator).


The day of the African child

2010-06-17

Jambo! to all with love from Africa.Its my sincere hope that you all doing fine.Here in Kenya, Mtwapa were are fine too with all the kids in school carrying on well with their studies.Am happy to inform you that, yesterday all over the African continent and Kenya being an African country in East Africa we celebrated a great day called 'The day of the African child' The day of the African child is a continental celebration done in Africa annually on the 16th of June.It is a day set aside by the African heads of states to commemorate the 16th Soweto massacre of 1976 in South Africa.During this time children were killed and injured while demonstrating against the use of inferior curriculum in their schools and they wanted to be taught in their own languages.In the celebrations one of the key component is sensitising the community on the rights of the child as envisaged in the children's act no.8 of 2001 of Kenya and the United nations convention on the rights and welfare of the child.These include;Right to education, right to parental care, right to survival, right to development, right to protection and the right to non-discrimination.Other issues talked about during this day are like issues on drug abuse, child labour, child abandonement, child responsibility and early child pregnancy.During this day all schools and any other community children, parents and teachers gather then all the above issues are addressed to everyone around through singing, poems, drama mostly done by the children from different schools.Lastly closing speechs are made from education ministry officers, children welfare department officers, local leaders e.g area councillors, chiefs and other government officials, all addressing the children's issue with a theme.This year's theme was 'Planning and budgeting for children, a collective responsibility.With that i hope you've all be able to know the importance of this day to our children.Thanks for caring for our children here in Africa through the Mtomondoni sponsorship programme,
from,
(sponsorship co-ordinator).


An update on Esther

2010-06-24

Jambo, once again!
As you all know we've been featuring different kids who are our programme on their general academic and extrra curriculum activity progress and therefore today i'll be featuring on Esther.
Esther a girl aged 15 years and currently in class 5 is also one of the promising students who has so far made tremendous improvement in her schooling, academical and socialy despite her health condition of having 'down sydrome' just like Gibson whom we had featured in the last website report. Esther is the sixth and last born in her family of 3 brothers and 2 sisters.Her father is aged 54 years while her mother is aged 53, but unfortunately the father had stroke and was unable to work leaving the mother as the sole bread winner and taking care of the rest of the family.That is why Esther was recruited into the Mtomondoni sponsorship programme. According to her class teacher madam Rosemary , Esther's general particitipation in class is encouraging as she always look determined to know more by trying to answer questions. While in school she does a total of 5 subjects by the end of her school day i.e Maths, English, Science, Social studies and Kiswahili.Esther's favourite subjects are English and Kiswahili, while in extra curricullum activities she loves singing and dancing .Esther can now pronounce and spell any written words and sentences without any difficulties and even construct and write down her own sentences unlike before when he had much difficulties.I asked her teacher what she does to make Esther keep on improving and she said, its only through motivating her always in whatever she does.I terms of behavioural changes, Esther nowadays understands herself better than before, behaving in a mature way and always likes coming to school unless she is sick.I personally interviewed Esther on how she feels being sponsored in the Mtomondoni sponsorship programme and generally she said she feels good and sends much thanks to her sponsors, promising to work hard in her studies and that's why she makes sure she wakes up as early as 6.00 am and prepare her self to go to school.Esther's parents are happy too as they've seen lots of improvements on Esther unlike before as she can now wash clothes on her own, help in cooking and preparing herself to go to school.Esther loves her teachers as she says they are good teachers and finally says she would like to be a nurse so as to treat people in her future career. With that i say bye to everyone, thanking you all for your contributions into the kids programme and wish you all a lovely week and good times always with lots of love, from Moses (Sponsorship co-ordinator).


An update on Shila

2010-07-01

Hi! Everyone, we all hope that you are all doing fine.Here in Kenya, Mtwapa we are all doing fine too with all the kids in school.Well today kid website report is on Shila.
Shila, a girl aged 15 years old is currently in class 7.Shila is also one of the kids in the programme who has made lots of improvements academically and we all hope to see her get good grades in her final class 8 exam. next year.Her favourite subjects are science and Kiswahili.Shila says, she is struggling hard so as to improve on the other subjects like Maths, English, social studies and CRE.In terms of English as a subject, Shila is saying that she want to be perfect on composition writting by avoiding spelling mistakes while in Maths she want to practice by attempting different question papers so as she get used to the different mathematical formulas in solving questions and she finally hopes to get at least 370 marks out of the total 500 marks when she reaches class 8. Shila says, she does more studies at night before going to bed at between 10 and 11 pm and make sure she wakes up early and ready for school at 6.00am.Before Shila was sponsored to Mtomondoni sponsorship programme, she used to get get lower marks as she sometimes couldn't go to school due to lack of fees making her miss some of her classes but she is so much thanksfull now to her sponsors as she says, ever since she was recruited to the Mtomondoni Sponsorship programme she has never missed her classes unless she is sick and that is why she has been improving in her studies.Shila, born from a family of three(all sisters) but unfortunately one of her young and both of her parents died making Shila to live with her uncle(brother to her late mum).She is therefore more thankfull to her sponsors as she says if it were not for them she could not be in school today which she can now foresee and achieve her dream of becoming a lawyer. With that and behalf of all the kids i say 'Kwaherini' bye bye to all with lots of love from Moses(Sponsorship co-ordinator)


Hi from Mtwapa

2010-07-31

Jambo! everyone.It's my sincere hope that you are all fine , here in Kenya, Mtwapa we are doing fine with all the kids in our programme.The schools are now closed since 30th July for the August holiday until the 6th of September 2010 where they will be going for the 3rd term which marks the end of the academic year.Its also during the 3rd term when all the class 8 students sit for their final primary school examination popularly known as KCPE i.e Kenya Certificate of Primary Examination which they hope to do in early November.This year we have 8 students in our programme who will be sitting for the KCPE and they are Grace, Zena, Kabibi, Mayee, Samuel Mbugua, Francis, Diego and Rama.Thereafter the results are out they will then proceed to secondary schools.

Just last week i.e on 4th August, here in Kenya we made a historic, peacefull and successful event i.e constitutional referendum where all Kenyans voted for a new constitution.During the voting some were proposing for the new consitituition i.e the (Yes side) while others were rejecting i.e the(No side).Most of the Kenyans were on the Yes side and it good the yes team won by 69 percent against the No side.

Towards the end of the term i.e between 16th July- 30th July, here in Mtwapa, we were priviledged to host 13 students and 6 staff(teachers) from Brockington college in England under the leadership of Sarah Heggs assisted by Ann True which was a successfull trip.During their visit, the Brockington team was able to do different school activities with the kids in class, in the field doing sports and and engaged themselves in building work in both Mtwapa Academy and Sagail nursery and primary school.Apart from the school activities, the Brockington team was able to visit historical places in Mombasa, cultural centre and the nature trail.Also they were able to visit the children's home and had a tour of the Mtomondoni village among many more interesting places and activities e.g learning to cook some Swahili/African food etc.I therefore want to take this opportunity to thank and applause all the students and staff of the Brockington college who tirelessly for two weeks stayed, interacted and worked with us and their departure was a heartfelt feeling in which we now miss them lots!!!!!!! All the children and teachers in both schools were very happy to be with them as they learnt alot from the visitors and from me and on behalf of the management of both schools, teachers and students i want to send our lots of greetings to everyone in the team.

I finally would urge and welcome everyone of you to visit our country Kenya and spend some time with us and the children and by so doing you will be changing the lives of our children and the society at large and before i end up, i want to say thankyou to all of the sponsors and all the friends in the Mtomondoni sponsorship programme for continuing to support the children in here in Kenya.'Kwaheri' bye from Moses.


Teresia

2010-08-05

Teresia now aged 17 is one of the girls in the Mtomondoni sponosship programme who is in the seconadry school i.e form 2, her school is known as Mtwapa Elite Academy.Here below she has this to say;-
'Secondary school life is very different from primary school as have to put too much efforts and be dedicated to school and all what you are told to do by the teacher.In secondary school teachers and everyone else is expecting you to be matured and soo you have to be smart and organised always.I persoally enjoy going to school, i love my school and my teachers as they are soo helpfull to me, just in case me i didn't understand a certain topic in class my teachers take time to explain to me.My favourite subjects are History, English, Chemistry, Biology and Geography. In total we do 10 subjects inclusive of Maths, Physics, Kiswahili, Christian religious eduatio, (CRE) and Business education.
In the morning i normally wake up at 5.00am, have a wash, put on my school dress, take my breakfast and maybe do some study until 6.30am where am off to school.During lunch time in school, normally like to take chips and sausage.When i finish school i would like to be an air hostess or a secretary of a very big organisation or company.I finally want to thank all of my sponsors for continuing to sponsor me and i always pray that they continue with the same spirit and even help more children like me.' Thankyou.


An update on Magdaline

2010-08-12

Madgadline now aged 16 years, one of the girls also in secondary school i.e form 1 and also in the same school as Teresia i.e Mtwapa Elite Academy secondary school.Also today Magdaline is featured in our website and here below is what she has to say about her schooling;-
'If you compare secondary school life and primary school life its very different, this is because in secondary school the teachers do lots of lecturing and you take notes while in primary school the teachers make for you the notes and you copy from the blackboard.The secondary school system of learning makes the student to mature as you have to comprehend each and everything you are taught.I like my school and the teachers as they are soo helpfull.During preps time i.e extra study time in school which normally start at 4.00pm-6.00pm, i usually approach my teachers incase i have any difficulties in understanding some of the topics as they can explain to me properly.In the morning i normal wake up at 5.00am in the morning, do some revision then prepare my self to go to school of which i have to be in school by 7.00 am.My favourite subjects are English, Chemistry and History though i still need to improve on Mathematics and very much working hard to improve on it.In my future career soon after school i'd like to be a doctor so as am able to assist the people in my community.
Finally to my sponsors, i want to send lots of thanks for what they have been doing to me in terms of my education, i therefore promise to work hard so as i achieve my goals and am sure they will be pleased.Thankyou'


An update on Getrude

2010-08-13

Getrude, now aged 16 is one the sponsored children in the Mtomondoni sponsorship programme whom she is now doing her trade course in dressmaking.Ever since she started she has shown tremendous improvements in terms of her dressmaking career.I've therefore today featured her in our website report and here below is what she has to say and i quote her;-
'In dress making you first start with grade 3 which takes 2 years, from grade 3 you proceed to grade 2 and finally to grade 1, am now in grade 3 which i hope to finish soon.The training a person undergoes in stage 3 is first you have to learn in making baby/infant clothings, then you learn how to make clothes of children aged 3-8 years, then you learn how to do bodice.After that the trainee start to learn on how to do different designs in skirts and blouses, from designs, a third grade trainee learns on how to makr school uniforms and jackets.
During exams their are both oral and practical tests.In the oral tests, a trainee is required to be able to identify the different parts of a sewing machine and their use.Also the trainee is required to know the different steps and procedures of how to measure and cut different clothes like the skirts and jackets i.e putting into consideration features like hips skirts and collars in jackets.In skirt making we have different styles i.e skirt pleat, 6-piece with flare, normal school uniform skirt pleat and skirt pleats on sideways for casual clothings.For the practical test, the trainee maybe required to join an already measured and cut piece of clothing of which after joining it will appear a fully ready to wear dress which might be shown on picture.The dress joining process is a timed process of which a trainee is given a minimun of 2 hours, with me i can join a dress for a minimum of an hour of which i seem to be faster!!!!
Generally to me dressmaking isn't a difficult course to do as long as you have the interest at heart and always consulting with the tutor incase of any difficulties.I love my tutors as they are very helpfull to me.While at home i do more practicals in dress making with my own sewing machine as shown in the pictures.In future i hope to be a professional designer and be able to design and make all ranges of clothings i.e from infants, men and women.
I finally want to say that, am soo much thankfull to my sponsors in the Mtomondoni sponsorship programme for continuinig to further my career and eventually making me achieve my goals and i hope that they will continue to sponsor me until i finally reach my goals and may God bless them'.End of quote.


Kids monthly meeting

2010-08-31

Hi! Everyone.Its my sincere hope that you are all fine wherever you are, we are all doing fine here in Mtwapa, Kenya.Am also happy to inform you that, just last week on 27th Friday all Kenyans celebrated the promulgation of the new constitution after the successfull referendum which was held on the 4th of August 2010.

Also last weekend on Sunday 29th August 2010 we held our normal kids/parents monthly get together and before i proceed may you please receive lots of greetings from all of our parents and kids in the programme.During the get together we discuss different matters of concern for our programme kids like reminding the kids on how to take care of the their books and uniform, advice to the kids on how they can improve more in their exams after going through each kid exam results.Also during this time some of the kids who are in the secondary schools are also given the chance to speak infront of the other kids who are in the primary school and the parents how they are going on in their respective schools and encourage their fellow kids to work hard in their exams.Also during this time, the programme cook i.e Amina also is given the chance to speak infront of all the kids and parents on her cooking work especially on the menu.Also during this time we do have special prayers for our programme whereby we pray for sustainability of the programme, good health and prospect of our kids, parents and all of our sponsors and friends of the programme and many more issues just to mention afew.I have therefore sent some few pictures which i took during the recent kids/parents get together for everyone to see.

The schools are soon reopening for the third term and also marking the end of the academic year i.e next week on 6th September 2010.Finally from me and on behalf of all of our programme kids i would like to send lots of greetings to everyone and wish all the very best i whatever you are doing and good health and prospects always, thankyou for all of your contributions, with lots of love, from
Moses(sponsorship co-ordinator).


An update on Happy Menza

2010-09-01

As previously i've been sending to you some information about our kids individually and this time round we are featuring one of the youngest girls in the programme by the name Happy.Happy is a young girl aged 10 years and in class 2 at the Mtwapa Academy.She comes from a family of 6 children i.e 4 girls and 2 boys, among the six children, Happy is a second born.Happy's sisters are Dhahabu, Zena and Sabrina while her brothers are Thomas and Kennedy.Before Happy was sponsored to the programme, her parents were unable to take her to school as most of the times she used to get sick due to a recurrent eye problem(cataract) and also swelling of the skin which later developed to sores and boils.Happy and her parents have now have a smiling face ever since Happy was sponsored into the Mtomondoni sponsorship programme.Soon Happy was recruited into the programme and started going to school, she also got medical assistance also from the programme and am happy to tell you that ever since Happy has been on the programme her eye and skin problem is a history as she no longer has the problem, and thus Happy says thanks to the Mtomondoni sponsorship programme.Below is what Happy has to say as per schooling, i've also sent some pictures on Happy and her mother for everyone to have a look.
'I normally wake up for school every school day at 5 am and start preparing myself by washing, dressing, take a cup of tea and then am off to school.I love my school very much and my teachers too.My favourite subjects are Maths, Kiswahili, Science and C.R.E.My favourite food is 'ugali'(corn flour) and 'sukuma wiki'(kales-vegetables).When i finish my studies i'd like to be a doctor.To the sponsors i would like to tell them that am going on well with my schooling and i feel very much happy for continuing to sponsor me and i pray that they continue with the same spirit' end of quote.Thankyou


Jambo and Thanks

2010-09-10

Hi! Everyone.
Its my sincere hope you are all doing fine wherever you are.We are all doing fine with all the kids here in Mtwapa, Kenya.Just needed to send some information on our youngest girls in the programme i.e Asma but before i proceed, i needed to inform Val Murphy and Kimberley Hutchinson that i recently collected from our post box their parcels which they had sent for some our programme kids.From Val Murphy i had collected a parcel of lego on racing cars for Wycliffe and from Kimberley Hutchinson i collected letters for Rama who is our programme and for Kauthar, Caroline and Diana (friends).On behalf of the receivers i want to send my many thanks to the senders as the students were happy to receive.From, Moses(sponsorship co-ordinator).


An update on Asma

2010-09-17

'My name is Asma, aged 8 years and in class 2.I live with my mother and grandmother.My mother's name is called Nuru.Am happy to be at Mtwapa Academy and so i love my teachers too.The name of my class teacher is called madam Manga.In the morning i wake up at 6.00am and start preparing for school by washing my body, brush my teeth, dress on my school uniform, take my breakfast which is most tea with 'mahamri'(swahili snacks made of wheat flour and baking powder).The subjects we do are Maths, English, Science, Kiswahili, Social studies and Islamic religion education.Out of these subjects my favourites are English, Maths and Kiswahili.When i complete my studies i'd like to work as a doctor so as i treat people.Am very happy to be in Mtomondoni sponsorship programme and i therefore want to say, thankyou to my sponsors for making it possible for me to learn in Mtwapa Academy as previoulsy my mother was unable to pay me school fees since doesn't have any job which can make her take me to school.My favourite food is 'chapati' and beans while my favourite colour is blue.Whenever an free i like playing hide and seek game with my friends or helping my mother in washing the dishes.' Thankyou.


Letters on the way

2010-09-18

Hi everyone,

We have recieved lots of letters just recently.  The post has been a problem, Hinckley post office have sent two parcels back to Mtwapa!!! As you can imagine this has caused lots of issues as it takes ages for us to trace the parcel and sort it all out.  We now have the letters all sorted.... there was lots of them it took a whole day!!!

Those of you that write to your sponsored child will have quite a few to read!

We hope you are enjoying reading the posts that Moses is putting on the site, please remember to check regularly as he updates the site on a regular basis.

Take care

Sara and Gail

xx


Recent pictures of the Standard 8 sponsored children

2010-09-25

Wow.... grat pictures for you all to enjoy.


An update on Ibrahim

2010-10-06

Hope you are all doing fine wherever you are.We are all fine too here in Mtwapa, Kenya with all the kids in school carrying on well with their studies.Well, today i needed to post some information for one of our kid boys in the programme named Ibrahim.Ibrahim being the only muslim boy in our programme, i have therefore thought it better to send you some special features related to the muslim faith in relation to education here in Kenya.I therefore hope that you'll all love reading about it.Thankyou with lots of love from, Moses(sponsorship co-ordinator)

Ibrahim
'My name is Ibrahim, am aged 9 and a half years.Ilive with my mother and my grandmother in Mtwapa village.The name of my mother is called Thuweba while my grandmother is called Mariam Yusuf.
Ilove going to Mtwapa Academy which is near our house, ilove my class teacher too.In the morning i wake up at 6.00 am then go to the toilet, brush my teeth, take a bath and wear my school uniform.Before i take my tea i first pray on a special mat in my bedroom then i drink my tea with bread.After that i put on my school jumper and go to school.
My favourite subjects are Maths, Science, Kiswahili, Social studies and Islamic Religion Education(IRE).My favourite games in school are football and Rugby.During my free time at home i like drawing pictures and reading on my books especially on English, Science and Kiswahili.
At school we learn Islamic religion education of which the teachings are different from how we are taught in the 'Madrassa' i.e a muslim youth school in the village.At the school the topics are taught in English whereas at 'madrassa'the topics are taught in Arabic, so whatever we learn at school is a summary of all what we are a taught in madrassa meaning that who goes for the madrassa stands a better chance of performing well in IRE examinations.The IRE topics we do at school are;
1.quoran-the holy book of Islam.
2.Hadith-which teaches about all the sayings made by the prophets.
3.moral values
4.relations i.e marriage and inheritance.
Finally the exams. are also made and answered in English.
After my day in school i.e from 4.30-6.20 pm i then attend the 'madrassa' which is near my house.At the 'madrassa' we are nearly 70 muslim youths.The name of our 'madrassa' is called 'Ahnadwa'which is an Arabic word meaning a busy ant.At the 'madrassa' we start attending at the age of 7 years until the age of 10 years in which by the time you reach the age of 10 you'll have mastered how to pray and thereafter you graduate and being allowed to get into the main mosque with the adults to continue praying with them.At the 'madrassa' we learn subjects like;
1.'Fiqhi'-which teaches about Islam in general.
2.'Seera'- which is about the history of the muslims religion and its prophets.
3.'Hadith' -which teaches about all the sayings made by the prophets.
4.'Tawheed'-which teaches about the Almighty God and all the kind of creations He made.
Finally the exams are conducted in Arabic.
After the 'madrassa' i go back home, have my dinner and go to bed.
For my career i would like to be a doctor and finally i want to send lots of thanks to my sponsors for making me continue with my learning through the Mtomondoni sponsorship programme of which before i was sponsored, my mother had hardships as she is single and unemployed.Also i want to further my many thanks for all the presents i have been getting from friends and my sponsors'Thankyou, end of quote.


Standard 8 students - the big exams!!!

2010-10-14

STD 8-KCPE - this is the equivalant to GCSE exams
Jambo! everyone.
Lots of greetings from Mtwapa, Kenya.Hoping everyone is fine wherever you are.Am doing good too here in Mtwapa with all of our kids in school going on well with their classes. Well i just needed to inform you that, this year as i had previously informed you that, 8 of our kids in the programme will be sitting for their final examination in the next month of November.The exam. popularly known as the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education-KCPE and also the final primary school exam, thereafter the students proceed to secondary schools is expected to commence on 8th November 2010 until 11th of November 2010.Just to remind you on our kids candidates are Grace, Kabibi, Mayee, Zena, Rama, Samuel Mbugua, Diego and Francis.Please for those who wish to send success cards to the above mentioned candidates are free to do so and hopefully the kids will appreciate, alternatively you may post your messages through this website, thankyou for being part of us with lots of love, from Moses (Sponsorship co-ordinator)
NOTE; Please have a look at our latest kid information and update for Albert.Thankyou.


An Update on Albert

2010-10-15

Albert
'Jambo! my name is Albert and in class 3 in Mtwapa Academy.Am aged 10 years old.My father's name is called Anderson while my mother's name i called Joyce.My class teachers name is called madam Florence.In the morning i wake up at 5.30 am then start to prepare my self by bathing, brush my teeth, take a cup of tea with 'mahamri'(swahili snacks) made of wheat flour and raising powder.After taking my tea i rush to school of which i normally report at 6.45 am. ready for my classes.My favourite subject is science as i would like to be an engineer in future.My favourite colour is yellow.While in school apart from studies i like playing football as part of my extra curriculum activities.During my free time while at home, i like helping my mother in washing of the utensils.On saturdays i sometimes wash my school uniform though my mother most of the times washes for me then on Sunday i go with my parents to church.While in church, i love listening to bible stories.Lastly i would like to send my lots of thanks to my sponsors for making me go to school and all the present i have received from them. Since i was sponsored through the Mtomondoni sponsorship programme i find my learning going on well very smoothly and i therefore promise to work hard and always try to pass my exams.'end of quote, thankyou.


Important events

2010-11-03

Hi! Everyone.
It's great to speak to you all again today, hoping that everyone is doing good wherever you are.We are all still fine with all the kids in school going on well with their studies, please receive lots of 'Jambos' from everybody here in Mtwapa.
Thanks too for all who have been sending their best wishes through our website to our STD 8 candidates and even to the rest of the kids.All of our kids have really appreciated your messages.
Over last month we had two major events which i needed to inform you about.One is national event while the second is one of the school's calendar of events.The national event was called 'Heroes day' which was held on 20th 0ctober of which was a public holiday and Kenyans were celebrating for the first time eversince the the new constitution took effect.As i had informed you earlier that here in Kenya we now have a new constitution after a 20 year journey is search of it.The new constitution was made public(promulgated) and took effect on 27th August 2010 after the successful referendum where more than 70% of Kenyans voted in favour of it as it was a people's made consititution and Kenyans themselves proposed lots of good changes after the post election violence i.e politically, economically and socially.One of the changes which the Kenyan citizen made was the recognition and celebrating all the people of Kenya who major contributed in the liberation of the country and attained its independence, also those who contributed alot in good environmental policies and changes and obtained Noble prizes like Professor Wangari Maathai of the Green Belt Movement, great sports men and women who have raised the flag of Kenya in the international sports i.e Olympics, Commonwealth games etc.The Heroes day is therefore one of the three public holidays which we celebrate here in Kenya, the other two are Indepence day-1st June and Republic day 12th December.

The second event was a major event in the school calendar of events was'The Prayer Day' which was held on 31st October. This day is a school annual event which is set aside for special prayers of all the STD 8 candidates who are expected to sit for their final primary school examination popularly know as KCPE i.e Kenya Certificate of Primary Education, as i had ealier informed you 8 of our kids in the Mtomondoni sponsorship programme i.e Grace, Kabibi, Mayee, Zena, Francis, Samuel Mbugua, Diego and Rama will be sitting for the exam scheduled to commence next week on 8th November-11th November

.During this day religious leaders both christians and muslims, other guests, parents, relatives, friends of the candidates are invited to the school for this occasion.Among the items durings this day are entertainments through songs done by various classes i.e from class 4-class 8, speeches and exam advices are made by the school Director, Headmaster, selected parents and guests of which the climax are the prayers.
After the prayer day i had an interview with the school director-Rahab and the school headmaster-Mr.Kimeu about the prayer day, candidacy and schooling in general so check it out in the next item!!! Thankyou with lots of love, from Moses(sponsorship co-ordinator).


Interview with Principal

2010-11-03

Interview with The School Director and Headmaster(Principal).
Hi! Everyone, this is an exclusive post from the normal posts about candidacy and schooling in general on the African perspective which i hope it would be beneficial too for all the students, teachers and parents.

Question 1;-What do you have to say about the prayer day as one of the major events in the school calendar?

Answer;-Director-In our school we believe that for every success, God must take the lead and this is only made possible through prayers, that is why every morning during assemby all the students and teachers pray before we start our school day programmes and classes.Due to this we thought it better to have a special prayer day for all of our STD 8 candidates before they sit for their final KCPE exam and it has now become a tradition.

Answer;-Headmaster-The prayer day is a spiritual day in the school as everybody present prays for the success of the candidates.In another way its tearful and sad moment as we teachers and especially myself being the STD 8 class teacher realise that we are soon missing our dear students whom we were used to them soo much in class.This year the prayer day was a success as the turn up was good with lots of parents and friends coming to the occasion.Finally on this question i would say that in every success God must be put first.

Question 2;-How best are the candidates/teachers prepared for the KCPE?

Answer; Headmaster-In preparation the students have been revising several KCPE examination question papers so as to check on some common questions asked in the exam. and further studying the topics in relationship to the specific question asked.
-Also we as teachers made sure that the students have covered the whole of STD 8 syllabus since all the questions asked in the exam are based on the syllabus.
-The students did lots of revision especially on speficic topics for students who are specifically weak in some subjects.
-Also we as teachers made sure that during any of the school internal exams we try to put the students in what we may call an exam.kind of environment by putting onto practice the use of index numbers, proper exam timings and invigilation.By doing so the candidates are getting used to national exams.
-Psychologically we also prepare the students by encouraging them to share ideas and encourage one another and advice them not to have the habit of peeping through their friends work while doing exams.Finally on this question, we as teachers are confident that the kids will pass as we are believe that we gave them all our best and working hard with them.

Question 3;-What percentage do you think is the exam lot(candidates) going to pass?

Answer;-Headmaster-Am quiet optimistic that at least 75% of the candidates will perform wonderful!!

Question 4;-What kind of talents from the candidates do you think you'll miss?

Answer;-Headmaster-Ooh yes, book writers, singers like Grace, scientists,
footballers like Rama and Diego, comedians and general future oriented people.

Question 5;-What future do you foresee on the candidates?

Answer;-Headmaster-leaders, engineers and generally people of substance.

Question 6;-What's your advice on students/candidates in terms of exam.preparations before they sit for their exam?

Answer;-Headmaster-My advice is this, they should always revise their class notes, emphasis on past papers so as they can revise and research on topics.If possible also they study in groups and learn from one another.
Director -the students should have all the required textbooks, exercise books, stationery, preserve and revise their lower class notes as they are very important in the exam.

Question 7;-What strategic plans do you have for the students to excell in their exam apart from now?

Answer;-Director-We'll have to make sure the teachers finish their syllabus in time so as students may have enough time of revision.
-Also i'll make sure that the teachers salaries are paid promptly and try as much as possible so as the school have all the learning facilites as recommended by the Ministry of Education.

Question 8;-What's your advice on parents-teachers relationship towards the success to any exam for a child?

Answer;-Headmaster-The parents should make sure that they work hand in hand with the teachers so as they can share ideas and advices on how best the path for the kids to follow unfortunately not all parents do that.

Question 9;-When do you think is the best time for a student to start preparing for the final exam in primary school?

Answer;-Director-From my experience most of the questions asked in the final exam are derived from the lower class syllabus i.e from class 4-8.So to my advice students need to start studying hard and get prepared for their exams right from class 4.

Answer;-Headmaster-To me i think the students should get prepared right from class 6 because it in this class when things become more complex and the kids are matured enough.

Question 10;-What assistance should a parent give to their kids when they are candidates?

Answer;-Director-I would urge the parents to provide their kids with good and conducive learning environment while at home i.e cool with enough light and space.Also the parents should make sure their kids don't oversleep and so wake up early enough and start preparing for school.
-Also the parents should avoid giving their kids lots of luxuries before the exams instead have enough time to study as long as they relieve them with lots of house work.

Question 11;-What things should be avoided by candidates in order to pass their exams?

Answer;-Director-The kids should avoid bad peer influence in school and also at home and instead make books as their best friends.
-they should also avoid laziness in their school work and even at home, also they should avoid lateness when coming to school and avoid absenteeism.
-kids should avoid moving out of classses for no good reason while their teachers are in the class teaching and lastly avoid too much play.

Answer;-Headmaster-The kids should avoid wasting time and bad company.
-they should avoid getting involved in activities which will make them to be indisciplined and loose respect to their elders.

Question 12;-What future do you foresee for Mtwapa Academy in terms of academic excellency?

Answer;Director-I can foresee good leaders in the country coming from Mtwapa Academy who will also be useful all over the world.This is because in the past KCPE exams our students have been producinng very good results which made them to get national secondary schools which are the 'cream' and top schools and later on proceeded to variuos Universities within the country.

Question 13;-What do you think the government of Kenya through the ministry of education should do in order to improve on the quality, testing and avoidance on cheating in exams?

Answer;-Director-Good enough the government has now directed all school heads to make sure that all their candidates obtain their birth certificates before registering and sitting for their exams, by doing so it will make sure that rightfull candidates sit for the exams.The birth certficate is supposed to be accompanied by the candidate's passport size photo as there has been some rare cases where relatives of the candidates sit for the real candidate.

Question 14;-Is there any importance for holiday breaks in schools?

Answer;-Director-Holiday breaks are very important as studies tend to consume lots of brains which may lead to exhaustion , so breaks bring relief to the student's brains and make them refreshed and ready for the next academic term.

Question 15;-What kind of attitudes towards learning should should students have especially when they are candidates?

Answer;-Director-The students should have enough discipline, have positive attitudes towards learning and be able to choose good career in life.

Question 16;-Due to the fast technological development and competition within the globe, what advice can you give to students in the developing countries like Kenya in order to be at par with the industrialized continents and countries like UK, Europe, America, Japan etc?

Answer;-Headmaster-I would urge the students to be more acquainted with information technology i.e the computer, internet and update themselves on technological development through currant affairs from the different news around the globe especially in the fileds of science, medicine and engineering.
Hope the above answers will beneficial to our students, with that i say 'Kwaherini' bye and thankyou for continuing to support the programme with lots of love, from, Moses(sponsorship co-ordinator).


Babington Community Technology College students working hard for their trip of a lifetime

2010-11-04

Well it seems that the wheels have well and truely been set in motion over the past couple of weeks and the fundraising is going realy well.  Congratulations to all students involved for your efforts washing cars this week... it's been a cold week to wash cars but the money really has been coming in so well done.  Likewise thanks to the parents committee for your hard work with the Halloween disco which went really well also.

For those sponsors reading the blog there is another school trip goiung out to Mtwapa in July.  There are 15 students and potentially the three reserves if enough money is raised that will be travelling out to Kenya from Beaumont Leys in Leicester.  All students are raising money to sponsor children and build classrooms as well as other projects.  It's very exciting and truely will be a trip of a lifetime.

Each student will have a buddy they will be with when they are out in Kenya.  They are:

Hashim - Lukeman

Tiffany - Esther and Dennis Mbura

Fabio (currently a reserve)- Gibson and Samuel Benson

Kym - Happy

Chloe (currently a reserve) - Asma

Jess - Mapenzi

Amera - Salwa

Tom - Albert

Adam (currently a reserve)- Alfred

Steph - Wycliffe

Megan - Pendo

Stacey - William

Jade - Abdalla

Chelsea - Justin

Vishnu - Kahindi

Tendai - Hamisi

Sumaya - Zawadi

Auyb - Ibrahim

There are 4 sponsored students that are not buddied up with anyone yet, the rest of the sponsored children don't go to Mtwapa Academy anymore as they are in secondary school.  Therefore we don't want anyone to be left out so is there anyone who would like to write to another child?  The sponsored children that need a buddy are Baraka Omar, Sheila Kazungu, Loice Maeka and Tina Muye.

Next big event:

Race night - 3rd December


Mtwapa Xmas Unwrapped 2010

2010-11-17


Following the success of the past three years Xmas food projects we are once again running the Mtomondoni Christmas gift appeal, giving you the chance to give Christmas gifts that can really make a difference. Instead of trailing around the shops this year to find a gift for everyone you know, only for that present to end up in the back of some cupboard, un-used and wasted, why not send a gift that really does make a whole world of difference to a needy family living in Africa.

How does it work?
STEP 1: Decide who you would like to buy a very special Christmas present for and then have a look through the list of gifts below and decide what it is you would like to purchase.
STEP 2: Complete the form and return it with your payment by Friday December 3rd so that we can ensure the gift gets to the family in time for Christmas. Cheques need to be made out to Mtwapa School Account and posted to 118 Stanley Road, Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 0HT. Our co-ordinator based in Kenya will then find a suitable family in Mtomondoni to present the gift to a family that is most in need. You will then receive a gift card to give to the person that you have bought the present for detailing who the gift was given to and their situation.

STEP 3: You can then send the gift card knowing that your present this year really has made a difference.

STEP 4: You can then check the website to see the family in Africa receiving the gifts so you really will see exactly where your money has gone. All gifts will be presented to the Kenyan needy families before Christmas day.

Website: www.getjealous.com/mpenzi

This year’s gifts and prices are below.
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Gift Price Quantity
A chicken
A goat
Week supply of food £10
Month supply of food £40
Sponsor a child for a term £20
Sponsor a child for a year £60
Total cost £ 

Please post a message on the message board if you would like to make an order or get in touch with us direct.


Christmas unwrapped orders 2010

2010-12-16

Thanks to everyone who has so generously donated to this years Christmas Dinner appeal.  We have listed the items each family have recieved so you can see what a good effort there has been again this year.  We have deleted the names of sponsors for confidentiality purposes. 

We have sent the first installment of cash to Moses, we do it by installements as that is safer for him to collect, so the first lots of food should be being purchased really soon.  We have emailed the families so that they know what to expect and who the food has come from.

Thanks again,

Love Sara and GAil.... on behalf of all the people of Mtomondoni receiving food gifts.


Bensons (7 kids) Goat/Months supply of food
Weeks supply of food
Months supply of food
Months supply of food
Months supply of food
Chicken
Months supply of food


Saidi (2 kids) 3 Weeks supply of food/Chicken
Goat/Weeks supply of food
Weeks supply of food
Month supply of food


Moses (zawadi) Chicken/Weeks supply of food


Childrens home (8 kids) Months supply of food/Goat
Weeks supply of food
Months supply of food
Weeks supply of food
Weeks supply of food/Chicken
Weeks supply of food
Months supply of food


Dadhoo (Mayee) Weeks supply of food
Chicken


Yusuff (Lukeman) Weeks supply of food
Chicken


Micheal (3 kids) Months supply of food
Weeks supply of food
Chicken


Getrude Weeks supply of food
3 Weeks supply of food/chicken


Robert (magda and mary) Chicken
Weeks supply of food


Kahindi (Teresia) Months supply of food
Chicken


Santa (Grace) Weeks supply of food
2 Chickens


Fondo (shadrack) Weeks supply of food
Chicken
Chicken


Kalo (Esther) Weeks supply of food
Months supply of food
Chicken


Gibson Months supply of food/1 chicken


Happy Menza Months supply of food/1 chicken
Weeks supply of food
2 Weeks supply of food


Ben Kilonzo Weeks supply of food/Chicken
Chicken


Francis Goat
Weeks supply of food


Mapenzi 2 Weeks supply of food
Chicken

Salwa Weeks supply of food
Weeks supply of food/chicken


Sheila Kazungu Months supply of food
Goat


Albert Mwasambu Chicken
Weeks supply of food


Alex Asma Weeks supply of food
Goat
Chicken


Ibrahim Rashid Weeks supply of food
Weeks supply of food/Chicken


Tina Muye Chicken
Weeks supply of food


Alfred Mugambi Weeks supply of food
Weeks supply of food/Chicken


Moses Weeks supply of food/chicken

Amina
Weeks supply of food/chicken


End of the school year in Mtwapa - Closing Day December 2010

2010-12-20

Hi everyone,

Hope your weekend was good.Hope also everybody is fine at home.Am ok with my family,Keegan and Shakeel are now recovered.Well today i just needed to send you some few pictures which i had taken during the school closing day.The pictures show all the children at Mtwapa Academy having their end of year and final assembly,it also some pictures show some of the school teachers.With that i say,bye and wish you a lovely week,take care with lots of love,
from,
mOses.


Xmas unwrapped presents delivered

2011-01-01

Its my sincere hope that you had a lovely christmas day with everybody at home us too.Just to brief you on how everything went on here is that,i was able to finish the christmas shopping in time and on Friday 24th December i managed to give out the presents to the kids/parents before the christmas day,they were all happy to receive them and they sent lots of thanks to you both and all the donors.

The pictures show the issueing of the food.  The issuing started at around 3pm and it went on until at about 8.00pm. However only one child was absent during the issuing i.e Shila as she had traveled to visit her relatives in their rural home before christmas,hopefully she will be back when the schools re-open.Soon she arrives i'll also hand over her gifts and send you her picture.

I therefore hope you'll enjoy seeing the pictures.Finally i wish you both a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011!!!!!!!!!!!

Note;More pictures are on the next message attached,thanks.
Take care with lots of love from,
Moses.


Letters collected

2011-01-04

Hi all,

There were many letters recieved in Mtwapa over the Xmas period.  The letters collected are listed below:

kids letters/parcels.
Sender .........Receiver........ Contents
1.Mike Wann.......................Samuel Mbugua..................Letter,Chelsea football club t-shirt.

2.Mike Wann......................Esther..................................Letter,christmas card.

3.Steve and Karen Taylor.......Pendo................................Letter,christmas card.

4.Steve and Karen Taylor......Samuel Mbugua..................Letter,christmas card.

5.Lynn MacQueen................Baraka..............................Letter,self stick notes,notebook,pens and Wallet documents.

6.Clive and Joy Kidd..............Abdalla...............................Letter.

7.Gerald Trevor.....................Alfred...................................Letter.

8.Val Murphy.......................Wycliff..................................Pencil sharpener,rubber,torch, 2 t-shirts including a Leicester football t-shirt.

9.Paula Burton...................Happy,Gibson and school teachers.....Christmas card.

10.Jason and Hannah.........Lukeman....................................Letter,christmas card,pens,pencil set,sport t-shirt and sweets.


Hi from Moses

2011-03-07

Jambo! Everyone, from Mtwapa.
It’s my sincere hope that you are all doing fine. With us here in Mtwapa,Kenya we are fine too with all the kids in school going on well with their studies. First and foremost I need to say sorry as its been a while since the last website update, this is because during the new year I have been so much engaged in making sure all the sponsored kids are settled in everything especially in terms of uniforms and books. Am happy now to inform you that the kids are now settled in everything which they need for school. From me and on behalf of all the sponsored children and their parents/guardians please receive lots of ‘Jambos’ greetings and many thanks for all of your generous contributions towards the Mtomondoni sponsorship programme,surely your generosity has helped the children to realize their educational aspirations and further helping them to see a brighter future.
Am therefore happy to all inform you that the website postings from Mtwapa have now resumed, the latest posting being the new uniform issuing and I promise to keep you updated so please keep in touch too.
Am also happy to inform you that since February, one the sponsor’s i.e Boris arrived here in Mtwapa and ever since her arrival, she has made lots of positive changes at the Mtwapa Academy. Surely she has shown lots of dedication and tireless efforts towards helping the school development, through her lovely and educative paintings, completition of plastering, fixing of windows and doors on the new three classrooms. Am happy to host her too in my house as she enjoys our food and easily adapted to our way of life. My family i.e my wife Emily together with our two sons Keegan and Shakeel are also very happy to be with her and the kids loves to play with her. Boris also most of the evenings after work and during weekends keeps us entertained through her lovely English classical music when playing her guitar.
With that I say bye, and once again I say thank you for everything and be blessed, hope you’ll all enjoy the postings and the pictures with lots of love, from,
Moses.
(sponsorship co-coordinator)


Uniform

2011-03-07

Hi everyone,
Im sure that most of you know me, I’m Boris. I am currently in Mtwapa, Kenya, working in Mtwapa Academy. I have been helping Moses with the issuing of the new uniform for the sponsored kids. Also this is the third time I have tried to upload this report and the photos, as the power keeps going, so its been a long job.

After lots of trips for Moses to and from Mombassa to collect and exchange items, finally all the kids have received their items. The have been issued with; black school shoes; white pe shoes; white and grey sox; a pe t-shirt and short/skirt; school dress/shirt and shorts; a sweater and rucksack.

On the day we issued the uniform Asma and Alfred were absent so are not in some of the pictures but have since been given their uniform and were present on the day we took the pictures of everyone wearing their uniform.
The two children repeating standard 8 ( Zena Benson and Samuel Mbugwa) have not been issued uniform and will be assessed separately as to what they need.

I also got chance to speak to each kid individually and asked them a few questions about school and home, so that you can get to know your sponsored child a bit better. Here’s what they said.

Gibson Kg 3

Gibson is still quiet young and normally answers questions with yes, or fine, so he didn’t say much. However he was very excited to get his new uniform and after he was given each item he would shout his mum and show her. He was especially excited about his new rucksack as it had a cartoon penguin on it.


Happy Std 3

Happy is mostly quiet, but can be very lively at break time. She said that she enjoys English lessons the most. Her friends at school are Asma and Mary. Her favorite thing for lunch is chapatti.

Asma Std 3

Asma is also quiet. Her favorite lessons are English and Swahili. She likes chapatti and beans for lunch.

Alfred Std 3

Alfred is again quiet and seems to always be writing. He like science as you get to learn about the body. When he finishes school he wants to be a pilot. I asked him which countries he would like to fly to, he said England, USA and south Africa. He also likes chapatti and beans. He lives with his mum and has a sister at secondary school. At home he likes to play hide and seek.

Wycliffe Std 4

Wycliffe is very lively and he a very cheeky grin. His favorite lesson is social studies. His friends at school are Soloman and Ibrahim, and he likes to run with them at break time. For lunch his favorite is chips, and he says that his brother William always makes him laugh.


Ibrahim Std 4

Ibrahim is very polite and the only member of the group who is ever on time, and that’s not African time, that’s the time you actually said. His favorite lessons are social studies and math’s because he is good at them. His friends are Wycliffe, William and Charo. Chapatti and beans are top of the list for lunch.

Albert Std 4

Albert likes science as he likes learning about the body, plants and animals. His friends are William and Ibrahim and he likes rice for lunch.

William Std 4

William is very lively and is always smiling, and making noise. He likes Swahili as it is the easiest. He likes maths as well. He likes to eat chapatti and beans and also rice and fish. He likes to play football at home with his brothers.

Pendo Std 4

Pendo is very smiley, and talks very fast in Swahili. She likes science as she said it good to learn. Her friends are Mary and Eva. Of course she likes chapatti. When she finishes school at 5:30 she goes home and does her home work, then he washes her uniform for the next day, she normally has ugali and beans for dinner.


Salwa Std 5

Salwa likes Swahili as it is the easiest. She is friends with Zawadi and Emma. She likes chapatti and beans. When she finishes school she does her home work and has a rest. For dinner she told me that she has pilau every day, but her mum was laughing and said they normal have chapatti. Pilau is normally only for special occasions.

Abdalla Std 5

Abdalla is quiet a serious young man. He likes Science as you can get a good job from it, like an engineer. He said he wants to be an engineer. He likes ugali and chicken for lunch. After school he washes his clothes does his home work, has his dinner and reads a book for revision.

Zawadi Std 5

Zawadi likes Swahili as she says it’s the easiest. She is friends with Salwa and Emma. She likes Chapatti and beans. At home she helps her mum to cook which is normally ugali and skumawiki ( like cabbage). She studies and washes her clothes.

Kahindi Std 6

Kahindi is a bit quieter than the rest of the Bensons. He likes math’s as you need it all the time like in shops. His friends are Samuel and Hamisi. He likes chapatti and beans, and playing football. He plays upfront and scores lots of goals.

Justin Std 6

Justin is like the leader of the Bensons. He likes science as it teaches him about himself. At home he does homework, revises. He normally has ugali for diner. I asked him if anything good had happened recently and he said he got position 3 in last times exams. His friends are, Kahini, Hamisi, Brian and Samuel. I asked if he had a message for Sara he said ‘everything is good, I wish her all the best’


Samuel Benson Std 6

Samuel seemed to be a bit nervous about what I was going to ask him, and has a bit of a stutter. He said his favorite lesson is science. He likes pilau the best. His friends are Dennis and Baraka. He plays number 10 in football.

Esther Std 6

Esther is very funny and always up to something. She said her favorite lesson was social studies. For lunch she likes chips, and in pe she likes to play volleyball and netball. When I asked her what she does at home she said ‘ You take one chicken.. one chicken, keep it from harm. Then you get a bucket, a bucket of chicken’. So im not sure what she thought I asked but she seemed to know about chicken.

Loice Std 6

She likes math’s the best, as she would like to be a cashier. She likes ugali and skumawiki. At home she helps to do the washing and revises. Her friend at school is Hebe Lovel. She gets up at 5am, brushes her teeth, gets washed and has tea for breakfast.

Hamisi Std 6

Hamisi likes science the best, and wants to be a pilot. He is friends with Justin, Samuel and Kahindi.


Baraka Std 7

Baraka said he like Swahili best, as it is his national language and he is proud to speak Swahili. He likes to eat ugali. At home he shares the home tasks with the other boys, like cleaning the compound and cooking. He goes to bed at 10pm.

Dennis Std 7

I told Dennis I was going to ask him some questions about school and home, he said ‘I’m ready!’ as if it was going to be a test. He likes Swahili lessons the best, and ugali and beans for lunch. I asked if anything funny had happened to him this week. He said when the goats came in to school and he had to chase them out. At home he does home work, and home tasks and then rests. I asked if he eats as he forgot to say, he said ‘to eat is a must’.

Mapenzi Std 8

Is newer to the sponsorship program than the others, so I don’t know her that well, but she was nice to chat to. She said that Swahili and science are her favorite lessons. She wants to be a doctor after finishing school, probably for children. She lives with her grandmother. At home she cooks ugali and beans.

Shila Std 8

She likes science and social studies as she wants to be a lawyer. She likes pilau for lunch. At home she does her home work and helps to cook. She didn’t know that one of her sponsors was my grandmother, and says she would like to see her.

Cheryl Std 8

She likes English the best and wants to be a broadcaster on the news. She likes pilau, and its normally her mum who cooks at home, but she teaches her sometimes. She wakes up at 5am and washes ready for school and has tea for breakfast. She walks to school and it takes her about 15 minutes.

Lukeman Std 8

He likes science and sometimes he is the best in his class. He likes chapatti and beans for lunch. His little sister, Gail Hammond jnr is now two years old and is walking and talking. He said he wakes up at 5 sharp! He reads, washes and gets ready for school.

Samuel Mbugwa Std 8

Samuel likes social studies and English. He wants to be a mechanic for cars. When I asked him what he likes to eat he said ‘ as a Kenyan I like to eat ugali’. He said he wakes up at 4 am and goes to bed at 9 pm. He said he has jobs to do at home but not too many. He goes to church on Sundays and then to school for extra classes, so he has school everyday.

Zena Std 8

She likes science, and wants to be a doctor for children when she finishes school. She likes chapatti and beans. She said she does the cooking at home as she is one of the oldest.

 

So that should be all the kids, hope this has helped you get to know your sponsored child a bit more. I am working on getting the photos in the correct order to make it a bit easyer to find your sponsored kid, but the site doesn't seem to want me to do that.

Thanks,

Boris


Chritmas shopping

2011-03-08

Hi, Boris again.

Over the week end Moses and I took the sponsored kids who had received money for Christmas to the supermarket.
This included; Gibson, Happy, Vidzo, Loice, Hamisi, Abdalla, Teresia, Dennis and Alfred.

We let them choose what they wanted up to the stated amount, and surprisingly most of them bought ugali and not sweets. Here’s what they got.

Gibson from Paula

Maize flour, sugar, porridge flour and spaghetti.

Happy from Paula

Maize flour, wheat flour, sugar and yogurt.

Vidoz from Shirley

Lots of maize flour, wheat flour, spaghetti and a tooth brush.

Loice from Linda

Maize flour, wheat flour, pens and a mosquito net.

Hamisi from Rose

Porridge, maize flour, sugar, oil, bread, margarine, washing power, clothes pegs, and shoe polish.

Abdalla from Shirley

Lots of maize flour, polish and stationary.

Dennis from Coz

Fabric conditioner, hair gel, biscuits, shoe polish, sweets and bread.

Alfred from Gerald

Margarine, tooth paste, bread, sweets, sugar, jelly, popcorn, soap, shoe polishing brush, pencils, maize flour, ketchup.

Teresia from Alan

Lotion, sanitary towels, antiseptic liquid, bleach, squash, cake, drinks bottle, hair lotion, fabric conditioner, cotton wool.


Pictures should be up, to show what they got.

 

Boris


Zena and Samuel uniform

2011-03-17

Zena Benson and Samuel Mbugwa have now received there uniform items, because they are repeating standard 8 they did not need everything again. They have received black shoes, pe shoes, 2 pairs of sox and a new bag each.

Boris


Rama And Diego

2011-03-22

Rama and Diego have now have joined in as one of the new secondary school lot this year after successfully completed their end of primary education examination popularly known as the Kenya Certificate of Primary Examination i.e(KCPE) and are both proud to be in the high school.The name of their school is called Mtwapa K.P secondary school which is some few kilometers away from Mtwapa.
Rama who's form 1 class known as form 1P says and i quote 'In my class we are total of 27 students i.e 21 boys and 6 girls.I enjoy learning new subjects like Business education, Chemistry, Phyisics, Biology and Home science.The other subjects like Maths, English, Swahili and Geography are not new to me though the topics are completely new but i still go along with all of them very well as i understand them clearly while being taught which further makes me be able to help some of my classmates who have difficulties in understanding'end of quote.
For Diego who is in another form 1 class known as form 1Q says and I quote' in our class we are total of 25 students i.e 9 girls and 16 boys and i also enjoy my new subjects just like Rama's but instead of the Home Science i do Computer'end of quote.
According to Rama and Diego, their school day normaly start at 8.00am until 5.00pm.For the lunch break its at 12.35pm-1.30pm and here below is their weekly food menu;-
Monday-Rice and Beans.
Tuesday-'Ugali' i.e cooked maize flour and Beans.
Wednesday-'Githeri' i.e cooked maize mixed with beans.
Thursday-Rice and meat.
Friday-Rice and Beans.
Rama and Diego further say and i quote, 'During weekends i.e Saturday and Sunday are normal resting days whereby we do some clothes washing at our children's home and do some school assighnments and reading' end of quote.
For their future careers, Rama would like to be a Navigator whereas Diego would like to be a Captain.
Lastly Rama and Diego say and i quote'We want to give lots of thanks to all of our sponsors through the Mtomondoni sponsorship programm for taking us this far as we couldn't imagine that we would be able to learn and even go as far as to secondary school'end of quote.
Thankyou to all once again and please have a look at some pictures on Rama and Diego in our photo gallery, 'kwaherini' bye from Moses.


Secondary School sponsorphip money

2011-03-26

Hi, its Boris.

I had a meeting with the parents of the children who are at secondary school, to give out some sponsorship money. As you can see from the pictures most of them turned up. The only ones who didnt was the mama for mary and magdaline, so Moses took theres to them, and Mama Francis who is sick, so we have sent it via a phone transfer, so all have now received.

Thanks


1000 mile walk in a month.... yes we must be crazy!!!

2011-03-27

During the month of May, Gail and the Woof n Ready crew will be completing a sponsored 1000 mile walk to help raise funds for Mtwapa Academy. The money raised is going towards rebuilding classrooms.  As part of a school trip from Babington Community College we are planning to rebuild a classroom for the Primary school children. As you all know the KG classes currently study in an iron sheet classroom. We are sure you will agree that walking 1000 miles is a pretty big challenge, BUT, the potential results by far outweigh the potential blisters!!! We hope you feel you can support us. If you would like to sponsor us please contact us at woofnready@yahoo.co.uk , your support would be greatly appreciated!


Kabibi-new secondary school kid.

2011-04-01

Hi! Everyone,first and foremost,please receive lots of 'Jambos' greetings from here in Mtwapa,Kenya.Hope everyone is fine us too. Well today i have posted some information for one of the newly admitted secondary school kids i.e in form 1 named Kabibi.

Kabibi aged 18 years old is now admitted in one of the school schools having completed her primary school at the Mtwapa Academy last year.The name of her secondary school is called 'Msumarini' secondary school which is about 12 kilometres away from Mtwapa.Her claass name is called form 1 East.The subjects which she now study are Maths,English,Kiswahili,Biology,Chemistry,Physics,Agriculture,Geography,History and Business Education.I further asked her she performs in the above subjects ever since she started the new school and she said they are all fair to her.However in case of any difficulties her class teacher is very co-operative and even some of her class mates do assist each other.Kabibi further says and i quote 'My school day commences at 6.30 am-7.00 am in the morning i.e preps whereby we do some general study,revision and problem solving.After that we go for the morning assembly for half an hour thereafter we then officially start our classes.The morning classes start at 7.30 am-10.00am when we have a break.During break time we have our morning tea and bread for half an hour then go back for classes whereby we continue until at 1.00pm when we break for our lunch.For the lunch,the following is our weekly menu;-

Monday-'Githeri i.e cooked maize with beans.

Tuesday-'Ugali' i.e cooked maize flour and beans.

Wednesday-Rice and beans.

Thursady-'Ugali' and cabbage.

Friday-'Githeri'

In our school we have two science laboratories which both caters for Physics,Chemistry and Biology.We also have a school library and a computer room.At the moment we have not yet started being involved in any extra curriculum activity e.g sports until next term which commences in May.After school which ends at 5.00pm i go back to my rented room as we don't have boarding facilities at the school,our school is a day school and due to this we have to look for some private accommodation near the school to rent. Actually the entire house which we have rented the room consists of 11 rooms but we have only rented a room which i do share with my classmate who is a girl named Nyadzuwa. The monthly rent for the room is Ksh.700/= and we do share the rent with my friend whereby i contribute ksh.350/= and my friend also contribute ksh.350/= to add to ksh.700/= In the evening after classes once i get to the room,i pick up an empty bucket of water and go to fetch water whereby i fetch both fresh(tap) water and borehole;e water. For the fresh water we use it for drinking while for the bore hole water we normally use it for washing of clothes and utensils. After fetching the water i then do some washing of my school uniform and utensils then i do the cooking but before the cooking i go to the shop or market to buy our food.We do the cooking in shifts i.e we alternate in the cooking responsibility on daily basis.Our favourite food is normal 'ugali' and fish stew for our super.After that we rest abit then we do some studying and finally go to bed at 10.00pm.In the morning i wake up at 4.00am and prepare to go to school. which is about 15-20 minutes walk.

Since i joined the secondary school,i have learnt to take up responsibilities without much supervision unlike when i was in primary school and staying with my parents.The secondary school life has made me to grow mentally.

Finally i would like to send my many thanks to my sponsors through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program for taking this far and hopefully i'll achieve my goals'end of quote.

With that i say'kwaherini' bye bye to all and once again i say thank-you so much for being part of the program and be blessed,please have a look for Kabibi's photos while in school in the photo gallery.From-Moses(Sponsorship co-ordinator)


The 1000 mile walk has started!!

2011-05-04

The Woof n Ready team have started their 1000 mile walk  and they are doing well. The pedometers are adding up the miles and we will keep you all posted on how many miles have been achieved. If you would like to support the fundraising for the new classrooms just drop us an email at woofnready@yahoo.co.uk or give us a call on 07814569034.


Hypnosis night fundraising event - 19th May

2011-05-05

This should be an excellent event.  Amit Badiani, the country's leading Asian hypnotist will be leading the event at Fabrika on Humberstone Gate in Leicester.  Tickets are just £10. 

Amit is an excellent hypnotist, some of you may have heard about him and his 'head hacking' street shows.  He has also performed in Las Vega.  Check youtube to get a taste of what the night will offer, just put Amit badiani into the search engine.

If you would lke tickets just give us a call...... there are only 80 available so don't delay call today!!  01455 441051


Baraka.

2011-05-27

Hi! Everyone.

      'My name is Baraka,aged 14 years and in class 7 at Mtwapa Academy.I normaly wake up at 4.00am,sweep the compound,take a shower ,dress up on my school uniform and then tidy up my bed.After that i proceed to the dining hall to take up my breakfast,after the breakfast i start arranging my books into my school bag and take off to school where i normaly report at 6.20 am.

     My favourite subject is mathematics,this is because i like doing complicated sums as my future careeer is to become an engineeer.Since am good in mathematics i also like assisting my classmates in solving some mathematical problems.My favourite sports are volleyball and football.In football i do support Manchester United among the English teams,this is because Manchester United play a good game compared to the rest though my favourite colour is blue.

During my free time i like reading story books,newspapers and magazines.When i get back home in the evening i.e at 6.00pm i take at least half an hour to do my home work and between 2-3 hours discussing with my friends about the day's activities then later watch television before going to bed at 10.00pm.

Being one of the children at the New Light Children's home i regard the home as my parental home as we get lots of advice on how to live well and carry out yourself well in preparation for our future life.

Soon i finish up my studies and find a job i would also like to contribute alot to the home especially in buying food and clothes to the rest of the kids in the home.I therefore would like to thankyou very much all of my sponsors and the whole of Mtomondoni sponsorship propgrame in making me go to school which i hope to realise my dreams.I therefore would like to assure my sponsors that am working very hard so as i always perform well as i have always been doing since i was sponsored.Hopefully i'll get a good secondary school soon i finish my class 8 next year,thankyou'


Hi!from Moses.

2011-05-27

Hi! Everyone.

    Let me first great you all by saying 'Jambo' from Kenya-Afrika. Sorry as its been a while ever since my last website update,this was because the schools were closed for the April holiday.Am happy to inform you that the schools have now reopened early this month.All of our kids are going on well with their studies.As the times goes by our kids population in the secondary schools(high schools) is increasing and at the moment we have a total of 16 students in different secondary schools here in Kenya while the rest are at the Mtwapa Academy. This year six students from our programme i.e Grace,Mayee,Francis,Rama,Diego and Kabibi were admitted to the high schools which was the biggest no.of our programme kids admitted into secondary schools . Here below are the names of our programme kids in the various secondary schools also their classes/forms and school names;-

 Name of student                         class/form                              name of school.

1.Mary..................................... ...form 4............................Moi girls Kadzonzo.

2.Vidzo........................................form 3........................Msumarini secondary school.

3.Ben...........................................form 3..........................Shimo-la-tewa secondary school.

4.Samson..................................form 3...........................Kisauni secondary school.(please note that Samson transfered from Kingwede secondary school since the beginning of this year to the current school i.e Kisauni secondary school.

5.Teresia....................................form 3................. Mtwapa Elite Academy secondary school

6.Shadrack................................form 2..................Dr.Krapt secondary school.

7.Joseph....................................form 2........................K.P Mtwapa secondary school.

8.Timothy....................................form 2..........................K.P Mtwapa secondary school.

9.Magdaline................................form 2.........................Mtwapa Elite Academy secondary school.

10.Getrude.........................Dress making course......Polytechnic.

11.Grace.......................................form 1.........................Bahari girls secondary school.

12,Mayee......................................form 1........................Taru secondary school.

13Francis.....................................form 1..........................St.Vincent secondary school.

14.Rama.......................................form 1.........................K.P Mwapa secondary school.

15.Diego........................................form 1..........................K.P Mtwapa secondary scho

 Also am happy to inform you that towards the end of this year i.e between October and November,Mary who is the eldest in the group will be doing her final secondary school national examination known as the Kenya certificate of seondary examination-KCSE after which if she perfoms well she will proceed to the university.Before Mary sits for her final exam. i'll post out to you a special report and interview on her four year life in secondary school and her future expectations.Once again i say thank you very much for all of your contributions in the programe and be blessed.Yours in service,Moses(sponsorship co-ordinator)


Denis

2011-05-27

Hi! Everyone,

'My name is Denis aged 14 years.Am in class 7 at the Mtwapa Academy.I normaly wake up 4.00am and soon i wake up i first sweep the dining hall then  i go wash my body and start preparing myself for school where i normaly report to school at 6.20 am.My favourite subject is Kiswahili,i like kiswahili because its a national language and also easier for me to communicate with other people and express myself.Since am good in Kiswahili i therefore do assist my classmates jn Kiswahili grammar and vocabulary whenever they have difficulties.

During my free time i like reading my bible and then make notes on some of the verses.Also on Sunday i do go to church and after church in the evening i play lego game and football.Among the English teams i do support Chelsea but here in Kenya i do support Gor Mahia which is one of the leading teams in the Kenyan premier league..

Being one of the children at the New Light Children's home i regard the home as my real home and also regard the rest of the kids in the home as my brothers.Soon i finish up my studies and get a job of which i  would want to be an architecture,i therefore hope to contribute alot to the home by also sponsoring a child from the home or even adopt one as i think that's the only way of helping the kids at the home and as a result it makes the children feel equally treated just like the rest of kids from outside.Due to this i therefore want to give lots of appreaciations to all of my sponsors and the entire Mtomondoni Sponsorship programm for sponsoring me.I want to work hard in my studies so as i achieve higher marks so that by the time i do my final class 8 examination i get more than 400 marks out of the total 500 marks,thankyou'


A Massive Thank You!

2011-06-10

The fantastic news is that we managed to walk 1036 miles during the month of May! We would like to thank everyone for all the support and sponsorship, we have managed to raise over £800 towards building a classroom at Mtwapa Academy and thats fantastic news! It will make a huge difference to the lives of the kids and teachers in the school.

There are only 5 weeks untill the trip departs for kenya and all the kids are very excited .

We will keep you posted on their adventures and all the work going on in the school. The fundraising has been going really well and we are not far from our total of £26000. Once again thank you all for the support in achieving this fantastic amount.


Hi! from Kenya.

2011-06-17

Hi! Everyone,      I guess  you are all doing good,us here in Kenya we are doing fine too. All of our kids are getting on well with their studies and now doing their mid-term examination.Yesterday here in Africa we were celebrating the 'Day of African Child' which is held each year on 16th June.The main theme of the day is foccusing on the protection of the rights of the African children which mainly is the right to education and the challenges facing the African children i.e poverty and high infant mortality rate.Unfortunately millions of Africa children lack the basic education i.e primary eduacation making most of the children being illiterate at an early age.Also millions of the Africa children i.e from birth upto the age of 5 yearsare dying due to lack of basic vaccinations  against diseases like diarrhoea,measles,pneumonia and yellow fever.Thanks to the global health associated organisations e.g Unicef,WHO and major vaccines makers whom through donors have made it possible for the children to get access to vaccination.Also million s of Africa children die due to hunger related disease and malnutrion due to poverty as milions of them feed in less than a dollar per day or spending the day and then sleeping without  taking any meal.         The only way to save all the above paediatric health problems, diseases and poverty is through education,meaning that by helping a child to go to school and get educated in future the very children will have known the importance of living a good and well protected life through vaccinations and eventually getting better jobs and thus eradicating poverty.    Please dear sponsors and all the friends of our programe be informed that your contributions to this programe is highly appreciated and has a long time effect to the life and survival of the African child and the future generations.Thanks once again for all of your contributions.  Before i end up my remarks,this is a special message to all the Babington community college students and for all those who are soon visiting Kenya in particular , please be informed that all of our kids in our programe are fully aware of your visit to Mtwapa-Kenya in the few weeks to come, they can't wait to see you all!!!!!!!!!!!!! we therefore welcome you all.We also acknowledge all the  lovely messages and greetings which some of you have been sending to some of our kids here in Mtwapa through our website.Just to answer some of the questions from Chelsea,about Rama and Diego.Actually Rama's age is 16 years while Diego' age is 17,both in secondary school i.e Mtwapa K.P secondary school.On Ben Kilonzo,he's now settled in school after his father's  death and getting on well with his studies.Lastly am happy to post to you some information on Zawadi and some few pictures of her.Thanks once again and be bleseed,from yours in service,Moses(sponsorship co-ordinator)


Zawadi

2011-06-17

Hi! Everyone,          'Am aged12 and a half years and in class 5 here at Mtwapa  Academy.The name of my class teacher is called Mr.Mbura who teaches us Maths and Creative Arts.I live with both my parents.The name of my father is called Moses Kahindi while the name of my mother is called Loice Kadzo.My father is a small scale fisherman while my mother is a house wife who sometimes help my father in selling some of the fish after he comes back home from the sea.We are a family of 5 i.e 2 brothers and 2 sisters,am the eldest in the family.     I enjoy going to school and i normaly wake up at 5.00am and start preparing myself for school.In total the no.of subjects we learn are 5 i.e Maths.English.Kiswahili,Science,Social studies and Christian reliogion education(CRE).Out of these 5 subjects my favourite ones are Kiswahili and Science.My Favourite food is 'pilau'which is a mixer of spiced rice and meat.When i get back home in the evening from school at around 6.00pm i first do my home work which our class teacher has given us thereafter help my parents in washing my young brothers and sisters,later we have supper which is mostly fish and 'ugali' i.e  cooked corn flour at around 7.00 pm and go to sleep at around 8.00pm.  In future after my studies i'd want to be a doctor,since i'd love to treat my people in the community and my family too.Apart from treating my peolple i'd love to assist them by giving them money which can help them buy food and also helping my brothers and sisters to pay for them school fees.During my free time i love playing football in position  11.Lastly to all of my sponsors, is that,i want to send many thanks for all what you've to me in terms of eduacation'.Thanks,from Zawadi. .


Sponsors Gifts

2011-06-20

Hi everyone.

Just wanted to let everyone know that the trip out to Kenya is only a few weeks away. We will all be taking 2 suitcases each, meaning that we will have space for some gifts/letters that sponsors would like us to take for the kids in Mtwapa. Its an ideal opportunity if you would like letters or small gifts delivered to your sponsored kids, indeed some of you have already been in touch!

The deadline date for us receiving gifts is 8Th July as we will be very busy after that finalising the last  minute arrangements for the trip . So get your letters/parcels to us in plenty of time. Our contact number is 01455441051 if you would like to give us a call and arrange for your parcels to be dropped off. One thing, they will need to be unwrapped as they may be checked through customs and we clearly need to know what is in each parcel.

As always, thanks for all your support.

Gail


Loice.

2011-07-06

Hi! Everyone.

    'My name is Loice,am aged 12 years and in class 6 at the Mtwapa Academy.The name of my class teacher is called Mr.Rajab.In our family we are 5 children i.e 3 sisters and 2 boys. and am the last born.During school days i normal wake up at 4.00am and start studying upto 5.00am when i start preparing myself to go to school.My favourite subjects are Maths and Science.My favourite food is 'ugali' i.e cooked corn flour with vegetables like kales.Because am good at Maths and Science,i do therefore help some of my class mates in solving some of their class work.Due to the fact that i love sciences,i therefore would like to be a doctor in future after my studies.By being a doctor i would like to help my people in the community by providing them with good medical treatment and also ensuring my family that they live in a good house.

   During my free time in school,i normal spend it by approaching my teachers to help me in solving or make me understand some of the topics which seem to be hard to me.At home during my free time,i do study and later play football as its my favourite sport and so am big fan of Manchester United of England.On Sunday mornings i usual go to church i.e Catholic church.Finally i want to take this opportunity to give many thanks to my sponsors for continuing to sponsor me which am very happy about.'Bye bye.


Abdalla

2011-07-06

Hi! Everyone.      'My name is Abdalla,am aged 13 years and in class 5 at the Mtwapa Academy.I live in Mtwapa with my grandmother.In our family we are only two of us i.e me and my brother called Hamisi who is also learning at Mtwapa Academy.Beside the two of us and my grandmother we also live with our uncle who has 3 children i.e Susan,Biatus and Grace.    During school days.i normaly wake up at 4.00 am then i start doing my homework and then revise my class notes.As from 5.00am i start preparing my self to go to school where i arrive at school at 6.40 am.My favourite subject is Science,this is becaues i like to know and study about the breathing system,digestive system,plants and animals..Since am good at Sciences i therefore do help some of my classmates who seem to be weak in the subjects.In my  future career i'd like to be doctor so as i may be able to help my people and all over the country.Also when i get job i'd like to help my grandmother and my cousins in buying for them food and paying for them school fees.During my free time at home i normaly like to help my grandmother with some house work like washing of utensils and fetching water for cooking and washing.Also on Sunday morning i do go to church i.e catholic church.My favourite meal is rice and chicken stew,my favourite colour is red while my favourite sport is  football.In Kenya i do support our national football team called Harambee stars while in Europe i do support Barcelona football club of Spain.   Lastly to my sponsors, i would like to say thankyou for catering for all my educational needs and all the presents i've receiving from from them through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program'.Bye Bye.


Promoting Future

2011-08-13

Please see the picture.  If you are interested or indeed if you know someone that would be interested in selling the jewellery made by the boys then please let us know. 


Wood carving by Hamisis and Abdallah's Uncle

2011-08-14

Have a look at the picture and let us know if you are interested.  Thanks.


Messages from Cheryle, Lukeman, Zena, Samuel,

2011-10-04

Hi! Everyone.
'My name is Cherryl, am in class 8 at Mtwapa Academy, and 15 years old. My primary school life has been good in general as I’ve been seeing myself growing to a big girl. At first I could not easily understand my teachers in class especially when I was young but now it’s different as am able to understand well. Thanks to my teachers who have moulded me to become serious with life and I can now realise my goals of becoming a doctor. Due to this, I’ve been doing lots of revisions in science subjects though I still have difficulties in maths but I have been able to find a strategy in overcoming the difficulties I have in maths i.e. by attempting lots of past exam papers and knowing the common question which are normally asked in the exam and getting used to the formulas.
Thanks to my parents too as they’ve advised me alot to become a good girl. In my final exam i.e. KCPE I therefore hope to get at least 400 marks and above
Finally to my sponsors I want to say thanks alot and I promise to work hard.'

Hi! Everyone.
'Name is Lukeman and in Class 8 at Mtwapa Academy. Am aged 13 years old. Briefly to me, my primary school life has been very interesting as am now seeing myself becoming an adult. This is because am now able to advise young children not to do bad things and also take advises seriously from my adults and parents. Physically am seeing lots of changes in me, first with my voice has change to a horse voice and have grown strong and tall.
I want to give much thanks to my teachers i.e. both the Muslim teachers and the other class teachers who have made me to realise at least two careers i.e. an Electronic engineer and Quran teacher. During my free time at home I can dismantle and assemble a radio which might need some repair and check what problem it has, also at Madrassa sometimes am able to stand in front of friends and teach them about the Quran.
I want to thank my parents and all my teachers in school for encouraging me to learn. Due to this I’ve tried to work as hard as I can in order to do well in the forth coming final exam which I hope to get at least 350 marks and above out of the total 500 marks.
To my sponsors I want to say thanks for continuing to sponsor me and I promise to make you happy by performing well in my exams'


Hi! Everyone
'My name is Zena and in class 8 at Mtwapa Academy. Am aged 17 years old. Briefly I can say throughout my primary school life I’ve seen myself growing to an adult, physically am I can see myself to have grown tall, mentally am now able to understand my teachers well while in class unlike before.
I want to thank my teachers for moulding me throughout my school life and making achieve what I would like to be in future i.e. a nurse. Due to this I’ve been working hard in science subjects and I still want to improve in maths which sometimes gives difficulties. In preparation to the forth coming exam i.e. KCPE I’ve been revising hard and trying to attempt some past examination papers and further seek for assistance from my teachers incise I get any difficulties in attempting questions. Also sometimes I and my friends do share class work ideas and revise together especially during free time in class and during weekends.
I also want to thank my parents who have always been advising me to work hard in my studies so as I can achieve my goals. I therefore hope to get at least 350 marks and above in my KCPE.
Lastly to my sponsors want to wish them a god time and promising that I will work hard so as I improve on my weak subjects.'


'My name is Samuel Mbugua and in class 8 at Mtwapa Academy. Am aged 16 years. Briefly I can say, I have grown and improved especially in terms of subjects like Sciences and Maths. Physically I’ve seen myself growing big, strong, tall and generally healthy. I want to thank my teachers as they have so far made me to be well behaved, disciplined and make me have lots of respect to my teachers, elders and guardians who is also believe it’s the best way to succeed in life. I can now see myself achieving my goals and career of becoming a mechanical engineer. This makes me work hard in Maths as I still need to improve in it so as to be able to be in that profession. Due to this and in preparation to the KCPE I’ve been doing lots of revision and sometimes approaching my teachers to explain to me on questions which might be difficult to me. Also I have tried to establish friendship to some of friends who are good perfomers and above my class especially during the holidays and weekends. If therefore hope to perform well in my exams of which I expect to get at least 350 marks as I found myself ready to face the exam. Also I want to thank my guardians who have always made sure my food and all what I need in the home is provided which makes easy for me to be able to concentrate well with my studies while at the home. Lastly to my sponsors I want to send my many thanks to them for all what they are doing to me'


Asma(Mtwapa Academy) to Eve(Babington college)

2011-10-14

Dear Eve,

          How are you? I hope you are fine.We are all fine here.I thankyou for the things you gave to me,in class am working hard and last term i was number twelve.I was happy and enjoyed the day when i was with you at the pirates,it was like a celebration also when we were dancing,i hope also you were happy that day.Thanyou for the good clothes that you gave to me,a note book and the other things which i now use for playing.I also remenber the day when i was with you in our class and i taught you Kiswahili while you taught me English.I once again say thankyou for being my friend.

                                                             yours dearly,Asma.


Happy(Mtwapa Academy) to Kim(Babington College)

2011-10-14

Hi! Kym,

        How are you there in England? Am doing fine, I hope you are fine too.Kym,since you went back to England i have been missing you,do you miss me too?When do you think you will come back to Kenya again.Please if you are coming back again bring for me some teddy bears and sweets.Also when yoo come to Kenya i promise to take you to my home so as you greet my parents and my sister called 'Dhahabu' meaning Golden girl.

                                                                                                      yours friend,Happy.


Alfred(Mtwapa Academy) to Adam(Babington college)

2011-10-14

How are you? i hope you are fine at Babington,am fine too.Am doing well in school and we have already done the end of September monthly  exam and i was  position 4 out of 16 pupils with a total of 736 marks out of 800 marks. I hope in the next exam i will be position 1.The new kindergarten classes at our school are looking good and the are still being built i hope soon they will be finished. I can still remenber the day when we were at pirates,it was a good day.The aeroplane that you gave me,i tried to flew it up  and it landed on one of our school classrooms,then later the wind blew it away and came down but unfortunately its tail was cut after checking it.Bye bye

                   yours faithfully,

                                 Alfred.


Rahab(Mtwapa Academy school director) speaks on Babington linkage.

2011-10-15

Jambo,everyone!

       I hope you are all doing fine at Babington College.First and foremost i would like to send you my many appreciations for visiting our school,Mtwapa Academy in July this year.Your visit to our schol was a big boost.Eversince we initiated the linkage with you,the linkage has been soo good and have really uplifted the learning spirit of all the Mtwapa Academy students,due the curriculum exchange.The linkage has has brought up also some physical developments and revival of the school especially when the Babington college initiated the aid of building the new kindergarten classrooms at the school which is great support to the school.

      In terms of books and learning material,we really appreciate as the books are now being used in our school library and even the teachers now use them as teaching aid.

    The mattresses were also a big boost to the kindergarten department,due to the new mattresses bought by Babington college it has given more comfort to the kids which they normal use them to sleep on them in the afternoon.

    The teacher's salary aid from Babington college was also a big boost to the school as it has really motivated the teachers by working hard.Since the teachers believe that the school has an international linkage with schools like Babington college  they are therefore happy to work at the school.As a result of the aid,the Babington college has been known all over Mtwapa community and Kenya at large.

   With the recent  money for the new classrooms building progress which i got from Babington college,first of all soon i received the money i felt being filled with lots of joy.As the new classrooms come up as shown in the photo gallery,let me say that,may God bless you all the students,teachers and parents of Babington college for all of you contributions you've all made.With the money which i recently received i hope it's going to accomplish the above wall column/beam and start doing the roofing work.I'll be happy soon i see the new classroms are completed as i've been longing for as the school will look good and strong.

      Finally i'd like to say that,with such kind of aid to the school this is an excellent work as the entire Mtwapa community and even in Kenya as a whole,everybody is happy to see the building work.

     Thankyou once again,'asante sana' and may God bless you all.

                                                                              from,

                                                                                  Rahab.

  


New classrooms,work on progress and KCPE date.

2011-10-24

Hi! Everyone

       Its my sincere hope that you all had a lovely weekend,us too.All the kids at Mtwapa Academy are getting on well with their classes.Well, i just needed to let know of the progress of the new classes,the work has been going on well as it now appears on the pictures as the builders have finished raising up the final wall bricks so as to start doing the roofing work and other works i.e plastering,floor,windows,doors,electricity wiring and painting.

    As you all know,early next month i.e from 7th-10th November all the class 8 students will be doing  final primary school national examination popularly known as Kenya Certificate of Primary Examination(KCPE).In Mtwapa Academy there are 22 students in total who will be doing the KCPE,out of this number,6 i.e Shila,Lukeman,Samuel Mbugua,Cherrly,Zena and Mpenzi are sponsored students from The Mtomondoni Sponsorship programe. Due to this,on Saturday 29th October there will be special prayer day at the school,normal during the prayer day all the parents,guardians of all the candidates, religious leaders i.e both christians and muslims,the school teachers and students of Mtwapa Acadeny gather and have have special prayers for the candidates and them success.I therefore hope that you will all join hands with all of us here in Mtwapa so as to wish all the KCPE candidates SUCCESS in their exam.Thanks to all who have previously been sending their best wishes to the candidates,your messages have all been received by the candidates.

  As i had earlier promised all the Babington College students especially to those who have buddies here  Mtwapa Academy that i will be sending more messages from your buddies, so please check on the next messages for some your buddies messages.Thankyou once again to all for being part of us,be blessed.Yours in service,Moses(Sponsorship coordinator).


Zawadi to Sumaya

2011-10-24

Dear Sumaya.

     How are you? I hope you are fine at Babington.Am also fine here in Kenya and am happy as a King to be here in Kenya.Please Sumaya,receive lots of greetings from my parents and they are saying Hi! to you.Though you are far away but we still remenber you as our friend.Please receive hundreds of greetings from my brothers and sisters,they are all soo happy to know that you are my friend.I also want to thankyou for all what you have given to me.I thankyou for spending your time with me at school,while you were with me i remember we shared lots of stories which i can't forget.

Finally i want yo wish all the Babington satudents all the very best in their studies and a successfull life i also want to wish you in advance a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012.May God bless with lots of love,

                                                                                 from,

                                                                                     Zawadi.


Salwa to Wayne.

2011-10-24

Dear Wayne.

           How are you? I hope you are fine there at Babington.Am also fine here in Mtwapa,Mombasa.My parents are also sending greetings to you and they all wish you could be living in Kenya but 'unfortunately' you leave very far away.I wish one day i could be living in England.The presents which you gave to me looked pretty!!!!on me and i hope the presents which i gave to you also looked good especially on your house wall.Finally i want to wish all the Babington students all the very best in their studies.Don't forget to pass my greetings to Vicky and last wish you a happy MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012 with lots of love,from Salwa.


Albert to Tom

2011-10-25

Dear Tom.

        How  are you in England?I think you are fine.Am also fine here in Mtwapa.I was very happy to see you when you came to our school,i hope you are doing well.We reopened our school for the third term on  5th September and we are now going on well with our classes.I enjoyed the gift which you gave to me and i hope youn loved the gift which i gave to you.When you were here i forgot to tell you my date of birth,it was on 3rd May 2001.During my birth day i normal like to go to the beach with my friends and playing and the beach with them,my family want to say hi! to you.May God bless you and your family.Bye bye,from Albert.


Kahindi to Vishnu.

2011-10-25

Dear Vishnu.

  How are you there in England?With me am going on well with school and my studies at Mtwapa Academy.I thank you for spending your time and doing some  activities at our school last time you were here in July,thanks too for all the prsents which you gave to me.I enjoyed my August holiday  and i can say it was fantastic.Did you enjoy your trip to Kenya?For sure,the day you were leaving i was soo sad.I hope you remember all the promises you had made,please i need to see your parents pictures.Bye,yours friend Kahindi.


Khamisi to Tendai.

2011-10-25

Dear Tendai.

            How are you there in England?It's my great hope that you are fine together with your family.Am fine too together with my family and continuing well with my studies,hopefully i will reach my goals of being a pilot so that i may be able to fly aeroplanes and if posssible fly to England and meet with you and your family.My August holiday was good and really spent it well.Thankyou Tendai for the presents that you gave me,i really loved them.Finally i wish you all the best in your exams.May God bless you with lots of love from,Khamis Said.


Justine to Chelsea.

2011-10-25

Dear Chelsea.

How are you there in England?It's my great hope that you and your famil are all ok.Am fine too here in Kenya.It's my great hope that you had a nice journey back to England,hope you find your family getting on well by the time you returned back home.The aim of writing this letter is to inform you that am going on well with my studies.My August holiday was nice as i went to visit my grandaparents and i really enjoyed staying with them.I thankyou for everything you did when you were here with me.Please say Hi! to Megan and Kym.May God bless you all with lots of love from your friend,Justin Benson.


Kids finish up their KCPE exam.

2011-11-11

Hi! Everyone.

           Its my sincere hope that you are all well. With us us here in Mtwapa,Kenya,things are getting on well and all the kids  are getting on well with their studies.As i had previously informed you,the class 8 national exam i.e the  KCPE exam started on 7th Nov. and ended yesterday on 10th.A total of almost 700,000 kids in the whole of the Kenyan republic sat for the national exam.At Mtwapa Academy a total of 22 kids did the exam. out of the 22 kids,6 kids i.e Zena,Cherryl,Samuel Mbugua,Lukeman,Shila and Mapenzi who are sponsored kids in the Mtomondoni sponsorship programe were among the candidates.I managed to meet with the kids yesterday soon after the exam.and they all said that they have high hopes of doing well in the exam.Hopefully the results will be announced at least a day or two after Christmas when i'll let you know of the outcome.Before the exam.we had a prayer day at the school and i have posted some pictures for you to view,please check in our photo gallery.

      As from next week,the rest of the classes will be starting their end of term exam.which will be the final exam of the year before the christmas holiday.

    For the students and teachers at Babington Community college,i have today sent you some more greetings from some of your buddies at Mtwapa Academy,i hope you'll all enjoy reading the messages.Finally i want to thank you all for continuing to support the kids program and be blessed.

                                      yours in service,

                                                                Moses(sponsorship coordinator)

  


Abdalla to Jade.

2011-11-11

Hi! Jade.

      How are you?I hope you are fine together with your family.Also am fine together with my family too.In school am continuing well with my studies and just about to start my end of term exam in the next week then we close for the christmas holiday.During the holidays,i sometimes travel to visit my uncles or if i don't travel and am at home i normal like to read and revise my class notes and also help my grandmother in some house hold work like fetching water.Sometimes i play football with the balls which you brought for me,they were nice balls.Lastly i believe that you'll come again to Kenya so as to see my family.

                                                                                                      yours loving friend,

                                                                                                                          Abdalla.


William to Eve.

2011-11-11

Dear Eve.

       Hello! How are you there in England?I hope you are fine.How is your family?Are your sisters and brothers doing fine? i hope they are all fine.Am praying for you and your family that you live along life.Am very happy to write to you this message as i know am your favourite friend.Please Eve receive lots of greetings from my parents,they have also sent greetings to your family.At school am really working hard so as to pass my exams in the coming end of term 3 exam.Am therefore well prepared as i do alot of revision.During the holiday i want to visit the beach and swim with my brothers.

           May God bless you Eve,love from William.


Pendo to Megan.

2011-11-11

Dear Megan.

        How are you Megan? Am doing fine here at school with my classes.Am very happy to write to you after a long time.How is your family? We are all doing fine at home too with my family.At school am working hard to pass my exams.Whenever am free at home i like creating things.I also like helping my parents also when am free.The chistmas holiday is near,how do you celebrate your christmas? I wish you a very happy christmas.May God bless you,from your loving friend Pendo.


Wycliff to Steph.

2011-11-11

Dear Steph.

           Hi! Steph! How are you there in England.I hope you are fine,am fine too here in Kenya. i hope you, your parents and friends are fine.Steph,i miss you so much as i still remember you from the scarf which you gave to me and i want to thankyou for everything that you did to me.Am also working hard in school nad i hope to do well in the next exam.

                                                                             bye bye from your friend Wycliff.


Samuel Benson to Fabio.

2011-11-11

Dear Fabio.

        How are you there in England?Its my great hope that you are fine.Am fine too here in Kenya.My family and I were happy to see you and they are all asking when will you come back to Kenya?We really miss you and we wish you all the best in your life and may God be with you in everything you do.Am going on well with my studies.I hope that you are going on well with your studies.I wish one day i will visit yoy country,England.

   May God be with youlots of love from Samuel Benson.


Ibrahim to Ayub.

2011-11-11

Dear Ayub.

         Hello! How are you in England?I hope you are fine with your family.Am praying for you and your family.Am very happy to write to you this message as you are my favourite friend.I fasted in the last Ramadhan month and am also working hard to pass my exams for term three.At school i learn more than at home,though while at home i do lots of revision and i like creative arts,We normal go to school at 6.30 am but i normal wake up to pray and prepare my self for school at 4.10am.I have to remember you in my life.Am fine here in Kenya.Also i needed to tell you that,thankyou for everything you did to me.In class am doing very well as am always in the top 10 like position 5 and 8 with everage marks of 354 out of 500.I hope you'll one day come back to Kenya,may God bless you Ayub.

            We love you all,goodbye,may God bless you,love from Ibrahim.


Mtwapa Xmas Unwrapped

2011-11-13

Following the success of the past four years Xmas food projects we are once again running the Mtomondoni Christmas gift appeal, giving you the chance to give Christmas gifts that can really make a difference. Instead of trailing around the shops this year to find a gift for everyone you know, only for that present to end up in the back of some cupboard, un-used and wasted, why not send a gift that really does make a whole world of difference to a needy family living in Africa.
This year we have added a gift keyring to the purchase list. These ebony keyrings are hand carved by Hamisi and Abdullah’s uncle. Hamisi and Abdullah are brothers sponsored through the programme. All proceeds for any keyrings purchased will be used by the family to dig a new long drop toilet.

How does it work?
STEP 1: Decide who you would like to buy a very special Christmas present for and then have a look through the list of gifts below and decide what it is you would like to purchase.
STEP 2: Complete the form and return it with your payment by November 30th so that we can ensure the gift gets to the family in time for Christmas. Cheques need to be made out to Mtwapa School Account and posted to 118 Stanley Road, Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 0HT. Our co-ordinator based in Kenya will then find a suitable family in Mtomondoni to present the gift to a family that is most in need. You will then receive a gift card to give to the person that you have bought the present for detailing who the gift was given to and their situation.

STEP 3: You can then send the gift card knowing that your present this year really has made a difference.

STEP 4: You can then check the website to see the family in Africa receiving the gifts so you really will see exactly where your money has gone. All gifts will be presented to the Kenyan needy families before Christmas day.

Website: www.getjealous.com/mpenzi

This year’s gifts and prices are below, for those of you who purchased items last year you may notice that some of the prices have increased. Food prices have really increased in Kenya recently due to the drought in East Africa which is inevitably leading to problems for the local people of Mtwapa.


A gift hand carved ebony key ring (see pictures) £3.50
A chicken £7
A goat £35
Week supply of food £12
Month supply of food £48
Sponsor a child for a term £20
Sponsor a child for a year £60


Christmas pictures 2011!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2011-12-25

Hi! Everyone.

   MERRY CHRISTMAS  to all !!!!!!!!!!!! Its my sincere hope that you are all fine and enjoying your Christmas with your beloved ones wherever you are!!!!!!! Us here in Mtwapa,Kenya we are good and also celebrating the Christmas.From me,my family,all the sponsored kids and parents of the entire Mtomondoni sponsorship program and the director of Mtwapa Academy school,i want to send our many many THANKS for remembering us again during this year's 2011 Christmas and making us celebrate together with you happily with your food donations which was received  yesterday on 24th by the all of us here in Mtwapa.Please check on the photo gallery for details of all the pictures.Unfortunately yesterday when i was distributing the food,3 of the sponsored kids were absent  and so they have not yet received their Christmas gift as they had previously traveled afar soon after the school were closed and are yet to come back before the schools reopen in January 2011,the 3 absent kids were Ibrahim,Shadrack and Francis,i'll therefore send you the pictures of  3 remaining kids soon they come back to Mtwapa.All the kids and their parents were very happy to receive their Christmas food gifts and have sent their lots of appreciations.

  From me personally as the sponsorship co-ordinator i want to send my THANKS to all the donors on what you've all done during this Christmas  and also many  more THANKS to all the sponsors who have continued to help and sponsor the kids here in Africa and therefore pray that,may the Almighty God bless you and your families,MERRY CHRISTMAS once again and a prosperous new year 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                                    yours in service,

                                                                            Moses.

                                                                 (Sponsorship co-ordinator)


Benson's family.

2011-12-31

Hi! to all.

   It's our great hope that you and your family are ok.The main reason for writing this message is to thankyou all for the Christmas presents which you sent for us.We are really thankfull for you kind heart.We really enjoyed cooking the food.What we just want to wish you all is a Happy New year 2012.May God bless the work of your hands and many more blessings to your families.

                                              With all our love,from

                                                               The Benson's family.


Zawadi.

2011-12-31

Jambo to all!!!!!!

      How are you?  I hope you are fine.Here in Kenya people are doing fine. I think there in England peolple are fine.I really enjoyed my December holiday,people were happy when the Christmas holiday reached because we were celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ..We were given some Christmas presents from you the donors through Mr.Moses who is our sponsorship coordinator here in Africa.The food which was rice,wheat flour,maize flour,cooking oil,beans,onions,tomato paste,sugar , salt and Chicken was very nice.I  thankyou all very much for the Christmas presents.On the Christmas day we made some 'chapati' from the wheat flour with tea then we cooked the rice and made a  chicken stew for the lunch which was really delicious.Since then we've been cooking with the food you gave to us.Very soon we are going to reopen our school i.e on 3rd January 2012.May God bless you and your family,

                                                                                              yours loving,

                                                                                                       Zawadi.

                                                                                                         


New Light Children's home.

2011-12-31

Dear all.

    How are you? We hope you are fine wherever you are.How was the Christmas?Our Christmas was successfull with different activities.We wantt to take this golden opportunity to appreciate for the Christnas presents you gave to us.We really enjoyed and we once again appreciate you soo much.We finally want to wish you a Happy New Year.Wer also want to send our regards to all the sponsor and their families as well.May God bless the work of your hands abundantly.

                                        yours faithfully sons,

                                         New Light Children's Home.

                    


Lukeman.

2011-12-31

Dear donors.

        I hope you all enjoyed the Christmas,me too.The purpose of writing this letter is to say thanks for what you have done for the  Christmas presents to me.My mother cooked for us the food and it was really delicious.Everyone enjoyed the food.Everyone in ,y family is praying for you so that next Christmas you will be able to provide us with the food.I don't have much to say and finally want to say,may God bless you as we all welcome the new year 2012.

                                                                                  yours, Lukeman.


Michael's family.

2011-12-31

Dear all.

       How are you?Its our hope that you are doing good.We have taken this golden opportunity to say a word of J'ambo' and wish you a Merry Christmas.Us  here in Africa were are doing good and having fun during this Christmas holiday.Lastly we all say,thanks for the Christmas presents which we received from you all for the Christmas.The food was really nice and may God bless you all.

                                                 yours faithfull,

                                              Kabibi,Loice and Vidzo.


Mary and Magdaline.

2011-12-31

Hallow!

      We all hope you are fine as we are here in Africa.We are very glad and we really appreciate for your gifts which you brought for us.We really thankyou alot and may God bless you as we are all happy here for what you did to us!!!!!!!!May God reward you thrice of what you gave to us so that you can give us more gifts.Thanks alot.Finally we wish you a Happy New  Year,may you have happy moments and enjoy yourself,wish you all the best,

                                                                            with lots of love,from

                                                                                    Mary amd Magdaline.


Teresia.

2011-12-31

Jambo! Everyone

   I hope you had a nice time during Christmas at your country.Here in our country Kenya,we had a fantastic time with our families.During Christmas i went to church in the morning with my family members and when we came back we cooked the food that Moses our coordinator gave to us from you all their in England.We were given the food on the Christmas eve i.e a day before Christmas and we all enjoyed eating the food after cooking it.

Surely it was a happy moment for us all.On behalf of my mother we want to send our many thanks and once again say,thanks alot for the Christmas gift.May the Lord Jesus Christ blessyou and the work of your hands as you continue working.Merry Christmas and HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012.

                                                yours,

                                                   Teresia.


Esther.

2011-12-31

Dear Donor.

         I send you many greetings during this Christmas.Am fine together with my mother,brothers and sisters.During Christmas we went to the beach and the also cooked the food which you had sent to us.Thanks for the food,we received lots of food!!!!! and we are happy we shall even use it in some few weeks even for the New Year.Thank you so much,let the Lord Jesus Christ bless you,let him bless your job and may you have good health with many days to live.

Thankyou soo much,i love you all the donors and will always pray for you every Sunday when i go to church.I wish you a Happy New year and hope to meet you one day.

                                                                      yours faithfull,

                                                                             Esther.


Happy.

2011-12-31

Dear all.

I hope you are fine together with your family.I thankyou for the Christmas presents of the food.My mother cooked the rice and beans,then she made chapati and beans and ugali with beans.Also my mother cooked the chicken with ugali and there is still alot of food remaining which my mother will  later cook for us.From me and my family,i want to wish you a Happy New Year.

                 yours lovely,

                         Happy.


Salwa.

2011-12-31

Dear Donors.

      How are you? I hope you are fine and happy because you are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.The reason as to why am writing this letter is to thankyou for the Christmas gifts that you gave to us,i really liked them!!!!!!!! I thank God for giving me good people like you who donated the food as it really helped us in our family .Also i want thankyou all the sponsors and wish you all a Merry Cristmas and a Happy New Year.May God Bless you and give you more strenghth in everything. 'chao',yours loving daughter,

                                                                                                                     Salwa.


Albert.

2011-12-31

Dear all,

How are you doing in England?I  think youare doing good.I thankyou for the Christmas presents which you sent for me.I really enjoyed having the food as my mother cooked for me.Also when i open the school i want to work hard.I enjoyed the Christmas holiday,i finally wish you good Christmas holiday and a happy new year.

                                                                                             from Albert.


Mapenzi.

2011-12-31

hi! all.

    It's my great pleasure that you are fine,me too,I thank you for the Christmas presents that you gave to me.It was  wonderful indeed to me and my family.We were overwhelmed for the'zawadis' i.e presents,'asante sana'(thankyou alot)We all enjoyed as on the Christmas day we cooked 'pilau' at 2pm,we then went to the beach and enjoyed our selvesby playing with the beach sand and also enjoyed camel rides at the beach.

    Thanks alot,may God bless the work of your hands and continue with the same spirit.Bye,receive greetings from my familyincluding my young sister Amina.

                                 I love you all,thanks alot,with love from,

                                                                                               Mapenzi.

 


Shadrack.

2011-12-31

Dear Donors.

       How are you doing together with your family?How wass the Christmas? am doing ok together with my family.The Christmas on our side was very awesome,we surely enjoyed.Here in Kenya is just warm and peacefull what about your counrty?I also take this opportunity to say a word of appreciation for the Christmas gift of food,am very thankfull for what you have done to me and all the other kids here in Africa,you really made our Christmas a happy one,may God bless you.I got the food through Mr.Moses.This shows that you really feel our concern about me.What now i will do is to pray for you and remembering you in my prayers so that the Most high can bless you and your families.

Please,pass my greetings to your families and friends.Finally i want to wish you all a Happy New Year,may God give you long life full of blessings.Thanks.lots of appreciations,

                                                                                                           from,.

                                                                                                            Shadrack..

 


Getrude.

2011-12-31

Dear all.

        How are you together with your family.It is just brilliant to have this chance to say thankyou for the Christmas gifts of food.My family was very much happy for having the food and they said that they will always remember you.I don't have much to say and wish you a Happy New Year.With lots of thanks from,Getrude.


Grace.

2011-12-31

Jambo!

      Hope you all had a good Christmas just like us here in Kenya.Surely the Christmas day could not be possible if it was not for you all who donanted the food so as we could also enjoy the Christmas,i therefore want to say thankyou for the wonderful gift and wish you all a happy new year.yours loving Grace.


Hamisi and Abdalla.

2011-12-31

Hi! donors.

      MerryY Christmas to you all,its good to have this time to say thankyou for the Christmas food and all the gists which you gave to us.My grandmiother also has also have sent her many thanks.It was a really suprise for her when we took the food home,we all celebrated the Christmas together at home with my grandmother,our cousins and  our uncle.We hope the food will last for a long time before it get fionished because we had alot of food.We lastly want to wsh you a Happy New Year.

                                                                                   from,

                                                                                Hamisi and Abdalla.


Mayee.

2011-12-31

Jambo!

   Hope you are all doing fne.Here in Kenya things are good.The Christmas holiday has been good we all enjoyed when its Christmas.Though were are muslims but we also joined our friends who are Christians to celebrate the Christmas.Thankyou very much for the food which you gave to me as my Christmas gift. when we cooked the food as it was delicious.My mother first cooked for us 'chapati' for breakfast on the Cjhristmas day,then she cooked the beans with coconut which we later ate with rice,it was really delicious.I Wish you all a happy New year.yours child,Mayee.


Gibson.

2011-12-31

Dear all.

       How was the Chrsitmas in England?Here in our counrty it was good.i want to say ,thankyou fot the Christmas food which you gave to my son Gibson,we were all happy to receive the food.I was able to cook for Gibson and his sister Enrita the rice and  and chapati on the Christmas day and they all enjoyed.I thereofre want to say hankyou for all waht you did to my family and pray that you all be blessed for what you are dopind in helping our children including my son Gibson.Happy New Year,from Gibson's mother.


Ben Kilonzo

2011-12-31

Dear ALL.

      Merry Christmas to all.The Christmas here was great and i know it was all because of you!!!!!!!!!! i therefore want to say THANKYOU for your kind heart and remebering us all here in Kenya.Am happy because that day of Christmas my mother did not have to go to the shops to buy the Christmas food and instead she used the food which we had received from you to cook for me and my sister.Am now looking forward to the New year which we will all celebrate when its midnight..Also i want to send a message of thanyou to all of my sponsors for continuing to sponsor me so that i may be able to continue in my education.I therefore finally wish you a very HAPPY  NEW YEAR, yours faithfull,

                                                                                                                      Ben Kilonzo.


Shila.

2011-12-31

Dear donors.

    Am happy as a king for the Christmas gift which you sent to us.The day i received it, i was very happy as i knew me and my counsins who are my uncle's kids will be cooking some good food for Christmas.My aunt was also very happy when i went with the food home and she cooked pilau with the rice which we all enjoyed.I therefore hope that you will keep on remembering us during Cjhristmas just like you have done.W e will aslo be remembering you always.I want to wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR.

                                                                                            yours loving child,Shila.


Asma

2011-12-31

Dear all.

I just want to say thankyou for the food,my motherv was also happy and has sent her thanks to you.I know i will be also have a good new year like the Christmas because we still have the food which we got from you.Thanks and HAPPY NEW YEAR.

                                                                                                   yours child ,Happy.


Cherryl

2011-12-31

Dear donor.

      How are you there in England?We are all fine here.it has been very hot during this Christmas and so me and my cousins went to the beach to swim.Am sending this message to say ' asante sana' thankyou very much for the Christmas gift of food which you gave to us.It really helped us and made the Christmas day a success.I finally wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR,yours daughter Cherryl.


Alfred.

2011-12-31

Jambo to all.

      I hope you are fine,am too.My mother.my sister are all ahppy too,The Christmas was good,i thank you for the food which you gave to  me during Christmas,My mother cooked for me some rice and beans and 'chapati' and i really enjoyed.We then went to church with my sister and my mother and when we came back from church we had some good lunch.My mother said she will cook pilau with the rice which we got when its new year  which i will also enjoy.HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012.yours Alfred.


All sponsored kids at Mtwapa Academy in their uniform.

2012-01-26

Hi! Everyone.

Happy new year 2012!!!!!!!!!!! Its my sincere hope that  you all ushered in well the new year.Its also my hope that  you are all going on well with your works and studies.We are all doing fine here in Kenya.The schools reopened since 3rd January and all the kids are back to school and going on well with their studies.Well,today i needed to post to you some photos from all the sonsored kids at Mtwapa Academy in their school uniform for this year 2012.I therefore hope that you all love the photos,please have a look from our latest photo gallery.

  Am also happy to inform you that,this year we had a new recruit in the program i.e baby Gail who is now in baby class!!! as also shown in the pictures.

As you all know over last year 6 of our sponsored kids did their final exams in the primary school level who are now hoping to join the secondary schools  over the next month of February.This therefore brings a total of 21 sponsored kids remaining at Mtwapa Academy while the rest of the sponsored kids are in the variuos secondary schools.

 

 Lastly i want to send my many thanks to all the sponsors ,all the friends and well wishers in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program for your generous contribution towards the education of all the sponsored kids and  may God bless you all.Hope to speak again soon.

                                                                                              yours in service,

                                                                                                          Moses.

                                                                                                   (sponsorship co-ordinator).


Jambo! from Mtwapa,Kenya.

2012-03-07

Hi! Everyone.

       I guess you are all doing fine with your works.With us here in Africa we are all going on well with all the kids in school continuing well with their classes.

     As you all know,last year 6 of the sponsored kids in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program i.e Zena,Mapenzi,Shila,Cheryll,Lukeman and Samuel Mbugua did their final primary school examination i.e KCPE and who were to proceed to secondary school.I therefore needed to inform you that 5 of the kids i.e Mapenzi,Shila,Cheryll,Lukeman and Samuel Mbugua managed to proceed to secondary school i.e form 1 in various secondary schools while the 6th kids i.e Zena proceeded to pursue a tailoring course in one of the polytechnics here in Mtwapa.I'll therefore be posting more details on each one of the above mentioned kids while in their respective secondary schools in the next coming   website updates.Over last week most of the kids in the secondary schools were having their mid-term vacation and so i had a chance to speak to them especially with the form 1 kids and am happy to nform you that they are all happy to be in secondary school and catching up with everything.They are now back to school for the final month of the 1st term before the schools are closed for the easter holiday on 6th April 2012.

  For today's update i needed to post to you some information on one of the sponsored girls who completed her class 8 last  year and she is now in the polytechnic pursuing a tailoring and dress making course.She is none other than Zeina Benson,please read more on Zena in the just to follow today's update also please have a look on some photos in our photo gallery.Finally i want to thank you all for continuing to be part of the program and for you continous suppot to the kids here in Africa,be blessed.

                                                                                           yours in service,

                                                                                                       Moses Kopulo.

                                                                                                     (sponsorship co-ordinator).


Zeina.

2012-03-07

'Hi! My name is Zeina Benson and am aged 19 years,first and foremost i want to send my many thanks to my sponsors for making it possible for me to get education  ever since i was in primary school upto the level which am now on i.e in the polytechnic.Soon i completed my class 8 at the Mtwapa Academy last year,i felt that i should learn some trade course instead of going to form 1 as i felt that i am practical oriented.I therefore had to find a suitable course which i could do best and finally i made up my mind when i decided to that i would want to do some tailoring and dress making course a decision which my parents,the my former school director  and our co-ordinator supported.

        The name of my polytechnic institute is called Mary Mother of God Training Institute which is a christiam based institute under the Catholic church located here in Mtwapa.There are variuos courses being offered in our training institute i.e dressmkaing,tailoring,fashion and desighn,embroidery and business skills.For a beginner like me am allowed to start up with the first two courses i.e dressmaking and tailoring.Ever since i joined the training course i have so far learned the following;-

              -how to use a tailoring machine.

             -how to sew straight lines using a tailoring machine.

             - learnt  to measure,draw and cut clothes.

             -how to fix zips in clothes.

Am happy toinform you that at the moment i can be able to make a skirt. In our class we have 2 teachers/tutors who are catholic sisters and at least 10 students.The first tutor takes as on theory while the second tutor takes us on practicals.Ever since i started the course i love it so much as i can well understand my tutors which has given me very high hopes and driving me to continue with it.The course is a full time course and comprising of two sessions i.e morning and afternoon.I normal report for my training at the polytechnic s from 8.00 am -4.00 pm.We do have lunch breaks at 12.30 pm until 2.00pm.During lunch time we normal go out to have some food with my class mates in some of the neighbouring cafes where we have food like chips and fruit juice,'chapati' and beans,'ugali' and vegetables.

My day at the training institute ends at 4.00pm when i go back home a distance of at least half an hour walk.While at home,i sometimes finish up my theory notes and then help in some of the domestic work e.g fetching water and cooking.Once again i say thankyou to all of my sponsors fro everything,from Zeina'


Same program,same school and same home!!!

2012-03-07

Hi! Everyone.

      This is just a special edtion informing you  of 5 sponsored kids in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program who are coincidentally moving on together as one ever since they were sponsored,there names are Joseph,Timothy,Rama,Diego and Samuel Benson who are now in one secondary school here in Mtwapa called K.P Senior Mtwapa Secondary School and all come from the same home i.e New Light Children's Home,what a life coincidence!!!

  All of the above mentioned kids are happy to be together always and enjoying their studies at the secondary school,just to mention their classes and names so as to know who is the eldest among the 5;-

       1.Joseph-form 3

       2.Timothy-form 3

       3.Rama and Diego-form 2

       4.Samuel Mbugua-form 1

Due to the distance from their school to their home they have therefore rented a nearby house which is near the school where they all stay and they all enjoy living together as they are also learning on how to live independently.They are all happy to be in the sponsorship program as they say that its through the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program that they have been able to realise their future dreams and prospects  through learning and so they are sending lots of thanks to all of their sponsors,please have a look in some of their pictures.Thankyou


Thankyou,thankyou and thankyou-sponsored kids receive parcels,letters and greeting cards .

2012-03-07

Hi! Everyone.

       First and foremost i want to extend my many thanks to everyone in the sponsorship program i.e all the sponsors and well wishers for continuing to support the kids program in everything and on behalf of all the kids i want to say 'asanteni sana' thankyou soo much for everything.I also want to acknowlegde to everyone who have been sending letters,greeting cards and different presents in the parcels for the kids.Am happy to inform you that they have all been well received by the kids.Here below are some list of senders who had sent some letters,greeting cards(x-mas) cards and parcels to some of the kids towards the end of last year and just after new year.Before i proceed on the list,please allow me to say that, you may see that the letters,cards and parcels had taken a little bit of long tome to reach the kids,this was because unfortunately towards the end of last year there was a nationwide strike from the postal workers  in our country due to pay rise and so most of the postages delayed to deliver in time.After the strike was called off it had created a huge load of postages to be sorted out before releasing them for collection and as a result it created some delay in receiving.Am happy to inform you that the postal services are now back to normal and am sure potages can now reach in time.Here below is the list of the senders/receivers and their items;-

        Sender                                         Receiver                                    contents/item

1.Paula Burton.................................Rahab/school director................Christmas card.

2.Paula Burton and Dave................Happy...........................................Christmas card.

3.Paula Burton and Dave...............Gibson...........................................Christmas card.

4.Gerald Trevor.................................Alfred..............................................Christmas card.

5.Charlotte Parkin............................Wycliff.............................................letter.

6.Maxine..............................................Loice.............................................Christmas card/ present.

7.Margaret Robson........................Timothy............................................letter.

8.Val Murphy....................................Wycliff..............................................-cap,sunglasses,t-shirt,

                                                                                                                      -christmas card/letter.

9.Bradbury family..........................Kabibi...........................................-chocolate,stickers,birthday,

                                                                                                                  umbrella and letters.

10.Mark Halgate.........................Cherryll.........................................skirt,blouse,sweets,hairclips,

                                                                                                        -hairbands,necklases/bracelets.

11.Gill Ward..............................Diego........................................stationery,clothes,colours with

                                                                                                     colouring board,pencils/pen bag,

                                                                                                      Christmas card.

12.Gill Ward.............................Zeina..........................clothes,pencil bag,colours and colouring

                                                                                           board,glutten glue with sparkles,pens,

                                                                                             and christms card.

13.Hannah.............................Lukeman..................T-shirt,colours,pencils,christmas card and

                                                                                           letter.

14.Hannah.......................Esther....................................letter and pictures.

15.Hannah.......................Dennis....................................letter and pictures.

16.Hannah.....................Hamisi.....................................letter and pictures.

17.Jan and Frank Haffner......Rama Ben...............pens/pencills,greeting card and pictures.

      Please have a look in our picture gallery for some of the kids pictures.Thankyou and 'kwaher' bye,

                      yours in service,

                                 Moses Kopulo(sponsorship cordinator).

        

 

                                                                                           

                                               

               

 


Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program-UK partner school at the Mtwapa Academy cultural day.

2012-04-16

Hi! Everyone

       Its my sincere hope that you are all doing fine.We  here in Kenya-Africa are also going on well.The schoolswere  officially closed since last week on 13th April and expected to reopen on 7t May 2012.I therefore needed to post to you some recent happenings at the Mtwapa Academy and its my hope that you are going to enjoy reading on the post and also love seeing the pictures in our latest photos.

     Ever since the Mtomondoni sponsorship program started 7 years ago different UK  schools have partnered with the Mtomondoni sponsorship program through i the program African coordinator in running educational program exchanges which have so far succeded.Among the UK partener schools are Babington College,Brockington College,John Cleveland College and Gartree High School who have so far all visited Kenya and run very successfull educational exchange programs.

    The visits of the above mentioned schools to the African-Kenya schools have really benefited the African host schools in terms of curriculum exchange which incude exchanging learning and teaching methods,geography,history and culture.Also through the exchange  program the local community especially here in Mtwpa have also benefited alot by getting food packages,clothes suitcases,mosquito nets,mattresses,toys etc. which most of the local people had no hope of getting such commodities.Thanks to the great linkage work of our Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program UK co-ordinators i.e Sara Fletcher and Gail Hammonds who have been in touch with all the team leaders of the above mentioned schools.

    To the visiting students from the above mentioned schools who have so far ran the educational program exchanges,the students have undergone life changing experiences through also learning and seeing how the African people and the kids do learn and live by being in the schools and also visiting the various homes in the village.Also some life changing experiences have been felt when the visting students engage themselves in initiating  and working on some school building projects and  offered some financial assistances.One of the just concluded Kenya visit by  a UK school was by the Brockington college who visited Kenya between 23rd March- 5th April 2012.Brockington college had both visited Mtwapa Academy and a neighbour and new school called Sagail Junior school when the visiting school greatest projects while in Kenya was to buy a plot of land for Sagail Junior school and started building up a permanent classroom.Formerly Sagail school was operating on a rented house.

    Also while at Mtwapa it was all joy when the visiting Brockington college team did  organise and ran some mini-Olympic games with the host school i.e Mtwapa Academy apart from also doing with the Sagail Junior school.During the mini-Olympic different games related to the main Olympic werympics are done which include the Olympic torch.

   Since the educational program exchange include some cultural exchange,the Mtwapa Academy students and teachers also organised an African cultural exchange day where different Kenyan culture which include food,dressing,economic activities and religious beliefs were displayed as shown in the pictures in our latest photos.

Finally i want  to send  my many thanks to all the UK schools who have so far participated in the educational program exchange and urge more UK schools to be involved in this life changing programs.Thankyou once again and bye,

                                                                             yours in service,

                                                                               Moses  Kopulo.

                                                                     (sponsorship program Africa co-ordinator)

 

  


greetings from Kenya.

2012-05-28

Hi! Everyone,

      It's my sincere hope that you are all doing fine wherever  you are,us all here in Kenya-Mtwapa are getting on well with all the kids in school doing fine.Thanks God, we here in Kenya are blessed with lots of rains which is pouring all over the country.

     Well,today i neeeded to post some onformation in our Mpenzi website,this time round i've tried to post the information in a different way apart from the usual way whereby you've been reading information specifically from the sponsored kids while in school.this time i thought that it would be good too if i focus on the parents/guardians of the sponsored kids from their respective homes.The parents/guardians of the sponsored kids are therefore going to speak to everyone involved in the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program i.e all the sponsors,well wishers and friends in the program  on their daily life here in Africa i.e their names, age, occupation,kind of food they like to eat,where they sleep,health problems they are facing and how they spend their free time.They will also speak on the achievements they have had ever since their kids were sponsored into the program,future prospects of their kids in the sponsorship program,general views and appreciataions.

From now hence forth until all the families in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program information is completed,i'll be sending details of each family in every website report.For today i've posted some information on Hamisi(class 7) and Abdalla's(class 6) family who are all learning at Mtwapa Academy.

I believe with this kind of information which everybody involved in the program would have read and even see the pictures,the readers will be able to know exactly how these families live and why the kids need sponsorship and thus seeing the noble role of all the sponsors and well wishers are playing towards the making of better lives of the needy children here in Africa.Finaly i want to send many thanks to all of the sponsores and well wishers who have continued to support the kids in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program.

                             yours in service,

                                Moses Kopulo(sponsorship co-ordinator)


Hamisi and Abdalla's family.

2012-05-29

'My full names are Antony Jumaa Kalume aged 38 years,the uncle to Hamisi and Abdalla who are sponsored in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program.i also speak on behalf of my mother who is also a grandmother to Hamisi and Abdalla.

The name of Hamisi and Abdalla grandmother is called Susan Petro aged 65 years old.Apart from being an uncle to Hamisi and Abdalla,am aslo a father of 3 kids whi are Hamisi and Abdalla cousins.The names of my kids starting from the eldest are Susan who is in secondary school(form 3) at the Mtwapa Elite secondary school.followed by Biatus in class 4 and lastly Grace who is in class 1.I total i have 5 kids to look in addition to my mother.

My occupation is a wood carver whereby i do some art using the wood by carving out different things ranging from wild animals,African traditions of people and tribes,key rings,candle stands,birds or any other carving as desired by the client.Its through this job that am able to take care of my above mentioned family.Unfortunately my work is seasonal as i entirely depend on selling my items(carvings) to the tourists where i have a sea side work and sale shop along the coastal beach.Its a seasonal work because since March this year until July i've been unable to do any sale at the beach as there are no tourists in the hotels but hopefully as from July tourist will start to come in the hotels and hopefully the business will be good.Due to the uncertainty of my work sales its hard to determine my daily daily wage average since sometimes i have no money at all to an extent of being forced to go without food for a day or even two days!!! So as to at least make the ends meet and making sure that i get food for my family,i therefore most of the times rely on friends who assist me with their money on credit and later repay them once i make some sales.Life sometimes become soo tough to us because apart from buying food for my family i have some other responsibilities to take i.e of paying for school fees for my 3 kids who are at school.

In terms of the food we usually eat whenever i make good sales,we normal like to feed on 'chapati with beans,rice with fish stew,rice and chicken(which we rare at our home),green vegetables with 'ugali' and rarely feed on beef as its expensive for us.Generally for our breakfast we love taking 'mahamri' with tea,'chapati' with tea,fried Irish potatoes with tea and boiled green bananas with tea.For lunch and super we usually have 'ugali' with vegetables.rice with beef and 'ugali' with fish.However my income have been so little and some time i may have some little money only to afford buying the maize flour(corn) for making 'ugali' but i don't have money to buy the other kind of food to go with.Due to this am sometimes forced to go to the nearest beach so as to look around in the coral reefs and in-between the mangrove trees for any trapped or left behind crab and tiny fish.In case i come across any of this i use the old mosquito net so as to trap the small fish and even the crabs and take them home for our food.We believe that when the tides are high they bring in different sea animals and fish to the coral reefs and once the sea tides are low some of these animals remain trapped in the coral reefs and in-between the mangrove trees.

All in all we want to thank our Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program directors in UK i.e Sara and Gail who through their Africa co-ordinator Moses have been able to help us out in sorting some of the problems we sometimes face here at home.Sara and Gail have soo far been able to assist us in buying food for us and even sending us money to Moses so as to buy food for us.From their money,it has assisted me in buying medicine for my mother who is Hamisi and Abdalla's grandmother.Above this, the sponsorship have brought surety of Hamisi and Abdalla learning.

Just to tell you on our sleeping arrangements here at home,we have only two beds in Hamisi's and Abdalla grandmother's two roomed house.The first bed is where the grandmother sleeep on with my elder daughter Susan while the other second room also has one bed where 3 kids sleep on it.

In terms of major health problem,i can say in my family i have three people who have major health problem.The first one is my mother who suffers from high blood pressure and body joints problem which sometimes becomes serious and develops to mild paralysis.The second major health problem is from my daughter Grace who also has also a problem of her body joints which become painful and sometimes unable to walk and the only way is to lift her up.The third major health problem is in my elder daughter Susan.Unfortunately Susan has two major health problems i.e she is epileptic ever since she was born,due to this she most of the times fall off and convulse.Since its dangerous to allow her to cook in the kitchen.me and my two uncles therefore do the cooking fro everyone in the family.On her second health problem,previously Susan had a growth in her intestines and it was very painful for her and expensive to buy for her drugs but thanks God the problem got treated through an operation,how ever i need to keep a close care of her until she fully recovers.Thanks God Hamisi and Abdalla with the rest of one of by kid have no major health problem apart from the usual malaria and diarrhea which is treatable with the basic drugs we get from the hospital.(to continue in the next entry)


Hamisi and Abdalla's family(continue)

2012-05-29

'In terms of the water we use here at home we use the well water which is salty water from our neighbors i.e a 20 liter container is sold at ksh.3/= For this water we use it for drinking,cooking.washing utensils.washing clothes and bathing.We do have the fresh water in the village which is being sold at ksh.30/= per 20 liter container but for the fresh water its expensive for us and we just use the salty water which is untreated.

Due to the above kind of life,its therefore hard for me to take my family for any leisure or treat.Previously when i could make good sales in my wood carving work i could take the kids to the beach(pirates) and even to Likoni ferry but am now unable to do that.However in case we have free time we use our time inattending our small family garden where we have planted maize(corn) and vegetables.

The sponsorship program under the umbrella of the Mtomondoni sponsorship program is a very good idea because its through this program which my family have benefited a lot.The program has helped us built for us a permanent(bricks) house which we now live in,before my mother and all of the kids used to live in an old mud house with the roof being thatched with coconut leaves which was very old and about to fall down and become dangerous for us to live in especially during rainy season.With the new house built for us through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program we are living comfortably,thanks to the donors.

Also its through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program which have really made us to get food especially during Christmas times ever since the program started.Apart from the Christmas food my family have been getting lots of assistance from some sponsors through Sara and Gail and have been able to buy us food and even send us money through the program Africa co-ordinator,in this way we we have been able to receive lots of assistance.Above all,the program have been able to provide quality education to my uncles Hamisi and Abdalla whom both of thier parents passed away some few years back.

Through the Mtomondoni Sponsorship program and specifically through Sara and Gail i have been personally been boosted in the marketing and sales of wood carving products especially on the key rings.Through the sale of the key rings.i have been able to buy food for the family,buy drugs for my mother and the rest of the kids and above all the key rings money has helped me to start up a bathroom and toilet project as seen in the pictures.

Due to all of the above great assistance my family has been receiving through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program.Am therefore whole heartedly pray for continuity of this program and long life.I also want to thank Moses,the Africa co-ordinator who has been working soo hard and dedicatedly in delivering everything to the kids and also to us as parents of the kids.To me i feel a very big relief ever since Hamisi and Abdalla were sponsored into the program as it gave me some breathing space of educating the rest of the kids.Ever since we joined the program i have seen lots of changes in terms of quality education and good progress in school as the Mtomondoni sponsorship program have been providing the kids with all what they want i terms of school needs i.e books,uniform,food and paying for school fees.As result Abdalla and Hamis school performance is impressive and i have high hopes that in future they will both make it to good secondary schools and even to the university.Finally on behalf of y mother we want to thank all the sponsors in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program an urge them to continue with the same spirit of helping the needy kids here in Africa.' Thank you and bye from Antony(Hamisi and Abdalla's uncle)


'Jambo' from Africa!!!!!!!

2012-06-20

'Jambo',Hi! everyone.

        It's another great moment to be able to speak to you from here in Africa,hoping that you are all going on well with everything.As i had previously informed you that,this time round i'll be specifically featuring in our website all the families involved in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program so as you can all get to know the inner details of the families i.e the way they live in their homes,the importance of sponsorship to the families,the family views on the program  in relation to their  sponsored kids and views from the families on the future prospects of the program.

       Previously we had featured the Saidi family i.e Hamisi and Abdalla and today we'll be featuring on the Benson's family;-

      The Benson's family is the biggest family among all the families who are sponsored into the Mtomondoni sponsorship program.In this family we have a total of 7 kids who are all sponsored into the program i.e Zena,Justin,Samuel,Kahindi,Pendo,William and Wycliff.Among the 7 kids,Zena is the eldest whom last year completed her primary school at the Mtwapa Academy and proceeded for a special training i.e tailoring,dress making and fashion desighn course in one of the training institute here in Mtwapa.For the rest i.e Justin,Samuel and Kahindi are at Mtwapa Academy in class 7,while Pendo,William and Wycliff are in cclass 5.

    All the above kids are under the care of Mr.Benson who is the father and guardian too i.e out of the 7 kids in the Benson's family only 2 kids i.e Justin and Wycliff biological belong to Mr.Benson.Unfortunately for Zena,Samuel and William their father  who was a young brother to Mr.Benson passed away some few years back and as a result Mr.Benson had to take up the responsibilty of taking care of his late brother's kids.

  In addition to the above kids,Mr.Benson takes care of another young brother's two kids i.e Kahindi and Pendo as their father is totally illiterate,jobless and only relying in tapping the local palm wine from the coconut trees and later sale the local beer and use the money  which is very little to buy food for rest of his family.

  Dear reader,you may be suprised if i tell you the list of Mr.Benson's family does not end here!!!!!!!! Mr.Benson has  4 more kids to take care of which brings to a total of 11 kids whom Mr.Benson is taking care of apart from his wife,Zena's mum and himself which brings to a total of 14 family members!!!!!!!!!

  Please have a read on the next entry for more details of the Benson's family.Thankyou soo much for being part of us,be blessed.

                                                                 yours in service,

                                                                     Moses( Africa-sponsorship co-ordinator).


The Benson's family-part 1

2012-06-20

Hi! everyone.

      'My full name is Benson Karisa Charo,am aged 48 years.Just to make you learn more on my name'Karisa Charo' is a typical tradtional Giriama(coastal) tribe name which i was given by my late parents soon i was born.'Karisa' means a small shepherd whereas 'Charo' means journey or'safari' in Kiswahili.From our history our forefathers and grandfathers used to be shepherds  and also gatherers but they used to migrate by making journeys'safaris' or 'charos' from our area to another in such of pasture for  their animals,so its believed that while on their way migrating my great grandmother gave birth to my grand father who was called' Karisa Charo' whom i have inherited his name.

   My wife's name is Mary Benson who is aged 38 years.Me and my wife are both blessed to have 6 kids who are biological our children,they are from the eldest;-Kahindi(senior-not the sponsored),Patrick,Francis,Peter,Justin and Wycliff.Among the 6 kids,2 of them are sponsored into the Mtomondoni sponsorship program i.e Justin and Wycliff.Apart from the six kids there are also 3 more kids i.e Zena,Samuel  and William whose father  and my late young brother is deceased are also sponsored into the Mtomondoni sponsorship program.In addition to the 9 kids already mentioned there are 2 more kids i.e Kahindi(junior) and Pendo who are both sponsored in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program.In total, i have 11 kids whom am taking care of them.

In terms of my occupation,currently i work as a night security guard in one of the Kenya government agricultural institute called Kenya Agricutural Research Institute(KARI).My main task in the security at KARI  is guarding the agricultural plants and specifically assighned in guarding the cassave plants.My work starts at 6.00pm in the evening and ends at 6.00am in the morning.Before being employed as a security guard,i used to be full time traditional dance music player in which i specifically play the drum and also dance.In the Mtomondoni village we have a traditional dance group which we started 20 years ago of which me and my wife are among the founders of the group, my wife is a dancer too.The name of our dancing group is called 'Maumbile' which simply means nature!! My wife is a full time dancer in the group and i currently rarely join them in the dancing as am mostly occupied in the security job.

Most of our clients in the music group are tourist hotels and other visitor,person or even schools and parties who need to be entertained.Our dancing time at the tourist hotel is from 8.00pm-9.30 pm though we may do the dancing according to the hotel's program.The payment being ksh.1,500/= for half an hour.Unfortunately we don't do the dancing through out the month but its only seasonal and we sometimes may stay for a very long time like 2 months without getting any dancing contract.Due to this our income from the dancing troupe is very little and it makes us have difficulties in meeting our daily domestic needs and expenses especially in terms of food.

In terms of our daily diet,the kind of food we normaly like is 'sima'made of maize or corn flour with green vegetables which are locally available.This kind of food, we normal eat for both lunch and super and we hardly change to a different diet as the other kind of foods like ,rice,cereals,fish and beef is expensive for us,as a result it makes us hardly have breakfast as we hardly make tea,coffee or drinking chocolate and instead for  our breakfast we just eat the left over food which may have remained in the previous night after having our super by just warming the food and have it for break fast.

Thanks to the Mtomondoni sponsorship program as my kids are able to have a good lunch while at school,for sure if it were not for the lunch program at the school courtesy of the program,it could have been very difficult for my kids to be able to continue with their education.Since most of the days am unable to afford both the break fast and the super but i feel relieved that even though the kids may skip the break fast in the morning but am rest assured that they will have a good lunch at school.

Since my wages are less than my overall family needs,am therefore most of the times beinf forced to borrow from friends and repay them soon i get my monthly wages(to continue in the next entry).


The Benson's family-part 2

2012-06-20

'In terms of of health problem in my family,i have at least 3 people whose health is not good i.e William,my wife and Zena's mother.For William he's been having recurrent  cyst problem in his neck  which makes the neck to swell for the last few years,thanks to the Mtomondoni sponsorship program through Gail and Sara and some of the sponsors like Paula Burton whom they have helped William to get financial assistance to his health problem and as a result the financial aid helped a bigger percetange in reducing the problem and currently not as alarming as it used to be before.The second person in my family who has a health problem is my wife who most of the times have joint pains,frequent headaches and body fever.The third person in my family who is currently ill is Zena's mother who is also mother to William and Samuel ,is sick and suffering from tuberculosis.Unfortunately the treatment of tuberculosis in our country is very expensive as the drugs are expensive to get.Though we most of the times get the drugs from the governmeny hospitals but sometimes the drugs are unavailable in the hospitals and so we are forced to buy them from the chemist which are expensive.Also the general management of a patient with tuberculosis is very expensive especially in terms of diet as a result  i again  have difficulties in meeting all of my familly responsiblities.As result i want to send my many thanks to all the sponsors involved in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program through Gail and Sara and the Africa co-ordinator Moses for relieving me from  what i may say,the biggest burden of life i.e education through payment of school fees,uniform,books and food for my kids while at school.If it were not for the Mtomondoni sponsorship program i would be total unable to take all of my kids to school due to the biggest responsibilty which i have in the family.In addition to this,through Gail and Sara in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program they were able to find us well wishers who helped us buy a plot of land and built for us a 3 roomed house which me and my family are happy ot live in.In terms of beddings,we only have one bed which me and my wife sleep on while the rest of the sponsored kids live in the orher two rooms.For the girls i.e Zena and Pendo,they use one of the two reamaining rooms whille for the boys i.e.Justin,Samuel,Kahindi,William and Wycliff use the other third room.Unfortunately we have no beds in the rest of the two rooms where all the kids use.Thanks to Gail and Sara who previously bought for us mattreseses to sleep on and which all the 7 sponsored kids are using them.In terms of water we do fetch water from our neighbours bore hole  at a cost of ksh.2/= per 20 liter cpmtainer.The water we fetch is salty water and untreated but since we don't have enough money to buy the water treatment we therefore use it rwa when drinking and also for cooking.For my last commments before i end up,ever since myy kids were sponsored into the Mtomondoni sponsorship program,am seeing the kids progressing on well as they are learning in a private school where they get quality education.As a result am therefore soo much happy and pray for the continuity of the sponsorship.Thanks once again to all the sponsors involved in the program,thanks to Gail and Sara for finding for us the sponsors which have been soo helpful to us here in Africa and thanks to Mr.Moses,the Africa co-ordinator for his wonderful and dedicative service to the kids and us as families in genaral who has been doing all this in the program on behalf of Gail and Sara and all the sponsors.Lastly i want to say thankyou to all the sponsors and donors who  have always been remembering us during the Christmas season  by sending to us food donations and supplies and have therefore made us enjoy celebrating the Christmas.Am therefore foreseeing a great future for all of our kids while for the program am foreseeing agreat expansion and hopefully many more kids wiil be sponsored into the program.' Thanks and bye,        from,           Mr.Benson.                      


Hi Moses

2012-08-08

Habari yako Moses?

Hope you're well.  This should work now... give it a try.

Say hi to everyone for us and let everyone know that we miss you all.

Kwaheri Love

Sara, Gail and Mpenzi

xxxx


Coming to the village

2012-08-09

Hi! Everyone

It has literally been a double blessing for Mtwapa Academy and the entire Mt

wapa village community as it’s been barely 3 months when the Brockington College team-England were here in Africa and just a week ago the John Cleveland College team(JCC)-England were also here in Kenya-Mtwapa!!!!!!!!!!!!

It has been a great moment for all the students of Mtwapa Academy and all the sponsored kids of Mtomondoni sponsorship program who apart from spending time with the visitors while in their respective classes also had special moments with the visitors in and outside school. Some of the sponsored kids had the privilege of being treated for a game safari and the Bamburi nature trail courtesy of JCC students.

The JCC team arrived here in Africa on 11th July 2012 and had an intensive and busy itinerary which ran for two weeks up to 25th July 2012.Here below are the names of the JCC team to Africa;-

1.Roger Dainty. 11.Theresa Chowanietz. 21.Charlotte Nelson Cox.

2.Sue Dainty. 12.Faith Dunne. 22.Samuel Ross.

3.Alison Banks. 13.Kirsten Dunne. 23.Abbie Shaw.

4.Daniel Banks. 14.Maria Fryer. 24.Katrina Shilladay.

5.Kate Cook. 15.Jade Hayward. 25.Elise Rose Stainer.

6.David Banks. 16.Aisling Lynch Kelly. 26.Emily Jane Stanier.

7.Olivia Bailey. 17.Katherine Lynch Kelly. 27.Kaitlin West.

8.Francesca Banks. 18.Olivia Lynch Kelly.

9.Annie Banks. 19.Ross McArthur.

10.Chloe Carter. 20.Martha McCallion.

Just to mention a few of the many more activities which the JCC team had here in Africa are;-the Olympic themed sports tournament which also included the Olympic torch relay, the British culture afternoon and the Mtwapa village(community)treat.

In terms of the Olympic themed sports tournament day, the Mtwapa Academy students were privileged to see some of the different Olympic sports based games and especially the Olympic torch which was the first time for the entire Mtwapa villagers to see the Olympic torch!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In terms of the British culture afternoon, the Mtwapa Academy students were privileged to see and taste how the British afternoons are spent in terms of drinks i.e English tea with cakes and also some fruit juice with biscuits as seen in some of the pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!

Surely all the Mtwapa villagers can’t forget the JCC visit here in Africa especially the brides day when some of the women villagers i.e single mothers came to Mtwapa Academy and received different gifs ranging from children clothes,underpants,sanitary pads etc.Also as an extension to the villagers treat,theJCC team went out further to the villagers and some of the local village schools and gave out gifts and essentials to the villagers e.g clothes,shoes,stationery,sports equipment and mosquito nets etc.

While at the Mtwapa Academy,in the kindergarten section the kids were happy to be treated in different face paintings and games while the JCC students were introduced to Kiswahili lessons among many other school based activities.

On behalf of the school director madam Rahab Kangai,i want to send many thanks to the entire JCC school in England and specifically thank all the students and staff who were in the Kenya visit team for the contribution i.e both financially and materially to the school e.g in the digging of the school well and helping in the teachers salary payment,be blessed.

More special thanks go to all the parents of all the JCC students who were in the Kenya visit team for allowing your daughters and sons to be part of the Kenya visit team and am sure the students learnt a lot from Africa and so they have lots to tell you about Africa.Am more sure that the experience they all had here from Africa is a great and positive life changing experience,thankyou once again to all the parents ,be blessed.

Many more thanks go to all the teachers and staff members who accompanied the students to Kenya i.e Roger Dainty the team leader,Sue Dainty,Daniel Banks,Alison Banks and Kate Cook who all worked soo hard and tirelessly and took great care to all the students in the Kenya visit team.Please allow me to further say that that their good co-operation with the school director,the teachers at Mtwapa Academy made all the school based activities a great success and we’ll all miss you lots.

Lastly from me and on behalf of the school director of Mtwapa Academy school, i want to send more appreciations and thanks to the school principal of John Cleveland College(JCC-England) for allowing a part of your teaching staff and students to travel to Africa for this noble mission which was success which is not only to the specific team but also to the entire JCC school,be blessed.

With that i say,’kwaheri’bye with lots of love,

from,

Moses Kopulo(Africa visit and sponsorship co-ordinator)


Ibrahim's family

2012-08-10

Hi! Everyone.

‘My name is Thuweba Masoud Hamza,am aged 37 years and born in a Muslim family. Am today very happy to speak to you in regard and on behalf of Ibrahim my only son who is now in class 5 at the Mtwapa Academy under the care of Mtomondoni sponsorship program..Being a single mother have gone through thick and thin so as to make ends meet and thanks to my mother(Ibrahim’s grandma) who has been able to accommodate both me and my son in her house. Before i gave birth i was married to Ibrahim dad who unfortunately is now deceased, by the time of my husband’s death Ibrahim was still a baby.

More unfortunately soon my husband passed away, I started to get sick to a situation which made me to return to our home and stayed with my mother who is also a single parent too.The name of my mother(Ibrahim’s grandma) is called Mariam aged 57 years. In our family i have 3 siblings i.e 2 brothers and a kid sister. The names of my brothers who are Ibrahim’s uncles are Yusuf and Al-Amin while the name of my kid sister who is Ibrahim’s aunt is called Hajra.

Our favorite food for lunch and super is rice with meat soup or fried beans,chapati ad ‘githeri’(corn maize mixed and cooked with beans).For our breakfast we like having black tea and bread.

In terms of my occupation, unfortunately I have not yet secured a job as getting a job in Kenya is very hard and as a result I entirely depend my mother (Ibrahim’s grandma) who does some small scale business.

In our house we have four beds; the first bed is for Ibrahim’s grandmother, the second bed is for me, the third bed is for Hajra while the fourth bed is for Ibrahim. For my brothers Yusuf and Al-Amin they normally come to visit us as they live in their new houses.

Unfortunately both I and my mother (Ibrahim’s grandmother) are sick. For the grandmother, she has been diagnosed with high blood pressure and heart problem of which the doctors suspected that one of my mother blood veins may have collapsed and drained out blood and as a result her eye sight has been affected to an extent of having mild blindness. Due to this health problem, my mother has been entirely depending on drugs and frequent checkups which all need money.

With me I’ve been diagnosed of being having thyroid cancer and as a result I have experiencing lots of problems within my throat and the entire respiratory system. Due to this problem I also entirely depend on drugs which are very expensive to buy i.e one dose costs more than ksh.30,000/= in every three months and regular checkups. The doctors say that the problem is untreatable as there is a danger of loosing my sound is any operation of the throat is done, which may also affect my backbone. Thanks to my brothers who sometimes assist me in getting drugs.

Due to the above family financial hardships therefore requested Moses if he could get me a chance through his directors Sara and Gail in England in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program .Thanks God, my request was accepted and Ibrahim saw his way in to the Mtomondoni sponsorship program.

Ever since my son was sponsored into the program I have so far see tremendous progress. Ibrahim has been performing soo well in his exams and I believe he will perform well by scoring high marks in his final primary school exam which will make him proceed to a good secondary school an hopefully proceed to the university.

For our free time we like visiting our relatives who live here in Mtwapa while others live in Mombasa.

For our water we don’t have running water in our house and we only depend from the water vendors commonly known as the ‘maji men’water men who round the village using handcarts full of water containers and once we buy the water we treat it.

At the moment we have started our holy month of ‘Ramadhan’ Ramadhan is a yearly holy month set aside in the Islamic calendar of which Muslim faithful are supposed to fast for at least 30 days. During this period no Muslim is allowed to eat or drink in the day i.e from 6.30am upto 6.30 pm.The purpose of Ramadhan is to make the Muslim faithful to be close to God through lots of prayers and remembering the less fortunate people in the society by giving out offerings i.e both money and food. Also during this period ,so many ways f living change i.e the mode of dressing,speaking,hearing,seeing and even the faithful’s leisure spending way is changed or reduced. In terms of dressing, the Muslim especially women should not wear mini skirts or unprotected body in terms of clothing, in terms of speaking the Muslim faith is supposed to speak in a very humble way and should always make sure he or she hear or see not offending things. In general the Muslim faithful is supposed to abstain from all ills of life and as a result its believed that God will forgive all the person’s sins and make him/her clean. During the fasting period the Muslim faith wakes up very early in the morning i.e at 3.30 am and is first supposed to take hot or cold drink and dates. The dates have a great significance in the Muslim faith as they are believed to the most blessed fruits from God who used to provide them to His prophets so as to be able to survive while spreading Islamic religion especially in the desserts and across the world. After having the cold or hot drink with the dates, the Muslim faithful is supposed to do some prayers and thereafter go back to sleep until 6.30 am when the fasting begins until 6.30pm.

Lastly I would want to send my many thanks to Ibrahim’s entire sponsor’s as it’s through the sponsorship where Ibrahim has been able to realize his dreams of being a doctor. Am therefore very happy and feel soo much privileged to be in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. Surely the program has lots of benefits and well managed. We being part of the sponsored families have being getting various donations both in terms of food and even financial assistance and the greatest of all is the education package which all the kids in the program are benefitting, long live Mtomondoni sponsorship program.

Yours faithfully,

Thuweba.

(Ibrahim’s mother).


Hamisi and Abdallah

2012-10-03

It’s my sincere hope that you are all ok. Am also doing fine here in Mtwapa with all the kids in school going on well. Am also happy to inform you that Happy is now feeling better and back to school. Also the strike for the government school teachers was called off and all the public schools have resumed their classes. Though due to the strikes which lasted for 3 weeks the normal school term dates have been changed and this year third term has been extended by 3 weeks. As a result for this term all primary and secondary schools will now close on Friday,23rd November 2012 instead of Friday,2nd November 2012.Also due to this, all the final national exams dates i.e for the class 8 and form four has also been changed and both the exams will be commence in late November and end in December. Teachers at mtwapa Academy did not go on strike.In terms of Hamisi and Abdalla food supply, last week and soon I collected the money I was able to buy for them their food supply. Please the sponsors of Hamisi and Abdallah receive lots of appreciations from Hamisi,Abdalla,their grandmother and uncle for the food assistance which you had made to the family. Please also have a look at the pictures on the family food supply on the attachment.With that I say bye, wish you a good week and please pass for my greetings to everyone at home and a hug for Mpenzi, hoping he’s doing fine, take care with lots of love,


Hi! from Mtwapa-Kenya.

2012-10-16

Hi! Everyone, I feel soo happy today to continue to speak with you in wherever you are!!! It’s also my sincere hope that you’ve all been doing fine. Well we are all fine here in Mtwapa-Kenya with all the kids in school going on well. The schools reopened for the third term on 3rd September 2012 and so its now a month ever since the schools reopened.

Well,as you all know since the beginning of this year, I’ve been posting over to you a special series on the families of all of our sponsored children in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program which I hope to be finishing up sending to you all the families information by the end of this year and thereafter hope to startup on a new series. Am sure by now most of you as our sponsors, friends and well wishers to our Mtomondoni sponsorship program are able to know the inner details of the sponsored kids families which automatically tells you the reason to why these children were sponsored with the parents and guardians of the sponsored children speaking about their kids and families in general, so please keep on visiting our website and please enjoy looking on our picture gallery for our program latest kids and family pictures,thankyou for being part of us!!!!!!!!!!! and be blessed.


Today am therefore happy to bring over to you some information on Gibson’s family,so have a read in the next entry,thankyou once again yours in service,
Moses.
(Sponsorship co-ordinator).


Gibson's family.

2012-10-16

‘Hi,Everyone,
My name is Pnenny and am the mother of Gibson aged 34 years. My husband’s name is called Laban aged 45 years. My husband works as a cook in one of the local food cafes here in Mtwapa while with me I just do some small scale business like selling cooking charcoal here in Mtwapa.


First and foremost I want to thank you all the sponsors of child and to everyone in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program who have contributed to the education and any kind of assistance which have been made to Gibson and to our family. Gibson who is my only son and second born in my family of three children was born in the year 2001 and now he’s 11 years old and in STD 1 at the Mtwapa Academy. Unfortunately since birth Gibson had some abnormalities i.e down syndrome meaning that his growth stages are not normal and slow and that is why at 11 years Gibson is still in STD 1 unlike a normal child in Kenya whom at 11 years he/she supposed to be in STD 4 which means he would have been half way his primary school education before proceeding to form 1 after completing his STD 8.Thanks God in that through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program, Gibson was able to get sponsorship which has made him to continue learning despite his slowness in growth and due to him being in school am happy to tell you that Gibson has really improved in everything ranging from reading, writing, understanding and speech.

Am again happy to tell you that Gibson loves doing his school work while at home i.e home work even with very minimal supervision and its good that his elder sister Annerita who is in class 7 also helps Gibson to supervise Gibson while doing his home work.


Due to the nature of both of our works i.e me and my husband have been having some difficulties in terms of living, so as to meet our daily needs which sometimes the situation becomes difficult to an extend of being able to pay our house rent. As a result me and my husband were finding difficulties in taking both Gibson and his sister to school and especially with Gibson whom was slow in learning.

Thanks God through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program we both had a relief on the school issue when Gibson got sponsored into the program. Due to this I therefore see a big hope in terms of Gibson’s school progress and education and I believe Gibson will eventually be able to enjoy all the full benefits of learning like the rest of the kids and have a better life in future.


In our house which is a one-roomed house we only have one bed which which me, my husband, Gibson and our youngest daughter name Dora use to sleep on. For Annerita she sleeps on the lounge. Our kids go to sleep as from 7.00pm while me and my husband go to sleep at 8.30am and wake up at 6.00 am when I again start preparing the kids to go to school. So as to separate the bed from the lounge, we have divided our one roomed house into two using a larger curtain.


For our food we normal take tea with bread or boiled rice. For the lunch and super we normal have’Sima’ i.e cooked corn flour and green vegetables.


For our kitchen we don’t have separate kitchen but instead we do the cooking outside our house.


In terms of free time usage i can say that I mostly get my free time on Sundays which I also don’t relax as such but instead I do some washings for my family clothes as shown in the pictures.


Finally I have a word to the sponsors that, thankyou once again for sponsoring Gibson and may God help you as you continue sponsoring him, thankyou.From Phenny-Gibson’s mother.


Mtwapa Demolition!! We need your help!!

2012-10-25

Just to bring you all up to date with some major news and developments in Mtwapa. Short term it will create major problems and worry in terms of support and financial help for the school. Long term hopefully the developments will lead to major improvements within the village and benefits for our friends living there. 

"Since the beginning of last week in Mtwapa there has been an on going government land, road surveying and demarcation. From what the government engineers and surveyors say this is a major government project with the aim of upgrading the village infrastructure by first constructing proper roads, organized electricity/power supplies, sewage and draining system etc.

Being one of the fastest growing village in Kenya of which lots of houses and buildings have been put up and continue to be put up, the government has seen that there is an urgent need of doing proper land surveying and demarcation of the entire Mtwapa village community so as it can be able to proper plan and smoothly offer basic services to its people like emergence health services e.g ambulance services and fire fighting services. Such emergence health and fire fighting services need good road network. Also the government has major plans of distributing electricity to the rural area and help the least and low income earners through a program called Rural Electrification Program (REP).Also so as to make the smooth running of rain and waste water within Mtwapa which has been one of the main problem of which most of the rain water is trapped in between the house and roads, the government has also seen that t there is need to construct a proper drainage system.

Due to the above needs and services, the government has therefore initiated this major infrastructure upgrading project for the entire Mtwapa village which basically requires enough land space.

As a result to the above mentioned major government project and need for land space ,most of the houses ,commercial buildings and schools especially those located near the roads have been directly affected in Mtwapa and so the government surveyors and engineers have ordered and given out a notice for the demolishment of all the buildings and structures located near the roads so as to provide enough space for the construction work .The last day of the notice is on Friday this week of which all affected owners of the buildings are required to adhere by demolishing and removing on their own all the marked buildings and structures as from the notice and failure to do so the government will forcefully demolish and remove the buildings.

Since Mtwapa Academy is located near the road it has been directly affected and is therefore among those buildings marked for demolishment. However it’s NOT the entire school which needs to be demolished NOR its not a bigger part of the school but some few sections of the school buildings have been affected by this demolishing exercise, the sections affected are;-


1. Some part of the school library i.e from the library door towards the left hand side of the school wall fence.


2. The fourth classroom (which was smaller compared to the other three classes) in the new kindergarten classes building. With this said fourth class, Rahab had previously planned to make it to be the school staff room.


3. The entire front part of the school brick wall which also includes the school gate which will need to be relocated.


4. Attached on the school brick wall was the main school power supply connection phase and meter which also needs to be disconnected and be relocated.

Due to the above school building sections which need to be demolished, there are some useful areas within the school compound which will also be affected too and the most affected useful space in the school compound is the corridor which starts from the left side of the school gate going along the school brick wall, the school library to the school toilets. As a result of the demolishment of the school brick wall which will need to be relocated by pushing the school wall boundary in between the said school corridor or completely attaching the school wall to the school building walls i.e from the library all the way to the new kindergarten classes.

So as to create a new school corridor which provides the way to the school toilets an alternative corridor has to be made, this alternative corridor will be made by demolishing some few sections of the classes i.e STD 4 and STD 1 located on the right hand side of the school wall which is behind Rahab’s office.

Due to the above said demolitions, relocations and rebuilding of some of the school building sections the Mtwapa Academy school director Madam Rahab is sending an appeal to you Gail and Sara , all friend schools and well wishers for some financial assistance so as to be able to accomplish and meet all the costs in the entire work. Please also see from the pictures all the affected school building sections which will need to be demolished.

At the same time the school director madam Rahab together with the school chairman and husband to Rahab, Mr.Rugendo have both sent a message of sorry to all the donors who had previously donated to the school in the construction of the various school buildings and classes.

As a result of the above issues which have affected the Mtwapa Academy school and on behalf of the entire school management, both Rahab and Mr.Rugendo have asked me to inform you Gail and Sara that, you please convey this sorrowful message to everyone in England.

Thanks God though for protecting a larger part of the Mtwapa Academy school building as one of the neighbor schools called Golden Key School have largely been affected by this demolishing exercise resulting to 3 of its entire classes demolished!!! while some of the residential and commercial houses will be entirely be demolished!!!
Finally due to the emergence on going work ,the Mtwapa Academy school have temporarily been closed and will reopen for normal classes next week on Monday so as to have a safer demolishment exercise and at the same time the kids may have a half term rest."

The awful truth about this situation is that there is no compensation for anyone affected, people have lost their businesses as well as homes. Luckily for Mtwapa Academy it is only a small proportion of the buildings that have been affected, other schools have lost much more.  However, it is still going to take around £3500 to pay for all the work, demolition and rebuilding and so we are hoping that all of Mtwapa Academys friends and link schoools can pull together and see what we can raise through fundraising and donations. If you feel you would like to get involved in helping raise the necessary funds please get in contact with us.  

Thanks again for all your support

Gail and Sara

 


Demolition is underway

2012-10-26

Please see the photos attached which show the current state of the demolition work at Mtwapa Academy.  As you can see the work is going well.  The main aim now is to raise money to rebuild the classrooms and library, but thankfully the immediate issue of the government knocking down the school has been averted thanks to two very kind donations, one from Babington Community College and the other from a very generous personal sponsor.

A word from Rahab...

Thanks a lot for your support infact I was really shocked and stranded on how am going to start the rebuilding work again, the teachers were also stranded and also they thought the school will close down because of the demolishing that is going on. The pupils were also very worried but thank God you've given us hope and I really can't find the right words to say but may the almighty God bless you abundantly. Thanks a lot for the money you sent I received Kshs. 81,834 and the rebuilding work has already started Moses will update you and also sent you the photos on how the rebuilding work is going.

I am so grateful for having kind friends like you, you are God sent and thanks for having Mtwapa Academy at heart. Your quick response has really motivated us and we really thank you all. I really didn't know on how will start explaining to you about the new classroom but thanks for taking all this positive we have no say on what the Government has decided but perhaps it is also for the benefit cause now we shall also have good infrastructure in the village.

Pass my love to all and receive much greetings from everyone for I gave the good news and they were all very happy.

With lots of love,

Rahab


Progress report

2012-11-05

Progress report for you all. Please see the pictures.


Hi! from Mtwapa-Kenya.

2012-11-17

Hi! Everyone,
I guess you are doing fine wherever you are. With us all here in Mtwapa -Kenya we are doing well with everything. After almost 3 months of learning ever since the school reopened on 3rd September 201 2,it’s now again about time to close the schools for the December/Christmas holiday starting from 23rd November 201 2 until the first week of January 2013.


The schools are about to close i.e on 23rd November 2012 for the December/Christmas holiday. At the moment the end of year internal exams are on for all the primary and secondary school kids.

In terms of national (external) exams, first the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) for the class 8 will commence on 3rd December up to 6th December 2012.Am happy to inform you that two of our sponsored kids i.e Baraka and Denis will also be among the candidates who will be sitting for the KCPE which marks the completion of their primary education and thereafter proceed to secondary schools. Due to the KCPE exam. there will be some special prayers at the school i.e prayer day so as to pray for all the canidates who will be sitting for the national exam.During this time religious leaders i.e both muslims and christians and also parents are all invited to come to the school for the prayers.

Secondly, for the secondary school exams i.e Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) the exams commenced on 15th October 2012 and will be ending on 11th December 2012.Thereafter the kids are supposed to proceed to the university or to any other institute of higher learning. Am also happy to inform you that 4 of our kids in the sponsorship program i.e Samson, Teresia, Vidzo and Ben Kilonzo are among the candidates who will sit for this major secondary school exam.

Am therefore happy today to post to you some information on one of our secondary school kids i.e Lukeman. Please have a read in the next entry, thank you for being part of us and be blessed.
Yours in service,
Moses Kopulo(sponsorship co-ordinator).


Lukeman.

2012-11-17

Hi! Everyone,
‘My name is Lukeman Yusuf aged 15 years and among the 22 kids who are in secondary school under the care of Mtomondoni sponsorship program. The name of our secondary school is called Mtwapa Secondary school which is a community based secondary school in one of the Mtwapa villages. The school is a mixed secondary school with a population of about 200 students of both Christian and Muslim religions.


Ever since I joined this school, I’ve found it soo interesting as I see myself completely changed in terms school life with lots of differences from the primary school life. By this I mean ,life at the secondary school needs someone to be really dedicated to learning despite the independence which we are given at school as we a regarded as adults. As a result I have to plan for myself on studying my schedule, resting, sleeping and wake up times and without proper planning one may find it hard to at the secondary school.


However with me I’ve been able to plan for my self well for all of my school schedule and so I find it very interesting to go to secondary school. My favorite subject is mathematics, I like it as it involves lots of calculations which ‘sharpens’ my brains. Other subjects which we are doing at the secondary school are Physics, English, Kiswahili, History, Chemistry, Geography, Islamic religion and Business education.


Am happy that most am seeing that I don’t have much problems in most of the subjects but I think I need to improve more on Physics and Geography. Due to this I have a classmate who is also my best friend by the name of Alex whom have been helping me a lot in understanding those subjects which I feel they are hard to me apart by having special private studies with him especially in the morning before we start our classes and in the evening before we go back home.


Also in school I do involve myself in some of the extra curriculum activities like football and dancing club where we do have competitions between classes and our neighboring schools.


Our school is not a boarding school and so I go back home in the evening at 6.00pm,while at home I do my class assignments and home work before going to bed at 10.00pm.In the morning I wake up a 5.00am as I need to report to school by 6.30 am. In the morning we have some private studies then we have assembly at 7.30 am before we start our official school day at 8.00am.While at school during lunch time we get our food from the neighboring food cafes and then go to the neighboring mosque to pray before we go back for the afternoon learning sessions which start at 2.00pm.


During weekends I love reading novels, visiting my friends and watching movies from the local video cafes.


Finally I’d like to thank all of my sponsors for continuing to support on my education since I was very young and in primary school through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program and in return I promise to work very hard in my studies so as I achieve good marks. I believe if I do well in my exams finally I’ll be able to get a good and well paying job of which I would like to be doctor. With this kind of job I believe I will be able to also support my mother and my siblings.Thankyou once again to my sponsors for your support bye bye’ From Lukeman.


Mtwapa Xmas Unwrapped 2012

2012-11-18

Following the success of the past five years Xmas food projects, we are once again running the Mtomondoni Christmas gift appeal, giving you the chance to give Christmas gifts that can really make a difference. Instead of facing the hustle and bustle of the shops, why not send a gift that really does make a whole world of difference to a needy family living in Africa.

You will see from the gift list that this year we have a range of essential gifts that assist families and Mtwapa Academy. There is currently a major slum upgrade programme happening in Mtwapa which has resulted in forced demolition of many areas of Mtwapa. This has had a direct impact on Mtwapa Academy therefore we have included the opportunity for buying bricks to support the big re-build. You will have seen this on previous blogs. 

To fully re-build the school will cost £3500, we are currently £1300 away from the target.

We are also including key rings and necklaces to the list. The ebony key rings are hand carved by Hamisi and Abdallah’s uncle. Hamisi and Abdallah are brothers sponsored through the programme. The African beaded necklaces on the list are made by a group of our sponsored children, all the money goes directly to them to help them fund their future University education. The group call themselves, ‘Promoting Future’ and consist of Samson, Vidzo, Joseph, Ben, Mary, Magdaline, Getrude and Teresia.

How does it work?

STEP 1: Have a look at the gift list and decide who you would like to buy a special gift for

STEP 2: Complete the form and return it with your payment by 1st December. Our co-ordinator based in Kenya will then find a suitable family in Mtomondoni to present the gift to a family that is most in need. You will then receive a gift card to give to the person that you have bought the present for detailing who the gift was given to and their situation

STEP 3: You can then send the gift card knowing that your present this year really has made a difference

STEP 4: You can then check the website (www.getjealous.com/mpenzi) to see the family in Africa receiving the gifts so you really will see exactly where your money has gone. All gifts will be presented to the Kenyan needy families before Christmas day.
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Gift Price
Buy a brick to help re-build Mtwapa Academy due to government forced demolition due to the slum upgrade programme £2.00

African necklace £2.50

A gift hand carved ebony key ring £3.50

A chicken £7

A goat £38

Week supply of food £14

Month supply of food £55

Sponsor a child for a term £20

Sponsor a child for a year £60

If you are interested then please email us on gailyhammo@yahoo.co.uk or send a letter explaining what you would like along with a cheque payable to Mtwapa School Account.
Orders posted to 118 Stanley Road, Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 0HT.


An update from Mtwapa

2012-12-08 to 2012-12-09

Hi All,

Thought you would like an update on how things are progressing in Kenya.  We have uploaded loads of pictures for you to see that the building work is coming along well.  Thank-you to all the personal sponsors who have assisted with the buying of bricks, also a big thank-you to Brockington school who have be invoilved in fundraising to help.  It really is appreciated by all the people in Mtwapa.

The Xmas project has again really taken off and we would like to thank everyone who has bought presents. 

We would like to announce that Madame Mercy, a teacher at Mtwapa Academy and Rehab's daughter has had a baby.  Both mum and baby are doing very well, we have included some pictures for you all.

The stahndard 8 students have all now sat thier exams so we are looking forward to getting their results in the  new year.  The academic year finishes in December in Kenya so school will very soon be shut for trhe holidays.

We hope you enjoy the photographs.


An update from Moses

2012-12-08 to 2012-12-10

Hi! Everyone,
First and foremost I want to send my many many thanks to all the sponsors, friends of our Mtomondoni sponsorship program and to everyone else who have been with us ever since this year 2012 started. Its been a blessing to go along with you all through the year and making this program a success. As we approach to Christmas, from me and on behalf of all the kids in Mtwapa Academy and in various secondary schools,I want to send my lots of appreciations and saying ‘Asante sana’ thank you soo much, to everyone of you all!!!!!!!!!!!! Be blessed as we also usher in the New Year 2013.
As you are all aware, towards the end of the year, here in Kenya we do have national exams for both the primary schools and the secondary schools. For the national secondary schools the exams are now over while for the primary schools, the exams have officially commenced today the 4th-6th December 2012.At Mtwapa Academy we have a total of 21 students who will be sitting for the final exam i.e the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE).Out of the 21 candidates 2 of them are sponsored kids from our Mtomondoni sponsorship program and they are Baraka and Dennis.
Due to the KCPE exam special prayers were held at the school, popularly known as prayer day where some church and Muslim leaders were invited by the school director, Ahab so as to lead in the prayers fro the success of the class 8 kids. I have therefore posted pictures which I took during this special day at the school, please have a look from our picture gallery and I hope everyone will enjoy,thankyou once again and be blessed as you continue to be part of us.
Yours in service,
Moses Kopulo(sponsorship co-ordinator)


Some pictures to update you all about the building

2012-12-22

More info to follow soon


Thankyou to all and Merry Christmas from Africa!!!!!!!

2012-12-24 to 2012-12-25

Hi! Everyone,Merry Christmas to everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I guess you’ve all been enjoying the Christmas wherever you are with everyone else in your families. With us all here in Mtwapa-Africa we are all having great moments with all the kids and parents of the Mtomondoni sponsorship program family. From me,my family and on behalf of all the kids and parents in the program I want to send all of our best wishes and Christmas greetings to all the sponsors in our Mtomondoni sponsorship program and also to all the donators who generously donated money so as to help in purchasing all the families food packages. Your generosity have made it possible for all the kids in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program and their families enjoy this Christmas with all the food given to them which had been purchased through your donation. Please have a look at out picture gallery so as to see all the kids and family pictures receiving their Christmas food.However and in regard to the Christmas food issuing to the kids I needed to inform you that,3 kids i.e Salwa,Grace and Shadrack were absent during the issuing as they had travelled to visit their relatives a distance very far from Mtwapa and unfortunately they got sick before they could travel back to Mtwapa.As a result their Christmas food packages has been well kept awaiting for them and their food will be delivered to them soon they arrive back in Mtwapa.Soon the3 kids receive their food I’ll post the updates and pictures on them to you all.Also as part of the Christmas treat, there were 4 kids who had an extra Christmas treat and shopping. The 4 kids were Teresia,Alfred,Esther and Justin. With Teresia and Esther they were both accompanied by their mothers for the extra Christmas shopping treat in one of the Mtwapa’s newest and largest super market called Tusky’s supermarket. All the kids and parents were happy for the extra shopping treat as it was also their first time to go shopping in this newest supermarket in out Mtwapa village.The above kids shopping money was donated courtesy of Alan Frost for Teresia,Gerald Trevor for Alfred,Stephen Moir for Esther and Sara Fletcher for Justin Benson. On behalf of the above four kids and their parents, I want to send their lots of appreciations for the shopping treat. Please also have look from our picture gallery for the pictures on the extra Christmas Shopping treat.Finally as w usher in the New Year ,I want to thankyou all for being part of us and wish you all Happy and Prosperous New Year 2013 and be blessed. Yours in service, Moses Kopulo(Sponsorship coordinator).


Happy New Year and thankyou for the rebuiding.

2013-01-19

Hi! Everyone,


Happy New Year 2013!!!!!!!!!!Thanks God we were all able to make it through to this New year and all looking for forward to have a good new year and prosperity.


From me and on behalf of all the kids and parents from our Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program, I the program Africa coordinator want to send my sincere gratitude to everyone and to all the sponsors who have been tirelessly contributing to the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program towards the kids school needs of which the sponsors funds have been able to sustain all the program kids since the program started up to the moment. I would also urge more sponsors to come in to the program and join hands with the rest so as to fulfill the good dreams of all the needy children here in Africa.


Many more thanks go to all the donors who without hesitance and kindness made it possible to rebuild the Mtwapa Academy School after part of the school was demolished so as to pave way for the Kenya government slum upgrading project which is now on progress. Generally soon this government project work started it took everyone here in Mtwapa with surprise and especially for all the buildings which were located near the roads since the first phase of the government slum upgrading project was to construct proper roads, clean water pipelines and proper drainage system which it all needed space. As a result nearly 99 percent of all the building which were located near the roadside were marked for demolishment. So from the government their main work was to survey, dermacate and mark all those buildings which are located within their project line of work and thus Mtwapa Academy was included for the demolishment.


Due to the above demolishment plan, the school director madam Rahab was stuck on how she could commence on the demolishment and rebuilding work as she had no spare funds for the emergence work and unfortunately the government was not going to compensate for the demolishment and instead a penalty was to be imposed to all those building owners who fail to adhere on the demolishment notice.


I once again on behalf of the Mtomondoni Sponsorship program family want to send my sincere thanks and gratitude to all the donors who quickly responded to Rahab’s school appeal for assistance in the demolishment and rebuilding work for the Mtwapa Academy and through their contributions it made the school rebuilding work a success. As I speak now the rebuilding work is nearly completion as the final touches of plastering and painting are is on progress. Please have a look in our picture gallery for the updates of the school rebuilding work.


Am therefore happy to acknowledge the following donors who kindly contributed to the school rebuilding work;-


1. Babington College, through Sara and Gail-England.
2. John Cleveland College, through Kate Cook-England.
3. Brockington College, through Sarah Heggs-England.
4. Craig Essex and wife of Babington College-England.
5. Val Murphy-England.
6. Skills for Living-England.
7. Gerald Trevor-England.
8. Mike Wann-England.
9. Val and Robert Bills-England.
10. Rose Goldberg-England.
11. Steve and Karen Taylor-England.
12. Linda Barret-England.
13. Clarkes Shoe Shop-England.
14. Stephen Moir-England.
15. Haffner Family-England.
16. J.Heggs-England.
17. Gill Ward-England.
18. Summer Family-England.
19. Leicester Church.
20.Mr.and Mrs.Bradbury.
Finally I want to wish you all the very best with your families through out this year, be blessed.
Yours in service,
Moses Kopulo(Sponsorship Coordinator-Africa).


A very strong, new look, Mtwapa Academy. Asante Sana x

2013-02-11 to 2013-02-15

We have just got back from a fantastic week in Mtwapa during which we meet up with the sponsored children and their families and saw, first hand, the excellent re-building of Mtwapa Academy.  The new building far outweighed our expectations and we would like to pass on the thanks of everyone at Mtwapa Academy, teachers and students alike.  We have many diary entries to write now we have returned home but for now we just wanted you all to see the pictures from Mtwapa of the building and pass on the blessings from Mtwapa.


Re-opening of Mtwapa Academy school by Sara and Gail-(Africa visit- February 2013)

2013-02-22


Hi! Everyone,

First and foremost I would like to send my many thanks to all the donators who contributed towards the re-building of the Mtwapa Academy School after some part of the school was demolished due to the ongoing Kenya government slum and infrastructure upgrading project here in Mtwapa-Kenya.

Over last year when the school director of Mtwapa Academy, madam Rahab received the shocking news and notice of demolishing some part of her school so as to pave way for the government to construct a road and drainage system, me as the sponsorship co-coordinator here in Africa together with Rahab sent an emergence appeal for help to Gail and Sara in England who also immediately responded and further spread the message to all of Mtwapa Academy friends schools and individuals in England who also positively responded to the appeal.

Ever since the rebuilding work started at the school last year to until early this month, the rebuilding work has been progressing on well and am today happy to officially inform you that the rebuilding work is fully completed courtesy of all of the generous contribution and donators and please allow me to mention them as;


-Babington College, John Cleveland College(JCC),Brockington College, Craig and Essex of Babington College, Val Murphy, Skills for Living, Gerald Trevor, Mike Wann,Val and Robert Murphy, Rose Goldberg, Steve and Karen Taylor, Linda Barret,Clarkes Shoe Shop, Stephen Moir,Haffner Family, John Heggs,Gill Ward, Summer Family, Leicester Church,Mr and Mrs. Bradbury.

Soon after the school rebuilding work was completed which concurrently happened with the recent visit to Africa by Sara and Gail, am therefore happy today to inform you that on Monday 11th February 2013,Gail and Sara officially reopened the Mtwapa Academy school rebuilding and also the new Kindergarten classes department as seen in the picture gallery which was also followed by their very busy schedule visiting all the sponsored kids in the secondary schools among other program work.

During this reopening day it was a great joy to all the kids, teachers and the school management for the wonderful rebuilding work which was made possible by the above mentioned donators!!!!!!!!!!!! Also see more pictures of the final school rebuilding work pictures in the picture gallery which show all the affected demolished school parts looking as good as new once again!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From me and on behalf of the Mtwapa Academy school director, headteacher, all school kids and teachers I once again want to send our heartfelt many thanks and appreciations to everyone who contributed towards the school rebuilding and be blessed.
Yours in service,
Moses Kopulo(Sponsorship coordinator-Africa).


Sponsored kids uniform issue-2013

2013-02-23


Hi! Everyone,


First and foremost I greet you all the sponsors of Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program who have continued to help and contribute towards the education of the less privileged children here in Africa. It’s through your kind contribution which has enabled these kids to pursue their lifetime dreams of being great men and women in terms of professionalism and career e.g by being doctors, engineers, teachers etc.


Am happy to inform you that towards the end of last year 2012,two of our kids i.e Baraka and Dennis were among the candidates who sat for their final primary examination i.e the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education-KCPE A who has now completed class 8 and hoping to join secondary school i.e form 1.To crown it up all guess what?............................our one of the sponsored child i.e Baraka Omar came on top of the list in the KCPE results at the school with a total of 343 marks out 500 marks. Due to the out standing Baraka’s results, am happy to inform you all that Baraka has now been selected to join one of the best secondary schools here in Kenya.


As you all know every year the kids get full set of school uniform which is has always been made possible from you as the sponsors from your generous contribution, am therefore today happy to post to you all the kids uniform pictures from Mtwapa Academy and hope you’ll enjoy seeing on the smart looking kids.


Thank you once again to all of our Mtomondoni sponsorship program sponsors for your continuing kind support to towards the kids program and be blessed as you continue to help.


Yours in service,
Moses Kopulo(Sponsorship co-coordinator-Africa).


Introducing Mary Mkauma... junior!

2013-02-24

We would like to welcome our new recruit, Mary (junior) to the sponsorship programme.  Mary is in Standard 2.  She is a very hard working girl who will benefit massively from being part of the programme both in terms of education and also having the opportunity to get one good meal everyday.  She was accepted into the sponsorship 'family' on 13th February 2013 and joined us on the programme day trip to the beach on 15th Feb. during which she really seemed to settle.  She made friends with Esther during the trip and we are pretty sure that these two will remain good friends throughout their time at Mtwapa Academy.  Please have a look at the photos which hopefully highlight Mary's joy at being part of the sponsorship programme.


Visiting the secondary school students and class position of our Mtwapa Academy students (see video)

2013-02-25

Please see the photos attached to the diary entry of the sponsored children that are now in secondary school. We have added information about each student with the pictures so please click on the picture to read about the courses that they are doing.  Mary is our first teacher, Mayee is hoping to be a doctor, Teresia is planning to study shipping admin and computer science, Samson is training to manage a children's home....see the pictures for more info.

We managed to visit many of them although unfortunately some students are schooled a long way from Mtwapa so we will plan to visit them next time we are in Kenya.

Class positions of the Mtwapa Academy students are below, from the end of last academic year (January).  It seems many of our students dominate the top of the performance table which is very good to see.

Standard 8 (21 students) -

Baraka - position 2

Dennis - position 6

Standard 7 (20 students) -

Loice - position 1

kahindi - position 2

Hamisis - position 6

Justin - position 11

Samuel - position 10

Esther - position 20

Standard 6 (19 students)

Salwa - position 1

Abdallah - position 3

Zawadi - position 6

Standard 5 (20 students)

Ibrahim - position 3

Wycliffe - position 5

Albert - position 8

William - position 18

Pendo - Position 15

Standard 4 (17 students)

Alfred - position 3

Happy - position 13

Asma - position 14

Standard 1 (17 students)

Gibson - position 17

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Baby Gail - Doing well and has now graduated to KG2.  Can count 1-20, can write 1-20.  She is a well behaved girl always eager to learn new things.


A special day out at the beach

2013-02-26

Hi all sponsors,

Please enjoy the photos of the sponsored kids at the beach on the 15th February.  I'm sure you will see from the photos that many of the kids now look so much older.  It was lovely to see those that have now finished secondary school.  Those missing from the pictures, mainly those that are in secondary school, chose to not miss the afternoon of school and stayed in class rather than coming along to the beach. 

During the trip all the kids had a soda and an ice lolly which you can imagine went down really well!  We also played football, built sandcastles and had a water fight.

It was a really nice afternoon.


Baraka Omar-first day in secondary school!!!!!!!!!!

2013-03-21

Hi! Everyone,


I hope you are all doing fine with everything, we all here in Mtwapa are also fine with all the kids going on well with their classes. Well as you all know the schools are now in the first term of the year and hope to close in the first week of April for the Easter holiday. Normally during the first term of the academic calendar which commence in January all students who completed primary school i.e class 8 do proceed to secondary school i.e form 1.Over last year am happy to inform you that in our Mtomondoni Sponsorship program we had two kids i.e Baraka Omar and Denis Mbura who completed class 8 and have now joined secondary school(form 1).For Baraka Omar, he scored a total of 343 marks out 500 while for Denis he scored a total of 286 marks out 500.Both Baraka and Denis are happy to join their new secondary schools.


I being the sponsorship coordinator of the program here in Africa want to send my many thanks and appreciations to all the sponsors involved in our sponsorship program for their kind support to all the kids in the program, surely your continuous support to the needy kids in the program have greatly make the kids realize their life time dreams,like Baraka who wants to be an engineer.


Please allow me to give you an exclusive short story of Baraka Omar who topped the school!!! and now in secondary school so as you can all see how helpful and life changing your contributions to the sponsorship program have greatly and positively changed the life of these kids. Please also see pictures of Baraka in our picture gallery on Baraka reporting to his new secondary school.


Baraka now aged 16 years is one of the 8 kids who are have been living in the children’s home i.e the New Light Children’s home here in Mtwapa,Mtomondoni.Baraka was brought to the children’s home when he was only 1 year old. Unfortunately Baraka never knew his parents since he was born and through out his childhood life, this is because and unfortunately again Baraka mother who was serious mental sick by then got pregnant to an unknown man, lucky enough and despite her mental sickness, Baraka mother was able to take care of her pregnancy until she safely delivered not in a maternity hospital but just in a shanty housing!!!. From the day baby Baraka was born until he was 1 year, only his mother was been helped by good samatarians who could pass by their shanty house and help the sick mother with some food for her and the baby Baraka to survive.


It came to happen one day while the sick mother set out for a very long journey about 100 miles away from where she used to live and when she was tired and during the middle of the night, Baraka mother had no other way but to sleep along side the high way. Lucky enough they were both unharmed by highway robbers, wildanimals despite the fact that they were sleeping near a huge densely populated forest which was also inhabited by some of the wild animals and even passing by motor vehicles until it was late in the morning………………..guess what happened later?......................................that very late morning, Baraka was left alone crying along the high way while his mother abandoning her baby continued with her journey to unknown destination!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Thanks God there was a village which had been built near the highway and since it was approaching morning and the people in the home had begun to wake up, they heard a baby’s cry sound coming from the road and they all went to see what could have been happening on the road? Surprisingly when the villagers reached at the road they found a baby boy crying and struggling to walk without nobody to take care of it, they waited for some time to see if anybody could come and claim for him but it was all in vain and so the only way was to rescue the baby boy to the nearby home. Later the villagers reported the case to the area chief who is the government representative within a location and later the chief reported the matter to the police. It was from the police where baby Baraka had to be transferred to the New Light Children’s home, by then Baraka hasn’t got a name and it was at the children’s home where he got the name from as Baraka meaning blessings.


Dear sponsors, the above short story of Baraka Omar is one of the many more sad stories which most of the kids in the sponsorship program have experienced and thanks God to you all as sponsors and well wishers towards our kids program here in Africa for your generous support, be blessed as you continue to be part of us.


Yours in service,
Moses Kopulo(sponsorship coordinator).


Mary (junior)

2013-03-29

Hi! Everyone
It’s my sincere hope that you are all enjoying your Easter holiday, we all here Mtwapa are all doing fine. The school term is about to end and the kids have been busy preparing for their exams.


We in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program family are happy this year to welcome a new girl recruit named Mary (junior).Mary, a very charming girl aged 10 years and in class 2 at the Mtwapa Academy. Mary who is a class mate to Gibson is happy to join and be part of the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. Please have a look at our picture gallery to see pictures of Mary.


Mary was born and raised by a single mother called Esther and works as local hair dresser and a tailor too. Her brother Emmanuel is also a student at the Mtwapa Academy in class 5.Mary’s favorite subjects are Science, English, Kiswahili and Social studies while her favorite food is chips,’pilau’,rice and beans,’chapati’ and beans. Mary’s best friend in school are Fatuma,Shirley and Mariam who are also her class mates. Mary’s favorite game is skipping rope while her favorite color is green.


While at home i.e after school, weekend or holidays, Mary loves to help her mum in dish washing, clothes washing and going to the shop and on Sunday she loves going to a local church called Word Evangelism.


Finally is a message of Mary to her sponsors and here I quote’thankyou for sponsoring me and may God bless you’ end of quote.


With that I say bye and from me and on behalf of all the kids and parents from the Mtomondoni sponsorship program here in Kenya want to send our best wishes to you all on this Easter holiday.

Thankyou,yours in service-Moses Kopulo(sponsorship coordinator).


girls sanitary care project launched.

2013-03-29

Hi! Everyone,
Happy Easter holiday!!!!!!!!!!! As you all know the Mtomondoni sponsorship program is ‘growing’ alongside with all the kids who are involved in the program. Since both the boys and girl kids are growing physically and mentally, they thus pass through the normal and natural human stages of growth.


Due to the above and making a special emphasize to girls, the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program through Sara and Gail have introduced a special program on sanitary pads to all the girls in the program. This program was started so as to help all those girls who especially have reached their adolescent stages and have started to experience their menstrual cycle. Because the girls are needy children ,they are most of the times are unable to afford to buy the sanitary pads and so if such a girl is not helped with the sanitary pads they are unable to go to school for the whole menstrual period.


Hopefully with this kind of program it will be able to help all the girls for a smooth learning. Please Gail and Sara receive a special message of thanks from Esther, Loice, Zawadi and Salwa.Also see pictures of them receiving the sanitary pads from our picture gallery.

Joining the girls in the picture is Madam Emily who also gave useful advice to the girls before receiving their sanitary pads.Thankyou.


With that I say and from us all here in Mtwapa, wish you all a happy Easter.
Yours in service,

Moses Kopulo(sponsorship coordinator)


Baraka Omar speaks

2013-04-22

Hi! Everyone,
‘My Names are Baraka Omar now in secondary school form 1, am happy to be sponsored under Mtomondoni sponsorship program ever since I was in primary school class 2 in year 2005 when I was recruited into the program.I completed my primary school education last year 2012 of which I managed to be the top most student having attained a total of 343 marks out 500 marks among the list of candidates who did the final Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) at the Mtwapa Academy. Due to my good results in the primary school final exam, I was therefore selected to join one of the best secondary school here at the Kenyan Coast called Lutsangani Secondary School which is about 45 miles away from Mtwapa.


My School,Lutsangani secondary school is a mixed boarding school. Ever since the first day I reported to this school I felt soo much welcomed by my fellow school mates and especially those whom we board in the same hostel and even the teachers. Also ever since I joined the school I easily got used to the boarding school life as I’ve been living in a children’s home and so I don’t see any big difference especially in terms of diet. Soon I wake up in the morning at 5.00am I start preparing my self by taking a quick shower using our water basins and making sure am ready for the breakfast which is at 6.00am-6.30am.After the morning breakfast where we normal have tea and bread we then proceed to our classes of which we commence our classes at 6.45am.


In a day we have a total of 8 subjects to be covered and each subject takes a duration of 40 minutes whereby we final end our day at 4.00pm.We do have lunch break as from 12.30pm up to 1.30pm.For the menu at school we normal have rice and beans,’ugali’ i.e cooked corn flour and cabbage,’ugali’ and beef. We do also have a school mini shop where for those students who have some pocket money they can buy juices and snacks.


In our class we have a total of 11 teachers i.e 3 female teachers and 8 male teachers who come to teach us in different subjects. The subjects which am so far doing at the moment are Christian Religion Education(C.R.E),History,Geography,Computer,Physics,Chemistry,Biology,English,Maths,Agriculture,Business studies and Kiswahili.


Am happy to inform you all that for my last term exam results which was also my first exam in secondary school, I managed to get the following marks;-
1. History…………………55%
2. Kiswahili………………60%
3. English………………….76%
4. Geography………….68%
5. Maths…………………..76%
6. Chemistry……………..93%
7. Physics………………….76%
8. Business Studies……89%
9. Computer…………..57%
10. Agriculture...………75%


I want to comment on my teachers for their hard work and always assisting to the students even after classes. In our school all the teachers and the school principal do stay within the school compound.


Generally all the students in the school are very competitive as they all scored high marks which makes everybody to work very hard in school. We do also have started to form subject discussion groups of which during free times especially after classes we as classmates do help one another in understanding different subjects and topics.


At school we have extra curriculum activities e.g football,netball,volleyball and Christian Religion Education club, with me since I’ve always loved football since I was in primary school I’ll be joining the school football team in the next term.


Finally to all of my sponsors and all the sponsors in our Mtomondoni sponsorship program, I want to send my many thanks to all the sponsors and to all what you’ve been doing to us so as to get good education. May the Almighty God bless the work of your hands, thankyou once again.’
Yours sponsored child,
Baraka Omar.


Ben Kilonzo

2013-04-23

Hi! Everyone,
‘My name is Ben Kilonzo now aged 18 years old. I want to send my many thanks to all of my sponsors who have been sponsoring me towards my education ever since I was in primary school and through out my secondary school which am now proud to have now completed my four years in the secondary school.


My former secondary school i.e Shimo-la- Tewa Secondary school is one of the best schools at the Kenyan coast which is now a national school is just situated near the Mtwapa Bridge and along the creek.


In summary my entire study life has been good especially soon I had been recruited into the Mtomondoni sponsorship program though before I was sponsored I could not think that I would be able to complete my education as my parents were struggling to educate me. Thanks as through Sara and Gail I was to join the sponsorship program.


Generally my final secondary school exam was fair but very tricky especially with subjects like Kiswahili and English of which I got mean grade of D+ which is an average grade.
Now that I have finally completed my secondary school and i now look forward to further my studies by joining some professional courses which I have so far decided to pursue either craft automotive course or certificate in journalism. In the craft auotomotive course I would want to specialize on vehicle decorations.


After I complete my professional course I hope to get a job so as I start my life and able to help my mother with my young sister who she is still in primary school.
At the moment am helping my mother in running a small business here in Mtwapa which deals selling of second hand clothes.


Thanks once again to all of my sponsors, from your sponsored kid,
Ben Kilonzo.


Vidzo

2013-04-23

Hi! Everyone,
‘My name is Vidzo aged 24 years. I completed my secondary school education last year in 2012 through the help of the Mtomondoni sponsorship program.


Generally what I can say about the importance of going to secondary school is that;-
1.Secondary school ‘open up ‘ brains for student and so we as student have a broad perspective towards life rather more than what we learn at primary school.
2. In secondary school you have learn to get organized on your own in terms of time management and studying.e.g while I was in secondary school I used to study at night from 7.00-11.00pm and then wake up at 4.00am ready for the school day.
3. In secondary school you get to learn more about people from different communities with Kenya.
4. In secondary you start choosing for your career and study hard for it.


For my final secondary school exam I managed to get a mean grade of D plain.


My plans for my career course is to do either a craft automotive engineering course where I would like to do general automotive course ranging from repair and maintenance or a course in mass media of which I would like to be radio presenter .


My plans for my future soon I complete my professional course and get a job, I would like to help my parents to be financially well and if possible also help the rest of the kids in the sponsorship program as a pay back.


Finally to all of my sponsors I want to send lots of thanks to them for continuing to sponsor me. Yours sponsored kid,


Vidzo.’


Samson

2013-04-23

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Samson now aged 24 years. Am happy to be have been recruited into the Mtomondoni sponsorship program through out my primary school education and through out secondary school.


Life throughout secondary school is interesting and challenging. The challenges are that once you are in secondary school you are treated as adults and thus the teachers expect us as students to be able to plan on our own and self depend. However it’s interesting because we end up thinking up more and thus increasing out thinking capacity. Also in secondary school you learn more deep on all the subjects and eventually be able to choose a career. Some of the subjects in secondary school are very helpful even after a student completes his studies e.g the business studies whereby a student learn different business ideas and management. With me it has really helped me as i have tried to start up my small scale businesses e.g juice and ice making which assist me in getting some pocket money which I use to meet my petty needs.


For my secondary school exam results I managed to get a mean grade of D-


My career plans are to train as masonry of which after I complete my course I would be able to undertake some building and construction works. I would also like in future to help other people too.


Finally to all of my sponsors, I want to appreciate all what you’ve so far done to me in my education sponsorship and all the dedication which you have put to my education knowing that you had both personal and family commitments too. Despite all those commitments you were able to sponsor me, thank you very much. Yours sponsored kid,


Samson.


Teresia.

2013-04-23

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Teresia now aged 20 years. I want to thank all of sponsors for the continued support to my education through out my education of which am now very happy to have completed my form 4 after my four years in secondary school. Actually there are lots of things and experiences while students join secondary school. From my view, I think joining secondary school is very beneficial as you do lots of research especially in the science subjects and especially in Biology, physics, and Chemistry. Also in secondary school you become more independent and mentally developed. Also in secondary school you get to know and interact with friends which I find it more important as it’s the friend whom you interact with whom you end up helping one another in terms subject learning and studies.


My future career plans is to train as a community social worker and computer which I hope to work with some of the non-governmental organizations in uplifting the communities.


At the moment am working as a hair dresser in one of the local hair salon here in Mtwapa as I wait to join the professional course.


Finally to my sponsors, thankyou as you’ve been my source of my success, yours sponsored kid,


Teresia.


Asma

2013-05-03

Hi! Everyone,
‘My name is Asma, and now in class 5 at Mtwapa Academy, I really enjoy going to school. My family is doing well. We are just coming to the end of the holiday as next week we’ll be reopening our school. Generally I can say that the holiday was very interesting and enjoyed helping my mother with the house works e.g washing utensils and going to the shop. Am working very hard at school, last term I attained 242 marks out of 500 marks. Am looking forward to score high marks better than the above. My best subjects are English and Kiswahili.


The weather here in Mombasa is at the moment cool with lots of rains as it’s the season for the long rains.Thankyou to all of sponsors fro continuing to support me academically and wish you all a good week


Yours sponsored kid,
Asma.


Mapenzi

2013-05-03

Hi! Everyone,
My name is Mapenzi aged 16 years and now is secondary school. The name of my secondary school is called Mtwapa Elite Academy. In my family I do have 5 brothers i.e Eddie,Daniel,Manuar,Gift and Saidi.Three of my brothers are younger than me i.e Manuar(class 8),Gift(class 7) and Saidi(class 4) while the other two brothers are older than me but are unemployed. Am the only girl in our family. Unfortunately both of our parents passed away some few years back which made our life to be difficult and especially in terms of going to school but thanks God through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program I was able to continue with my education.


Ever since I joined secondary school I have seen myself growing mentally and physically too. Physically I can see myself behaving like an adult and mentally I read a lot compared to when I was I primary school. My favorite subjects in school is History.I’ve been working soo had in school by waking up at 5.00am and report to school at 6.00pm then in the at night I go to bed at 10.00pm.


For my future career I would like to be a doctor.


Finally, I want to thank all of my sponsors for continuing to help my in my education and I promise to continue working hard.


Yours sponsored child,
Mapenzi.


Shila

2013-05-03

Hi! Everyone,
‘My name is Shila. Am happy to be sponsored through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program ever since I was in primary school and now in secondary school form 2.The name of my secondary school is called Chumani secondary school which is about 50 miles from Mtwapa.Our school is a mixed boarding school. During school terms we do break for half terms which normal comes in the mid months of the term. While at school I wake up very early in the morning at 5.00pm whereby I start preparing myself by first praying,washing,dressing my school uniform and then proceed for our break fast which we normal take tea and bread at 6.00am.After taking break fast we then proceed to our classes where we have morning lessons as from 6.30 am upto 7.30 am. After that we break for half an hour before continuing with our classes as from 8.00am until 12.30 pm.After 12.30 pm we go for a lunch break and then we get back for our afternoon classes at 1.30 pm.I do enjoy our food at school whereby we eat variety of dishes i.e meat with rice, rice with beans,’ugali’ corn flour with vegetables e.g cabbage,’Githeri’a mixer of corn, beans and potatoes.


My favorite subjects are Kiswahili, Chemistry, Agriculture and Christian Religious Education-(C.R.E).In terms of extra curriculum activities I normal love to play netball and dancing.


Finally I want to thank you all of my sponsors who have been sponsoring in my education, may the Almighty God bless you all with your family. I promise to work very hard in my studies so as I can achieve high grades.


Yours sponsored kid,
Shila.


Cherryl

2013-05-03

Hi! Everyone,
My name is Cherryl Muye aged 15 years. Am in secondary school called Mtwapa Elite Academy form 2.My best subjects are Business Education and Maths,this is because in future i want to be a bank manager .My favorite colors are pink or purple. My favorite food is rice and meat. My favorite snacks are chocolate, sweets, cakes, juice and yoghurt.


Am also a talented dancer and so I love dancing. My other hobbies are travelling, going for picnics, listening to music and reading story books. I also like being happy, being smart.
Finally let me take this golden opportunity to thank all my sponsors for willing to support me in my studies. Actually I do appreciate this and am so glad. May God bless the work of your hands for your ‘golden heart ‘with lots of love,


Yours sponsored kid,
Cherryl Muye.


Francis

2013-05-03

Hi! Everyone,
‘My name is Francis and in secondary school called St.Vincet Lioki which is about 60 miles from the capital city of Kenya,Nairobi.Currently am in form three which means I have only 1 year remaining so as to complete my secondary school education which I later hope to join the university. Our school is a boarding school which managed by the Catholic Church. I love my school because it has good teachers and am therefore working hard to get good grades. Over last I managed to score a mean grade of B+ and attained position 1 out of 85 students. My favorite subjects are Physics, Biology,Christian Religious Education(C.R.E) and Business Education.


Finally I want send my many thanks to all of my sponsors for their tireless efforts of taking care of my education and may God bless you all.


Yours sponsored kid,
Francis.


Timothy

2013-05-05

Hi! Lisa Hackett,
‘My name is Timothy aged 17 years old and in secondary school called K.P Secondary School here in Mtwapa.Am happy to be among the eldest sponsored kids in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program and now in the last class in secondary school i.e form 4. My school which is also a mixed school has the biggest students’ population compared to all secondary schools in our county, it has a student population of about 1000 students.


My favorite subjects are English, Christian Religious Education (C.R.E), History and Government, all in all I’ve been working soo hard in my studies so as I achieve high grades. Apart from the mentioned subjects we also do Kiswahil, Mathematics, Biology, Physics, Chemistry and Business Studies. In the morning I wake up very early at 5.00am and start preparing myself for school where I report for school at 6.30 am. Being a day school I therefore walk from my home i.e the children’s home to the school. In the evening we end our classes at 5.30pm.


I want to send my lots f appreciations to all the sponsors in the program and especially to the recent sponsorship from you Lisa, may God bless you Lisa for helping me in my education and making me realize my future dreams, I was very happy to receive on the good news of my sponsorship from you Lisa .I therefore hope to read from you too Lisa so as I may get to know you more.


At school am also like playing football and am happy to be in the school football team.
At the moment we are on our holiday which is almost ending and we’ll re-open our school for the second term tomorrow, thanks once again Lisa for the sponsorship.
Yours sponsored child,


Timothy.


Shila

2013-05-05

Hi! Alison Chapman,
‘My name is Shila, aged 16 years and in secondary school called Chumani Secondary school which is a mixed boarding school. Am glad to write this short message after receiving the good news of my new sponsor Alison Chapman. Am also happy to be among the sponsored kids under the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. I want to thank you as my sponsor because it’s through you the sponsors whom we’ve made me see the light in mylife,this is because both of my parents passed away a few years back and I was left with my elder sister who was in school by then. Following the death of my parents my uncle decided to stay with us but since he also had a big family to look after he had difficulties in taking us to school. Thanks God through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program I got a chance to be recruited into the program.


Am therefore enjoying going to school and now in form 2.My favorite subjects are Chemistry,Agriculture,Kiswahili and Christian Religious Education(C.R.E).I want to continue working hard in my education so as I get a good job. I hope to hear from you soon, bye bye and wish you a good week.
Yours sponsored child,


Shila.


Mapenzi

2013-05-05

Hi! Brockington College,
It’s me Mapenzi speaking from here in Mtwapa-Kenya! Hope everyone at Brockigton College is doing fine. With me am fine too and going on well with my studies now in form 2 at Mtwapa Elite Secondary school.


Well, this is special message to everyone at Brockington College for your kindness in paying for my school lunch. Since my school is a day school we are therefore required to pay for our lunch which for me was most of the times hard to pay for it. Unfortunately my uncle whom I stay and who is unemployed and most the times doing casual labor making him have difficulties in paying for my school lunch.


I was very happy to hear on the news of you paying for my lunch from Sara and Gail through Moses which am happy to tell you that ever since you started paying for my lunch it has been a big relief to me and my uncle who has also sent his many thanks to you too, be blessed.


Finally I promise to work hard in my studies so as I achieve my dreams of becoming a doctor. Hope to see you soon, thanks with lots of love, from your sponsored child,


Mapenzi.

 


Joseph.

2013-06-22

Hi! Severin Freton.


‘First and foremost, please Severin receive lots of greetings from here in Kenya-Africa.My name is Joseph Mgodo aged 20 years old and happy to be among the sponsored kids in the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program having been recruited into the program since I was in primary school and now in secondary school,form 4.The name of our school is called K.P Senior Secondary School situated here in Mtwapa.Our school is a big school with a student population of about 900 Kids.The form 4 class which am now in is the final class in the secondary school of which we intend to do our secondary school final exam towards the end of the year i.e as from October-November. Thereafter and once the results are out in the following year 2014 i.e around late February, I’ll be expected to proceed to the university or join in other levels of courses e.g certificate course or diploma course.The currentl subjects which am doing in form 4 are English language,Kiswahili,Mathematics,Biology,Chemistry,Christian Religion Education(C.R.E),History and government and Business Studies.

For my future career I would want to do a course in business management, previously I had wanted to do an aviation course as a pilot but I’ve now changed to business management. Actually being in form 4 requires a student to be soo hardworking so as to achieve better grades and so am trying to work hard to attain the good grades which will later enable me to proceed to the university or get a good professional course. As part of my hard work I therefore make sure I socialize with other students from other secondary schools so as we can exchange as much as enough exam past papers especially in subjects like Maths,English,Kiswahili,Chemistry,Literature and Biology which help us know most of the common ask questions in the final exam.Also during Saturdays i.e from 7.00am -12.00 noon we do go to school to learn on specific subjects which we need to improve on. I believe that hard work pays a for any one to be successful in life, he or she must work hard.


During school days I normal wake up very early in the morning i.e at 4.30 am whereby I first pray to God then later have a quick shower before I start revising my school work fro at least half an hour,after that I proceed to school in which we are required to report to school at 6.30 am. I do spend my entire day in school up to 6.00pm where we are required to be back at home. At night every day I do study upti 11.00pm when I go to bed.


Soon I complete my form 4 and since we’ll be having almost a 6 months break and so as to make use of the break, I would like to do some driving or computer course.


Am happy to be among the sponsored kids in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program and feel more happy to learn that you Severin is my new sponsor! Thankyou soo much Severin as I believe your sponsorship to me will be a great boost to my education and future career.Being also a kid from the Orphanage i.e the New Light Children’s home of which at first i.e before being sponsored, I thought and wondered if we could be able to learn and proceed to secondary school and thanks God through Gail and Sara of the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program who were able to recruit us into the program.


Ever since I joined the secondary school I have undergone lots of good kid development stages and lessons which have so far helped me and made me to be a good kid in school and at home.Through the teachers who need us to be displined and always observe the school rules and regulations, it has made me stay from bad friendship. Also by being in school I have soo far made lots of friendship to some of my school mates and which they have been soo helpfully to me whenever I have come across a difficult question or when are having a lesson group discussion.


For my hobbies I like reading on the bible, listening to gospel music and making new friends.


My favorite sports are football and volley ball.


My favorite food is ‘chapati’ with beans.


I love my school soo much and due to that I was selected to be a school prefect when I was in form 1 and 2.


Finally to you Severin and all the sponsors in the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program, I want to once again send my lots of appreciations and may God bless you as you continue to help.Thankyou yours child Joseph.’


baby Gail.

2013-06-22

Hi! Amanda Leeming,


My name is madam Valein class teacher kindergarten two, am writing on behalf of baby Gail who is my student. Baby Gail is now aged 5years old and being in kindergarten two it has really helped her to grow mentally and physically. Gail is always a very hard working girl and always ready to learn new things each day, she is very social and always try to help others in class.

These are the subjects which they take in kindergarten, mathematics ,English language, social environmental,creative,picture reading, outdoor activities and oral work. Am happy that baby Gail likes all the subjects and she is really doing well. Baby Gail also has a lot of friends in almost all the kindergarten classes.

Finally baby Gail is happy to know that you Amanda is her new sponsor and on behalf of her and her mother we are sending our lots of appreciations to the sponsorship and may God bless you.

From the class teacher madam Valein.


Samuel Benson.

2013-06-22

Hi! Chris Leeming,


‘My name is Samuel Benson and am 18 years old. Am now in class 8 which is the final class in the primary school. I hope to sit for my final primary school exam this year in November thereafter I hope to join the secondary school. I have 4 brothers i.e Wycliff,Justin,Kahindi and William and 3 sisters i.e Zena,Pendo and Esther who all school at Mtwapa Academy with the exception of Esther who she is at home doing some small scale business and helping my mum.

The name of our class teacher is called Mr.David who is also our school head teacher. Am very happy to know that you Chris is my new sponsor, thankyou soo much Chris for helping me in my education and I promise you that I will work very hard and am sure you’ll be happy too with my exam results. In school I do subjects like Maths, English grammar and composition, Social studies which include subjects like subjects like Geography, History and Christian Religion Education.


For my future career I would like to be a Marine Engineer and therefore I want to work very hard in school so as I can perform well in my exams. In the morning I normally wake up at 4.00pm when I take shower, do some revision especially on Maths, take my break fast before going to school where we are normal supposed to report to school at 6.30 am. For my final exam I hope to score a total of 420 marks out of the total 500 marks.


My favorite subject is ‘Kiswahili’ while my favorite sport is football. For my favorite food I like rice with beans.


Lastly I want to once again say thank you to you Chris and I hope to know more about you and your family.Thankyou yours child, Samuel Benson.’


Esther.

2013-06-22

Hi! Everyone,


‘My name is Esther Kyalo,am aged 18 years. I do have 2 sisters i.e Lucy and Mweni.For the brothers, I have 3 brother i.e Mlanda,Shungula and Mwole.I love going to school because it makes me improve day by day. I go to school at Mtwapa Academy and now in class 8.My favorite subject is Science. My best friend is called Faith who is in class 6, Faith is also my neighbour whom we study together while at home. My favorite food is chips. During my free time and especially weekends I do like playing game balls and helping my mother in washing dishes.


Finally to all of my sponsors I want to say thank you and am happy that you are sponsoring me. Yours child Esther.’


Esther's special report on her final exam.

2013-06-22

Hi! Everyone.

It's my sincere hope that you are all doing fine with your families.We all here in Mtwapa,Kenya are doing fine too with all the kids going on well with their studies.Am happy to inform you that both kids groups i.e the primary school kids and the secondary school kids are continuing well with their classes.The schools reopened last month on 6th May for the 2nd academic term of which the kids will be studying for a three month period until early August when they are supposed to close.

Today i needed to send  a special report on Esther final exam in the primary school which she is expected to do towards the end of this year i.e mid-November.As you all know Esther is a down syndrome kid and due to this her teaching needs to be done in a special way as she is slow is understanding.Am happy to inform you that ever since Esther was enrolled to Mtwapa Academy in the lower classes all of her teachers have been very helpfull to her studying and lesson understaning and as a result she has soo far very much improved especially in her English and handwriting.

So as for Esther to have a fair marking in her final examination scripts the school through the headteacher requested for a special marking on Esther's exam scripts.For the request to be accepted by the national exam Council i.e the Kenya National exam Council-KNEC special request letters were prepared and sent to first the District Examination Officer(DEO) and the second request letter was taken to the KNEC.

Am happy to inforn you that the request on Esther's special exam scripts marking was positively accepted meaning that the examiner won't be soo strict on the marking scheme but rather look on the relevance and good concepts on Esther's answering.I believe Esther will perfom well in her final exam as she's so far shown lots of improvement.

With that i finally want to send my lots of appreciations to all of Esher's sponsors and to all the sponsors in the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program whom you've continued to help our kids here in Africa and may God bless you all.Yours in service,Moses Kopulo(Sponsorship Coordinator-Africa).


From Wyciff to Val Murphy.

2013-07-28

Hi, Val! How are you doing? How is your family doing? I hope you are fine. am fine too with my family. How is your granddaughter? How is the weather over there?


The main reason of writing this letter is about thanking you for the presents which you sent to me, they were very nice. My parents are sending there greetings to you and your family, I hope you have received them. May the Almighty God bless you whenever you do anything. How was your journey back to England from Hong Kong? How is John? Are your children well? How are the pets going on? How is your son in-law? I hope they are all fine. Wish you all the best with love from your sponsored child,


Wycliff Benson.


From Alfred to Gerald Trevor.

2013-07-28

Dear Gerald,
How are you? I hope you and your family are fine.Am so happy that I received your letters and pictures. I saw a picture of a very good looking car. I saw Sam and Abi in the car. I also read that Sam works as an Engineer with me when I grow up I want to be a Captain working in the sub-marine vessels. I therefore want to work very hard in my studies, next week will start our end of term exam and am well prepared for the exam.


Also in one of your letters you said that you had gone for a holiday I therefore you enjoyed your holiday. My birthday is on February 19th, next year I will be 11 years old. At our house I have some few flower pots as I love plants and gardening.Thankyou for the Christmas card which you had sent to me during Christmas, it was very nice, please receive greetings from my mother(Mercy) and my sister Phyllis, may God bless you all.

Yours child Alfred.


for Gerald Trevor.

2013-07-28

Dear Gerald,
How are you? I hope you are fine and your family. Am fine here in Kenya and my family.
Am soo happy because I received your letters and pictures, I saw your son’s shed and it looks nice! How did you know how to make a shed? The weather in Kenya at the moment is cold, it’s like winter in our country. It also cloudy, windy and rainy and so many farmers have planted crops while others are harvesting.


I also saw the snow in some of the pictures you had sent to me, it is soo white! I saw a snow man which Abigail built in your garden, I saw you and the snow man look alike!!!!!
People here in Kenya don’t feed the birds because there is no snow and so it’s not hard for the birds to find their food. Some people here in Kenya catch the birds and keep them as pets. I had a pet i.e a dove and I had named it Silver but unfortunately it died later after being fought by a cat.I saw you and Abigail in the picture when you were on holiday in Australia at the mountain ranges called the Alps. At first I didn’t know of the Alps were, do they melt?


My sister Phyllis is in secondary school which is also a boarding school, she is very happy now that she is in form three.Thankyou for the lovely note book and the pen which you had sent to me.


Yours child Alfred.


From Douglas to Gerald Trevor.

2013-07-28

Dear Gerald,
How are you? It’s my hope and prayer that you are fine. How is the climate in your country England? Here in Kenya it cool and wet. The main reason for writing this letter to you is to say thank you for the letter and pictures which you sent over to me, I liked the pictures and was good to see the snowman on the garden. I have never seen a snow man but now I have seen from the pictures you had sent. Please greet for me your daughter Abigail and your family.


May the Almighty God bless you and your daughter abundantly.
Yours friend,


Douglas Mtinda.


from Juliet to Gerald Trevor.

2013-07-28

Dear Gerald,


How are you and your family? I hope everybody is fine. Here in Kenya the climate is cold. Here in school we lots of composition writing which we are also checked on our hand writings. We also do have debate clubs, environment clubs, choir club and scout club.
In my studies, am always good in English because I like English than other subjects. My mother likes helping me in giving me ideas when am writing my compositions while at home. Please Gerald, receive lots of greetings from my mother. I have an elder sister called Catherine Washera who is now in form three. I have never seen snow and thanks for the pictures which you had sent over to me which I was able to see the snow. How is your daughter Abigail? I look forward to see you one day.


Yours sincerely,
Juliet Wangui.


from Denis to Teresa.

2013-07-28

Dear Teresa,
Hoping that you are doing well. How is Oliver and Jack, I’ve really missed you, thankyou for you letter. How is England because here in Kenya it’s very cold. I still play football but not that much because of the studies at secondary school are very demanding.


I still go to school at Mtwapa Secondary School. I regard to the visitors, I had very little time with them but it was good that they brought for us some presents and I appreciated.
At home we have small boys and they really like playing like your sons too and they have greeted you.


Thank you Teresa and hope to speak with you again.


Yours child,
Diego Denis.


from Zena to Gill Ward.

2013-07-28

Dear Gill,
Hope you are fine.Am fine too with my family. Am very happy to receive your presents which had sent over to me. Am doing well with my dressing making course which I hope to do my end of 2nd year exam next term, there after I hope to proceed to grade 2.Ever since I started the course am happy to tell you that I’ve made very good progress in terms of dress making as i can now make a dress, boys shorts and shirts. The polytechnic where I take my dressmaking course is managed by catholic sisters who are very good trainers.


Thank you for the presents which you had sent over to me, they were very y nice, I liked the T-shirt, the pen, the note book, the colors and the beautiful greeting card.
I hope to speak again with you soon,

yours child,
Zena.


from Diego to Gill Ward.

2013-07-28

Dear Gill Ward,
I hope you are doing well whenever you are/ Am doing good in Kenya. I really appreciate the presents which you sent to me, they are all very nice. At school am doing good and really enjoy it and participating in different activities like football and Presidential Awards and others. Please Gill receive lots of greetings fro the rest of the kids at our children’s home.

Yours Child,
Diego Denis.


from Samuel Mbugua to Steve and Karen Taylor.

2013-07-28

Dear Steve and Karen Taylor.

How are you all? It’s my great hope that you are fine so do i. Am actually striving at school so that I achieve a good grade. We’ve been be very busy at school which makes not to have lots of time to write to you but I hope you understand.Thankyou for everything which you had sent over to me. It’s my hope that you successfully did you exam. Pass my regards to all of your family. Hope to hear from you soon.

Yours child,
Samuel Mbugua.


from Pendo Benson to Steve and Karen Taylor.

2013-07-28

Dear Steve and Karen,
Hi! How are you? I hope you are fine, how are your parents? I hope they are fine.Thankyou for sending me your letter, I’ve missed you. My parents are happy to greet you. In school am working hard so as a have a good future and able to achieve my goals. Am praying to you that you continue with your work. Am now in class 6 and next year I will be in Std 7.We are about to start our end of term exam which we will do in the next week. I hope to get good grades in this coming exam. May God bless you with your parents, lots of love

from,
Pendo Benson.


From Mtwapa Academy with thanks to all England friend schools!!!!!!!!!!

2013-07-28

Hi! Everyone,


On behalf of the Mtwapa Academy school teachers and all the students, I want to send my many thanks to all of our friends and schools from England who have been visiting our school for the various school curriculum program exchanges. Please allow me to acknowledge the school which have been visiting our schools i.e John Cleveland College(JCC),Babington College,Brockington College,Gartree school.Your visit to our school have really boosted our school in various areas which we needed some assistance. Further more the close relationship between our school with your schools have also helped our students to learn a lot from your schools in terms of curriculum exchange and culture.


In terms of material help I want to thank you all for the assistance which you have given unto our school-Mtwapa Academy which we see it as a blessing to our school. I want to send special thanks to everyone of you especially in regard to the sports equipment which you have been assisting our school with which have really boosted the sports moral of our students as shown in the pictures. Actually the list is very long if I were to mention on everything but I don’t want to end this message of thanks without also saying thanks to all the assistance which you’ve made to our school In terms of helping building our school and the ongoing school well construction with the help of the JCC school.


Finally I want to welcome you more and more to our school as we feel that you are part of us and wish you all the very best in your schools, bye


Yours friend Rahab(Mtwapa Academy school director).


Long live thy partnerships!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2013-07-28


Hi Everyone,
It’s another great moment to say a word of ‘Jambo’ to you all, hoping that you are all fine. We all here in Mtwapa are fine too. The second term is about to end as the schools are expected to close on 9th August 2013 of which the students will be proceeding for their August holiday and reopen 3rd September 2013 for the third term.


Well, on behalf of the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program, Sara and Gail-England, I need to send my special thanks to all the friend schools from England who have been visiting Kenya and especially to Mtwapa Academy and Sagail Junior School for their visits have been very important to both of these schools. It is through the England schools visit which has brought about various development projects in the schools. The schools are JCC led by Roger Dainty, Kate Cook and Danny Banks, Babington College led by Sara Fletcher and Gail Hammonds, Brockington College led by Sarah Heggs, Gartree School led by Sue Dainty who have helped all helped both the Mtwapa Academy and Sagail school in various school building projects and school equipment. At the moment there are major ongoing school projects being financed by Brockington College at the Sagail Junior school as the school is being assisted to built a new school.Also,the JCC school is currently helping Mtwapa Academy to build up a school well which will at the end help the school is having full time running water. Also Babington College and one of the sponsors from Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program Mr.Gerald Trevor have and are still helping Mtwapa Academy built up the new kindergarten department.


Am also happy to inform you that another England school i.e Sketchley Hill Primary school led by Alison Banks have also joined the above list of England schools for the curriculum exchange program who recently in May this year visited Mtwapa Academy together with the school headteacher Mr.Scott.In a return leg,Sketchley Hill School have invited a teacher(madam Emily) of Mtwapa Academy to their school in Autumn for an exchange program.


I personally feel that, this is a great honor to our Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program, as I being the program co-coordinator here in Africa have been able to as well co-ordinate successfully all of the above mentioned schools.


As a show of appreciation to the school sports equipment uniform, the Mtwapa Academy School donated by our England schools, early this month the school organized for a special sports day as seen in the picture gallery,please have a look!!!!!!!


Many many thanks for everything and I hope and pray that the relationships will forever go on, be blessed.


Yours in service,
Moses Kopulo(sponsorship coordinator-Africa).


Hi! to Everyone from Joseph and Timothy.

2013-08-25

 

From Joseph and Timothy.

Hi! Everyone,

It’s  a great moment to be able to speak to you all, hoping that you are all fine. We are all happy to continue to be sponsored through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program and which it has made us proceed well with our studies. Being among the adult kids in the sponsorship program we are happy to be nearing our secondary school completion and thereafter hope to proceed to the university. Therefore this year is our final year in the secondary school and hopes to be doing our final examination in late October. The exams period is normal a month and thus we hope to finish our final form 4 examination in late November 2013.This term we did the mock exams which is a preparation for the final exams, we hope to get the mock results soon we reopen the school next month.

We also want to make special and many thanks to all the sponsors who have been donating towards our upkeep and food. As you all know that we have now moved from the Children’s home since we had attained the age of starting to live on our own. Since then we are now starting to learn on how to be independent. We now prepare food and cook on our own unlike when we were at the home. Being independent has made us to plan on our time to study, relax and when to go to bed as we prepare for school.

Our dear sponsors we once again to thank you soo much as you continue to donate towards our upkeep and believe through your assistance it will get us through and be able to stand on our own in the near future.

May you be blessed for you help, yours children,

Timothy and Joseph.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Hello and Thankyou to Ashby Lions from Mtwapa Kenya!!!!!!!!!

2013-08-26

 

From Dennis.

My name is Dennis now aged 16 years and now secondary school i.e form 1.The name of my school is called K.P Mtwapa Senior Secondary school.

Am happy to be sponsored by you through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. Ever since I was recruited into the program I’ve feel that am soo much privileged as at first couldn’t imagine that I would proceed with my school up to secondary school being a kid from the children’s home. Towards the end of last year i.e November 2012,I did my final primary school national exam i.e the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education and am happy to tell you that I was able to score a total of 286 marks out 500 marks. Since i had scored above average in my final exam I was therefore selected to join the secondary school.

I love going to school  and learning new subjects like Biology,Physics,Chemistry,Business Studies and Computer studies .The  other subjects we do at school are English,Kiswahili,Mathematics,Christian Religion Education,Geography,History and government.

Am also a good footballer and school I have joined the school team where we sometimes compete with other neighboring schools.

Am very much thankful to you all at the Ashby Lions Club for sponsoring me and I promise to work hard in my studies and achieve my dreams of working in the Kenyan Navy.

At the moment we have now closed the school and we hope to reopen next month on 2nd September 2013.I hope to write to you again soon, from your sponsored child,

                                                                                            Dennis.

 

From Mary.

Hi! Ashby Lions, am overjoyed from the time I received on the news that you are my sponsors!!! Thank you soo much and may God bless you all with your families.

Am now aged 26 years old having completed my secondary school education thereafter joined a teaching career. At the moment am pursuing my teaching course i.e Certificate in Early Childhood Development Education, in one of the best teachers training institution here Mombasa-Kenya called Shanzu Teachers Training College. After my training, I intend to work as kindergarten teacher .Am happy to have been selected to join the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program through Gail and Sara. I feel like it’s a double blessing since you Asby Lions have now sponsored me, thankyou!!!

I hope and pray that you Ashby Lions will continue to sponsor me and promise to perform excellently in my training and goodbye, from Mary.

 

From Shadrack.

Thankyou Ashby Lions for the sponsoring me.I feel happy for the sponsorship. Am aged 23 years ,old now in form three in one of the Secondary school here in Mtwapa –Kenya called Mtwapa Elite Secondary School. Next year I will be in the final class i.e form four which I hope to get good grades which can unable me proceed to the University.

Ever since i joined the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program I feel that my learning spirit have been boosted I believe I will get good grades in my final exams. In the morning I normal wake up at 4.00am and have early morning studies until 5.30am.After studying in he morning, I then start preparing myself for school and leave for school at 6.30am.We normal start our classes at 7.00am when he have special studies and revision, then at 7.45am we break for the morning assembly which last for 15 minutes. As from 8.00am we commence on our official lessons until 9.40 am when we have a morning break .After the morning break which last for 30minutes thereafter we go back to our classes and proceed with our lessons until 1.00pm when we have another lunch break. The lunch breaks lasts for 45 minutes and thereafter we go back for the afternoon classes which we commence at 2.00pm until 5.30pm when we end our day in school.

The subjects which am doing in form three are English, Kiswahili, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, History and government and Business studies.

I therefore send my appreciations once again to Ashby Lions for the sponsorship as I can now see a brighter future, be blessed. Yours sponsored child, Shadrack.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Hi! Brockington College.

2013-08-26

From Mapenzi.

Hi! Brockington College.

Am happy to get this opportunity to send to you this message and thanking you for all what you’ve been doing for me. First and foremost and want to thank you for continuing to sponsoring me. We have now closed the school and so am on holiday. We hope to reopen our school in the first week of next month September when I’ll be doing my last term in form two. Next year I’ll be proceeding to form three. Am happy that am enjoying my studies and continuing to work hard so that I get good grades in my final exams.

For my holiday I like helping my grandmother and my aunt whom I live with in doing some domestic work like fetching water, cooking and washing the kitchen utensils. Also during holiday and when I have free time, I go out and visit my friends who live in the neighborhood and plaiting each others hair.

I want also to thankyou for continuing to help me pay for my breakfast and lunch while at school. For sure your assistance has helped me a lot and which has made me improve in my studies.

Finally I wish you all of my fellow students at Brockington all the best in their studies too and bye bye to everyone. Yours Mapenzi.

 

 

 


Esther

2013-09-27

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Grace Kyalo and also a mother to Esther Kyalo who is a sponsored kid under the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program here in Mtwapa-Kenya.First and foremost I want to take this opportunity to thank you all as sponsors and well wishers of the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program for continuing to help our kids here in Africa. I also want to specifically thank all the sponsors of my daughter Esther of which through their help Esther has been able to proceed well with her education.

Am aged 55 years old and a widow after the loss of my beloved husband Mr.Kyalo and were both blessed with 6 kids i.e 3 girls and 3 boys of which Esther is the youngest among the rest.

My current occupation is a government field worker in the Ministry of Agriculture here in Kenya and also a small scale farmer i.e doing some fresh milk retail business in which I do buy fresh milk from the dairy farmers and sell to people in the village at a small profit. It’s from the little salary which I get from the government and the little profit I get from the milk business which has been helping me to take care of my large family.

Esther  who is this year aged 18 years old had been having the down syndrome problem since birth, this is because soon she was born the doctor noticed that she had no nose bridge, she also had a low set ears, chest problems and her tongue was large than normal. In terms of her body weight, Esther was born very healthy as she had 3.5 kgs.

I once again thank her sponsors as ever since Esther joined school, I’ve seen lots of improvement in her. Thanks to the doctor too who after accessing Esther said that she could learn in a normal school which has made her to see life in a positive way as the rest of the normal kids. Am happy that at Mtwapa Academy Esther’s teacher’s have been very helpful to hear as for her to understand well and perform well she needs a closer supervision and always needs to be reminded especially while at home so as to do some domestic work.

In regard to her special final primary school examination which she hope to do in early November this year, am sure this special exam will be more helpful to her as after the exam it will make her feel proud as a candidate and has gone through the required education system.

I further recommend Esther to proceed to secondary school next year so as she can at least learn all the secondary school basics which can further be helpful to her. Also at secondary school she can get lots of motivation from her friends and especially if it’s a boarding school as long as her classmates are made aware of her health problem.

Finally a word to all the sponsors and the directors of the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program i.e Sara and Gail in England. I want to say thank you for  your helping hand  and concern which you have shown and  extended towards the education of my daughter Esther  and to our family too.Thankyou for all of your messages of sympathy and condolences which you’ve been sending  after the loss of Esther’s dad and even financial support which you’ve given to my family.

I want to acknowledge and thank you to the well co-ordinated work in the entire Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program through the good pattern and the well running of the Sponsorship Program between Sara, Gail and their Africa co-ordinator, Mr.Moses who has been very close to Esther and all of us as a family by keeping us updated in regard to all the program news from the sponsors. It has therefore brought about good communication between the sponsors, kids and parents/guardians. Due to this I therefore foresee a stable and focused good vision for the needy children here in Africa meaning that it will last for long and therefore benefit more needy children.

My final prayer is that, in future the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program will be able to assist as many children as possible. It’s my desire that in future when our kids grow up and are blessed with good jobs and families, the sponsors too could visit their sponsored kids’ families and rejoice together after such long journey.

Thankyou, thankyou and thankyou, be blessed,

                                                                    From,

                                                             Esther’s mum.


Hamisi.

2013-10-22

HI! Everyone,

‘My name is Hamisi, aged 16 years old and am happy to be at Mtwapa Academy  in standard 8  and under the  care of Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program. I live in Mtomondoni village with my grandmother, my uncle Antony and my cousins who are my uncle’s kids. I have a younger brother named Abdalla who is also in the Mtomondoni sponsorship Program and in standard 7 at Mtwapa Academy.

My primary school life has been  good and a lucky one after being recruited in the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program which has enabled me proceed with my education and am happy to be now completing my primary school towards the end of this year. Generally I have enjoyed learning and has made me interact with different kids .However life in through out my primary school have been challenging  in terms of subjects understanding especially as from standard 7 and through out standard 8,this is because as we moved up classes the curriculum started to get hard. Despite the challenges I’ve been able to study hard as I know by studying hard it will help me have a good future which has also made me to grow up mentally by taking my studies seriously than when I was young.

Being in school have taught me to be obedient in life and respect to others and by practicing this it had made me be obedient to my teachers and as a result it has helped  me to have a good performance.

This year am happy to be among the candidates who are going to sit for the national external  examination popularly known as Kenya Certificate of Primary Education(KCPE)which is scheduled to commence next month of November as from 12th -14th November 2013.Having studied hard and revised a lot am confidently enough that I’ll perform well in the exam and able to get s good secondary school which I further hope to work more harder and proceed to the University and achieve my dream of becoming a pilot.

Finally I want to thank the management of Mtomondoni sponsorship program and all of my sponsors who through them have helped pursue my education well and also helped us as a family taking care of us by providing us with food and taking care of our aged and sick grandmother by providing for her medicine.’

Yours sponsored kid-Hamisi.


Esther.

2013-10-22

Hi! Everyone,

 ‘My name is Esther, aged 18 years and in standard 8 in Mtwapa Academy. Am happy to be sponsored through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. My life is school has been interesting as a part from learning I have enjoyed playing with my friends, enjoyed dancing and playing football.

Am also happy to be in school as I can now read well unlike before which to me is a big achievement. Also in school I have learnt the important being together by learning and eating together. For my final primary school examination i.e the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) which I hope to do next month, I hope to do well as I have been revising

I would like to proceed to secondary school so as I can learn more and achieve my goal as an artist.

Through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program I’ve made friends who have been visiting our school during the exchange program. I therefore send my thanks to all the sponsors for helping me to learn and may God bless them’.

Yours sponsored child-Esther.


Kahindi.

2013-10-22

Hi! Everyone

‘My name is Kahindi Benson aged 16 years and in standard 8 in Mtwapa Academy. Am happy to be among the sponsored kids in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program and among the candidates who are going to sit for the final primary school exam this year. My school life had been like a dream come true as at first did not know that I would one day be able to join school, through this i’ve been able to socialize with my school mates. I see that I’ve grown up mentally as I keep on getting serious with my studies day by day. Being in school has made me learn many things about life as I learn from both the teachers and friends. It has also made me learn about other cultures especially the curriculum exchange programs from our England visitors.

As I prepare to do my final primary school exam i.e the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) I have high hopes of performing well as I have been studying hard.

At secondary school I further promise to work more hard so that I can be able to proceed to the university and achieve my dream of becoming a surgeon.

Finally I’d like to thank you all my sponsors for continuing to sponsor me and pray that they continue to help me until I complete my studies’.

Yours sponsored kid-Kahindi Benson.


Samuel Benson.

2013-10-22

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Samuel Benson aged 17 years old now is standard 8 at Mtwapa Academy. Am also happy to be in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. My primary school life has been interesting as I have generally experienced it as like a race where the finishing point is like the starting point for the next class. Going to school has really made me grow mentally as am able to differentiate between the negative and the positive and also have seen myself taking my studies seriously.

Am happy to leave behind a legacy of being a good singer, students’ choir leader and showing my school mates the need and importance of having good discipline by obeying the teachers and as a result it has made me being be respected in school as a leader.

Am happy that the school has taught me good ethics and as a result it has taught me on how to live well with other people.

As I look forward to do my final exam in primary school I’ve increased my studying and am therefore working hard so as to get good results in the examination and proceed to secondary school.

Soon I join the secondary school next year I promise to work more harder so that I get good grades and able achieve my goal of becoming a captain.

Finally i want to send my many thanks to all the sponsors as through the sponsorship program I’ve been able to perfect read and write and speak English fluently.

Yours sponsored kid -Samuel Benson.


Loice.

2013-10-22

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Loice,am 16 years old and in standard 8 in Mtwapa Academy. Am happy to be sponsored under the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. My primary school life has been very interesting as it has made me interact with other people and cultures. I feel now that am mentally grown up as I can plan on my reading schedule unlike before when I was young. Also I can make my own decisions and being able to judge.

While at school I’ve always learnt on how behave well and respect to teachers and my leaders. Also at school I have learn on how to be welcoming to visitors as our school have been always be welcoming to visitors who have been coming to our school.

In life and soon I joined school I’ve always wanted to be good in English which I believe I have achieved this at Mtwapa Academy .In my final primary school exam I hope to be performing well  as I have been revising a lot. Also at this time I’ve been very attentative to my teachers whenever am in class as I believe by doing so I’ll be able to gain more.

Soon I join the secondary school, I promise to work hard so that I get good marks and be able to proceed to the university and achieve my career of being a doctor.

Finally I want to say thank you to all of my sponsors as it’s through their assistance to my education that have guarantee my school attendance.

Yours sponsored kid-Loice.


Justin.

2013-10-22

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Justin Benson aged 18 years and in standard 8 at Mtwapa Academy. Am happy to be sponsored in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program and happy to be completing my primary school here at Mtwapa Academy. Generally I have enjoyed my primary school life and it will be hard to forget as will be parting schools with my friends and leaving some of my school mates behind. I’ll also be missing my teachers as they were all very helpful in terms of subjects understanding. I feel that I have grown up mentally as I can organize my study time and revise on my own.

Am happy to be selected among the students’ leaders in my school and selected to be a school prefect for 3 years since the year 2011.Am also happy to be selected as a games prefect whereby I was responsible with all games kits, organizing and distributing all games kit.

Being at school it had made me have confidence especially in answering questions in class. Socially it has made me interact with people and my classmates. It has also made me have respect in class and be co-operative with teachers wherever am given any assignment from the teachers.

I now look forward to do my final primary school exam and I hope to perform well as I have revised a lot by going through the exam past papers.

Soon I join secondary school I want to continue working hard and achieve my career of being a pilot.

Finally I want to say thank you to all  the sponsors as through this program  my family have benefited  by being built a house and providing our family with food. Through the sponsorship program it has made my learning to be smooth as my fees are always fully paid for.Thankyou once again and may God bless you.

Yours sponsored kid-Justin.

  


Hi! from Mtwapa-Kenya.

2013-10-22

Hi! Everyone,

Please receive lots of greetings from all of us here in Mtwapa Kenya. Thanks God for taking us all through out this year 2013 and continuing to be part of us here in Africa. Am happy to inform you that all of our kids i.e both in primary and secondary school have continuing well with their studies and are now in the 3rd and final term of the year  of which are expected to be closed for the Christmas holiday towards the end of next month of November.

Am also happy to inform you that 6 of our sponsored kids i.e Hamisi,Esther,Loice,Samuel Benson,Kahindi and Justin will be in the mid of next month November be doing their final primary school  national examination popularly known as Kenya Certificate of Primary Education(KCPE).The exam is scheduled to commence from 12th-14th November 2013.The KCPE  is also an entry exam to secondary school of which after the kids complete the exam they are expected to join secondary schools starting from form 1 and proceed upto form 4 thereafter they’ll are expected to join the  University.Normaly the KCPE exam results are expected to be ready some few days after Christmas.

Apart from the 6 primary school kids who will be doing their KCPE exam. Am also happy to inform you that we have also 2 kids in secondary school i.e Timothy and Joseph who will be sitting for their final form 4 examination as from today have started the exam with an English  question paper ,the exam is popularly known as Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE).The KCSE exam is a month long exam and so the kids are expected to finish their exam towards the end of next month November 2013.

Please let us all join hands in wishing all of the exam candidates are SUCCESS.Thankyou once again for continuing to be our kids sponsors and well wishers and wish you all the very best in your works  and everything which you are doing with lots of love.

Yours in service,

Moses Kopulo(sponsorship coordinator-Africa).


Mtwapa Unwrapped 2013

2013-11-20 to 2013-11-21

Following the success of the past six years Xmas food projects, we are once again running the Mtomondoni Christmas gift appeal, giving you the chance to give Christmas gifts that can really make a difference. Instead of facing the hustle and bustle of the shops, why not send a gift that really does make a whole world of difference to a needy family living in Africa.

You will see from the gift list that this year we have a range of essential gifts that assist families and Mtwapa and Mtomondoni.  Given the recent terrorist incidents in Kenya, tourism has taken a major dive. Food prices have also rocketed as a result of the global financial situation.  As a result of these combined factors, families in the area are struggling more than ever therefore the benefit of this project is greater than before.

We are again including key rings and necklaces to the list.  The ebony key rings are hand carved by Hamisi and Abdallah’s uncle.  Hamisi and Abdallah are brothers sponsored through the programme.  The African beaded necklaces on the list are made by a group of our sponsored children, all the money goes directly to them to help them fund their future University education.  The group call themselves, ‘Promoting Future’ and consist of Samson, Vidzo, Joseph, Ben, Mary, Magdaline and Teresia.

How does it work?

STEP 1: Have a look at the gift list and decide who you would like to buy a special gift for

STEP 2: Email us with your order.  We will need to recieve your payment by 7th December to get everything purchased in time for Christmas.   Our co-ordinator based in Kenya will then find a suitable family in Mtomondoni to present the gift to a family that is most in need. You will then receive a gift card to give to the person that you have bought the present for detailing who the gift was given to and their situation

STEP 3: You can then send the gift card knowing that your present this year really has made a difference

STEP 4: You can then check the website (www.getjealous.com/mpenzi) to see the family in Africa receiving the gifts so you really will see exactly where your money has gone. All gifts will be presented to the Kenyan needy families before Christmas day.
 

This year's gifts...

African necklace (You will receive this in the post) £2.50

A gift hand carved ebony key ring (You will receive this in the post) £3.50

Washing powder (1 KG) £3

Buy a chicken for a family £5

Provide a mosquito net for a family to protect them from malaria £6

Cooking pots £7

Supply of charcoal for cooking (1 sack) £11

Mattress £15

Provide a family with a weeks supply of food £16

Sponsor a child to go to school for a term £20

Provide shelter and food for a homeless child for a month £30

Buy a goat for a family £40

Provide a family with a month supply of food £60

Sponsor a child to go to school for a year £60

Happy shopping :-)


Thankyou and Christmas greetings from the sponsorship coordinator-Africa.

2013-11-23

Hi! Everyone,

This is a special message to all the sponsors,friends and well wishers who have been part of us in our Mtomondoni Sponsorship program.Thanks to the Almighty God too for taking us through this year 2013 and as the Christmas festive season is approaching i'd like to send my special Christmas  greetings to everyone of you with all of your lovely families and wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS,be blessed.

Your  great concern and generous contribution has very well helped the needy children here in Africa and giving them great hope in their educational future as it's through your help to them through the sponsorship which is making the kids to realise their dreams of being teachers,fashion designers,engineers,pilots,air hostess,doctors,managers etc. On behalf of all the sponsored kids and parents of the Mtomondoni sponsorship program i want to convey their heartfelt thanks and wish you all again a MERRY CHRISTMAS.

Also please receive some more special message from the school director of Mtwapa  Academy,Rahab to everyone and all the friends of the school.More special thanks to all the partner schools i.e John Cleveland College(JCC,)Babington Community Technology College,Brockington College,Sketchley Hill Primary School and Gartree school for their continued partnership with Mtwapa Academy and the Mtwapa Community as a whole.Please be informed that your continued concern and support to the school has not only helped the Mtwapa Academy school has extended further to  the entire Mtwapa community which include neighbouring schools,villagers who include the children,mothers and the elderly.Your conribution to the school is immense which can't be all be mentioned through this message but please allow be to mention on some.

Thanks to John Cleveland College(JCC )school  through Roger,Kate Cook and Danny for solving the running water problem at the Mtwapa Academy,school by digging for the school a well  which is nearing completion and we acknowledge your continued support on the project.

Thanks to Babington College and Gerald Trevor  through Sara and Gail for the financial assistance which you've made towards the construction of the Mtwapa Academy kinderdergarten wing which is now complete and the kids are all happy to learn in their new classrooms.We also want to thankyou in advance for the great plans which you Babington College is having for the school ref.school equipment aid.

Thanks to Brockington College through Sarah Heggs for purchasing a plot of land and building up a new Sagail Junior School.The idea of building up the new school was a great idea as it has been greatly welcomed by the entire Mtwapa Community since once its completed it will be a big relief to the village kids who have been walking long distances while going to school.

Thanks to Sketchley Hill Primary school for the new partnership with Mtwapa Academy which have so far been able to make two succesfull curriculum exchange programs of which the first leg was when two teachers from Sketchley Hill School i.e Ali and Scott visited Mtwapa this year in May and for a return leg,one of the teachers from Mtwapa Academy i.e madam Emily also visted England.

Thanks to Gartree School too through Sue who have been a long partner to the school through sponsoring of kids in the Mtomondoni Sponsorship program.

Thankyou to all who have been sending letters and presents for the kids through our P.O BOX your mails have been well received and am sure you've all been receiving the replies from the kids too.

Finally,this goes to my hard working  Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program directors and UK co-ordinators i.e Gail and Sara for their superb,tireless and well timed efforts which they have made towards the success of the entire sponsorship program and linkings to all of our  England sponsors,friends,well wishers and schools.From me,parents and all the kids in the Mtomondoni sponsorship family here Africa want to wish you both,Mpenzi and your families and MERRY CHRISTMAS and thanyou for everything.

Surely the list is long for you all who have continued to support this sponsorship program and the school and may the Almighty God bless you all as we celebrate the Christmas and as we usher in the new year 2014. Thankyou thankyou thankyou.

                              Yours in service,

                                  Moses Kopulo


Zeina.

2013-11-23

Hi! Everyone,

'My name is Zeina Benson,am happy today to speak to everyone of you and especially to my sponsors in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program.As you all know am now pursuing a tailoring and dressmaking course in one of the tailoring institutions here in Mtwapa.Our institution is called Mary Mother of God dressmaking and Tailoring school under the christian i.e Catholic church meaning that our tutors are catholic nuns.Am happy to be in this institution as our tutors are very humble people and vey helpfull.

By December this year i'll be completing my first year in the training of which i intend to do an end of year one examinatination on 6th December 2013 thereafter i will be awarded a certificate in  Trade Test Grade 3.In the next year 2014, i intend to further pursue the training wherby i'll be training for a certificate in Trade Test Grade 2,the Grade 2 training involves dressmaking,tailoring,fashion design and embroidery.Later i intend to proceed for a certificate in Trade Test Grade 1.Am happy to inform you that at the moment am able to make dresses,shirts,shorts and skirts.My future dream is to become a fashion designer and operate my own clothes shop.

I therefore want to thank all of my sponsors who have been helping in my educatiion and the training which am now undergoing.I also want to wish them all a MERRY CHRISTMAS.

yours sponsored kid-Zeina'.


Gibson-thankyou for the medical support.

2013-11-23

Hi! Everyone,

On behalf of Gibson,Gbson's parents and the school,i want to send my lots of appreciations and thanks for your quick response support towards the medical and financial aid for Gibson.Special thanks goes to Gail and Sara for your concern and coordination which you were able to raise the money so as help in the medical support for Gisson .This recent Gibson medical aid is one of the examples of the great aid which  you the sponsors,friends and well wishers of the Mtomondoni sponsorship program have been helping in the program and as a result your contribution and concern to the kids here in Africa has not only saved the children from poverty and illiteracy but also helping them to get good medical treatment which the kids' parents can't afford and eventually being a life saving.Thankyou for being with us and be  blessed.

As you all know Gibson,a boy aged 11 years is one of the sponsored kids in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program and now in STD 2 at Mtwapa Academy.Unfortunately Gibson is a down sydrome child and due to that his class progress has been very slow.Despite that health challenge Gibson has been improving in his studies and am happy to inform you that Gibson will be proceeding to STD 3 next year 2014,thanks to all of Gibson's sponsors.

Unfortunately towarsd the end of last month  of October and early this month,Gibson has been having frequent convulsions which which are epileptic related.Due to that me and Gibson's mother had to take Gibson to the nearby hospital for examinations.At first the doctor prescribed some medicine for Gibson but  unfortunately the medicine didn't work soo well ,as a result the doctor requested for a  head CT scan for Gibson so as to further examine in his head and to know what could be the exact problem before the doctor find a alternate treatment on Gibson.

Am happy to inform you all that through the medical financial assistance which we received from Gail and Sara,over this week Gibson was able to undergo the CT scan and we hope to get the results in the next two days.I've posted pictures of Gibson while under going the scanning.Thankyou once gain for all of your support.

          yours in service,

              Moses.

(Sponsorship coordinator-Africa).


Thankyou to all donators and Merry Christmas too from Mtwapa-Africa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2013-12-28

Hi! Everyone,

Merry Christmas to you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's my sincere hope that you all had a wonderfull Christmas,us too!!!! Before i proceed i want to send my heartfelt thankyou to you all donators,sponsors and friends who donated your money and which through it it enabled all of our sponsored kids together with their families here in Mtwapa-Africa has a fabulous Christmas celebration!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also on before of my family who include my wife Emily,my elder son Keegan and his younger brother Shaquelle send their lovely Christmas greetings to you all and thankyou for the Christmas gifts.Also please receive Christmas greetings and thanks on behalf of the Mtwapa Academy school director-Rahab and all the parents in the Mtomondoni sponsorship Program.Everyone was very happy to receive the Christmas gifts and all had a wonderfull Christmas.Thankyou,Thankyou,Thankyou to all.

Following the successfull the recent giving out of the Christmas gifts which took place on 24th December i.e a day before Christmas to all the kids and families,i've posted for you all the pictures which i took on the Christmas eve and during the Christmas day too,please have a look in our picture gallery and i hope you''ll all love the pictures.

Please note that there are two kids i.e Grace and Francis who haven't yet received their gifts since they had travelled visiting the relatives very far from Mtwapa and soon they are back they'll collect their Christmas gifts too and then send over their pictures too.Thankyou to all onmce again and be blessed.

As we usher in the new year 2014,i want to send to you a message of HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014.Wish you all a prosperous new year too.

With lots of love,

           from,

           Moses.

(Sponsorship co-ordinator-Africa.)


more Christmas photos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2013-12-30

Hi! Everyone,

I've today posted more Christmas so please have a look from our picture gallery.Hope you'll all love the pictures!!! I'll send the final pictures tommorow so please keep in touch!!!

            'kwaheri' bye bye,

                 from,

                    Moses.


Happy New Year 2014!!!!!!!!!!!!

2013-12-31

Hi! everyone,

    Thanks to everyone for being part of us and   for being such good friends of our Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program.From me,my wife Emily,my sons Keegan and Shaquelle want to wish you all a Happy and prosperous New Year 2014!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also on behalf of all the sponsored kids,parents and the Mtwapa Academy school director-Rahab convey their  best New Year wishes to you all.We love you all and may the Almighty God bless you all together with your families and hope to be together again in the New Year 2014.

Lastly i have today posted the remaining kids pictures ref.Christmas 2013.Thanks.

                                              With lots of love,

                                                       from,

                                                          Moses(Sponsorship co-ordinator-Africa).
 


. Kids Christmas greeting cards, letters and parcels from sponsors.

2014-01-23

Happy New Year 2014!!!!!!!!!!! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, us too. On happy to inform you that some of our kids and parents received Christmas greeting cards, letters and parcels  from some of the sponsors. On behalf of all the kids, I want to say thank you to every one of you who sent greetings in form of cards, letters and presents to our kids here in Africa.

Here below is the list of the kids who received;-

 Name of kid/parent/school                                    Sender/sponsor                                   Contents

 1.Kabibi         

 Bradbury family.        

Chocolate, notebook, pens, birthday card and letter.    

2.Gibson

Paula Burton and Dave Burton.

Christmas card.

3.Happy

Paula Burton and Dave Burton

4.Pendo

Lynn Wann, Steve and Karen Taylor.

 Christmas cards.

5.Samuel Benson

Lynn Wann.

Christmas cards.

6.Mr and Mrs. Benson

Lynn Wann.

Christmas cards.

7.Rahab(school director)

Paula Burton and Dave Burton,Roger and Sue.

Christmas cards.

On behalf of all of the above who received, I want to say thank you once again for everything, we also appreciate you remembering us,

                                            With lots of love,

                                                                       From

                                                                            Moses.


Thankyou to New Sponsors from Moses,Ibrahim,William and Albert.

2014-01-23

Hi! Steve and Karen Taylor, Mike Wann and Lucien Sepedee.

Happy New Year to you all from here in Africa!!!!!!!! First and foremost I want to welcome you all to our Mtomondoni sponsorship program family again this year 2014.Also I want to extend my welcome to Luciano Sepedee who is new to our program welcome Luciano and thank you soo much for accepting to be part of us.

To Mike Wann,Steve and Karen Taylor,I want to thank you very much for your continued support to our Mtomondoni sponsorship program. Surely your contribution to our sponsorship program is immense and I can only say in the African way…..’Asante sana’ thank you soo much.

Ibrahim, Albert and William were happy to receive on the news in regard to their new sponsorship which you Luciano Sepedee,Mike Wann,Steve and Karen Tailor  through Gail and Sara are sponsoring them. On behalf of the kids please receive lots of greetings and appreciation from the kids and from us all here in Africa.

Please check on the next entry on thank you letter s individually written by Albert, Ibrahim and William to their new sponsors. Also see the kids’ photos from the picture gallery.

In the next week I’ll be posting group pictures according to classes and I hope you’ll be able to identify your kids.Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou.

                           Regards,

                                Moses.


From Ibrahim to Steve and Karen Taylor.

2014-01-23

Dear Steve and Karen Taylor.

Hi! How are you?  Am 14 years old and in STD 7 here at Mtwpa Academy.I hope you are fine with your family.My family is fine too.In our family were are seven menbers i.e me,my mother,my granmother,my grand father,my uncle,my aunt and my sister.My mother's name is called Thuweba.Our family is a muslim family therefore during weekends i normal attend the muslim special classes called 'madrass'.During the month of Ramadhan i also fast.

Next year i'll be proceeding to STD 8 which is a final class in the primary school.My favourite colours are red and black.My favorite food is chips,chicken,beef and mutton meat.In our school we have a scouting club where am a commando.At the school am also a school time keeper where i ring the school bell after every period.

I want to thankyou very much for sponsoring me and therefore continue to work very hard and get good grades.When i complete my studies i'd like to be a captain.

My best friends are Wycliff,Melvin,Solomon,Derrick,William,Musa,Mustafa,Abdul,Titus,Salim and Albert.they are my friends because  they sometime help me in ringing the bell and aslo assist me is my studies.

My favorite subjects are Maths,English.Science,Creative Arts,Social Studies and Islamic Religion Education (IRE).

I live a few metres from the school within the Mtwapa village.I hope  we will continue to communicate with each other so as i may be able to know more about you and your family too.

Thankyou once again for sponsoring me and glad to know you as my new sponsor, i received the news of you as my new sponsors from Gail and Sara through Moses.I welcome you to Kenya and i'll be happy to see you.I pray for success in everything you do as husband and wife.

May God bless you,

yours faithfully child,

Ibrahim.


From Albert to Mike Wann.

2014-01-23

Dear Mike Wann,

Hello! My name is Albert. Am 14 years old and in STD 7.I hope you are fine too just like me. My family is a nuclear family. My mother is called Joyce and my father is called Anderson. We are six children in our family i.e 3 girls and 3 boys. Our first born is a girl called Winnie who is now pursuing a course in medical nursing as she wants to be a nurse. Our second born is called Robert who is 18 years old and he’s now in secondary school form 3.Our third born is called Nancy who is also in secondary school form 1.Am the 4th born in our family. The 5th born is a boy called Nelson and is in STD 1 and finally the 6th and last born is still a baby.

In future I want to be an Engineer.Thankyou for the wonderful thing which you’ve have done to me Mike by sponsoring me, may God bless you. I wish you could come to Kenya one day and visit me.

During my free time I usually read my books. My favorite game is football which I mostly play with my friends during weekends.

Thank you very much and may God bless you forever.

              Yours faithfully kid,

                  Albert.


From William to Luciano Sepedee.

2014-01-23

Dear Luciano Sepedee,

I hope you are fine together with your family. My name is William Benson. Am 13 yeas old and in STD 7.Next year I will be a candidate for the final primary school exam called Kenya Certificate of Primary Education(KCPE) after which I’ll be proceeding to secondary school. My family is fine. In my family I have two brothers and one sister, am a last born in our family. My bothers names are Samuel, James and my sister is called Zeinab.

Am doing well at school and I therefore thankyou Luciano for sponsoring me. I therefore promise to continue working hard as your sponsorship has given me more strength and energy to continue with my studies. My favorite subjects are P.E,Kiswahili, and English. My favorite food is ‘ugali’ i.e cooked corn flour, rice and beans. My favorite games are football and running. At school we do have games time where I play with my school mates.

Am very much glad for sponsoring me. May God bless you, Love from,

                                                                                                                William.


Mtomondoni Sponsorship program extends its helping hands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2014-01-23

Hi! Everyone,

2014 has been an eye opener for 64 kids from Mtwapa Academy after the kids received textbooks courtesy of Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program.

As you all know, during the New Year kids do move to higher classes and due to that they need new books. At the moment the cost of buying new textbooks has almost doubled compared to the previous year as a result many parents are unable to afford buying textbooks due to the recent increase of government taxes.

So as to assist the kids who are unable to purchase books, the Mtomondoni Sponsorship program under the directorship of Gail and Sara thought it better to extend its helping hands by providing book loan to some of the kids in Mtwapa Academy who are in need of the textbooks and are unable to buy them.

The textbooks loaned to the kids were program books which had remained in the program books stock due some of the Mtomondoni Sponsorship kids having moved to secondary schools after completed their primary school i.e STD 8.

The book loaning period is 1 year after which in the end of the third term which is a final term of the year, all books will be recalled back by Moses(Sponsorship co-coordinator) and reissue them again in the following year. Also monthly checkup of the books will be conducted by Moses so as to check on the proper usage and keeping of the books from all the kids who received the program books.

The books were distributed in all the classes’ i.e from STD 1-STD 8.

All the kids who received the books were happy to receive them, please check in the next entry for letters of appreciation from STD 1- STD 8 written to Gail and Sara on behalf of all the sponsors in Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program, please have a read,thankyou.

               Yours in service, Moses Kopulo(Sponsorship coordinator-Africa).


Thankyou Sara and Gail for the books!!!!!!!!Mtwapa Academy kids speak.

2014-01-23

From Caro to Gail and Sara,

Hi! Gail and Sara,

On behalf of standard 1 pupils, I thank you for giving us textbooks through Moses which will help us a lot in our class during learning. May God bless you.

Yours faithfully,

Caro.

From Rachel to Sara and Gail,

Hi! Sara and Gail,

On behalf of class two, I say thank you for the books which we received from Moses. The books are helping us in our studies.

May God bless you,

Yours faithfully,

Rachel.

From Brenda to Sara and Gail,

Dear Sara and Gail,

I hope you are all fine.On hehalf of all STD 3 pupils I take this time to thankyou for giving us the textbooks which were given to us by Mr.Moses.

May God bless you all.

Yours faithfully,

Brenda.

From STD 4 to Sara and Gail,

Dear Sara and Gail,

Receive greetings from Mtwapa Academy class four pupils.We are greatfull for the textbooks that we received books from Mr.Moses.

On behalf of class fours’ who received the textbooks,we have appreciated your support and concern to us.We are going to make use of them in order to acquire the knowledge inside.

The books have assisted us in finishing our home works which were are normal given by our teachers.Also they have assisted us in reading interesting stories inside the books.

We in class four intend to work hard and become future leaders of our nation and the world at large.

We are very greatful and thankful for your continued support to us.

from

STD 4.

From STD 5 to Sara and Gail,

Dear Sara and Gail,

How are you? I hope you are both fine and well. Please greet for me all Babington College pupils and teachers.

The aim of writing this letter is to thank you for the textbboks which we were given by Mr.Moses.The text books are helping us a lot.

I pray to God so that He can bless you abundantly and so that you can be able to do many more things to our school.

May the Almighty Lord reward your kindness.

From STD 5 pupils.

From STD 6 to Sara and Gail,

Dear Sara and Gail,

How are you?I hope you are fine  in your job. How are your parents and the rest of your families? Please pass our greetings to them all.All class six here in Mtwapa Academy are fine too.

We are grateful for what you have done fo us and we are proud for it. We thank you because you have helped our life by helping us get the text books, we all thank you for that.

We promise you that we will pass our examination as we now have all the textbooks and good teachers who are able to help us. We are miss you.

We are happy to our school, we like it, just like you like it.

We wish you two and your families all the best and may God bless you and you job as what you have done to us for all of us here in Africa.

From

STD 6.

From STD 7 to Sara and Gail,

Dear Sara and Gail,

Receive greetings from pupils at Mtwapa Academy who are now in class 7.We are very humbled for the textbooks which you provided forus.On behalf of all those pupils who received your support of the books we all say thankyou.The books are helping us a great deal in doing our home works given by our teachers. We promise to to double our efforts academically to that we can achieve high scores.

Thank you for your continued support. May you have good moments over there in England.

From,STD 7.

From STD 8 to Sara and Gail,

Dear Sarah and Gail,

How are you? It’s our hope that you are alive and kicking!! We are all doing well too and we appreciate what you have done for us.

Furthermore we all bind our hearts to thank you for whatever you have done to us ever since you started helping our school.

This year we got some textbooks from you and we are very happy as kings because through this help it’s like we have seen the door of excellence opening. Although pupils have many needs, books are needed most and through the books we believe we’ll make a new record in terms of performance in which the sky is the limit.

We promise that we are going to use the textbooks in the right way that can lead to excellency.We will work hard because hard work pays.

Yours faithfully,

STD 8 candidates.


Mtwapa Academy merges with Mtwapa Creek Junior School.

2014-01-23

Hi! Everyone,

It’s New Year with new developments!!!  As Mtwapa Academy receive permanent visitors!!!!!!!!! Well today I needed to inform you that there has been some new development at Mtwapa Academy since the beginning of this week and it’s all about school merging.

I want to believe that the merging has come as a result of the recent completion of the Mtwapa Academy School rebuilding after the demolition and the building of more permanent classrooms especially from the newly built kindergarten wing. Due to this the school has got a new ‘face’ which has attracted more kids joining the school. Apart from the individual kids joining the school, the new face of the school has attracted also some of the neighboring schools who are especially struggling to come up in terms of building and who are struggling to pay ground rent to the landlords. The recent development is that one of the neighboring schools have decided to merge with Mtwapa Academy, the school is called Mtwapa Creek Junior School which is situated about 150metres from Mtwapa Academy.

Briefly, Mtwapa Creek Junior School under the directorship of a lady teacher known as Frida has a population of  160 kids with  6 teachers. The school comprises from STD 1- STD 4. Having agreed with Rahab,Frida has now moved in into Mtwapa Academy with all of her kids and teachers as a result the entire kids population at Mtwapa Academy has now increased to more than 300 kids. Most of the kids from Mtwapa Creek Junior School are in the kindergarten while some few are spread across STD 1-STD 4.

I thought this information will be useful to all of our partner school based in England like Babington, John Cleveland College(JCC),Brockington College,Sketchley Hill Primary School and Gartree High school  especially in regard to the curriculum exchange programs and to all of Mtwapa Academy friends.

Please see photos which I recently took in regard to the merging during the first merging assembly.

For the schools from England who are planning to visit Kenya this year in July especially JCC and Brockington College, I want to say in the African way ‘Karibuni’ welcome to Kenya and at Mtwapa Academy.

Thank you and bye bye to everyone.

Regards,

Moses.


All sponsored kids at Mtwapa Academy receive their new uniform-2014!!!!!

2014-02-04

Hi! Everyone,

Many many greetings and 'jambos' from here in Mtwapa-Kenya(Africa)!!!!!!!!!! We are all doing fine here and so it's our sincere hope that you are all fine as well. As you all know the first school term of the new year  2014 is on and now have entered the second month,all the kids are enjoying their lessons in school.On behalf of all the sponsored kids at Mtwapa Academy,please receive lots of greeting too!!!!!!!!!!

I want to send my many thanks to all the sponsors through Gail and Sara who have been contributing towards the kids sponsorship program here in Kenya in which part of their fees contribution goes to uniform buying for all the sponsored kids here in Mtwapa Academy.

Am therefore happy to inform to post to you all, pictures of all the sponsored kids receiving their new uniform,please have a look from our picture gallery.

Thankyou once again fro beeing part us.

                         Regards,

                        Moses(Sponsorship Co-ordinator).


World's Big Commonwealth Assembly.

2014-03-15

Hi! Everyone,

First and foremost receive many greetings from all of us here in Mtwapa,hoping you are all doing fine and getting on well with everything.Thanks God too,the long rains have now started here in the Kenyan Coast after the recent long hot and dry period and we are all getting cool!!!!!!!!!

Well today, i needed to post over to you on a recent held event which took place over this week on 10th March 2014 from nearly all over the world and which was also observed here at the Mtwapa Academy i.e the World's Big Commonwealth Assembly.The theme of our the school was 'accesss to health,education,food and shelter' which is also one of the Commonwealth  values among others.

The above theme is very much important as per our Africa needs and especially to school children and the mothers.This is because most of the Kenyan communities and especially in the villages and rural areas they find it very difficult to access the health facilities and the most affected people being the expectant mothers.The expectant mothers are unable to walk long distances  whenever they need to deliver as most of the hospitals and dispensaries are situated very far away e.g 16 miles away ,also ambulances are not available or very scarce.As a result the expectant mothers are forced to deliver either in a less facilitated village dispensary or forced to deliver at home throught the help of the village mid-wives which is a health risk.

In terms of education,most of the village schools lack permanent buildings as a result kids are forced to learn in temporay class buildings or even some learn under trees or open air classes.Due to this it inconviniences the kids in learning as they face different challlenges like noise from passerbys,noise from hawkers,rains,sunny weather,strong winds etc.

In terms of food and shelter,most of the homes among the Kenyan communities are unable to have a well balanced diet and instead they eat unbalanced food or feed less due to poverty as a result kids in such kind of families are unable to go to school as due to hunger the are unable to concetrate in class.Most of these families are also unable to have proper built houses which are also not well ventilated houses as a result during heavy rains such kind of houses easily fall off.Also due to distance from home to school,some of the kids get to school late.

As per the Commonwealth values,we here in Mtwapa Academy observed this important day which was held on 10th March 2014.So as to send a message to everyone,the school organised for a special play to go along with the theme i.e accesss to health,education,food and shelter'.In the play there are three major scenes,the first scene is a play in which the villagers are seen attending a chief's meeting of which the chief(a government representative in the village) is addressing the villagers on the importance of good health,education,good food and shelter.

In the second scene which portrays a school class on session.Unfortunately the class is being conducted under an open air or rather under a tree!!! As result there is an interference from a hawker who is passing by the open air school and due to that the teacher is unable to continue with the class and so she calls off the lesson.

Finally is the third scene where it portrays a  play in which an expectant mother goes to a nearby village dispensary which had no facilities as a result the expectant mother strugggles with pain and getting very little help from the only village doctor who is also over woorked by too many patients.

I all here in Afrika-Kenya want to further acknowledge you all as sponsors and friends of the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program for you efforts in helping the kids overcome some of the above mentioned challenges and thus fullfilling the Commonwealth values.

Also i want to congratulate on all the efforts being made through the schools curriculum exchange programs from some of the schools in Englend  i.e John Cleveland College(JCC),Babington College,Brockington College,Sketchley Hill Primary School and Gartree High school.It's through such kind of programs on which school kids and communities benefit through  the different school based building projects.

I therefore hope you'll all enjoy seeing on the pictures and learn more from them.

Thankyou to everyone of you fro being part of us.

Yours in service (Moses Kopulo)

Sponsorship co-ordinator-Africa.


Secondary school-form 1 Kids(2014).

2014-04-03

Hi! Everyone.

'Jambo' from Mtwapa-Kenya!!! I guess you've all been doing well with everything,on behalf of all the sponsored kids here in Mtwapa,please receive many many greetings from them.

Well, today i needed to post over to you all on some news from some of our kids who completed their class 8 last year and who have now proceeded to secondary school.Before i proceed i want to send my many thanks to all of you sponsors who have made the education of the kids to smoothly continue.

Today we'll be featuring Hamisi,Justin,Kahindi and Samuel who are now in secondary school(form 1).Hope you'll enjoying seeing on their pictures too from our picture gallery,thank you and wish you all a great weekend.Yours in service,

                                                        Moses(Sponsorship co-ordinator-Africa).


Hamisi.

2014-04-03

Hi! everyone.

'My name is Hamisi Said aged 16 years old.Am happy to join the secondary school after 8 years in primary school,tha name of my school is called Mtwapa Elite Secondary School which is a mixed day school.Life in secondary school is very interesting compared to primary school because in secondary school you are required to go deeper in reading in all the subjects so as during exams you are able to answer the questions withiout any help from answer choices as in primary school.

I normal report to school at 6.30am and end my classes at 6.00pm.Over lunch time we do have a lunch break from 12.30 pm until 2.00 pm.In our class we are 53 students.The list of subjects we do areEnglish,Maths,Kiswahili,Biology,Chemistry,Physics,Agriculture,History and government,Christiaan Religious Education(CRE) and Geography.I've already started to have interest in Chemistry as i love doing the Chemistry practicals.

So as i can get good grades in secondary school i have planned to do lots of revision in my notes from the different subjects.

Finally to all the sponsors,i want to thank you all for the support you've given mee and which have enabled me proceed to secondary school'.

                    yours child,

                       Hamisi.


Kahindi.

2014-04-03

Hi! Everyone.

'Am Kahindi Benson aged 16 years and in secondary school called K.P Senior Secondary school here in Mtwapa.Am happy to join the secondary school and enjoy learning new subjects. In total we do 10 subjects i.e Kiswahili,English,Maths,Agriculture,History,Physics,Biology,Chemistry,Geography and Christian Religion Education(CRE).

In terms of extra curriculum activities,am happy to have joined the school handball team and also taking part in school athletics where i do take part in 200 metres running.

Eversince i joined secondary school,i've seen some differences compared to primary school i.e in secondary school one needs to have high speed in everything so as you are able to catch up with the learning.Also in secondary school most of the subjects are maths based and so one needs to learn lots of formulas so as you can be able to solve the questions asked.

Finally i'd like to thank all of my sponsors for continuing spionsoring me upto secondary school so that i can able to suceed in life,bye bye.'

                       from,

                     Kahindi.


Justin.

2014-04-03

Hi! Everyone,

'My name is Justin Benson aged 17 years  and now in secondary school form 1 at the K.P Senior Secodary school.Am happy to join the secondary school as and i now see myself growing to be an adult unlike when i was still in primary school.At the secondary school i've seen some differences in terms of the total number of subjects were are doing i.e 10 subjects while in primary school we were only doing 5 subjects.The 10 subjects are,Christian Religion Education(CRE),Maths,English,Kiswahili,Geography,History,Physics,Chemistry,Computer and Biology.

Am happy to be involved in school and be part of the school football team where i play the position of a striker.

Finally i need to send my appreciations to all of my sponsors for their kind heart towards my education.

          from,

           Justin.


Samuel.

2014-04-03

Hi! Everyone,

'Hope you are all fine,am Samuel Benson aged 16 years and have now joined the Secondary School called K.P Senior Secondary School.The subjects which i do are,Maths,Physics,English,Business Education,Geography,Chemistry,Biology,Agriculture,English and Kiswahili.

In school i've also joined the Christian Union Club and also in the school football team as a goal keeper.

Now that am in secondary school,i want to work very hard and be able to achieve my life dreams by first doing well in my examinations and be able to get a good job aso as a can able to help my family.

I also want to send my many thanks to all of my sponsors for continuing to sponsor me and i promise them that i'll keep on working hard'.

       from,

        Samuel.


STD 8 sponsored kids-2014.

2014-06-07

Hi! Everyone,

I guess you are all fine and getting on well with your work and everything.All of us here in Mtwapa are fine too.I also hope that you had a good Easter holiday and for those in school,i further hope that you've had a fabulous mid-term holiday.

Well i needed  to inform you that today we have special website report in regard to our program kids who this year are in their final primary school class i.e STD 8. It's from this class 8 whereafter the kids proceed to secondary school and whlie in secondary school they undergo a 4 year study period and thereafter the kids proceed to either in the University or proceed to undertake a trade or professional  course.

This year in our sponsorship program 3 of our kids i.e Salwa,Zawadi and Abdalla are now in their final primary school class i.e STD 8 in which they hope to be doing their final STD 8 exam popularly know as KCPE i.e the (Kenya Certificate of Primary Education) early November. Am happy to inform that all the kids are well prepared for the exam and have promised to come out with excellent results.Please read more on thye kids in the next post.

Finally i want to thankyou all as sponsors and friends of the  Mtomondoni sponsorship program for your continued support towards the kids here in Africa,be blessed.

Yours in service,

Moses Kopulo(Sponsorship Coordinator-Africa).


Zawadi.

2014-06-07

Hi! Everyone,

'My name  is Zawadi,aged 15 years and now in STD 8 at Mtwapa Academy.First and foremost i want to thank all of my sponsors who have continued to support me towards my education eversince i started school and i believe it's through the help of you my sponsors in which i've been able to reach my final primary school class and hoping proceed to secondary school next year.

Eversince i joined school and through out my study period, i've seen myself growing up well both physically and mentally.Previously when i was in the lower classes  i could not independendly  be able to decide whether to read or not but now that am grow nup and in the upper classes i can now plan on my study schedule without being reminded.Also am now able to help some of my friends who are having difficulties in some of the subjects unlike before when i was a little girl.

My school day normal starts at at 4.00 am when i wake up to first study my school notes until 5.50 am thereafter i start preparing my self for school and take my breakfast usual tea and bread where i report at school at 6.30 am.

While at school, i work so hard by attentevily listening to my subjects teachers.My favourite subjects are  English  and Kiswahili.My day in school ends at 6.30 pm where i proceed home.While at home i first do help my mother with some of the house hold works like washing the utensils,going to the shop to buy food and cooking.Later on after am through with my work in assisting my mother i start revising Sciene subject for 30 minutes followed by revising C.R.E thereafter i go to sleep at around 11.00 pm.

In my career i would want to be journalist as i have loved the job and i believe i have the confidence of speaking to the public.During  my weekends and in my leisure time, i like visistig my aunt,reading story books,watching movies in one of our neighborhood video house and visiting some of my friends whom i play with.

On Sundays i nomal go to church,the name of our Church is called Calvary Baptist Church which is situated a few metres from our house.While at the church we all sing praise songs and i also teach the youngs ones for the Sunday school.

As for my final preparation to my KCPE exam i believe i've well prepared my self by doing  lots of revision work and i hope to score more than 350 marks out of the 500 marks.

Finally i want to wish everyone a nice time.Yours loving child,Zawadi.'


Salwa.

2014-06-07

Hi! Everyone.

'My name is Salwa,aged 14 years,am happy to be sponsored in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. Before i was sponsored my mother uesd to struggle so hard so as to take me to school since she doesn't have a stable income.

My school day starts at 4.30 am when i wake up.Soon i wake up i start revising at least one subject and then i prepare my self for school.In the evening after school i do help my mother in some of her house work and i like assisting her when she wants to cook.After we all have our dinner i again start revising from 8.30 pm  until 10.00pm where i go to bed.

Being a Muslim, during my weekends i mostly go to the Madrassa( young Muslim school) on Saturday and Sunday mornings to learn more on the Quran and our religion where we mostly learn on the basics in regard to our Muslim faith.During Sunday afternoon after,i do have special reading schedule where i specifically do lots of revision and study on  I.R.E i.e Islamic Religion Education as it is also examined in my final primary school exam(KCPE).

My hobbies are listening to music,going to the beach and to walk along the beach.

As for my preparation to my K.C.P.E exam i make sure that am managing my time well and keep off from uncessarry works and following what my teachers are advising me on.

Finally i want to continue working hard and promising that i hope to score more than 400 marks.Yours loving child.Salwa.'


Abdalla.

2014-06-07

Hi! Everyone.

'My name is Abdalla aged 15 years and now in class 8 at Mtwapa Academy.Eversince i was sponsored and started to attend school i've realised the importance of education as i grow up i see the real life and so i now know the meaning of working hard and be able to realise my dreams of becoming an Engineer.i've so far learned that somebody needs to study very hard so as to get good marks and get a good secondary school.

Being a candidate,i have myself prepared a study schedule   for using to study while at home whereby i do lots ofrevision on past exam question papers for at least an hour in every study session.Everyday i study different subjects begginning from Monday to Saturday.i.e

               Mondays........................Maths and English.

               Tuesdays........................Social studies and Maths.

               Wednesdays...................Science and English.

               Thursdays........................Social studies and Kiswahili.

                Fridays............................General study on my school notes.

                Saturday............................Rest in the morning  thereafter in the afternnon i do revision on Social studies.

On Sundays i go to church in the morning until 2.00pm where i return home to wash my clothes and general cleaning of our home compound.

My hobbies are playing football.

In my K.C.P.E exam results i hope to get more 420 marks.

Finally i would like to promise everyone that i will continue to work hard.Yours kid,Abdalla'.


Moses.

2014-07-06

Hi! Everyone,i guess you are all doing fine wherever you are,with us here in Kenya everything is fine.First and foremost i want to thank each one of you i.e all of our friends in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program,sponsors and well wishers for you contributions towards our kids sponsorship,program here in Africa.We further want to ackonowledge from me and on behalf of all the kids in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program and happy to read on all of your messages which you've been posting through our website.

Finally am happy to post to you an update in  regard to two of our youngest kids i.e baby Gail and Gibson,please read on our next entry for details and pictures of the kids.

Thankyou once again and wish you all a blessed week.

Yours in service,

Moses(Sponsorship coordinator-Africa).
 


baby Gail

2014-07-06

Hi! Everyone,

Gail is the youngest sponsored kid in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program aged 5 and a half years and now in kindergarten 3 at Mtwapa Academy.Baby Gail's mum is called Amina Yusuf who also cooks for all the sponsored kids at Mtwapa Academy.Baby Gail comes from a Muslim family who according to the Muslim pillars they are now in the Holy month of Ramadhan.

Baby Gail loves playing with her friends during weekends and even in the evening after school.While in the houise baby Gail loves watching cartoons over the tv.Baby Gail's favourite food is rice with beef stew also she loves 'chapati' with beans.

From her class teacher madam Eva baby Gail is very active in both indoor and outdoor activities.Also baby Gail is very well displined and very good in oral activities and colouring.

The foolowing are the subjects which baby Gail do;-

       1.Language which include reading and identification of shapes etc.

       2.Number work which include additions,multiplication,division and substraction.

       3.Environmental which include learning things around us e.g trees etc.

       4.Creative which incude drawing,colouring etc

Also here below is baby Gail's school time table and general schedule of her day in school;-

       7.00am-8.00am..............reporting time and morning preps.

       8.00am-8.30 am.............assembly time.

      8.35am-9.30 am..............morning lessons session 1

      9.30 am-10.00am............ break time.

      10.00am-12.00 noon.........morning lessons session 2

      12.00noon-1.00pm............lunch time.

      1.00pm-1.30pm..............relaxing and sleeping time.

      1.30 pm-2.00pm.......... wake uip time and snacks time.

      2.00pm.-2.30 pm............afternoon session 1

      2.30pm-3.00pm.............afternoon lessdon 2

      3.00pm-3.30 pm...........afternoon lesson 3

      3.30pm-4.00pm.0fficial end of school day and preparation time for kids to get back home.

      4.00pm-5.00pm...........voluntary tuition lesson(extra coaching).

For pictures of baby Gail,please see on our picture gallery.

Thanks,

from Moses(on behalf of  baby Gail).

     


 


Gibson.

2014-07-06

Hi! Everyone,

 Gibson in one of the youngest boys in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program,now in STD 3 and aged 13 years old. Gibson hobbies are singing and dancing while his favourite game is football.Gibson favourite food is rice and beans.Gibson has lots of friends both at school and at home.From her teacher madam Getrude and i quote..........'Gibson is very good at singing and dancing' end of quote. The class teacher also says that Gibson class participation is very good and he is active and always improving.In terms of character,Gibson is very friendly to everybody in class and at school.Gibson has further shown much improvement as he can now copy his class notes from the black board,before Gibson had difficulties in copying.As a result nowadays Gibson doesn't need lots of assistance while in class unlike before.Another improvement is that Gibson can now spell and write sentences without any assistance unlike before.However his class teacher madam Getrude give Gibson some extra coaching while in class by making sure that Gibson sits very near to the teacher while in class.

Please see on our picture gallery for latest pictures of Gibson.

Bye from


Mtwapa Academy school(Kenya-Africa) well project completed-Thankyou John Cleveland College-England!!

2014-07-24

Hi! Everyone,

It's my sincere hope that everyone is doing fine and hoping that our friend school in England are enjoying their Summer holiday.We all here in Kenya-Mtwapa wish you all a happy Summer holiday.

The schools here in Kenya are on,however the 2nd academic term is just about to end and so the kids are preparing for their end of term exams as from next week after which the schools are expected to close for tyhe August holiday and reopen in the 1st week September 2014.

As you are all aware that eversince the year 2012,the Mtwapa Academy school with the support of John Cleveland College-England has been having a well project going on.Am happy today to inform you that the project is now complete!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From me and on behalf of the Mtomondoni sponsorship program family here in Africa,Rahab(the director of Mtwapa Academy),all students and teachers of Mtwapa Academy and everyone here in Mtwapa-Kenya  want to send our big THANKYOU to everyone of you whom we believe you've all contributed in one way or another.

Special thanks goes to Kate Cook,Roger Dainty and Danny Banks of John Cleveland College-England for their immense effort in coordination of the funding towards the Mtwapa Academy school well project which is now complete!!!!!!!!!!!!

More special thanks goes to all the students and teachers at John Cleveland College-England for their continued concern and contribution towards the well project,thank you,thankyou and thank you.

We also want to thankyou all of our friends in England who have ideally supportive on the well project and who have been always hoping and praying for the well project to complete,please accept our lots of aprreciations to each one of you.

Eversince the well project was complete,the Mtwapa Academy now has full time running water in the school upto the toilets which Rahab says................'it's a dream come true!!!!!!!!!'

We all wish you were all here in Kenya so as to celebrate with us on the completion of the well project.However attached,please see on our picture gallery for pictures of the final stages of completion of the well project and thankyou pictures from everyone at Mtwapa Academy.

With that i say' kwaheri' bye,

yours in service,

Moses Kopulo(Sponsorship/exchange program co-ordinator)-Africa.


New Sagail school(Kenya-Africa) completed!!!!!!!! Thankyou Brockington College-England!!!!!!!!!!

2014-07-25

Hi! Everyone.

Receive lots of 'Jambos' greetings from us all here in Mtwapa -Kenya.!!!!!!!!! It's great to inform you that the first phase of the new Sagail school is complete.The first phase of the new school building work included building of three classes,toilet rooms and water tank tower.Am therefore happy to send to you all today an official THANK YOU from me,the school headteacher madam Khadija,all the kids and teachers from Sagail school.Soon after completition and since the beginning of this term the kids has been learning in their new school.Thank you once again Brockington College!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We as Mtomondoni sponsorship program family here in Africa  join together with Sagail school to officially celebrate the building of the new school courtesy of Brockington College-England.

I personally want to congratulate Sarah Heggs of Brockington College-England for her continued support and coordination of the school building funding from her school making the New Sagail school building a great success!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cheers Sarah,Cheers Brockington College!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We all look forward for the second phase of additional classes at Sagail school and wish you all the very best at Brockington College.

With that i say' kwaheri' bye

from,

Moses Kopulo (Sponsorship/program exchange coordinator-Africa).


Wycliff Benson

2014-10-16

Hi! Everyone,

‘ My name is Wycliff Benson aged 13 years old, we are  total of 10 kids in our family i.e 7 brothers including myself,William,Justin,Kahindi,Samuel,Francis and Patrick. For the girls are Zena and Esther. Am now in STD 7 at Mtwapa Academy and I love going to school, I love it because the teachers in the school are friendly to all of us kids and teach well, actually Mtwapa Academy offers the best learning environment to students. My favorite food is ‘chapati’ and Beans.

Now that am in std 7,I have realized that it’s a challenging class so I need to work extra hard so as to be able to proceed to my next class  std 8 which is the final class in primary school. I’ve further realized that it’s at STD 7 where you feel that somebody’s knowledge of understanding expands. Also in std 7 we learn more about the African continent and more about the human body in Science

As I approach std 8, I have also made some study strategies so as to score high marks in my final exams, this is by revising past examination question papers from different neighboring school friends.

So as to achieve higher marks in my final exam I have at the moment drawn up a special timetable which it will be guiding me in my study schedule while am at home in the evening as from 6.30 pm and during weekends. Here below is my kind of study timetable;-

Monday………………revise on all the very challenging subjects.

Tuesday……………..revise on the previous day’s work.

Wednesday………..revise on the medium challenging subjects.

Thursday……………revise on English.

Friday………………..revise on Maths.

Saturday……………revise on science and Kiswahili.

After doing my study and revision I take a shower, have my dinner and then got to sleep at 9.30 pm.

In the morning I wake up at 5.30 am then read on any of my school work for about 30 minutes and after that I start preparing for school. Am happy that am good at Maths and I do assist my classmates in learning Maths.

While at home I also do help my parents in doing some domestic work like going to the shop to buy groceries, fetching water and filling in the water buckets for my mother to use.

For my career I’d like to be a soldier where I will want to join the Kenya Army so as to protect my country.

Finally as we approach Christmas season I’d like to wish all my sponsors and everyone a happy Christmas with love from,Wycliff.’


Pendo Benson.

2014-10-16

 Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Pendo Benson aged 14 years old. Am currently in STD 7 at Mtwapa Academy. Generally I can say being in std 7 is challenging because some subjects appear fair while some appear to be difficult but due to constant revision and seeking for assistance from my teachers and my classmates I’ve been able to overcome this challenge. I’ve realized that in order to perform well in class a student need to disciplined and show high respect to the teachers. I love Mtwapa Academy as students are performing well and enjoying lots of sports.

My normal school day starts when I wake up at 4.30 am where I start reading by revising my school notes and later prepare myself for school. While at school I do interact with some of my friends in std 8 and getting ideas on how to do well in STD 8.By so doing it gives me the confidence of approaching STD 8.

While at home I do help my mother in washing utensils, fetching water and washing clothes.

For my future career I’d like to be a doctor where I believe I’ll be helpful to my community too.

Finally to all my sponsors and everyone I’d like to send happy Christmas message to you and be blessed with love from,Pendo


Ibrahim

2014-10-16

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Ibrahim Omar aged 13 years and in STD 7.I live with my mother, grandmother 2 uncles and my aunt. I come from a Muslim family. My favorite food is ‘chapati’ and beans. I like STD 7 class as it has taught me on the importance of working together as a student team and helping one another in terms of weak subjects’ promotions. Am happy that am good at Maths which I can further be able to assist my friends in doing well in the subjects.. However there has been only one subject which has been challenging to me i.e Social studies. It is with the social studies we study about climatic changes, fishing, farming, and world and Africa continent maps.

Apart from the schoolwork and being a Muslim I do attend ‘Madrassa’ Muslim youth class in the evening after classes. From ‘madrassa’ I go home, does my home work at 7.00pm, later I revise Maths and Science during week days. During the weekend I revise social studies and Kiswahili.

My school day begins at 5.00 am where I wake up, revise my school work until 5.30 am where I pray, go to shower, take breakfast and then go to school.

As  I prepare for the next class i.e std 8 I want to increase my marks by doing more revision. For my career I would like to be Captain this is because am longing to visit different countries of the world.

Finally to my sponsors I want to say thank you for the sponsorship and further wish you all a happy Christmas with love from, Ibrahim.’


William Benson

2014-10-16

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is William Benson aged 14 years in currently at Mtwapa Academy. Since I joined std 7 I have found out that it’s a challenging class especially in Maths, however in times of a difficult topic in Maths I seek assistance from some of my classmates who are good at the subject. Am happy that am also good at Kiswahili, English and Social studies in which I do help my class mats too who may be weak in these subjects. Something unique about our STD 7 class is that we do pray every morning before we start our lessons and makes us be like a family.

As I approach std 8  I want to work extra hard so as I score more than 350 marks ,this is by reading ahead of any following topic in a given subject. In future I’d like to be an engineer as am good at Maths and Science.

My favorite food is ‘ugali’ and cabbage. At home I do help my parents in fetching water and cooking. For my free time I like reading story books and playing football.

Finally to all my sponsors and everyone, I want to thank you for the sponsorship and enjoy your Christmas with love from, William.’


Albert.

2014-10-16

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Albert aged 13 years old and currently in STD 7 at Mtwapa Academy. At home we are a family of 3 boys and 3 girls. My favorite food is ‘pilau’,’ugali and vegetables.

About std 7, I may say that it’s neither a tough class nor an easy class what mostly is needed in this class is working extra hard. Also by revising past exam question papers and active participation in class helps a lot in performing well in this class. Am happy that I very good at Kiswahili and so am able to assist my friends too.

I like my Mtwapa Academy as it’s a nice school and has good teachers. During my free time I like playing football and assist my parents in some house work.

Finally to my sponsors I want to appreciate all what they’re done to me so far in terms of sponsorship and wish them all a Happy Christmas, with love, from Albert’


Mtwapa Academy-STD 8 prayer day.

2014-11-04

Hi! Everyone,

I guess you are all doing fine wherever you are, us too were are getting on well here at Mtwapa.Seems this year 2014 has moved so fast and can’t imagine that we are  about to celebrate Christmas!!!!!!! From me, the director of Mtwapa Academy madam Rahab,the school head teacher Mr.Haro,all teachers from Mtwapa Academy ,parents of the sponsored kids and all kids would like to send our many thanks to all the sponsors and everyone for your concern and support in regard to the kids education here in Africa.

Am happy today to inform you that 3 of our sponsored kids in Std 8 i.e Salwa,Zawadi and Abdalla have from today commenced on  their end of primary school national examination i.e the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education(KCPE) which will be on until Thursday 6th November 2014,however the rehearsal was conducted yesterday on Monday 3rd November. The subjects to be examined are Mathematics,English(grammar and composition),Kiswahili(grammar and composition),Science,Religious Education(both Islamic and Christianity) and Social studies which include Geography and History.The total no. of kids sitting for the exam is 23 kids. The results are expected to be out few days after Christmas, thereafter the kids will be proceeding to various secondary school as from next year.

Over last week the school held a special prayer day for all the KCPE candidates, please see in our picture gallery for details of pictures. Yesterday morning  i was able to speak with some of the candidates before the rehearsals and have confidence that they will perform well.

Finally I would like to send my Christmas greetings to everyone and thank you soo much for being part of us,be blessed………………….HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!! With lots of love,

From,

Moses (Sponsorship coordinator-Africa.)


Christmas gifts 2014 from England to Africa families!!!!!!!!!Thank you to you all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2014-12-26 to 2014-12-27

Hi! Everyone,

Merry Christmas to you all !!!!!!!!!!! Hope you've all had a fabulous Christmas time with your families. With us here in Mtwapa,Africa we had very exciting moments as all the sponsored kids and parents received the Christmas gifts from all the donators in England who contributed to the gifts!!!!!!!!! We all want to thank all sponsors and friends of the Mtomondoni sponsorship program who have been supportive to the education program of our kids here in Africa,be all blessed for your  great concern.

Thankyou too our program directors Gail and Sara for your hardwork and efficiency towards the Christmas fundraising which is now a success!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Am further happy to tell you that the Christmas day and gift receiving to the kids and parents of the sponsored kids was very successfull,from me and on behalf of the families i want to send my heartfelt appreciation and many thanks to all the donators who made it possible for the families to enjoy theChristmas day from the the food and all the other gifts donated.

Please see on our picture gallery for picture details of the families receiving the gifts.

However am sorry to inform you that three of the sponsored kids i.e Vidzo,Francis and Shadrack were absent during the gift receiving.With Vidzo and Shadrack they had both travelled a distance to greet some of their family members and expected to return by 1st of January next year while with Francis he was unwell. However the Michael family gift where Vidzo belongs was received by her two sisters(Kabibi and Loice) and mother while with Francis his gift was received by his mum.Shadrack will be receiving his gift soon he returns and then update his picture too.

With that i want to wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Be blessed.

Yours in service,

Moses Kopulo.

(Sponsorship coordinator-Africa).


Esther

2015-01-18

Hi! Everyone,

Happy new year 2015!!!!!!!!! My name is Esther Kyalo,am happy to be continue being in the Mtomondoni  sponsorship program as through the program which has made me to see a bright future.Thank you to all of my sponsors who have been paying for my education.

Am happy to inform you that am now under going a training in tailoring and dressmaking course grade 3 at an institution called Bura Vocational Rehabilitation Centre which is situated in Bura which is passed Voi on your way to Nairobi.

The subjects which am doing at the moment are fashion design,garment making,woodwork technology,computer studies ans Social studies.Please see pictures of me on my school uniform holding my drawing book and a picture of me with my mother at our house.

My teachers are Mwamure,Baridi,Kitone,Mwololo and Nderitu,they are all good teachers.

Thank you,

yours,Esther.


STD 8 2014 kids-KCPE results released.

2015-01-18

Hi! Everyone,

Happy New year!!!!!!!!!!! Hope you all had goodtimes over the Christmas holiday and ushered in well the new year 2015.We all here in Mtwapa-Kenya had great and exciting times too.

The schools reopened since  5th Januaryfor the first academic term for this year and all kids are back to school and settled.

Am happy to inform you that the KCPE results for the last year STD 8 kids i.e Salwa,Abdalla and Zawadi who did their final primary school exam i.e the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exam-KCPE last year  2014 are now out and our kids performed well and among the top ten kids in the lot in the school! Here below are the results;-

1.Salwa.

         Subject……………………….marks (out 100%)……………………….grade.

        English……………………………63…………………………………………..B-

        Kiswahili…………………………66…………………………………………..B

         Maths……………………………80…………………………………………..A

        Science………………………….55…………………………………………..C+

          Social studies…………………52……………………………………….....C

                  Total marks attained…………316 out 0f 500.

2. Abdalla.

    Subject…………………………..marks………………………………………grade.

    English……………………………..59……………………………………….. C+

      Kiswahili………………………….68…………………………………………B

    Maths……………………………...60………………………………………....B-

    Science………………………..….52…………………………………………..C

   Social studies…....….…………...72……………………………………………B+

           Total marks attained………………311 out 500.

3. Zawadi.

Subject……………………………marks……………………………..grade.

         English…………………………..45……………………………………….C

        Kiswahili…………………………70………………………………………..B+

       Maths…………………………….40……………………………………..…C-

       Science…………………………..42………………………………………..C-

       Social studies…...………………61…………………………………………B-

             Total attained marks……………………258 out 500.

Summary of the KCPE results;-

Best performed boy in Maths………………Abdalla.

Best performed boy in CRE………………...Abdalla.

Best performed girl n Maths…………………Salwa.

Best performed girl in English……………..Salwa.

Best performed girl in Science…………….Salwa.

Best performed girl in Kiswahili………….Zawadi.

With above marks our kids will obvious get good schools which are expected to be out early next month.I'll update you on their new secondary school soon they admission letters are out.

Finally i want to send my many many thanks to all the sponsors of the above kids and to all the rest of the sponsors and friends whom you've all contributed to the success of our kids towards their education.Be blessed as we enter this new year 2015.

Yours in service,

Moses Kopulo (sponsorship co-ordinator-Africa)


Happy New Year to all the Christmas gifts donators and THANK YOU from Mtwapa-Kenya!!!!

2015-02-08

Hi! Everyone,

Happy New Year 2015!!!!!!!! It's my sincere hope that you all ushered in well the New Year.We are all doing fine here in Mtwapa-Kenya.In terms of the weather at the moment,it's been sunny and hot throughout the day and breezy too as Mtwapa is located some few kilometres away from the Indian Ocean.

Well the main purpose of today's update is to acknowledge you all and to thank you all of the previous Christmas gift donators who generously contributed and donated food supply,household items e,g mattresses and mosquito nets,chickens and made some of the kids to have an exclusive Christmas treat through shopping of their choice!!!!!!!!!!! From me and on behalf of the kids parents and relatives i want to once again say thank you,thank you and thankyou.

I hope you've all seen the pictures of all the sponsored families receiving their Christmas gift,which i say 'asante sana' thank you soo much  for making it happen.

Next after this post are messages of thanks from the sponsored families,please have a read.

With that i say,'kwaheri' bye

regards,

Moses(Sponsorship co-ordinator-Africa).


From Amina,baby Gail and Lukeman to Gail.

2015-02-08

Hallo Gail,

Happy New Year!!!!!!! I hope you are fine, me too. How is your family going on in England? I hope it is ok!!! My family is good and well. Am happy that baby Gail was promoted to standard 1 this year, she is going on well, thank you for continuing to support her up to this far and may the almighty God bless you and your family.

I also want to thank you for the Christmas presents and I really appreciated them as me and my family enjoyed the food. Finally I want to wish you a happy new year and God guide you well throughout this year with lots of love.

Yours friend Amina(baby Gail and Lukeman’s mum)


from Alfred Mugambi to Gerald Trevor.

2015-02-08

Dear Gerald,

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!! How merrily was your Christmas? I bet it was merrier than mine, otherwise am fine and even much finer!!! Am happy to inform you that this year am in class 7 and getting on well with my studies.

Am writing this message to thank you for the Christmas presents the food, the mosquito net and the lovely mattress!!! Since then I sleep better than ever with no mosquitoes, thank you very much Gerald and may God bless you with your family.

During Christmas we cooked rice ‘wali’(in Kiswahili) and beef fry, we really enjoyed the food, thank you very much.

Yours faithfully child,

Alfred Mugambi.


from Ibrahim Omar to Karen and Steve Taylor.

2015-02-08

Dear Karen and Steve Taylor,

Hello!!!!!!!!!! Happy New Year!!!!!!! I hope you are fine with your family, back here we are also doing great.

The aim of writing this letter is to first to thank you for proving me and my family food i.e rice, beans, wheat flour, maize flour, sugar and cooking oil during Christmas, thank you. My grandmother and my mum have also sent their thanks to you all for the concern you had to our family.

May God bless you all abundantly so that you can continue reaching out for more people and helping and children who are in need of any help. Thank you very much and wish you a happy new year. Good bye.

Yours faithful child,

Ibrahim Omar.


from Ibrahim to Laura Fryer.

2015-02-08

Dear Laura,

Hello, I hope you are fine with your family, back here we are doing great.

The aim of writing this message is to thank you for proving my family with the chicken which you bought for us during Christmas day. We are so grateful for your concern to our family.

Lastly am taking this opportunity to wish you a blessed New Year, may God bless you abundantly so that you can continue reaching out for people and children who are in need of your help. Thank you very much.

I hope I’ll soon read from you, goodbye.

Yours faithful,

Ibrahim Omar.


from Asma to Peta Carlino.

2015-02-08

Dear Peta Carlino,

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!How are you? I hope you are fine, also me am fine. How is England going on? I hope it is good. How is your family?

My name is Asma Alex learning at Mtwapa Academy, this year am in class 7,am 12 years old, black in color. Am neither short nor tall.

I want to thank you for giving me and my family Christmas chicken, here is how I cooked the chicken…………….. I first slaughtered the chicken, prepared it by putting it in boiling water, removed its feathers, cut it into pieces and cooked by frying it with cooking oil, tomatoes and onions. Everyone in my family enjoyed the delicious meal cooked from the chicken.

Thank you yours child,

Asma,


from Asma to Laura Fryer.

2015-02-08

Dear Laura Fryer,

Happy New Year!!!!!!!! How are you my best pal? I hope you are fine.How is the weather in England at the moment? It’s very hot here in Kenya!

My main aim is to thank you for what you did to me and my family during Christmas, I really appreciated so much. With the food we used to make various food delicacies e.g with the maize flour we made ‘ugali’ with it.From the wheat flour we made ‘chapatis’.Also had sugar, beans, rice which we cooked ‘pilau’ and cooking oil. We really enjoyed cooking the food.I finally wish you all the best this year.

Yours faithful,

Asma Alex.


from Albert to Vicki.

2015-02-08

Dear Vicki,

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!! How are you? I hope you are fine, we are fine too. Am doing well in school and now in the final primary school class std 8.I usually work very hard in my studies.

 I want to pass my greetings to you with flying colors!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s my hope that the weather in your country is fine.

The main reason am writing this message is that I want to thank you for the Christmas chicken you gave to me, it really made us enjoy the day after my mother cooked it.

Finally I want to thank you for you kindness, I wish you happy times in your country during this New Year. May God bless you.

Yours child,

Albert.


from Albert to Mike Wann.

2015-02-08

Dear Mike Wann,

Happy New Year!!!!!!!! How do you do? It’s my hope that you are fine, My family here in Kenya is fine too. Am doing well in school and now in std 8 which is the final class in primary school. I usually work hard in my studies.

I want to pass my greetings to you with flying colors. It’s my hope that the weather in your country is fine.

The main reason am writing this message is that I want to thank you for the food which you donated to me and my family during Christmas. We enjoyed the food and also helped us have some food supply for some few days. Thank you for your kindness.

Finally I want to wish you all the best in whatever you’ll be doing this year, happy New Year once again and may God bless you.

Yours child,

Albert.


from Sheila to Alison Chapman.

2015-02-08

Dear Alison Chapman,

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!! Hope you are doing well together with your family, am good too.

I take this opportunity to thank you for the Christmas gift which you donated to me i.e the mattress, food and the chicken. I really loved them and may God bless you together with your family. It really made my Christmas holiday fabulous!!! My Christmas holiday was good, what about yours?

This is my final year in secondary school, am now in form 4 and hope to sit for my final secondary school exam called Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) towards the end of the year. I pray to God that I will make it.

Please Alison, pass my greetings to your family and all of your friends, I long to see you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yours loving girl,

Sheila.


from Sheila to Brenda Stafford.

2015-02-08

Dear Brenda Stafford,

Happy New Year!!!!!!! Hope you are fine. Me and my family are fine too, what about yours?

This is my final year in secondary school and I hope to be sitting for my final exam called Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) towards the end of this year. Am working hard to achieve good grades.

The main aim of sending this message is to thank you for the Christmas gift of food supply, it really made my Christmas a happy one, thank you.

I too enjoyed by Christmas holiday, what about you. Please Brenda pass my greetings to the rest of your family and relatives. I love you all and pray for you too.

Bye, bye,miss you!!!!,

Yours loving daughter,

Sheila.


from Salwa to Vicki.

2015-02-08

Dear Vicki,

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!! How are you? I hope that you are fine.How is everyone over there? I hope that they are fine and kicking!!! Am also very fine over here.

 I have written this message for the purpose of thanking you for the Christmas gift,I really appreciated what you’ve done for me.During Cristmas we cooked a lot of food and invited our family members.We cooked ‘pilau’ from the rice and then went to City Mall(next to Nakumatt supermarket) where we had fun with my friends.

The KCPE were out recently and am happy to tell you that I passed well i.e I had a total of 316 marks out of 500 marks.I therefore hope to join the secondary school soon.Thank you too for your support in my education.

May all of you have aa happy and a prosperous New Year. May the Almighty God bless you,chao!!!!!!!!

Yours loving daughter,

Salwa.


from Mapenzi to Mike Wann.

2015-02-08

Dear Mike Wann,

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!! It is great pleasure if you are fine, like wise to me and my family.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the wonderful gifts that you gave to me during Christmas. I really appreciate and congratulate you for your kind heart that you showed to me and my family. May God bless the work of your hands.

During the Christmas holiday I went to a town called Kilifi which is a about 30 miles away from Mtwapa to my aunt’s place. At my aunt’s there was a party for all of our family members and it was good to meet with most of my relatives, we ate and danced to the music which further made me happy after the Christmas treat from you.

With the rice and chicken we cooked chicken ’pilau’ which was very delicious.

Yours loving daughter,

Mapenzi.


from jacinta(((Francis' mum) to Eve.

2015-02-08

Dear Eve,

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!! Am very grateful for the Christmas gift of food supply and chicken which I received from you during Christmas, may God bless you and add for you more to your income and abundantly. I also pray for you to prosper all through and may you have joy in your life.

My name is Jacinta Komu (mother to Francis),I received the Christmas gift on behalf of my son Francis who was unwell that day of receiving and want to thank you for everything which I received. Francis has now fully recovered waiting for his secondary school final results which are expected to be out before end of this month. He too sends his greetings to you.

May God bless you and have a happy New Year, please Eve pass my greetings to everyone in your family.Chao!!!!!!!!

Yours,

Jacinta (Francis’s mum).


from Baraka Omar to Sara.

2015-02-08

Dear Sara,

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!! Hoping you are fine with everyone In England. How is everything? With me everything is fine and good. I really had a fantastic Christmas holiday.

Am so grateful Sara for making my Christmas day successful. Also during the long Christmas holiday  I have enjoyed visiting my relatives and friends who live far from me. How is your family doing?

The aim of writing this message is to return my sincere gratitude for the  Christmas  treat which I received from you and also the kind of support you’ve showed to me.With the money you sent to me for the Christmas treat I bought useful items which helped a lot, the items were like toiletries which include bathing soap, washing powder, hair jelly, hair shampoo and other items like shoe polish,squash,biscuits,chewing gums and many more some of these item further helped me to carry to school when the school reopened.

May God the Almighty give you blessings in whatever you’ll be doing this year. Please Sara, pass my warm regards to your family members and friends too.

Yours loving friend,

Baraka Omar.


from Ben Kilonzo to Sara.

2015-02-08

Dear Sara,

Happy New year!!!!!!!!!! Hope you are doing ok in your country. My mum and sister are doing fine too.

We had a wonderful Christmas. I went to the beach with my sister to swim later on Christmas afternoon. At the beach we also played with the sand and also built sand castles and took photos.

For the Christmas food we cooked ‘pilau’ on Christmas day and we really enjoyed it,we even carried some more to the Pirates as we had gone to relax and enjoy with friends. Thank you for the  Christmas food, it meant a lot to us!!!!!!!!!

On Christmas eve we lighted our house with candles and sang Christmas songs all the way to our neighbors.

Yours faithful,

Ben Kilonzo.


from Ben Kilonzo to Laura Fryer.

2015-02-08

Dear Laura Fryer,

Happy New Year!!!!!!!! How are you? My family and I are doing fine. We had a wonderful time during Christmas; we ate different foods during that day, thank you Laura for making the day a success through your food donation.

During the Christmas afternoon we went to the beach and swam with my sister. We also played a lot with sand and built castles. Thanks for the chicken, it was delicious, some of it we made chicken‘pilau’ while some of it we roasted. We also carried some food to the beach.

Hope you also had a wonderful Christmas holiday, where did you go?

On Christmas eve we lighted candles in our house and sang Christmas songs all the night.

Thanks once more for the chicken, it meant a lot to us.

Yours faithfully,

Ben Kilonzo.


from Happy to Vicki.

2015-02-08

Dear Vicki,

Happy New Year!!!!!!!! How are you? I hope you are fine together with your family and friends. I hope you had a happy and funny Christmas.

The main purpose for writing this letter is to thank you for the chicken which you provided for me. It was really nice and I really appreciated that.

My family and I really enjoyed the chicken you provided for us. The Christmas was funny and full of funny things, we really enjoyed the holiday.

I thank God for getting such a kind hearted person like you. May God be my witness because I promise to do all the good things that will please you.

Thank you for taking all of your time to reading to my message and may God bless you together with your family.

Lots of love,

From your daughter,

Happy.


from Happy to Paula Burton.

2015-02-08

Dear Paula Burton,

Happy New Year!!!!!!!! How are you? I hope you are fine together with your family and friends. I hope you had a happy and funny Christmas.

The main purpose for writing this letter is to thank you for the food supply and chicken which you provided for me and my family. It was really nice and I really appreciated that, my mum to appreciate and has sent her love to you

My family and I really enjoyed the chicken you provided for us. The Christmas was funny and full of funny things, we really enjoyed the holiday.

I thank God for getting such a kind hearted person like you. May God be my witness because I promise to do all the good things that will please you.

Thank you for taking all of your time to reading to my message and may God bless you together with your family.

Lots of love,

From your daughter,

Happy.


from Happy to Linda Barratt.

2015-02-08

Dear Linda Barratt.,

Happy New Year!!!!!!!! How are you? I hope you are fine together with your family and friends. I hope you had a happy and funny Christmas.

The main purpose for writing this letter is to thank you for the food supply and mosquito net which you provided for me and my family. It was really nice  to receive all of those presents from you!!!!!!!!!!and I really appreciated that, my mum to appreciate and has sent her love to you

My family and I really enjoyed the chicken you provided for us. The Christmas was funny and full of funny things, we really enjoyed the holiday.

I thank God for getting such a kind hearted person like you. May God be my witness because I promise to do all the good things that will please you.

Thank you for taking all of your time to reading to my message and may God bless you together with your family.

Lots of love,

From your daughter,

Happy.


from Gibson to Paula Burton.

2015-02-08

Dear Paula,

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!! It is new year with wonderfull things!!!!!!!!!! First I would like to thank my God for giving me strength and to be into this world.Am now in class three and enjoying my studies,learning is an important thing in life.

I would like to give lots of thanks to you for the Christmas presents which you gave it to .My family and I appreciated it andenjoyed our Christmas.

Thank you too for the christmas shopping treat,my elder sister also with me for the shopping and we bought many things.

Yours son,

Gibson.


from Esther to Stephen Moir.

2015-02-08

Dear Stephen Moir,

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!Amdoing fine and well.my health is good.I have seen this year of 2015!!! am so happy!!!! It’s now hot and dry and the temperatures are very high.We expect rains in the month of April.

My dear father,thank you for the food which you donated to me during Christmas,it was a lot of food!!! I received rice,beans,cooking oil,sugar,wheat flour,maize flour and salt.The Christmas and the new year has been great,I enjoyed because there was lots of food,I therefore invited two of my friends to ome and eat together.After eating we went to the beach,it as beautiful.

I enjoy doing my course in dressmaking at Bura Vocational Rehabilitation Centre.I also wish to again thank you for everything for your great assistance to me,God will bless you and I promise to work hard in my training and hope to become a tailor one day and and make a shirt for you.

Yours loving girl,

Esther.


from Esther to Jane and John Heggs

2015-02-08

Dear Jane and John Heggs.

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!Am doing fine and well.my health is good. I have seen this year of 2015!!! am so happy!!!! It’s now hot and dry and the temperatures are very high. We expect rains in the month of April.

My dear father, thank you for the food which you donated to me during Christmas, it was a lot of food!!! I received rice, beans, cooking oil, sugar, wheat flour, maize flour and salt. The Christmas and the New Year has been great, I enjoyed because there was lots of food, I therefore invited two of my friends to our house and eat together. After eating we went to the beach, it as beautiful.

I enjoy doing my course in dressmaking at Bura Vocational Rehabilitation Centre. I also wish to again thank you for everything for your great assistance to me, God will bless you and I promise to work hard in my training and hope to become a tailor one day and make a dress and a shirt for both of you.

Yours loving girl,

Esther.


from Shadrack to Laura Fryer.

2015-02-08

Dear Laura Fryer,

Hi! Laura, happy New Year!!!!!! How are you together with your family and friends? Am okay and just thinking God for the His mercy and grace. My family is doing great, guess what Laura...everyone is like who is Laura Fryer? She must be good, I then tell them just relax and cool, Laura will come to Kenya one day and you will all be happy to see her!!!

I have written this message to express my appreciation. For real I feel very great for such a kind of concern, the chicken was very delicious, I prepared a very nice soup and everyone enjoyed the chicken.

Once again thank you and may God bless you and give you a long life.

With gratitude’s,

From,

Shadrack.


from Shadrack to Clarkes Shoe Shop.

2015-02-08

Hi! Clarkes Shoe shop!!! Happy New Year!!1 Hope every one of you at the shop is fine. Am doing good with everyone in my family. Please receive lots of my warm greetings as well from my parents, they really want and wish to no more about your shop.

I have written this message just to express my gratitude’s for the Christmas food donation to me and my family. For sure am very grateful for the food.

Once more I thank you for your concern, it has given me a clear vision that somewhere someone is caring about me.For that reason may the Almighty God give you all a long life and bless the work of your hands.

With appreciation,

From,

Shadrack.


from Grace to Clarkes Shoe Shop.

2015-02-08

To Clarkes Shoe Shop,

How are you? I hope your fine during this New Year? I hope too you enjoyed your Christmas just like me.

I would like to thank you very much for the Christmas presents, may the Almighty God bless you all so much. The presents were so nice, I really enjoyed them. Thanks for the beans, wheat flour, maize flour, sugar, cooking oil, rice, and salt. I really enjoyed the meals. Thanks big.

Yours faithful,

Grace.


from Grace to Laura Fryer.

2015-02-08

Dear Laura Fryer,

How are you? I hope your fine during this New Year? I hope too you enjoyed your Christmas just like me.

I would like to thank you very much for the Christmas present i.e the chicken, may the Almighty God bless you all so much.

My mum cooked the chicken by making a chicken stew and it was really delicious. Thanks for your concern on me.

Yours faithful,

Grace.


from Teresia to Alan and Linda Frost.

2015-02-08

Hello Alan and Linda,

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!! I hope you are doing ok.My entire family wishes you and your family a happy and prosperous new year.

Am sending this message to you to let you know that I received the Christmas gifts from you. Thank you too for your concern towards me and my mother for the money which you’ve been sending over to me  through Gail and Sara which I do receive from our coordinator Mr.Moses,it really makes feel that am always in your mind.

Thank you too for the Christmas shopping treat which I hope you were able to see both me and my mum pictures. Am sure from the photos you will be able to see how big have grown. Am happy to inform you that this year I successfully received a course training admission in one of the government polytechnic for a course in beauty and hairdressing course which I’ll start from tomorrow. Thank you Alan and Linda for your support in regard to my education.Mr.Moses will soon send over the pictures to you all so as to see where I study.

Once again I thank you very much for the gifts and everything from you. The food which we received during Christmas really  helped us a lot at home because before we received, our food stock was almost finished and we didn’t even know how we would spend the Christmas day and by good luck we received the food from you. May God bless you and thank you for your support on me.My mother sends her greetings to you too.

Yours child,

Teresia.


from Magdaline to Laura Fryer.

2015-02-08

Dear Laura,

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!How are you?,i hope you are fine.It's also my sincere hope that all is well,how is England and everyone? How did you spend your Christmas holiday? With me am fine with mt son and just enjoying the New Year.

The aim of this message is to appreciate all what you've done for me.Am very thank full for the Christmas presents which you bought for me.I really enjoyed the food which was very nice.With the wheat flour,i made some 'chapati' with tea and also made some chicken 'pilau' with the rice.

On the Christmas evening we cooked rice and chicken stew wwhich was very nice too.Thankyou Laura and may God bless you.

Have a nice and good New Year,

yours friend,

Magdaline.


from Magdaline to Gail.

2015-02-08

Dear Gail,

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!! How are you doing? It's my sincere hope that you are fine. How was your Christmas holiday? With me i had a great time clebrating the Christmas and the New Year.

Here in Kenya i really enjoyed.I want to thank you Gail for the Christmas present which you bought for me,i really appreciate.

I also want to thank you for everything and all what you've been doing for me.May tha almighty God bless you.Please aslo say hi to evveryone and wish you all the best in this New Year.

Have a good time and happy New Year.

yours,

Magdaline.
 


from Mary Junior to Vicki,

2015-02-08

Hello Vicki,

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!I hope you are fine with your family.Am also thank full for being given this time to write for you this message.

I want to thank you for what you did to me and my family during Christmas day may you be blessed abundantly.With the food  and the chicken my mother cooked very nice food  i.e rice and chicken stew which i enjoyed.Later in the afternoon i went out with my friends to have fun. My mother was too happy to get the presents.

yours faithful,

Mary Junior.


from the Michael's family to Mark Boast.

2015-02-08

Dear Mark Boast,

How are you? I hope you are fine in England.How is England? Here in Kenya everything is going on well.

I want to thank you for the Christmas presents that you gave to our family,we really enjoyed the food after cooking.During the Christmas day me and we all went to Church and celebrated the Christmas with friends.

Finally we all want to wish you a happy new Year.

Lots of love,

from,

Michael's family.


from the Michael's family to Linda Barrat.

2015-02-08

Dear Linda Barratt,

Jambo? Happy New Year!!!!! Hope you are fine with your family.My family is good and happy.

We all in our family want to thank you for the food supply and the mosquito net which you bought for us during Christmas.With the mosquito net is has been helpful to us as it has been protecting us from the mosquitoes.

Finally we all want to wish you  you and your family a happy New Year.

your friends,

the Michael's family.


from the Michael's family to Shirley.

2015-02-08

Dear Shirley,

 Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope you are getting on well now,sorry Shirley for the illness which you previously had after getting the information from Mr.Moses.We all pray that you continue to get better and better every day.

We also want to thankyou for the Christmas chicken which bought for my family.I aslo want to thank you for the Christmas shopping that  through you i was able to go for the shopping,may God bless you alot Shirley.

Both the Christmas and the New Year was good.Thank you once again Shirley,

from Vidzo of the Michel's family.

I


from Mayee to Linda Barratt,

2015-02-08

Dear Linda Barratt,

We thank God for seeing through to theNew Year.

I hope you had a good Christmas holiday,mine was fantastic.I reall enjoyed the Christmas as i went to the beach together with my family and it was all fun!!!!!!! Later in the evening when we arrive from from the beach,i had some chicken pilau.

Thank you soo much,you really made my day.

Have a blessed new year 2015,

bye!bye! bye!


from Zawadi to Mike Wann.

2015-02-08

Dear Mike Wann,

Hello Mike,happy New Year!!!! I hope you are fine,my family sends their lots of greetings to you.Hope you will one day come to Kenya as Kenya is full of wildlife .

This year has been good to me because i've completed my primary school and i now need to proceed to secondary school hopefully before end of this month as am waiting for the seconadry school calling letter.

The main aim of sending this message is to thank you for the Christmas gifts which you bought for me.I thank you soo much because of the food supply which we all enjoyed it after cooking.The chicken too was very delicious,thank you.

Finally i want to wish you a happy New Year and prosperity.

yours lovely daughter,

Zawadi.


from Mary Junior to Mark Boast.

2015-02-09

Hello Mark!!!,

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!I hope you are fine with your family.Am also thank full for being given this time to write for you this message.

I want to thank you for what you did to me and my family during Christmas day may you be blessed abundantly.With the food my mother cooked very nice food which i enjoyed.Later in the afternoon i went out with my friends to have fun. My mother was too happy to get the presents.

yours faithful,

Mary Junior.


from Mayee to Laura Fryer.

2015-02-09

Dear Laura Fryer,

We thank God for seeing through to theNew Year.

I hope you had a good Christmas holiday,mine was fantastic.I reall enjoyed the Christmas as i went to the beach together with my family and it was all fun!!!!!!! Later in the evening when we arrive from from the beach,i had some chicken pilau.

Thank you soo much,you really made my day.

Have a blessed new year 2015,

bye!bye! bye!


Teresia-the beauty therapist and hair dresser!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2015-02-21

Hi! my name is Teresia Kahindi,am happy to be among the first kids who were sponsored to the Mtomondoni sponsorship program  through Gail and Sara.I also want to thank all of my sponsors for their continued support to my education which have made me achieve my life long ambitions and career.

Also i want to extend my personal and family thanks to Alan and Linda Frost for their continous financial support to me and my family through Gail and Sara.Previously i had two career ambitions i.e to be a air hostess or a professional hair dresser as i love beauty.Am therefore happy today to inform you that am now undergoing a professional course in Hair dressing and Beauty Therapy in one of the established government Polytechnics called Kisauni Polytechnic.

My course is a full time course and so i report to college in the morning at 8.00a am until 4.30 pm. We do have lunch breaks in the afternoon at 12.30 for at least 1 hour.

Soon i complete my course i hope to start up my own business on hair dressing a beauty therapy and in future be able to employ and even train some of the young girls who have comleted their secondary school and wish to pursue hair dressing and beauty therapy courses.

So as to see some pictures of my training class please have a look of the picture gallery.

With that i say bye bye

yours loving girl,

Teresia.


Uniform issue for sponsored kids at Mtwapa Academy-2015!!!!!!!!!!!!

2015-02-28

Hi! Everyone,

I guess you are all doing ok with everything and your families too. We all here in Mtwapa-Kenya are fine.It's been hot and sunny through out the day and very warm at night!!!!!!!!!!.All in all of our kids are getting on well at school.At the moment the kids are on a mid-term break since yesterday Friday 27th until next week on Monday 2nd March.

Many many thanks to all of our sponsors in our Mtomondoni sponsorship program.All of our kids are doing well at school and am happy to inform you that 3 of our kids i.e Salwa,Zawadi and Abdalla will this year and academic term be proceeding to form one.It's through your help and support that the kids are able to proceed with their learning,thanks to all once again and be blessed.

For the kids who are still in primary school i.e at Mtwapa Academy am today happy to post over to you all pictures of our kids on their new school uniform,please see the pictures from our picture gallery.

With that i say 'kwaheri' bye

yours in service,

Moses(Sponsorship co-ordinator-Africa).


Zawadi.

2015-04-06

Hi! Everyone,

' Happy Easter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My name is Zawadi,aged 16 years old. I've from this year joined secondary school after completing my primary school education at Mtwapa Academy.The name of my secondary school is called Mtwapa Elite Academy Secondary School which is situated within Mtwapa.In our class we are total of 62 students of which 32 are girls and 30 are boys. The subjects which i take are Maths,English grammar and Composition,Kiswahili grammar(Lugha) and Composition(Insha),Business Education,History,Geography,Agriculture,Physics,Chemistry and Biology.So far the subjectsare my favourite are History,Business Education,Agriculture,English,Kiswahili and Maths.

My school day begins at 6.30 am when i report to school and ends at 5.00pm.We do have lunch break between 1.00pm-2.00om. Ever since i joined secondary school i feel that after school i would want to pursue a career on journalism,this is because the subjects which are my favourite are related to journalism.Also ever since i joined secondary school i feel that i secondary school someboby need to get matured mentally and be organised because most of the  study work have to be planned by the students.Also in secondary school there are no choices when answering a question but in primary school we used to have choices.

In terms of the school teachers i would to say that they are soo helpfull in assisting the students to understand and so the tecahers are generally good.

Finally i would like to thank all the sponsors in the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program and speciall thanks to all of my sponsors for  enabling me continue with my education.Wish you all are happy Easter.

yours loving kid,'

Zawadi.


Abdalla.

2015-04-06

Hi! Everyone.

'I hope you are all having a good Easter holiday us too. My name is Abdalla,aged 16 years.Am happy to have joined secondary school,form 1 at Mtwapa Elite Secondary School.Am also happy to be in the same class with Zawadi who is also one of the sponsored kids in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. At school i do the following subjects History,Maths,English grammar snd composition,Kiswahili composition and grammar,Chemistry,Biology,Physics,Geography and Agriculture.My favourite subjects are Business Education,Geography,Pysics and History.

If you compare primary school and secondary school,in secondary we do at least 10 subjects while in primary we did only 5 subjects,this means that we have to do extra work to study.

For my career i would like to be a Civil Engineer as Physics is my favourite subjects.

Over last week we did our end of term exam and look forward to getting good results.

Finally i would like to appreciate all of sponsors for their continued support towards my learning since primary school and now in secondary school.Also i like to wish you all a happy Easter holiday.

yours loving kid,'

Abdalla.


Zena tailoring business.

2015-04-18

Hi! Everyone,

'My name is Zena Benson aged 24 years old. Am happy to have this opportunity to speak to you all through this website.Am happy too as am among the senior girls in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program who have upto this moment benefited alot in terms of our education among many other things.

I also want to appreciate all of the efforts made by Gail and Sara who have assisted us alot through my sponsors in making me continue with my education which am currently pursing a course in tailoring and dressing making.Am happy that so far from the training am now able to make long dresses,skirts and blouses,trousers,shirts and shorts for men.For the long dresses am able to make between 3-4 dresses per day while for the trousers,shirts and shorts am able to make at least two pairs per day.

I want to take this opportunity to send my many thanks to Rose Goldberg for her great idea and contribution towards my tailoring business which through Gail and Sara and our coordinator, Moses here in Africa have purchased for me a tailroring sewing machine,fabrics,counter books,a pair of scissors,iron box,threads,machine oil,tailor chalks,tape measure,thimbles and needles.Thank you,thank you, thank you Rose and may God bless you abundatly for your great concern.

Soon i start the tailoring business,i promise to work hard so as i get good profit and be able to expand my business.My target group are my neighbours,friends and school going kids who need school uniform and even home clothes.

Am also happy to tell you that recently i gave birth to a new born baby girl called Haznat and is almost 1 month old.Am happy that my mother is happy to assist me in taking care of the baby whenever am busy with the business.

Finally i want to thank everyone  sponsorship program  who have continue to assist into the Mtomondoni sponsorship program.

Bye,yours Zena Benson'.


School Computer donation to Mtwapa Academy(Kenya-Africa)-Thank you Gerald and Rose!!!!!!!!!

2015-06-03 to 2015-06-04

Hi! Everyone,

Many many greetings from us all here in Mtwapa-Kenya(Africa). We are all fine here with all the kids going on well with their classes. It’s now entering its 2nd month ever since the schools reopened for the second academic term. However ever since the school reopened we’ve been experiencing very heavy rainfall due to the long rains in almost the entire country. More especially here in Mombasa region where Mtwapa is located we’ve too experienced very heavy downpours. However the school has been on as usual.

Am today happy to post to you all some updates after the recent donation of new school computers courtesy of Gerald Trevor and Rose Goldberg through Gail and Sara of Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program. From me and on behalf of the school director madam Rahab,the school head teacher Mr.Lewa,all teachers and kids of Mtwapa Academy I want to send and convey lots of appreciations from everyone at Mtwapa Academy. Please Also allow to quote from Rahab on words of appreciation……..’The donation of the computers to the school has really promoted the school as it will uplift the learning moral of the kids ,in additional to that it has like opened up a gate way to more discoveries to the diverse world in terms of ICT.Chlidren can learn more from the installed kids program and also be able to research on many more subjects.. Thank you soo much to Gerald and Rose for their great and kind contribution to our schhol. In additon to this Gerald and Rose has shown to be part of  our school on other  previous school and kids  project. Also want to thank Gail and Sara who have also always been concerned with our school through kids sponsorship and also identifying for our school donators towards any school development.Through Gail and Sara’s efforts our school have benefited a lot and has attracted more kids into our school.’ end of quote.Rahab says the computers will not only benefit the school but benefit the community as well. Please see on our picture gallery on our latest photos of our school computer project.

Finally i want to thank each and every sponsorand friend who has any one way contributed towards the school and the Mtomondoni sponsorship program,be blessed.

With many thanks with from,

Moses.(Sponsorship co-cordinator-Africa).


Albert

2015-06-04 to 2015-06-05

  Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Albert aged 14 years and is STD 8 at Mtwapa Academy School. My primary school life has been very interesting ever since I joined the school under the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. Now that am in class 8 I’ve seen myself growing up to be a teenager. Also I’ve realized that in class 8 we do in depth all the subjects compared to the previous classes. As a result I’ve so far learnt that in life someone has to work extra hard so as to excel.

My preparation for the school starts when I wake up at 5.30 am, thereafter I take a quick shower then start revising my school work and notes. After that I start dressing for school, take my breakfast which is normal tea and chapatti and go to school. I always make sure that in the morning I report to school by 6.20 am, where soon I reach the school I do manual work like sweeping the class as we prepare for the morning class before the assembly. The morning classes start at 7.00 am-8.00am we go for the school assembly.

Since it’s my last year in primary school i.e the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE),I hope to be doing my final examination  in early November this year. In order to make sure that I perform well, in our class we’ve formed a study group where we normal meet every evening after classes for a group discussion, during our group work meeting we try to solve some difficulty subject topics. I therefore hope to get 350 marks and above out of 500 marks and for my future career I would like to be an army engineer.

For my extra curriculum activity I like playing football.

During weekends and my extra time I like helping my mother in doing some domestic work and clearing our house compound.

Finally I want to send my many thanks to all of my sponsors for continuing to help me in my education.

Yours child, Albert’


William

2015-06-04

Hi! Everyone

‘My name is William aged 15 years. Am happy to be in Std 8, as I’ve realized that in this class a student feels the real sense of study. I also feel happy that so far I’ve interacted with so many people and made lots of friends both my school mates and the teachers.

I normal wake up at 5.20 am where I first study until 6.10 am. Thereafter I prepare myself for school by first taking my breakfast where I have tea and bread then dress for school where I arrive at school at 6.30 am Soon I arrive at school we do some manual work after that we do some morning preps where we learn for at least an hour, the subject may be either Maths or any other subjects. My evening at school ends at 7.00pm where I leave for home. Before I go to sleep I first revise my encyclopedia then take my supper where sometimes I take ugali and vegetables then go to sleep at 10.00pm.

In class I do help friends in solving some hard questions. As a strategy to pass my KCPE exam, I want to practice a lot in mathematics and science by working on some past examination papers. In case I find some new topics as I attempt the questions I note them down and do research. For my KCPE results I want to score 320 marks and above out of 500 marks.

For my weekends I do like helping my parents in doing some house work, then play football so as to refresh myself.

Finally I would want to send my gratefulness to all of my sponsors for continuing to helping me. Yours child, William.’


Ibrahim

2015-06-04 to 2015-06-05

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Ibrahim aged 14 years old. Am happy to  be in Std 8 as I feel a sense of independence since am in a top class where we are supposed to be organized.

I do wake up  at 4.00am,soon I wake up I start revising my class work or write a composition upto 4.30 am, thereafter I take my shower, brush my teeth, take my breakfast which is tea and ‘mandazi, Swahili homemade snacks.

In class I do interact well with my classmates and also am helpful to them in Maths and Science. My favorite subject is Maths.

My strategy in order to do well in my exams is to read hard. My hobby is watching TV and listening to the news.

For my extra curriculum activity I like cooking. At our school we have started a cooking club and with the help of some of our teachers   where we cook different kinds of  African food every week on Friday evening. We sometimes ecook ‘pilau’ or beef stew etc.After cooking the food we sell it out to any interested school kid .The profit we make from the food we save and we may later use it to pay for school trips etc

For my KCPE results I want to score 350 marks and above.

When going home in the evening I first help my grandmother before doing my home work and go to sleep at 10.00pm

Finally I say, thank you for the sponsorship, yours child Ibrahim.


Wycliff

2015-06-04

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Wycliff aged 14 years, am happy to be in STD 8 as apart from learning more about Africa we also learn about the rest of the world. In science we learn how to come up with different science project e.g electricity generation and many more.

In the morning I do wake up at 4.00am where I first do my class work revision, prepare myself before I report to school at 6.00amFor my breakfast I take tea and ‘mandazi’swahili home made snacks. Soon I reach at school in the morning before we start our morning lessons I do some quick revision.

 In my class I do help my friends in solving some Maths problems as am good at Maths. For my final exam score want to score 350 marks and above.

My strategy so as to score good grades is that in our class we’ve come up with a study group which normal meet every day in the evening or during free time and share some topic problems. My school day ends at around 7.00pm where I leave school for home. For my super I take eat ‘ugali’ corn flour cooked meal with vegetables.

For Extra curriculum activity am a member of the school scouting club. During my weekends I do visit my friends so as to have fun together.

Finally I say thank you to all the support from my sponsors.

Yours child’

Wycliff.’


Pendo

2015-06-04

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Pendo,am a girl aged 15 years.’Pendo’ is English means love ,I therefore  love you all!!!!!!!!!!!. Am happy to be in class 8 as I see myself advancing and realizing my life dreams of being a doctor, thanks to the sponsorship program. I love treating people well and seeing them healing and is the reason why I’d like to be a doctor.

In the morning I wake at 5.00am,do some revision or homework thereafter prepare myself for school where I report to school at 6.00am. My favorite subjects are English and Kiswahili.I too love my teachers as they are very helpful whenever I need assistance. For my KCPE results I want to score a total of 350 marks out 500 marks.

My strategy so as to succeed in my final exam I want to be following each and every advice the teachers teach me or tell me to do.

For my extra curriculum activity, am a member of the school girl guide and as girl guide we sometimes have a role at school of raising the school flag.

When I get back at home in the evening I always assist my mother in cooking and washing utensils. My favorite food is rice and chicken stew.

During weekends I also continue to helping my mum with some domestic work and after I finish I do some study.

Finally to all my sponsors I say, thank you for continuing to sponsor me, yours child Pendo.’


Mapenzi

2015-07-04

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Mapenzi a Kiswahili word meaning lots of love,am aged 19 years old. The name of my secondary school is called Mtwapa Elite Academy School which is located within Mtwapa. Am happy to speak to everyone today including my sponsors and the entire sponsorship community in England. Am also happy that through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program I have been able to pursue my education since I was in primary school up to secondary school without any problems in terms of payment of school fees,uniform,books and lunch. Special thanks to Brockington College for their assistance towards my education.

Am now in form 4 which is also the final class in secondary school for which I expect to do my final  secondary school exam called Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education(KCSE)     towards the end of this year.My four 4 clas is  called form 4 red, normal we have 4 streams(classes),each stream is renamed as either red,yellow,blue or green. The students’ population in our class is 60 kids in which girls are 32 while the boys are 28.

We normally report to at 6.00am in which we do have early morning lessons until 7.00am when we go for a school assembly until 8.00am when we officially commence our lessons until 10.20 when we have a morning break. During the morning break time we normally go to the school dining hall and we take breakfast which is tea and bread or scones. The break period is only 30 minutes thereafter we go back to class the after break lessons which normally start at 11.00 am upto 1.00pm when we go for lunch. During lunch time we normally take ‘pilau’,chapati and beans or rice and cabbage. The lunch period take 1 hour of which after that we get back to our classes for the after lunch lesson as from 2.00pm upto 4.00pm when the officially lessons ends. From 4.00pm-6.00pm its normally a revision period after that all students are free to go back home.

The subjects which we do are Biology,Chemistry,Physics,Maths,English,Christian Religious Education(CRE),History and Kiswahili. Being a candidate,me and some of my classmates have formed a study group composed of 5 girls in which we do some extra studying as from 6.00pm upto 7.30 pm thereafter we go back home. During the group work we start by reading and summarizing study topics, revise and attempt past exam question papers from some special revision books or we may decide to do some mathematics calculations. My favorite subject is Biology, I take it as my career subject as I want to be a nurse for my career.

Generally my school life journey has been very interesting and sometimes challenging but I’ve very much tried to balance for the betterment of my success. It’s been challenging as I live with my grandmother who is now aged almost 80 years old, due to this soon I arrive home from school I do assist my grandmother in cooking and fetching water. During the weekends especially on Sundays after church I do help her in washing of her clothes as I wash my clothes too. On the other side it’s been interesting as education has made get  good knowledge which have further made me realize my life dreams of being a nurse, thanks to the Mtomondoni sponsorship program.

My hobbies are travelling, reading and writing.

Finally I once again want to send my many thanks to all of my well wishers, sponsors and everyone at Brockington College(England) for the great support which they have done and continuing to do. May God bless you all. Yours faithfully girl Mapenzi’


Justin

2015-07-05

Dear,Gail,Shirley and family.

Hello everyone, How are you there in England? I hope you are fine, am fine too here in Kenya with my family. The main reason as to why I have written this message is to say sorry to what happened to one of your family members. I understand what you feel now but try not to think a lot. I know you loved your dad but God loved him most. We all join you in prayers and may his soul rest in peace.All my love.

Lots of love,

from,

Justin Benson.


Zena

2015-07-05

Dear Gail,Shirley and family.

Hello, Sorry Gail for the loss of your dad, it was sad to hear of the news. Me and my family are sending our condolences to you and your family. Let all leave it to God and pray to bring comfort to you all.

Yours faithfully,

Zena.


William

2015-07-05

Dear Gail,

I’m sorry Gail to what happened to you. I know that God will keep Mr.Hammonds in a safe place. I’m so sad but it is God’s wishes. God called Mr.Hammonds where he is for a purpose,we’ve been praying for him and also praying for you.

My parents are also sending their condolences through this message. God will be with you and may He give you comfort I your heart and everyone in your family.

Yours faithfully,

William Benson.


Lukeman

2015-07-05

Hi! Gail,

I hope you are not fine for what  has happened, because we have received sad news from Mr.Moses that your dad passed away. I take this opportunity on behalf of my family to say sorry to your entire family.

We are together in this sad moment because he is like a grandfather to me and am praying for him so that he may have a safe journey to heaven.

May the Lord guide you in this moment and give you strenghth to manage the pain in your heart and lastly may his soul rest in peace in heaven.

Yours son,

Lukeman.


Mary junior

2015-07-05

Dear Gail,

My name is Mary junior. Am happy to be in school. Am sorry to you for losting your dad. Am praying for you so that you have energy and not to have too much thinking. God bless you

Yours girl,

Mary junior.


Joseph

2015-07-05

Dear Gail,                                                   

How are you doing dear Gail. It’s my great hope that you are in the best of your health so do i.

I’m very sad and sorry for the news that we’ve received about your dad. It’s very unfortunate that you have been abandoned by your father and this makes you be in a sad and in a hard moment.

Gail,I surely know what you feel but I would like to tell you that you should take courage and bare in mind that God is in control and with you in every situation. Please Gail, do not feel that you are alone, we are surely with you although not physically.

I’m very sorry for the hard moment you are in but hope that all will be well. May God give you courage and strethgth during this period you are in together with your family ans even Sara who is always  very close to you. May God bless you all.

Yours son,

Joseph.


Diego

2015-07-05

Dear Gail,

I understand that you are not okay. We are very sorry for the sad news we have received from Mr.Moses about your dad. It doesn’t matter how far we are from you but we are together emotionally and are still praying for you to have courage to this difficult situation.

I’m very sorry for the sad moment you are in. May God give you courage and strenghth through this sad moments.

Yours,

Diego.


Khamisi

2015-07-05

Dear Gail and Shirley,

How are you? It’s my great hope that you are fine together with your family their in England. Am fine too together with my family with the exception of my grandmother who has been sick for the last two days.

I take this opportunity to say sorry for losting your father. I know it’s hard time but I pray to God to make it easy. My grandmother my uncles are very sad and are saying sorry after hearing on the incidence which we received from Mr.Moses.

But all in all is that you loved him but God loved him most and praying to God to give you that easy and humble time. Best wishes from my family.

Yours faithfully,

Khamisi.


Zawadi

2015-07-05

 Dear Gail and Shirley.

Hi! Gail, please receive a lot of greetings from my parents and my fellow students at school. We are all fine and we thank God for the protection. Life at school is so enjoyable and like a journey without an end. In Kenya everything is fine.

My family, friends and I are all saying sorry for what happened to you and your family, may God comfort you. When I heard the news about your dad I was shocked for five minutes, we all pray that Mr.Hammonds heart  to rest in peace and at a good place in heaven. Don’t worry Gail, God is with you together with your family in everything. Don’t forget that blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted by God.

We all loved Mr.Hammonds but God loved him soo much. Please Gail know that alot of prayers are being made for you and you give your family so that God may protect you and your family. May God give you strength and confidence to overcome any fear in your life.

Yours lovely daughter,

Zawadi.


Asma

2015-07-05

Dear Gail,

My name is Asma,am sending this message to you to say sorry for losing your dad. I was very saddened when we received on the news about your dad. I’ve told my friends in our class and they also said sorry. My mother has also said sorry. We pray that you will have peace during this time and after the funeral.

Yours Asma.


Pendo

2015-07-05

Dear Gail,Shirley and family.

Am sad for the bad news which Mr.Moses told .Am sending my condolences through this message and may God comfort your family.I know you will miss Mr.Hammonds but God wanted him for a reason and purpose.

To the family of Mr.Hammonds,God is with you and be comfortable with it and God is going to place the body and heart of Mr.Hammonds to a better place.My family,relatives and friends are also saying sorry for what has happened.

God called Mr.Hammonds so that He can make a better a better place for him to rest.Please receive my condolences and also from my parents and rest of my family.May God be with you on the right side.

From,

Pendo Benson.


Happy

2015-07-05

To Gail,Shirley and family.

I write this letter, my eyes are filled with tears because of what has befallen you and your family.My family and I send our sincerest condolences for the death of your dad,Mr Hammonds.

I know that these are hard times but I pray that you will be able to get through it.I will keep on praying to God for your father will rest in peace in heaven.

Another thing,I want you to know that my family and I are here with you.We are here to help and support you in prayers as you have always done to us.

Please Gail, send my sincerest greetings to your family and once again am sorry for you loss.

Yours girl,

Happy.


Ibrahim

2015-07-05

Dear Gail,Shirley and Family.

How are you? Am deeply sorry for what has happened to your family. I know that you are now in deep sorrow and sadness.Mr.Hammonds was a great man to us whom we respect and ehe was a husband to Shirley. I know that you wish that he would come back but the Almighty one has taken him. We received this sad news from our co-ordinator Mr.Moses Kopulo.I feel so bad and sad in my heart because I did not expect something like this to happen. I send you my deepest condolences. I know that the Almighty God shall rest him and his soul in peace.

Please accept my condolences and I know that the Lord shall heal the wound in your hearts. May the Lord bless you and bless the work of your hands.

Yours faith full,

Ibrahim Omar.


Wycliff

2015-07-05

Dear Gail,Shirley and Family.

Hi! Am sorry for what had happened to Mr.Hammonds for I know that you will miss him,he has already been taken by our  God who is going to keep his soul in a better place in heaven. My family too is deep in sorrow and sadness for the death of your beloved family member,Mr.Hammonds.

You are like a family member to me and it feels like I my self have lost a person close to me too. I give you the deepest condolences for I know that you are really in deep sadness and sorrow. I pray to the Lord that he will heal the wounds in your hearts and be happy once again. Am deeply sorry, please accept my condolences and may the Lord bless you and protect you. You loved him but the Lord loved him more, so may the name of the Lord be praised. Thank you

Yours faithfully,

Wycliff Benson.


Baraka

2015-07-05

Dear Gail,

Hoping you are fine wherever you are. Am taking this opportunity to write to you this letter with a lot of emotions for the sad news which I’ve heard. I arrived to Mtwapa yesterday as we are on a half term break until next week on Tuesday when I’ll be going back to school. I therefore received the news from Mr.Moses when I visited him at his house. For sure what the kind of emotions you are experiencing at your homes with your family members is the similar case to us here in Kenya.

For sure losing a parent is so hurting but what can we do as human beings? The only thing is to admit and let God be the giver of life do his part and yours is to pray that your dad may be among those who will inherit the kingdom of heaven which is the dwelling place of our Lord Jesus Christ and our Almighty God. My piece of advice to you and your family members is to tell you that take courage for what has happened unexpectedly.

My prayers to you is that may God-the comforter wipe your tears of sorrow and bring you peace in your hearts so that you may live happily as usual.

I have no more but only and just to bid you Good bye!

MAY PEACE BESTOWED BACK TO YOUR FAMILY, AMEN!

GOD STILL LOVES YOU.

Yours faithfully,

Baraka Omar.


Magdaline

2015-07-05

 Dear Gail,

How are you? It is my hope that you are fine and doing well.How is England and everyone there.Am well with my son and just pushing on well with life.

The aim of writing this letter is to say sorry for what you have been passing through by loosing your dad. I heard that that he has been unwell for a long time, We have been praying for him ever since I had he’s been unwell so that he could get well and gain strength but all what has happened are God’s plans. You loved your dad but God loved him most, that’s why he has taken him away.

May the Almighty God rest his soul in peace, am very sorry and may God help you and strenghth you to overcome all the challenges you will pass through.

Let me also thank you for everything you have been doing for me and my son. May God give you more every day. Say hi to everyone and be comforted by God.

Lots of love,

From,

Magdaline and her son Lamic


Teresia

2015-07-05

Dear Gail,Shirley and family.

 Sorry Gail for what has happened to your family. Me and my mum were very shocked after hearing of the sad news from Mr.Moses about your dad. We therefore pray that his soul rest in peace. The death of your father also reminds me of the time when I lost my father, surely it was a painful moment for me as I was always thinking of how we used to get together with my dad and some advices from him on how  to grow and become a good girl. Through my friends who comforted me with words and even sometimes staying together I was able to see some brightness in my life.

I thank God now that am moving on well with my college which makes me busy always. I therefore believe that through this message from me it will too comfort you and make you strong. Please Gail try do not to think soo much about all what has happened and let us leave it all to God. My mother has also sends her message of sorry to you, your mother and everybody in your family.

Finally I want to say thank you soo much for everything that you are doing for me.

Yours loving girl,

Teresia.


Kahindi

2015-07-05

Dear Gail,Shirley and family,

Hi! How  are you there in England. It’s my great hope that everyone is fine. Here in Kenya am fine together with my family. The main purpose to sending this message is to say sorry for what happened to one of your family members who is your dad Mr.Hammonds.I understand how you are feeling now but try to catch up with the situation. I really know that you loved him but our heavenly Father loved him most. Let us join our hands with you to wish him a nice journey and may his soul and spirit rest in peace. Am very sorry for what happened. I join hands with my family and all us here to say SORRY.

SORRY GAIL,

Lots of love,

From,

Kahindi Benson.


Mapenzi

2015-07-05

To Gail,Shirley and family.

Am really saddened by the tragedy news of your father Gail. Sorry to Shirley too who has lost a loving husband. He was a loving person and caring to all of us. I sympathize with you for loosing an important person like him. Am very sorry and praying for you so that God can give you the strength.

Please accept my sincere condolences.

Yours loving daughter,

Mapenzi.


Ben Kilonzo

2015-07-05

To Gail,Shirley and family.

I send my condolences to Gail,Shirley and family for loosing a very important person in your family,your dad. Through all the time he has been in hospital we have been praying for him to get well. We should not be sad as he has began a new life in Heaven and in the same way we will follow as life is just a journey. May the Lord give strength to you Mrs.Shirley,Gail and family in this hard time.

May the Lord rest his soul in peace,Amen.

Yours Ben Kilonzo.


Mr.Benson

2015-07-05

Dear Gail,Shirley and family.

How are you there in England ? Here in Kenya am very am very fine going on well with my daily activities.

Am sorry to hear of the sudden death of your father,it is  a great sorrow to me and my family.That is not your will but that’s is God will. Sorry Gail,Shirley and your family for the death of your beloved father.

Nothing more to say to you but only to say ‘SORRY FOR THE DEATH OF YOUR FATHER’

May the Almighty God rest you father’s soul in eternal life.

Yours sorrowfully,

Mr.Benson (of the Bensons family).


Vidzo

2015-07-05

Hi! Gail,

How are you doing? It’s really sad to hear on the sad news from Moses that you have lost your dad!!! Am really sorry for that but God will give you strength.

Please pass my condolences to your mum Shirley and the rest of your family from me.

My family have also said sorry for what had happened and let him rest in peace. God loved him most, lots of love.

From,

Vidzo.


Abdalla

2015-07-05

To Gail,Shirley and family.

Hello,how are you? It’s my great hope that you are fine. Also me am fine too even though my only grandmother is unwell at the moment.

I take this golden chance and opportunity together with my family to say sorry for losing you father. I know you loved him but God loved him most.All in all we know that it is the work of God.

I know you’ve been having hard times but I do pray to God that He makes it easy.

All of my family members were sad when they heard about the death news, we are sorry for that. My family and I are joining our hands together to pray so that Mr.Hammonds rest in peace.

Gail and Shirley do not worry that you have been left alone, God is with you. The bible says happy are those who mourn for they shall be comforted. I just pray to God to give you east time and a humble time.

Yours faithfully,

Abdalla Said.


Amina

2015-07-05

Hallo Gail,

I hope you are not fine because we have received sad news from Mr.Moses that your dad has past away.

On behalf of my family I say sorry for what has happened to your entire family because he is also like a dad to me.

We are together in these sad moments and we are praying for him to have safe ‘journey’ in heaven.

Let his soul rest in peace.

Yours Amina.


Mayee

2015-07-05

To Gail and family,

It’s with deep sorrow and pain to hear that you lost your dad. Her family am sending my condolences to you and your entire. May God grant you the heart and strenghth to go through this as you prepare to rest his soul. Also I wish that I could be part of you to help you but unfortunately I can’t but wherever you are know that am not there physically but spiritually you are with my prayers.

May his soul rest in eternal peace,Amen

Yours loving girl,

Mayee.


Amina

2015-07-05

Hallo Gail,

I hope you are not fine because we have received sad news from Mr.Moses that your dad has past away.

On behalf of my family I say sorry for what has happened to your entire family because he is also like a dad to me.

We are together in these sad moments and we are praying for him to have safe ‘journey’ in heaven.

Let his soul rest in peace.

Yours Amina.


Rahab-School director Mtwapa Academy.

2015-07-05

To Gail,Shirley and family.

I Rahab and the entire Mtwapa Academy fraternity send our heartfelt condolences to Gail,Shirley and family as you face this storm that rages with so much pain and grief. The late Mr.Hammonds has brought much joy and happiness to many kids of Mtwapa Academy who have gone through his very generous support. He has been a caring father who has demonstrated love and care for the needy and in particular to the Africa child by whole heartedly supporting them in their pursuit for education.

The late Mr.Hammonds has been a great sponsor of kids in Mtwapa Academy up to when he rested in the hands of the Almighty. He will sadly be missed by the people of Mtwapa Academy.

The days allotted to us have been recorded in God’s book (Psalms 139:16) even though before any of them ever began.

Everything that happens in this world happen at the time God chooses. He sets the time for birth and time for death (Eccelesiasts 3:1-4).

From,

Rahab Director-(Mtwapa Academy School).


messages of condolence to Gail's family(England) from Mtwapa-Kenya(Africa).

2015-07-05

To Gail,Shirley and family

We all here in Mtwapa –Kenya(Africa) have received with great sadness on the news of passing on of Gail’s dad.From me and my family,all the sponsored kids and families want to send our heartfelt condolences to Gail,her mum Shirley, her brother and the entire family and friends too for the lose of Mr.Hammonds.

 Tommorow on Monday the Mtwapa Academy school i.e kids and teachers will be having a special assembly whereby we’ll have special prayers and observe I minute silence in honor of our departed beloved father to us all here in Mtwapa.Even though Mr.Hammonds has not been to Africa and especially to the school but his name is well known to the entire school due to his family generosity towards the education welfare of our sponsored kids, families and the general concern to our school.

Please be rest assured that we all join you in prayers during this sorrowful moment and may the Almighty God rest Mr.Hammonds soul in eternal peace. Amen

From Moses(Sponsorship Co-coordinator-Africa).


Mtwapa Academy school-new additional computers!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!

2015-07-21

Hi! Everyone,

Please receive lots of greetings from all of us here in Mtwapa-Kenya. I guess you are all fine. We are now almost completing the second academic term for this year and soon breaking for the August and 1 month holiday. After the holiday the schools will reopen for the third academic term which will run from early September to late November.

Well, am happy to inform you all that recently and early last week the Mtwapa Academy School courtesy of Gerald Trevor and Rose Goldberg through Gail and Sara of Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program received two new additional computers. From me and on behalf of the school director Rahab, the school head teacher Mr.Lewa,all teachers and kids want to send our many thanks and appreciations to the donators for their continued support to the school computer project.

Am happy to inform you that ever since the new computers were received by the school, all the kids are very much eager to learn using the computer. The teachers too are enjoying working on them especially after classes and discovering new things from the computer programs. Thank you once again to our donators

For picture details, please see all pictures on the additional computers from the picture gallery.

Thank you to everyone too for being part of our program and be blessed.

Regards,

From,

Moses (sponsorship co- coordinator-Africa).


Mtwapa Academy (Kenya-Africa)-Sketchley Hill Primary school (England) story project link.

2015-07-24

Hi! Everyone,

Following the just completed story project between Mtwapa Academy (Kenya) and Sketchley Hill primary school which commenced early this year, all kids and teachers at Mtwapa Academy are happy to receive the new school boards courtesy of Sketchley Hill Primary school (England). Through Alison Banks and Mr. Scott of Sketchley Hill, the partner school Mtwapa was able to get the boards. With the new boards the kids can now easily re-read the stories and share ideas among themselves, thanks a big to Sketchley.For details of pictures please have a look at our picture gallery.

On behalf of Rahab,the school director,the school head teacher Mr.Lewa,all kids and teachers from Mtwapa Academy we want to send our lots of appreciations and many thanks to Sketchley Hill Primary school.

Regards.

From,

Moses Kopulo (sponsorship co-coordinator).


University admission for Grace.

2015-09-21

Hi! Everyone,

 It’s my sincere hope that you are all fine with your families. My name is Grace aged 20 years old. Am very much happy to take this opportunity to thank all of my sponsors and everyone in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program for the continued support towards us children here in Africa. Please, allow me to share my successful story after being sponsored into the program…………………………’Soon after I was born and at the age of 6 years my parents divorced after my dad got married to another woman leaving my mother alone and from there hence forth both me and my mother experience very difficult times in term of food, shelter and my learning. Unfortunately my mother didn’t have a steady job and only depended on casual jobs e.g washing people’s clothe’s so as to get food etc.Due to this condition it made me have difficulties in going to a good school and instead I was taken to join public school which are very much congested with a kids population of between 100-150 kids per class.

It was until the year 2006 and thanks God, I was recruited into the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program through Gail and Sara and through Mr.Moses who is our sponsorship co- ordinator.During that time I was 10 years old and in STD 4 and when I joined Mtwapa Academy and where I can say, it was my turning point. Once again through the Mtomodoni sponsorship program I want to thank my sponsors and everyone involved in the program for continuing to support me in my education since I was in the lower primary school, upper primary school and secondary school i.e from 1 up to form 4. Am extremely happy to tell you all of the good news that………….. I successfully passed my final form 4 exam and have now joined one of our national universities called Eldoret University pursuing a bachelors under graduate degree course in Environmental Studies (Arts)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have now reported to the university and catching up well with the university life.My hobbies are reading novels, travelling and singing. Once again I say thank you to all for making me what am now today and may God bless you all.

Yours faithfully girl,Grace.’


Internet@ Mtwapa Academy................Thank you!!!!!

2015-10-29

     

          Mtwapa Academy School now connected to internet!!!!!!!!!!

Hi! Everyone,

 Following the recent computers donation to the school, It’s good news again from Mtwapa Academy-Kenya (Africa) as it’s now connected to internet!!!!!!!!!!

From  me and on behalf of the school director madam Rahab,the head teacher,Mr.Lewa,all kids and teachers want to send our many many thanks and appreciations for the great donation for the school to Gerald Trevor(England) through Gail and Sara (Directors Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program).

Soon the school was connected to the internet all kids and teachers were very happy to see and browse on the new school internet!!!

To me, I personally believe that with the internet connection it’s like an eye opener to the school as the world today is interconnected through the internet, therefore all kids and teachers at the school have now got a chance to browse through the digital world and be able to update themselves on world current affairs etc.

From Mr.Lewa, the school headteacher,here are his comments in regard to the internet connection and I quote….. ‘The internet connection to the school is very important to both the teachers and the kids. For the teachers, the internet will be useful to them as it will help them whenever they want to do some research since some information may not be available in the text books but can only be available in the internet. Secondly, the teachers  are now able to actively use the internet through their smart phones too as the internet is also connected to WIFI.Thirdly,with the internet connection at the school, it will be helpful to some of the teachers who  need to learn more on the internet use. To pupils, its beneficial as the can be able to see the real information while studying on a subject. Lastly for the kids, the kids can be able to learn and use the social media e.g face book and instagram so as to interact with the outside world. We therefore want to thank the donator of this facility, Mr.Gerald Trevor for the great support to the school.’ End of quote.

Here are also Rahab’s (school director) comments in regard to the school internet………………….’First and foremost I want to say thank you to Gerald Trevor, Gail and Sara for the important donation to the school. With the internet the teachers are now able to google through various subjects i.e sciences,humanities,world geography, history etc.To me it’s like a fulfillment of my heart desire and a positive response from a  request from my teachers that we get our own school internet and here it is !!!!!!!!! With the internet it will be helpful as it can be used to update and download various computer programs which will be useful to the kids and teachers. Thank you once again for the donation and be all blessed.’ End of quote.

With that I say bye to all and thank you for everything and for being part of us, be blessed.

With regards,

From,

Moses (Sponsorship Coordinator-Africa).


Mtwapa Academy STD 8 candidates prayer day.

2015-11-01

Hi! Everyone,

Hope you all had a fabulous weekend,us too. Wel,l just needed to send some pictures from Mtwapa Academy showin an important annual event which was held at the school yesterday.This day is special day for all the final STD 8 kids at the school whereby parents,religious leaders are invited to the school for special prayers before the kids sit for their final natinal exam popularly know as the Kenya Certifiacte of Primary Education (KCPE).

In the Mtomondoni sponsorship program we have 5 kids i.i.e Pendo,Albert,William,Wycliff and Ibrahim among the STD 8 candidates who will be sitting the  KCPE scheduled to commence on 10th November 2015 for 3 days.

We all hope  that you'll all join us in prayers for good health of our kids and success.Finally i say thank you for all your support towards the education of the kids,be blessed.

Regards,

Moses (Sponsorship coordinator).


Teresia new born baby message to Allan and Linda Frost!!!!!!!.

2015-11-20

Hi!  Alan and Linda Frost.

 Hope you are both doing fine. Good news from Mtwapa!!!!!!!!!!! Am happy to inform you that Teresia recently had a new born baby boy named Jeremy!!!!!!!!!!! birth weight 3.92 kgs.Recently before giving birth,Teresia was engaged to a man who works and lives in Malindi (one of the coastal town) about 60 miles away from Mombasa). Teresia and her fiance hope to marry later after Teresia completes her beauty training course. However Teresia has been going on with her beauty training course until mid September this year when she was about to deliver when she stopped for a while so as she could prepare herself for delivery. The new born baby Jeremy is getting on well and now one month old. Please see pictures from the picture gallery of Teresia with her new born baby and Teresia mum too which I recently took during a visit to their home in Mtomondoni.

At the moment Teresia is living at her mother’s home in Mtomondoni so as she gets some postnatal care from her mother and her elder sisters. Meanwhile in terms of her beauty therapy training course, Teresia has said that she will be going back to her training college  in December so as to do her end of year 1 course exam, during this time baby Jeremy will be staying with Teresia mum until she completes her exam,though Teresia will be going back to attend on her baby after the exam. Teresia has further said that she will continue fully with her beauty training course next year until she completes.

Before I end up, both Teresia and her mum are sending their many personal thanks to you Alan and Linda for your continued financial support to them and to the family in general. With the money most of it the’ve been using it to buy food and some of the money Teresia has been using for buying personal items.

Finally from me, my family and on behalf of Teresia and her mother want to send our Christmas greetings to you Alan and Linda and therefore wish you both a MERRY CHRISTMAS from all of us here in Mtwapa.

Regards,

Moses.


Mtwapa Unwrapped Christmas Gifts

2015-12-13

Following the success of the past eight years Xmas food projects, we are once again running the Mtomondoni Christmas gift appeal, giving you the chance to give Christmas gifts that can really make a difference. However, this year we are going for a more bespoke, family centred approach. This year the families are going to be actively involved in the spending of the money. Moses will this year take the family with him shopping so that they can have a say in the spending of the money.  This way we hope that the families will feel more empowered.

The costs below give you a general guide to what they will be able to get for the money they are gifted.

This change has come about as a result of consulting with the sponsored families and we hope you agree that it is actually a good step forward. 

So... If you would like to send a special Christmas gift to your family then simply drop us an email on gailyhammo@yahoo.co.uk and let us know how much you would like to send over to your family.  You can either pay the money directly into the Mtwapa school account or send us a cheque made out for Mtwapa School Account.  We will then send out the money to your family, using Moneygram at the post office, via Moses who will support them in spending the money on food supplies, mosquito nets etc 

Moses will then post photos on the website so that you can see how your family have spent the money you have gifted them.

Thanks everyone for your on going support. The people of Mtwapa really appreciate all you do for them.


Cost guide... 

Washing powder (1 KG) £3

Buy a chicken for a family £5

Provide a mosquito net for a family to protect them from malaria £6

Cooking pots £7

Supply of charcoal for cooking (1 sack) £11

Mattress £15

Provide a family with a weeks supply of food £16

Buy a goat for a family £40

Provide a family with a month supply of food £60


Christmas message to Wolvey Church-England from Ibrahim omar-Kenya.

2015-12-21

Hi! Wolvey Church-England.

‘My Name is Ibrahim Omar aged 15 years old. Am happy to be sponsored by Wolvey Church of England and therefore take this opportunity to first thank Rev.Colling and everyone at Wolvey Church-England for the immense support which they have provided to them in my education ever since I was recruited into the Mtomondoni sponsorship program.

I live within Mtwapa village with my grandmother, uncle and aunt who is a young sister to my mum and go to school at Mtwapa Academy which is about 200 metres from my home. Our family is a Muslim family and so I use most of my free time going to the madrassa especially during weekends and the holidays.

Am happy to inform you all that towards the end of this year in November, I did my final primary school exam called Kenya Certificate of Primary Education-(KCPE) thereafter when the results are out before the new year I hope to join secondary school i.e form 1 next year. Generally my entire time at Mtwapa Academy has been very good as I’ve learnt a lot from the teachers, interacted with soo many friends and feel that I will miss everyone at school when I proceed to form 1 next year. All in all am happy that I’ll be proceeding to my second important stage of my education and very much look forward to it. While at Mtwapa Academy I did extra curriculum activities i.e scouting where I was a scout leader. As a scout leader I was able to teach my fellow scouts all what is about scouting e.g rules and methods of tying knots which are used to tie wagons.

Academically I was an above average student and I therefore have the confidence that I will do well in my final exam results as I had done lots of revision by attempted lots of past exams and reading a lot in preparation for the KCPE exam. My favorite subject when I was in class 8 was mathematics while my challenging subject was social studies.

For my future career I would like to be a captain.

Now that we are on December holiday I spend lots of time attending the madrassa which are special young Muslim classes located within our village. We normal report to the madrassa at 7.00 am until 4.30 pm we, however we have lunch break from 12.00noon-2.00pm.At the madrassa we have the following lessons;-

                        1.’Lugha’ meaning language where we learn the Arabic language,

                         2.’Kiraa’-this subject teaches the learner how to spell well the Arabic words.

                         3.’Tahweed’-this subjects teaches us on the good moral practices and forbids us in believing in the power of darkness.

                          4.’Fikhi’-teaches us how to live holy life in terms of lifestyle and mode of dressing.

                            5.’Hadith’-teaches us about sunna,acts and general life of prophet Muhammad.

                            6.’Quwaied’-helps us to know how to read the Quran.

Generally madrrassa has helped me lots in my Islamic religion subject at school as we learn in a very broad way that giving us lots of knowledge. At madrassa we have different learning stages i.e Rawdh-Alif(beginners stage),Rawadh-bhe(second stage),Rawadh-gim(third stage),Fasul-awal(fourth stage) equivalent to std 1,Fasul-thani(equivalent to std 2,fasul talith (equivalent to std 3),Fasul rabbi (equivalent to std 3),Fasul rabbi (equivalent to std 4,Fasul hamis (equivalent to std 5,Fasul saddis (equivalent to std 6).

More senior classes from Fasul saddis are Awal followed by Tani followed byTallit mutawasit.Am now at Awal stage.At madrassa we normal do our exams on monthy basis. I hope you have all learnt a little bit of my religion and how I most of the time spend my free time during my holidays.

Before I end up I want to thank again everyone at Wolvey church for you support which you’ve so far done to me which further gives me hope of proceeding to secondary school.

As we approach Christmas I also want to wish you all a MERRY Christmas and a Happy new year 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

Yours loving child,

Ibrahim Omar.


Thank you to all and Happy New Year 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2015-12-29

Hi! Everyone,

Merry Christmas to all of our sponsors and all the well wishers to our Mttomondoni sponsorship program!!!!!!!!!!!  From me, my family and all the families in our Mtomondoni sponsorship program  want to send our best Christmas wishes to everyone and thanking you all for your continued support towards our kids program here in Africa.

As we also usher in the new year 2016,I also want to send a message of prosperity and good life to everyone and also want to welcome you all to visit our beautiful country Kenya which is rich in wildlife, historic  sites and beautiful beaches under the sun!!!!!!!!

More special thanks go to all the donators who contributed towards this year’s Christmas treat and shopping to our sponsored kids here in Africa which was a great success. On behalf of the kids and families who received the gifts please receive our lots of appreciations.

Here below please read more thank you letters from the kids and families. Also have a look of the picture gallery showing the families receiving the Christmas gifts and shopping.

Be blessed and once again wish you all a HAPPY New Year 2016.

Regards,

Moses.

(Sponsorship co-ordinator Africa).


From Pendo to Lynne Wann.

2015-12-29

   Dear! Lynne Wann,

Hello! How are you? I hope you are fine. In Kenya am fine too. I have received your message of my Christmas gift from Mr.Moses who went with us at the supermarket and was able to buy for myself lots of gifts which include body perfumes,body lotions,hair shampoo,bathing soap,washing powder,sanitary pads and tooth paste.

I was happy to know from Mr.Moses that you are the one who had bought for me the Christmas gift!!!! May God bless your work and family and I will continue to pray for you so that  you can get more money for next year’s Christmas. Am now celebrating Christmas time with my parents and they’ve all sent their love to you and your family.

Finally I wish you a MERRY Christmas and a HAPPY New year 2016!!!!!!!!!

With lots of best wishes from Pendo Benson.


Pendo to Steve and Karen Taylor.

2015-12-29

Dear Steve and Karen Taylor,

Hi! How are you? I hope you fine. In Kenya we are fine too,I received your Christmas message from Mr. Moses who went with us at the shopping mall and bought many things like hair clips, shoe polish, hair food, body creams, rubbing brush, body spray, bathing soap, washing basin, tea leaves, baking flour, maize flour,bread,spaghetti,squash,tin milk and others..May God bless your work and family?

 I will continue to pray for you so that you can get more money for next year’s Christmas. Am now celebrating Christmas time with my parents and they’ve all sent their love to you and your family.

Finally I wish you a MERRY Christmas and a HAPPY New year 2016!!!!!!!!!

With lots of best wishes from Pendo Benson.


Ibrahim to Steve and Karen Taylor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2015-12-29

 Dear Steve and Karen Taylor.

Hi! How are you? Hope you are fine with your family.Am fine too with my family.

I thank you for all the things which you made me to have for this Christmas which I went to buy at the supermarket. The things included cooking oil, apples, packets of baking flour, maize flour,milk,spaghetti,tin sodas,sugar,squash,cookies,energy boosting drinks,sweets,rice,salt,slippers,detergents,petroleum jellies,washing powders,margarine,food spices, biscuits and others. Your help in getting the Christmas gift made me to well enjoy the Christmas.

At the moment we are still on holiday after completing my final class in primary school i.e STD 8 where I look forward to proceeding to form 1 next year after getting my results. So as to make use of my holiday, I normal go the Madrassa every day where we learn more about our Islamic religion.

Thank you for everything and wish you a happy New year. Bye Bye, yours son Ibrahim


Albert to Mike Wann!!!!!!!!!!!!

2015-12-29

Dear Mike Wann,

Hello! I hope you are doing well with your family, My family and I also doing fine enjoying the holidays. The main purpose for me to writing this letter is to thank you for providing me with gifts for the Christmas holiday. I want to say again, thank you Mike for the Christmas shopping, I really enjoyed picking up lots of goodies that I preferred from the supermarket like squash, energy drinks, washing powder, tinned soda, cooking oil,apples,bottled soda, baking flour,milk,medicated bathingsoaps,sugar,game kits, food spices,detergents,yourghut,torch battery, hand and body lotions, tomato sauce, shoe polish and many more.

I hope you had a great Merry Christmas too. Finally I wish you a brilliant Happy New year 2016 and may God bless you in everything you do.

Yours son,Albert.


Alfred to Gerald Trevor

2015-12-29

Dear Gerald Trevor

How are you? My name is Alfred Mugambi from Kenya in Mtwapa.I have written this letter to thank you for giving me the Christmas gift. I therefore send to you all my thanks and gratitude for the Christmas presents.

Actually also my family are saying thank you to you too. The shopping that we did was really amazing, I was able to buy things like, maize flour, baking flour, cooking oil,rice,mathematic set, medicated bathing soap, drinking chocolate, tooth paste,sugar,sugar dish, tinned soda, shoe polish shoe brush,biscuits,peanut butter,toffies,ice cream and etc.

My mother Mercy and my sister Pyllis also say thank you because you made our Christmas the best day in our lives. May God bless you all and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you.

Yours faith fully  son,Alfred Mugambi.


Wycliff to Val Murphy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2015-12-29

Dear Val Murphy,

Hi! Val, How are you with your family there in your country England? I hope that you are all good. Am fine too with my family here in our country Kenya. How was your Christmas day, with me I really enjoyed it.

The main reason why I have written this letter is to thank you for your support that you have shown to me throughout my time in the sponsorship program and now that I have completed my primary school education.

 Secondly I want to take this opportunity to thank you for the shopping money that you sent for me. In the shopping I bought things like shoe polish,salt,baking flour,cookies,apples,tooth paste, tinned soda,sweets,washing powder, petroleum jelly, basins soap and others.

Finally I wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy prosperous new year 2016.May God Almighty bless you with your family.

Thank you a lot Val Murphy.

Love from your sponsored child,Wycliff Benson.


Gibson to Paula Burton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2015-12-29

Dear Paula Burton,

Hey!!!!!!!! Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!! Am  good together with my family, I thank God for keeping me alive and the Christmas gift which you sent to me and my family. I bought lots of things and you really made our Christmas be good. The things we bought are like,eggs pack,soap,tray,drinking chocolate, shoe polish,sugar,pegs,maize flour,spaghetti,baking flour, porridge flour,rice,detergents,tea leaves,brush,body spray, fruit drinks,toothpaste,milk,food

 spices,toilet papers,cookies,basin basins,chips,margarine,tomato sauce and others.

May God bless you and continue with the same spirit. I wish you a prosperous new year.

Yours son Gibson.


Happy to Paula Burton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2015-12-29

Dear Paula Burton,

How are you? I hope you are fine in England.Am doing well together with my family and friends.How is your family?

The reason for writing this letter is to thank you for the Christmas present which you bought for me. I think I had the best Christmas!!! I wish you could have been here so as we celebrate together. I did my Christmas shopping where I purchased many items like sugar,squash,sanitary pads, hair conditioner, cooking oil, baking flour, maize flour,rice,hair clips,chocotes,petroleum jelly, body sprays,multi vitamin drinks, cooking pot, food spices, cookies and others.

Also during Christmas I went with my friends to the beach to swim.My mother prepared the food for the Christmas for us all and we all enjoyed as she cooked our favourite food.This could not have happened if it were not for you Paula.

I thefore say again,thank you very much fo all that you have done for me and my family.I would also like to wish you and your family a Happy Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year and all the best.

Lots of love,

From,

Happy.


Abdalla to Shirley Hammonds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2015-12-29

Dear Shirley Hammonds,

How are you? It’s my great hope that you are fine.Also me am fine too with my family,Am so glad to have this golden opportunity to give thanks to you for my Christmas shopping.At first I was so glad to have a wonder full moment during the Christmas day because of all the presents which I had received from you. For sure the shopping really assisted me and my family too. The items I bought are like,tinned milk,spaghetti,tooth paste,squash,sugar,slippers etc.

My family and I are joining hands together to say thank you and will not stop saying thank you!!!!!!!!

Thank you for all your support Shirley especially aloso in my education,may God bless you and your family.

Yours faith fully son,

Abdalla,


Justin to Sara!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2015-12-29

Dear Sara Fletcher,

Hello Sara, How are you doing in England? I hope that you and your family are well. Am fine here in Kenya with my family. How was your Christmas day? With me it was very nice and I really enjoyed it. I spent with my family, my friends and some of my classmates.

The reason to why I have written this letter is to than you for the shopping money that you sent to me. Actually I really enjoyed the shopping very well and you really made it nice,thank you very much Sara. In the shopping I bought things like rice,baking flour,cotton buds,squash,washing powder,shoe polish,salt,petroleum jelly,apple drink,bathing soap,chocolates etc.Some of these things will help me when I get back to school next year.

Finally I want to wish you a prosperous new year 2016.

Lots of love from Justin.


Mary Junior to Vicki!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2015-12-29

Hello Vicki!

How are you? I hope you are fine am fine too. Am happy to inform you that I celebrated very well during Christmas day and thank you soo much for making  my Christmas a happy one.

I want to thank you for everything you have done for me, we went to the supermarket for  shopping with my mother and bought many things such as cooking fat,maize flour,baking flour,chicken parts,crispy,youghurt,ice cream,tomato sauce,chocolate,noodles,sugar,margarine ,milk etc.

I was very happy as a king for buying all the things which was because of you. I pray that to God to bless you and give you many more days to live.

As you also know last year I was in class 4 and next year I will be in class 5.At school I work very hard during exams,last year I was position 4 out of 27 pupils with a total of 382 marks out of 500.Because I did well next year I will be promoted to class 5.

I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Yours faithfully,Mary.


Abdalla to Clive Kidd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2015-12-29

Dear Clive Kidd,

How are you? It’s my great hope that you are fine. Also me am fine too with my family, Am so glad to have this golden opportunity to give thanks to you for my Christmas shopping. At first I was so glad to have a wonder full moment during the Christmas day because of all the presents which I had received from you. For sure the shopping really assisted me and my family too. The items I bought are like, peanut butter,spaghetti,body spray, hair food, tooth paste, washing powder,sugar,rice,wheat flour, maize flour,youghurt,salt,hedge shears, porridge meal and others.

My family and I are joining hands together to say thank you and will not stop saying thank you!!!!!!!!

Thank you for all your support Clive especially also in my education, may God bless you and your family.

Yours faith fully son,

Abdalla.


Happy to Vicki!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2015-12-29

Dear Vicki,

How are you? I hope you are fine in England.Am doing well together with my family and friends.How is your family?

The reason for writing this letter is to thank you for the Christmas present which you bought for me. I think I had the best Christmas!!! I wish you could have been here so as we celebrate together. I did my Christmas shopping where I purchased many items like revision text book,braids,washing powder,hair food,hair shampoo,shoe polish etc and others.

Also during Christmas I went with my friends to the beach to swim. My mother prepared the food for the Christmas for us all and we really enjoyed. The items which you made me purchase are really going to help me as most of the which I bought I have never dreamt that I will one day be able to purchase since my mother is not able to buy for me and my father divorced my mother.This could not have happened if it were not for you Vicki.

I therefore say again, thank you very much for all that you have done for me and my family. I would also like to wish you and your family a Happy Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year and all the best.

Lots of love,

From,

Happy.


Hamisi to Gill and Dave!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2015-12-29

Dear Gill and Dave,

How are you there in England? It’s my great home that you are fine together with your family. Am fine too together with my family here in Kenya. We have closed school and now resting this month before we reopen school next year.

I want to take this chance to thank you for the shopping of my Christmas. We went with Mr. Moses. I really enjoyed a lot during the shopping. During the shopping I bought things like cooking oil,rice,spaghetti,tooth paste, maize flour, baking flour, sugar etc.

Later on Christmas I went to  church for the Christmas service, when we came back from church we helped my grandmother to cook pilau which we really enjoyed.

Thank you once again Gill and Dave for everything and wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2016.

Yours loving son,

Hamisi.


Samuel to Lynne Wann!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2015-12-29

Dear Lynne Wann,

How are you there in England? It’s my great hope that you are fine together with your family. My family is doingl well too here in Kenya. How has been your Christmas holiday? It’s my hope that you enjoyed well with your family. I really enjoyed with my family and friends. I also visited my grandmother.

I would like to thank you for your kindness which you did to, me by making able to shop for my Christmas may God bless you and guide you in everything you do. We went for shopping with Mr.Moses and bought things such as  sugar, maize flour,baking flour,washing powder and body lotion. I really thank you Lynne very much and may God be with you.

I wish you a prosperous Happy New Year 2016!!!!!!!!!!

Lots of love from,

Your son,Samuel.


Salwa to Vicki!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2015-12-29

Dear Vicki,

How are you? I hope that you are fine, how is your family? It’s my great hope that you are all fine. My family is doing great.

Am writing this letter to thank you for the great Christmas present, I really loved it. We went shopping with my mum and Mr. Moses I bought for myself some goodies like sanitary towels,washing powder,body lotion,hair shampoo,hair conditioners,bathing soap,chicken soup pack,maize flour,baking flour,deodorants etc. All the things which I bought will be useful to me.

Thanks a lot Vicki for everthing,may the Almighty God bless you. May you have a prosperous new year 2016,Happy New Year!!!!!!!

Lots of love and ‘chao’ from your loving daughter,Salwa.


Baby Gail to Gail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2015-12-29

Dear Gail,

I hope you are fine,I say thank you for the Christmas presents which you bought for me to celebrate with my family in this Christmas.

Also my mother say thank you.I bought for my self things like milk toffies,cookies,fruit drinks,biscuits and youghurt.Also we bought for my family some food like maize flour,sugra,wheat flour,rice and cooking oil.

Wishing you a merry Christmas and a Happu New Year. Many kisses to you and Sara from your loving daughter Gail.


Teresia to Alan and Linda Frost!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2015-12-29

Dear Alan and Linda Frost.

First and foremost I want to wish both of you and everyone in your family a MERRY Christmas.I hope you’ve been enjoying your Christmas just like us here in Kenya.Please receive many greetings from my mother.We are all doing well with my new born baby,his name is Jeremy who is now almost 3 months old. I hope Mr.Moses had informed you of my new born baby.

I want to thank you for all your continue support to me and my family and more especially many many thanks for making my Christmas with family wonderful Christmas. Thank you too for the financial support which has helped me a lot. With the money which you had sent for me for the Christmas we were able to go with my mother and Mr.Moses for the shopping where we bought very many items and to mention some of the things we bought were like maize flour,sugar,rice,tea leaves,drinking chocolate,body lotion,spaghetti,salt,cooking fat,washing basins,water buckets,enery saver cooking jiko,sandals,cooking oil,baby powders,baby soaps,baby shampoo,washing powder,hair dressing and beauty items,,water jugs,food spices,squash,butter,toilet papers,toothpaste,milk,cooton buds,canned sodas,chicken soup,sweets,tomato sauce,margarine etc.

During Christmas we prepared lots of food like pilau,chapatti,chicken soup,ugali.I enjoyed my Christma while at home with my mother,sisters,brothers and my aunt who is a sister to my late father.

Me and family are very much thank you  Alan and Linda, we find no appropriate words to express our gratitude to both of since you uplifted our Christmas spirit by making us get lots of Christmas gift.

Finally want to wish you a health and prosperous New Year 2016.

From your loving daughter,

Teresia.


Esther mum to Stephen Moir!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2015-12-29

Dear Stephen Moir,

I greet you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ whom we now celebrate his birth during Christmas.I hope you are fine with your family,am fine too. My name is Grace,a mother to Esther.First I want to thank you very much for your kind hearted support towards my daughter Esther in terms of her education,am am happy to inform you that Esther is going on well at her polytechnic where she is undergoing a course in dressmaking.

Unfortunately recently during this holiday before Christmas Esther had an accident where she fall off under a pit latrine after she had visited the toilet at her sister’s house where she had gone to visit her. Accidentally the toilet floor broke down and Esther fall down the pit breaking her right lower part of the hip. At the moment. Esther is walking with some aid and hopefully soon she will be able to walk without the aid when the fracture heals.

Am therefore writing this letter on her behalf saying thank you for everything which you’ve done to Esther and my family especially during this Christmas. Thank you for providing us with the shopping where I was able to buy for Esther and for the family some food and other useful items for Esther to use. Since Esther is sick and needs to attend some check up clinics some of the money will be used for  Esther’s clinic visits.

The items which we bought were like rice,baking flour,cooking oils,squash,salt,spaghetti,soaps,margarine,tea leaves,steel wool for cleaning cooking pots,tooth paste,sanitary towels,sugar etc.

Thank you once again and Esther sends her many thanks.

Regards from Esther’s mum


Magdaline to Gail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2015-12-29

Dear Gail,

Hi! Gail,How are you,it’s my hope that you are fine,am fine too with my son.How is England and everyone in your family. I hope you are all well.

Let me thank you for everything which you have been doing for me and my son.You have been helping me so much,thank you for your kindness.Lamic has grown big now and a good boy,he has started going to school,he really likes school and seems like a bright boy.

Thank you also for the Christmas shopping which I did some shopping for myself and for my son and because of you you both made our Christmas a super Christmas!!! The things we bought were like baking flour,maize flour,cooking oil,washing powder,hair food,hand and body lotions,Lamic’s clothes{trouser),braids and sweets.

May the Almighty God bless the work of your hands and give you more and a long life.Finally I want to wish you a HAPPY YEAR 2016!!!!!!!!!!

Yours loving Magdaline.


Ben to Sara!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2015-12-29

Hi! Sara,

Merry Christmas to you Sara!!!!!!!!!! Hope your are having a fabulous Christmas holiday. Am fine with my family.My sister Nelly with be joining STD 7 next year while with me I hope to join a diploma course in computer programming next year after completing my certificate course.Thank you Sara for the support which you’ve given and continuing to give to me.

I want to send my special thanks to you Sara for the Christmas treat which you provided to me.I was able to go for some shopping  where I bought items like squash,sugar,margarine,toothpaste,biscuits,milk,soaps,sweets and exercise books for my sister.

Both my mum and sister have also sent their many thanks to you. I finally want to wish you aHAPPY New Year 2016!!!!!!!!!

Lots of love from Ben.


Happy.

2015-12-29

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Happy aged 14 years old. Currently am in STD 7 at Mtwapa Academy,next year I’ll be proceeding to Std 8 which is a final class in primary school. I feel that am ready to go to STD 8 as I have the confidence which I have so far built due to my persistence hard work and doing lots of revision. I like my school Mtwapa Academy as the teachers are good, helpful and have made lots of friends.

I live in a village called Shanzu which is a village next to Mtwapa. From my home to the school its about 1.5 miles, due to this I have to use  boda boda ‘’ motor bike transport from our house to the main stage where I connect with a ‘matatu’ public transport. Due to the distance from my home to the school I therefore need to wake up very early in the morning i.e at 5.00am and start preparing for school where I report at 6.30 am.

I like with my mother named Rehema meaning grace. I have my siblings i.e 3 brothers and 4 sisters. Am the eldest in my family.

During the holiday I like reading story books and also helping my mother in some domestic work e.g cooking,washing utensils and fetching water. During school days whenever I arrive at home I first do school assighnments then I help my mother.

Finally I want to that my sponsors for their continued support towards my education which it were not for the sponsorship I would not have reached this far and even more.

I also want to wish  all of my sponsors and everyone in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program a HAPPY  New Year 2016!!!!!!!!!

Yours faithfully child,

Happy.’


Where are they now? Ten years of the programme

2016-01-02

The start of the academic new year is just around the corner, the schools will reopen for the 1st term on the 5th January 2016. With that in mind we thought you would like an update on all the kids, what schools they are going to etc. we are sure you will agree that over the last ten years the programme has clearly made a big difference to the life chances of the children involved. In addition to the sponsored children listed, three of oldest sponsored girls (Magda, Mary and Teresia) have children of their own!

We hope you enjoy reading through the list below.


Section A - Primary school kids remaining at Mtwapa Academy-2016

Name of child/Class
1.Baby Gail  STD 2
2.Gibson STD 4
3.Mary Junior  STD 5
4.Asma  STD 8
5.Happy STD 8
6.Alfred STD 8
 
Section B - Secondary school kids-2016.
Name, form, school

1.Wycliff, 1, awaiting placement letter from the school authority
2.William, 1, awaiting placement
3.Pendo, 1, awaiting placement
4.Ibrahim, 1, awaiting placement
5.Albert, 1, awaiting placement
6.Salwa, 2, The S.A Kinyui Girls’ High School
7.Abdalla, 2, Mtwapa Elite Secondary School
 8. Loice, 3, Bright Future school 
9. Justin, 3, K.P Senior Secondary School
10. Samuel Benson, 3, K.P Senior Secondary School
11. Kahindi Benson, 3, K.P Senior Secondary School
12. Hamisi, 3, Mtwapa Elite Secondary School
13. Baraka Omar, 4, Lutsangani Secondary School
 
Section C - Polytechnic kids.
Name, course, College
1.Esther
Tailoring and dressmaking
Bura Vocational and Rehabilitation Centre

2. Zawadi
Tailoring and dressmaking
Awaiting placement letter
 
Section D - Kids who completed form 4 last year and now awaiting to either proceed to college or university.
1. Lukeman
2. Mapenzi
3. Shila

Section E - college kids.
Name, College/course 
1.Grace
Eldoret university (Bachelor in Environmental Studies)

2.Diego
Computer/graphics design

3.Shadrack
Computer/medical training course

4.Mayee
Kenya Medical Training College (K.M.T.C)-Certificate in Health Records and Information Technology

5.Francis
Rift Valley Institute of Science and Technology-Diploma in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (power option)

6.Kabibi
Computer/Certificate in Early Childhood Education (ECDE)

7.Ben Kilonzo
Diploma in Computer Programming

8.Vidzo
Diploma in Aviation Studies

9.Joseph
Certificate in Hotel Catering

10.Timothy
Computer/Teaching course
 
Section F - Business/career Category
Name/Business

1.Magdaline​
Vegetables/charcoal and Soap

2.Zeina
Tailoring and Dressmaking

3. Mary (senior)
Teacher

4.Samson
Director of the New Light Childrens' home
 
Section G - children who completed std 8/secondary examinations & have now left the programme

1. Getrude 
2. Rama
3. Cheryl
4. Dennis
5. Samwell 
6. Esther


 
 
 


Thank you to Brockington College-England from Mapenzi-Kenya!!!!!!!

2016-01-17

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Mapenzi a Kiswahili name meaning love. Am aged 18 years. I leave in Mtwapa-Kenya at a viilage called Mtomondoni with my grandmother aged 81 years old. I have 8 siblings i.e 5 brothers with 2 sisters. My favorite food is ‘pilau’ while my hobbies are travelling.

I want to take this opportunity to thank all of my sponsors at Brockington College-England for  their continued support towards my education ever since I was in primary school and throughout my secondary school where am now happy to inform you that I’ve so far completed my last and fourth year in secondary school. At the moment am at home awaiting for my results after doing the final exam towards the end of last year.

While at secondary  school I loved going to school as our teachers were generally fine and treated us well.Generall the  1 month long national exam popularly known as the Kenya Certificate of Secondary  Education (KCSE) was  fair,however  the challenging subject was Mathematics. All in all I believe I will perform well   as I had previously well prepared by doing lots of revision work with the help of my teachers. During the time I was in secondary school, I used to go to sleep at 10.00pm and wake up at 4.00 am, prepare myself for school.

In my career I want to pursue a course in nursing since i love treating the sick.

While at home I like helping my grandmother in fetching water and cooking.

Finally I want to thank everyone at Brockington College-England for the education and food support which they are providing to me. I also want to wish all a Happy New Year 2016.

Yours loving girl,

Mapenzi.’


Mtomondoni sponsorship program book loan @ Mtwapa Academy!!!!!

2016-01-23

Hi! Everyone,

 In guess you are all fine with your families. The 2016 first academic term is on and all the kids are back to school, busy with their class works. The first term also marks the beginning of a student’s new class. Due to this, kids and with the help of their parents are required to buy new text books soon they enter their new class classes. Unfortunately very few kids are able to afford to buy new text books which are  also expensive to buy due to their increased prices leaving lots of kids without text books. Courtesy of Mtomondoni sponsorship program, this problem has well been solved and so most of the kids who were unable to buy books are happy to receive books through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program annual book loan.

The book loan program is an idea which was recently launched by Gail and Sara who are the directors of the Mtomondoni sponsorship (Africa) program and who are also the UK based sponsorship co-coordinators. The main objective of this book loan idea is to help some of the non-sponsored kids at Mtwapa Academy to equally benefit from accessing text books. Unfortunately most of the kids who are unable to afford  school text books are either coming from needy families or their parents are struggling to get jobs due to the high unemployment rate here in Kenya and especially here in Mtwapa.

The book loan idea came up when most of the Mtomondoni sponsorship program kids started to join secondary school, colleges and universities. As a result few kids were left at Mtwapa Academy leaving behind a big book stock. Due to this, the Mtomondoni sponsorship program through Gail and Sara thought it better to lend a hand by loaning the remaining books in stock to some of the non-sponsored kids at Mtwapa Academy.

Am happy to inform you all that ever since the book loan started many of the non-sponsored kids have benefited from the book loan program after which the books are returned to the program book stock through Mr.Moses who is the Africa based sponsorship program co-coordinator. On behalf of all the kids who have received the books and on behalf of the school director madam Rahab,I therefore want to convey a message of THANKS to you Gail and Sara and all the sponsors of the Mtomondoni sponsorship program for your courtesy, be blessed.

Am happy to inform you that this year the program has benefited 61 kids at Mtwapa Academy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!y i.e from STD 2-STD 8.  Thank you,thank you and thank you!!!!!!!!! Please see pictures on the book loan program from our picture gallery.

With regards,

From,

Moses (sponsorship co-ordinatot-Africa)


Mtomondoni Sponsorship program kids top in national 2015 KCPE exam at Mtwapa Academy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2016-01-23

Hi! Everyone,

Hope you are all fine and had a good week.We are fine too here in Mtwapa. Well.as we all celebrate the new year 2016 i also have some good news for you all which we can together celebrate with in this new year!!!!!!!!!!. Guess what?..................... The K.C.P.E results;-………………….The 2015 K.C.P.E results were recently officially out. Am happy to inform you  all that, once again just like Baraka,one of our program kids i.e  (Wycliff Benson) emerged the best overall candidates after scoring a total of 335 marks out of 500 marks!!!!!!!!!!. Also among the top 10 kids at Mtwapa Academy,3 of our program kids i.e Wycliff,Ibrahim and Albert were among them!!!!!!!!!!  With Ibrahim he scored 317 marks ot of 500 marks while Albert had 305 marks out of 500 marks.Generally most candidates performed well with more than half of the candidates getting above average.. Briefly here is the summary of the best performers from the school;-

A. The best performing overall candidate……. ( Wycliff Benson)……….…335 marks out of 500 marks.

B.Best performing boy………………………………… (Wycliff Benson).

C.Best performing girl…………………………………..(Eva Muthoni)………..…..333 marks out of 500.

D.Best in Maths...............................................Albert Mwasambu……….71…….B+

E.Best in English.............................................Joseph Kamau……………76……..A-

F.Best in Kiswahili…………………………………………Catherine Ndiwi………….73….….B+

G.Best in Social Studies………………………………...Eva Muthoni………………71…….B+

H.Best in Science………………………………………….Eva Muthoni………………..74……B+

Some of our program kids who sat for the national exam were Pendo Benson and William Benson who also performed fairly.

At the moment the kids who sat for the KCPE last year are taking a break at their homes as they await for their secondary school calling letters which hopefully they will be out in early February.

Finally i need to send my lots of appreciations to everyone of you for you comtinued support towards the kids education here in Africa. Be blessed.

Regards,

Moses/(Sponsorship coordinator-Africa).


sponsored kids at Mwapa Academy receive new uniform!!!!!!!!

2016-01-30

Hi! Everyone,

Hope you’ve all had a good week. All is well here at Mtwapa-Kenya, from me and on behalf of the sponsored kids at Mtwapa Academy, please receive lots of greetings from us all here in Mtwapa. All the kids at school are fine and have over last this week completed their end of month exam which is part of the continuous assessment test in their new classes.

Well am happy to inform you today that,over this week our sponsored kids at Mtwapa Academy received their new school uniform. Ever since the sponsorship program started 10 years ago all of our sponsored kids at Mtwapa Academy have been receiving new school uniform annually courtesy of the Mtomondoni sponsorship program which all of the kids and parents have been grateful for everything from our sponsors.Please see our picture gallery for details of the kids in their new school uniform.

Finally I want to say thank you all of you friends and sponsors who have been posting greetings, congratulatory messages etc through this website to some of our kids. Please be rest assured that the kids have been receiving your great messages and have all appreciated.

With that I say ‘kwaheri’bye and thank you all for being part of us, be blessed.

Regards,

Moses.

(sponsorship co-ordinator-Africa.)


Shila

2016-01-30

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Shila, aged  18 years old. Am happy to be sponsored in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program ever since i was in primary school and throughout my secondary school in which am happy to inform you all that I’ve now completed my secondary school towards the end of last year where I did my final form 4 exam popularly known as Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exam.

My former secondary school which was also a mixed boarding school was called Chumani Secondary school.Chumani is a Swahili name derived from the word ‘chuma’ meaning steel. In our form 4 class we were composed of 4 streams and each stream had a total of 54 students. In our class the percentage ratio of boys to girls was 70:30. The normal school day starts at 4.00 am where I wake up and start to prepare myself for my morning classes where we have morning remedial classes at 6.00 am until 6.45 am where we break for our morning breakfast there after we officially start our classes at 7.00 am. From 7.00 am we continue with our classes until 10.am where we have a short break and resume our classes at 11.00am.From 11.00 am we continue with our classes until 1.00 pm where we break for lunch. After lunch we resume our classes at 2.00pm until 4.00pm. After 4.00 pm we proceed for remedial classes in which students undergo intensive subject training so as to improve on the weaker subjects until 5.00 pm.

The major subjects  i used to study were Mathematics, English, Chemistry, Biology, Kiswahili, Christian Religion Education (CRE), Agriculture, and History. My favorite subject was Biology as  i was soo much interested to study about the evolution of the human being.

Our usual menu at school was rice with beans,’ugali’ cooked corn flour with cabbage’pilau’,cooked maize with beans popularly known as ‘githeri’.For breakfast we used to  have tea with bread.

As I preparation for my final secondary school exam (KCSE) I made sure that I have done thorough revision on my own, joined study groups and increased my study times. I therefore hope to perform well in my exam soon the results are announced in the month of February.

During weekends at school we clean our hostels in the morning as from 10.00 am then in the afternoon we are free to do anything like washing our clothes, going for shopping at the nearby shopping centre, go the school field and read novels or just simply rest.

For my future career I would like to be an air hostess as I love flying. Apart from being an air hostess I would like to work in hotel industry in the department of food catering.

Finally I would like to send my many thanks to all of my sponsors who have supported me throughout my education.

Bye bye with lots of love

, from Shila.


secondary school and polytecnic kids 2016

2016-03-11

Hi! Everyone,

I guess you are all doing fine, we all here in Mtwapa are fine. Well this is just a quick post informing you that 5 of our kids in the sponsorship program i.e Wycliffe,Ibrahim,Albert,Pendo and William have joined both secondary and polytechnic. For Wycliffe, Ibrahim and Albert they have joined secondary school form 1 while Pendo and William have joined the Polytechnic. For Wycliffe he’s joined form 1 in a school called Msumarini Secondary school, Ibrahim has joined form 1 in a school called Moi Forces Academy High school,Albert has joined form 1 in a school called St.George’s High School.  All the secondary schools which our kids have joined are good schools and hopefully if they continue to work hard they'll make it to the university.For Wycliffe's it's pronvincial school,for Ibrahim is a national school i.e a top secondary school  while for Albert is pronvicial school which will soon be a national school.Pendo has joined a training college in dress making and tailoring while William has joined Kisauni youth polytechnic in welding and fabrication. Also joining the dressmaking and tailoring course at the polytechnic apart from Pendo is Zawadi.

Please read more details about the new education developments of Wycliffe, Pendo and Zawadi in our today's journal entries.

In the next post we’ll be featuring Ibrahim,Albert and William.

With that I say bye and thank you all for your generous contribution towards the sponsorship program.

Regards,

Moses.


Wycliffe

2016-03-11

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Wycliffe aged 15 years old. Am happy to all of my sponsors for sponsoring me since I was in the kindergarten, throughout my primary school and  more happy to inform you that I have  now joined secondary school after successfully completing my primary level education last year.

The name of my secondary school is called Msumarini secondary school located about 10 miles away from Mtwapa.My secondary school is a mixed day school. For students like us who live far away from the school,they may either find accommodation in some of the rental house/rooms located within the school or may live with relatives who stay near the school. With me am lucky to stay with my aunt, a sister to my mum who lives near the school.

In my form 1 class we about 40 students out of 4 streams in form 1.The stream are subdivided into 4 i.e form 1 East,West,South and North. My class is form 1 East. The subject which am doing are English,Kiswahili,Mathematics,Biology,Physics,Chemistry,History and government,Christian Religious Education (CRE),Agriculture and Business Education. Am excited to learn on all the subjects and look forward to choose my career out of these subjects before the end of my 4 years in secondary school.

At the moment I don’t have much to say about my new school as am still new ,I hope to write more details about the school next time. Thank you once again to all of my sponsors and also to Gail and Sara.

Yours loving child,Wycliffe’.


Zawadi

2016-03-11

Hi! Everyone,

‘ My name is Zawadi aged 17 years old. Am happy to be sponsored through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. Last year I had joined secondary school after completing my std 8 class, however this year I have decided to change and have now joined the polytechnic where am training in dressmaking and tailoring course.The name of my polytechnic is called Mary Mother of God training school which is fully administered by the catholic church of Kenya.

Am now in the 3rd grade of my course, the subjects which are doing are construction theory,free hand pattern cutting,Enterpreneurship skills. After doing my third grade I’ll proceed to the second grade where I’ll be doing fashion desighn.

All in all I want to thank all of my sponsors for their continued support towards my education.

Yours loving girl,Zawadi’.


Pendo

2016-03-11

Hi! Everyone,

My name is Pendo,am aged 17 years. I completed my std 8 class last year. Am happy to be sponsored in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. I have now joined the polytechnic in dressmaking and tailoring course at the Mary Mother of God training school. The subject which we are doing are pattern cutting,free hand, construction theory  and entrepreneurship skills.

I do have passion for fashion and design and therefore hope after my course I’ll be able to a designer.

I want to thank all of my sponsors for supporting my education ever since I joined the program.

Yours loving,Pendo.


2015 Secondary school final exam results.

2016-03-19

Hi! Everyone,

Following the completion of  secondary school education  for some of our program kids, am hereby happy to inform  to you their final exam results.As you all know once our kids complete their 8 years in primary school,they either further proceed to secondary school or to the youth polytechnic. For those kids who proceed to secondary school they undergo a 4 year study thereafter the students are required to sit for their final exam populary know as the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exam.

In the previous year of 2015, three of our program kids i.e Mapenzi,Lukman and Shila sat for their KCSE exam and obtained the following grades;-

STUDENT 1.............Mapenzi;-

Subject attempted.....................Grade obtained

1.English.......................................C-

2.Kiswahili.....................................C+

3.Mathematics...............................E

4.Biology.......................................B

5.Chemistry...................................D+

6.History........................................C

7.C.R.E.........................................C+

      Mean grade..............................C

STUDENT 2...............Lukman.

Subject attempted.....................Grade obtained

1.English.......................................D-

2.Kiswahili.....................................D-

3.Mathematics...............................E

4.Biology.......................................E

5.Chemistry...................................D

6.History.......................................D-

7.I.R.E..........................................D-

      Mean grade..............................D-

STUDENT 3..............Shila.

Subject attempted.....................Grade obtained

1.English.......................................D+

2.Kiswahili.....................................C

3.Mathematics...............................D

4.Biology.......................................C-

5.Chemistry...................................D

6.History.......................................D-

7.C.R.E.........................................D-

8.Agriculture..................................C

      Mean grade..............................D+

Comments on results;-

1. For Mapenzi’s results her results are above average and therefore she can proceed to pursue a diploma course from her preferable career e.g nursing, teaching, engineering, business administration etc, thereafter the course she may proceed for a degree course.

2. For Lukman’s result he’s got below average however he still has a chance to pursue a trade course in the polytechnic e.g motor vehicle mechanics, electrical installation, welding/fabrication, masonry, plumbing and computer packages.Thereafter after graduating he may proceed for a diploma  course.

3. For Shila, she has got average grade, therefore she may proceed to pursue any preferable certificate course e.g Early childhood development education (ECDE), Secretarial studies, Computer technology,hotel catering etc.

Please read more from  Mapenzi,Lukman and Shila in the next diary entries.

Thank you for you support towards the kids program and wish you all a happy Easter holiday.

Regards,

Moses.


Mapenzi

2016-03-19

Hi! Everyone,

‘Am Mapenzi,just needed to briefly  speak about my post secondary life having completed my four years in secondary school. First of all am happy to tell you that my final exam results were out recently and showing that I have passed well. However among all the subjects Mathematics have been soo challenging to me. All in all I did well in the rest of the subjects and mostly happy with biology subject which will help me when applying for my intended career i.e nursing.

Generally the exam was fair though about tricky which a student could be able to tackle the questions if only the student have studied broadly which I did by revising lots of past exam questions. Also my constant consultation with my teachers at school helped me a lot in passing my exam as I used to always bother my teachers by asking them as many questions as I possible. I further want to thank my teachers who have been very hardworking and devoted to us as candidates in the last year who were able to work with us while at school even past the school hours.

Now with my good results I believe my ambitions of becoming a nurse will be fulfilled. Alternatively if do not get the chance of pursuing a nursing course, I hope to pursue a teaching course. Thereafter my course and soon am employed I hope to help my 5 siblings  by making sure that they are all attending school ,buy a plot of land and built a house for my grandmother. Also I would love to help needy kids and families from my village just like I was helped by the sponsors.

Before I end up,I want to thank all of my sponsors for the enormous support towards my education of which if it were not for the sponsors I would not have been able to continue with my education. Also I want to thank the sponsors especially Brockington College who have apart from supporting me in my education have also given to me food support.

Bye bye to all,yours loving,Mapenzi’.


Lukman

2016-03-19

Hiello Everyone!,

'It’s Lukeman, hope you are all fine. Am happy to have completed my secondary school education at Mtwapa Secondary school. From my results I now intend to do a certificate course in motor vehicle mechanics thereafter I hope to pursue a diploma course in mechanical engineering.

Soon I complete course, I would like to support my mother, brothers and sisters since am the elder among 2 brothers who are Yassir and Naushad and a sister called Gail Nuru. I would also love to see my family leaving a good life.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of my sponsors for their support towards my education, if it were not for them I would not have gone to school and maybe I could be a street boy but thanks to the sponsors.

Also I have some advise to my fellow youths and for all those students who are still in secondary school that, they should practice to serve one master at a time meaning that they need to be focused in education and listening to their teachers’ advises in order to do well in their studies. Also as a Muslim it has helped me to be obedient and respectful to my mother while at home and to my teachers to while in school.

My hobbies are watching football especially the premier and European leagues in which my favourite teams are Leicester and Chelsea. Am also very much interested in current affairs mostly on political issues.'

Regards,

From,Lukeman.


Shila

2016-03-19

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Shila and happy to have completed my secondary school education. Briefly I would say that my school life has not been easy since both my parents had passed on ever since I was in the kindergarten and only leaving under the care of my uncle.However  through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program  my school life was made easier and affordable for the program took care of most of my school needs and now happy to complete my secondary school. Thank you to Gail and Sara who found for me my sponsors.

I thank my teachers too who have been like my parents as they helped me alot and making sure that i work hard and improve on my subjects.

From my results I hope to do a course in hotel catering which have been one of my future career ambitions apart from air hostess. I would like to send my lots of appreciations to all of my sponsors for their help in my education and look forward to starting my college life and there after get a good job.

Thank you once again to everyone, yours girl,'

Shila.


Ibrahim Omar.

2016-04-13

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Ibrahim Omar,am 15 years old. Am happy to inform you all and my sponsors too that this year I joined secondary school after completing my std 8 last year at Mtwapa Academy. My new school is called Moi Forces Academy High School which is situated along the popular Likoni Ferry channel which is near the port of Mombasa. Our school which is also a mixed school has a student population of about 2000 kids. The school was first built courtesy of the Kenya Armed Forces where its name is derived. All students at the school maintain a very high discipline and hard work jus t like the armed forces behave.

The form 1 lot has a total of 3 streams in which each stream is comprised of an average of 70 kids per class whereby our class we have a total of 71 kids, both boys and girls.In terms of subject, currently am doing a total of 11 subjects i.e Maths, English,Kiswahili,Business Education,History,Biology,Geography,Arabic,Chemistry,Physics and Islamic Religious Education (IRE).

Generally our school is good with very hardworking teachers. My school day begins as follows;-

4.00 am……………….wake up time.

4,00 am-5,00 am …..Reading

5.00 am-5,45 am……Break fast.

5.45 am-7.30 am…..cleaning of dormitories/hostels.

7.30 am-8.30………..assembly time.

8.30 am-9.00 am …..Revision work while in class.

9.00 am-9.30 am……first lesson begins.

9.30 am-9.40 am….short break.

9.40 am-12.00 noon….morning lessons continue.

12.00 noon-1.30 pm….lunch.

1.30 pm-2.00 pm…..revision work/preps.

2.00 pm-4.00 pm…..afternoon lesson continue.

4.00 pm-6.00 pm….games/clubs.

6.00 pm-7.00 pm…dinner, whereby the kind of food we take is like;-

                              ‘ugali with beans’,rice with beans,’ugali  with cabbage and meat.

7.00 pm-9.00 pm …..Revision/preps

9.00 pm-4.00 am……sleep

On Saturdays we have an half day learning i.e from 7.00 am-12.00 noon while on Sunday Christians attend a church service while Muslims are free to do anything on their own.

Our school science laboratories are well equipped. In terms of extra curriculum activities I do participate in football and am also a member of the wildlife club.

Finally I want to thank you all of my sponsors for continuing to sponsor me and I promise to continue working hard so that I can achieve my goals.

Bye bye,

Yours loving child,

Ibrahim.


From Esther's family(Kenya) to Mike Wann-England

2016-05-19

Hi! Mike Wann,

This is to say many many thanks for  your great concern to our family here in Mtwapa Kenya. My name is Grace and a mother to Esther.Am writing this message on behalf of Esther and we all want to send our greatest love and thanks for the sending over both food and financial assistance which we've received from you through  Gail and Sara through Moses.

Your assistance to our family has come during the time when we really needed it most and its like a God's call that you sent over to us the assistance which me and my family appreciates.

Since my husband passed away,i've been trying to make ends meet with my family in terms of food and i feel soo much encouraged if such people like you can give us such a helping hand.

In regard to Esther she's now recovered and can walk properly and has sent her love to you and your family.

For sure i lack the kind of word to express my happiness to you and may God bless you and your family.

Lots of love from Esther's mum.


From Hamisi and Abdalla to Gail and Sara.

2016-05-19

Hi! Gail and Sara,

First and foremost please receive greetings from our grandmother. We are all doing fine here and going on well with our school. We aslo say thank you for your support by providing us with food at home and also providing us with the school lunch apart from the school fees support. The food support to us and our grandmother has really helped us as we are now able to stay well while at school and even at home. We therefore promise to work more hard so as to be able perform well in our final secondary school examination.We all foresee in the near future we'll be a great assistance to our grandmother soon we complete our studies and get jobs.

Please also send our greetings to Gill and Shrley and the rest of your family members. Asante sana.

from,

Hamisi and Abdalla.


From Teresia's family to Alan Frost.

2016-05-19

Jambo Alan and Linda,

Am happy to send this message to you hoping that you are both doing fine together with your family. Am doing good with my mother here in Mtwapa and has sent her regards to you. My baby son Jeremy is growing up well and has now attained 8 months,he's now trying to stand up but not yet stable and has at least two first teeth.Am happy to say that Jeremy is very charming and makes us happy always.he likes playing with toys. Please check in the picture gallery to see our pictures which Mr.Moses took for you to see.

Thank you Alan and Linda for you continued financial support to me and my mother which i've been receiving from you through Gail and Sara. With the money sent from you it has been helpfull in buying food and also using to buy some baby usefull items and aslo attending baby clinics. We all appreciate your support.

with lots of love,

from,Teresia and mother.


from Mapenzi to Brockingtom College.

2016-05-19

Hi! Everyone,

Am happy to speak to you all at Brockington College.Many thanks too extending your helping hand beside sponsoring my education.For sure the food support which you've always sent over to me has been of great help not only to me but also to my grandmother and the rest of my siblings.Please receive lots of thanks from my grandmother for the food support which we've receive through Gail and Sara.I want to wish you all the best in everything you do and God bless.

yours loving girl,Mapenzi.


Albert

2016-06-17

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Albert aged 15 years. Am happy today to speak to you and tell you about my school. I also want to take this opportunity to thank all of my sponsors through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program for continuing to sponsor me since I was in primary school and now I have joined the secondary school after passing my class 8 well over last year.

To start with the name of my school is called St. Georges High school. Am happy to inform you that my school is one of the top most secondary school and has been categorized as a national school here in Kenya and specifically in our county called Kilifi County.

Our school has a student population of about a total of 930 students who are selected from different schools within our county. Our school is a boys' boarding school and therefore we spend all full time in school throughout the term. Now we are in the second term of the year which is expected to end in August. About our boarding facilities, we have a total of 8 hostels but we normal refer them to as dormitories. Each dormitory is composed of 5 cubes and each cube is composed of at least 20 students making a total of at least 100 students per dormitory.

Our school day officlal school day commence on Monday at 8.00 am. Before that we usual wake up every day at 4.30 am,start to prepare ourselves for the school day by washing and dressing,make up our beddings etc before going for our break fast at 6.30 am. Later we go for our assembly at 7.30 am until 8.00 am.Thereafter the assemby we proceed tp our classes.During the morning classes we do have two breaks i.e short break and long break.The short break begins at 10.00-10.10 am,the long break begins at 11.30 am-11.50 am. Thereafter the breaks we continue with classes until 1.10 pm where we go for our lunch until 2.00 pm where we resume our afternoon classes. The afternoon classes proceed until 4.30 pm where we end our classes.After the afternoon classes we proceed for games where i participate in the school football team.The games continue until 6.00 pm where we go for supper.

From 7.00 pm until 9.00 pm we do preps in which we freely study and do any kind of class assighnment.Thereafter we go to sleep.

During weekends i.e on Saturday,we have few sessions of classes between 10.00 am-11.30 am after tha we are free. On Sundays we are free in the morning in which we go to a church.At school we have a school chapel where our Sunday services are conducted.Our school was initially started by the Anglican  Church of England and so we as students do attend the Anglican church services.

My subjects are Religious Education(RE),Biology (BIO).Physics(PHY),History (HIS),Chemistry(CH),Mathematics(MA),English(EN),Kiswahili(KIS),Geography(GE),Business Education(BS).Agriculture(AG) and Business Studies(BS). My favourite subject is Mathematics. Am happy to say that our school environment is good and the teachers too.

Our school food is 'Githeri' i,e cooked corn maize mixed with beans,'ugali' i.e cooked corn maize flour with cabbage,Rice with beans and pilau which alternate in different days of the week.

With that i say thank you once again to all of my sponsors and everyone else involved in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program and may God bless you all.

yours loving child,

Albert.'


Hamisi.

2016-07-27

Hi! Everyone,

'My name is Hamisi Said aged 17 yerars old. Am now in form three at Mtwapa Secondary school.Previously i.e while in form 1 and 2,i was in another secondary school called Mtwapa Elite high school,then in this year i transfered to Mtwapa secindary school.

The students' population of my school is about 350 students from form 1-4. In our class we are 48 students comprising of 20 girls and 28 boys with an equal number of christians and muslims.

My school schedule is as follows;-

                4.30 am..................waking up,washing and breakfast.

                6.00 am..................leave for school.

                6.30 am ..................report at school.

                7.00 am...................school assembly.

                7.30 am...................official commencing of classes.

               10.20 am-10.50 am....morning break.

               1.00 -1.30 pm..............lunch

               1.30-4.00 pm..............afternoon subjects.

                4.00 p,-5.00 pm..........games

               5,00 pm ......................end of schoo day.

In terms of games am happy to have joined the school  football team in which i play both positions 11 and 7. Am also happy that my school is among the leading school in our region in football.

The subjects which i do are,Biology,Chemisry, Mathematics,English,Kiswahili,Business Education and Geography.My best subject from these is History,some are challenging to me i.e maths,chemisrty and biology.However,so as to overcome the chasllenging subjects,while at school i always consult my subject teachers who assist me in sorting out the questions and even sometimes the teachers give me more questions to work on.While at home i normal wake up very early so as to have sometime to study before going to school and during weekends. My career plan is to become a phamacist.

While at home,i also help my grandmother in some of the domestic work e,g fetching water,washing utensils and cooking.

Finally to my sponsors,i say thank you for all of your support and i promise that i'll work hard.

yours loving child,Hamisi.'

               

    


Mtomondoni Sponsorship program kid STD 8 kids at Mtwapa Academy.

2016-09-02

Hi! Everyone,

It's my sincere hope that you are all fine fwith your families.With us here in Mtwwpa all is well with all the kids doing fine after a short August  3 week holiday break. Am happy to inform you that the schools are now reopened for the 3rd academic term since this week on Tuesday 30th August.Being the final term of the year three of our sponsored kids i.e Asma,Alfred and Happy in our Mtomondoni sponsorship program will be sdoing their final primary school examination in the first week of November i.e from 1st November- 3rd November 2016..Please see on the next post for details on how well they have prepared for their final exam.Finally on behalf of all the kids In Mtomondoni sponsorship program want to send my many many thanks to all our beloved sponsor and everyone else involved in support towardsof our program kids here in Africa and may God  bless you all/

Regards,

Moses-(Sponsorship Co-ordinator,Africa)


Asma

2016-09-02

'Hi! Everyone,

My name is Asma,am 14 years old.First i would like to thanks all of my sponsors for their kind support towards my education ever since i joined the program and now that am in my final class in primary school. Am now lloking forward to do my final exam i.e KCPE early in November.Am happy to inform you all that am well prepared for the exam.As my preparation plan. so far i have made sure that i have indentified all the subjects which am weak at like Social studies by doing lots of revision and attempting any question which i come across during my revision.Am happy that i have now so far improved in the Social studies subject.

Also while at school and very early in the morning. soon i arrive at school,i make sure that i at least attempt 10-20 questions on matthematics subject.Also i have a challenge in science and am happy that so far i;ve able to get different past exam papers which i aslo do attempt to answer the questions which later my maths teacher marks for me.My main final marks target is to get 350 marks and above.

While at home and during weekends i have set up a work schedule and reading plan whereby i wake up at 4.00 am and starts reading from 4.00 am until 6.00 am thereafter i rest and take my break fast. After break fast i do some work by attempting different exam past question papers until early in the afternoon. Later in the afternoon,i help my mother in washing of clothes like which include my school uniform and also my young brothers and sisters's clothes. After that i rest and later help my mother in cooking for our evening meal. After taking my evening meal i rest again and when everyone has gone to sleep and again start reading as from 9.00 pm-11.00 pm thereafter i go to sleep.

At school my teachers are soo helpfull and hardworking  as they too come to school early and leave the school late just to make sure we well prepared for the KCPE exam.

For my career,i'd like to be a woman soldier in the Kenya Army. My favourite sport is football and my interests are cooking where i like cooking pilau and  swahili beef stew and ugali.

Being at Mtwapa Academy,i feel that it was a big priviledge for me and because of that i want to again thank you all of my sponsors for enabling me study at Mtwapa Academy.While at Mtwapa Academy i feel that i have learnt alot of moral values like praying every day during assembly time,good displine and love to everyone.So soon i complete my final exam i will definately miss the school.

From the the Mtomondoni sponsorship program,i want to thank all the sponsors again for making it possible for me to study in an academy school rather than the governmant school.bysponsoring me also i feel that my parents have been helped too.Finally i want to that the program for the lunch,paying for me school fees ,uniform and iin addition,i have received lots of Christmas gifts and food through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. bye bye

                     yours loving,

                        Asma.


Happy

2016-09-02

'Hi! Everyone,

'My name is Happy aged 15 years old. Am happy just llike my name of getting an opportunity in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program and now that i am just completing my primary school level.As my KCPE exam preparation plan,i have made sure that i study more from the revision books like Highflyer and Targeter which are very good revision books. While at school i ask as many questions as posible so as i get enough clarification and understanding on subject topics.

While at home and after super i revise my school work until 10.00 pm then i go to sleep.In the mornig and during weekrnds i wake up at 6.00am and again revise until 7.00 am and alter take my morning break fast which normal my mother prepares for me. Later after break fast i help my mother in washing of utensils.There after i do some extra studies  until 12.00 noon with the help of my aunt who is a young sister to my mother and later break for lunch.After Lunch again i help my mother in doing other domestic works until 3.00 pm when i again get back to revision until 5.00 pm thereafter help my mother in preparing for super.

So far i have been able to identify some of the challenging subjects i.e maths where to overcome it and improve i've continued to do lots of revision in maths. However my favourite subjects are Science and Kiswahili.For my future career i'd lioke to be a doctor.My target marks in my final exam is 350 marks and above.

During leisure time i like listening to stories from my grandmother whom we live with and also reading some story books. My favourite food is 'ugali' and vegetables called 'sukuma wiki' or kales. During Sunday's i go to church in the morning while on  other Saturdays and in the evening i go to church to practice songs as i belong to our church choir. The name of our church is called Grace Fellowship Church located within our village.

Soon i leave Mtwapa Academy i think i will miss the school very  much as our teachers are  nice,the school the school director is very friendly and social.I'll also miss all the games which am used to play with my friends.

Thank you,yours loving girl,'

Happy.


Alfred

2016-09-02

Hi! Everyone,

'My name i Alfred and am 13 years old. I feel good to be among the sponsored kids in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. Being a candidate this year i also would like to tell you my exam preparation plans. With me i've made sure that i have covered all the topics in the syllabbus.Also i make sure that i listen very carefully to my teachers so that i do not miss out anything during this last moments before the KCPE exam. Also i ahve made sure that i revise most of the past KCPE exam papers and learnin all the kind of tricks used in the questions.

While at home i too  have prepared a special time table which contains some school work too and thanks to my mother who give enough time follow what's in the time table.However i do help my mother in going to the shop to buy some house items and also going to the market to buy some vegetables.

On Saturdays i first wash my clothes and help in cleaning utensils,at night i make sure i sleep at least between 6-8 hours as from 9.00 pm 0r 10.00 pm.

During school days,In the morning i wake up at 4.00 am and start studying until 5.05 am.After that i start preparing my self for school and since i live very near to the school i try to reach at the school earlier than the rest i.e  at 6.00 am where i start doing my own personal studies. However the official school day and reporting is 6.30 am.Our school day ends at 6.00pm.

My challenging subject is  English while my favourite subjects are mathematics and science.For my future career i would like to be  a submarine captain.

My favourite sport is swimming.

My teachers are very helpfull as whenever i come across a difficult topic in a certain subject and especially in maths they assist me.

Also for my school Mtwapa Academy i want to say that the school taiught me more than class work only and in addition taught me good moral values like god behaviour and respect to my elders.

With the sponsorship program,it has been very helfpull to me alot and if it were not for the Mtomondoni sponsorship  i would not be at school like at now. Finally i want to further appreciate the program as i have benefited from the Christmas presents and want to say thank you for that.May God bless you.

yours boy',

Alfred.


Mtomondoni mourns as Teresia's mother passes on.

2016-10-04

It’s my sincere hope that you are all fine. Am sorry to inform you all that over a week ago, we the entire family of Mtomondoni sponsorship program lost one of one beloved kids mother’s i.e Teresia’s mum after a heart related disease.Teresia’s mother, full name was Kadzo Kahindi, she died at the age of 57 years old. The burial took place at Teresia’s home in Mtomondoni  village over the last weekend on Saturday 1st October. Please see pictures from our picture gallery for details.

Normally during any our Christian funeral ceremonies we do have a funeral ceremony program where we have different events taking place from the early hours of the morning through out the day until between 3.00 pm and 4.00 pm where the burial takes place. Normally the morning program commence at 10.30 am- 3.00pm.During this time, different activities like singing, speeches from close family members. Friends and government representative take place. Thereafter is the reading of the deceased eulogy then followed by a short sermon from a church Pastor, Reverend or Bishop. After the sermon is the final viewing of the body thereafter the body is carried to the burial site for the final resting.

Being a close friend of the family, I was given a chance to give a speech on behalf of my family and on behalf of the Mtomondoni sponsorship program where I able to convey our condolences to Teresia’s family. Teresia is the last born in their family of 7 children i.e 4 men and 3 women and has been very close to her mother..Please let us all pray for Teresia and the entire  family during this sorrowfull moment. May His Almighty God rest Teresia’s mum soul in eternal peace. Amen


from boys to men!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Samson speaks two days before his wedding!!!!!!!!!

2016-11-03

My name is Samson Mandela aged 27 years old. I was given the name Mandela because i was born during the year when one of our greatesst african leaders i.e  the late Nelson Mandela who was also the former president of South Africa had been released from prison.

Am happy to be among the boys from the New Light Children's home who received educational sponsorship program through the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program.Am also happy to be the eldest kid boy among all the other boys in the program.

Before i tell of my good news,i'd like to briefly speak about my boyhood and teenage life and some lessons to learn. Generally my life at the children' home was good as we were alll well taken care of.Previously before joining the home,i was staying with my granmother and unfortunately she was unable to take me to school until i joined the home. Lucky enough and while at the home i was recruited in the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program through Gail and Sara who took care of my education right from primary,,secondary and college.Thanks for the other benefits i.e fees,food,books and uniform which i got from the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program.

While at the home i was able to interact well with all the kids at the home and am happy now today that am working at the home as an employee in taking care of the kids.Also i'd like to speak about my teenage life and advise the rest of the teenagers.Generally teenage life is interesting and has lots of emotional,physical and spiritual challenges and the only way to overcome the challenges is to get good advise from your seniors,teachers,parents,choosing the right friends and have a close relationship to God.For the teenagers who disobey this advise end up being indispliciplined,hooked in drugs,involved in sexuall immoralities and eventually infected with STDs and HIV/AIDS who finally end up feeling neglected in the society.Always a teenager should remember that whatever kind of life you are living will determine  your future.

Now for my good news...........am happy to inform you all that during this coming weekend of Saturday 5th November 2016,i'll be having a wedding ceremony as am getting married to my sweetheart girl named Joy.The wedding will take place at my church and later have a reception at our New Light Children' home in Mtomondoni.

Briefly i first met Joy from my church called Ministry of Repentance and Holiness,i've been in courtship with Joy for the last 1 year.Our church teachings in regard to marriage are that,once you identify your partner who must come within the church,you have to inform the church pastor who will fast and pray to let God accept the marriage.Incase someone hasn't yet identified his/her partner the same procedure also is applicable which the pastor finally identifies the partners.Later the pastor informs both partners that God has accepted thier marriages.

For my case,soon i identied Joy i informed our church pastor who later fasted and prayed and finally the results were positive that God has accepeted our marriage.From there on formal marriage procedure took place i.e introducing my self/family to the girls parents and family,getting consent from the girl's parents,payment of dowry and applying fro a marriage certificate from the Attorney General's office.Other marriage procedures included counselling and HIV tests for both of us as partners.

There after the wedding preparations started and am now finally happy that the D-day is just around the corner.

Finally to everyone in the Mtomondoni Sponsorship program including Gail and Sara,all of my sponsors,friends of the program,all kids and parents want to take this chance to welcome you all in my wedding ceremony to be held on this coming Saturday the 5th November 2016.Soon after the wedding Mr.Moses will be sending over to you all our friends in England my wedding pictures.

Thank you Gail and Sara and all of my sponsors for your support through out my education and am finally happy that i have now graduated from a boy to a man!!!!!!!!!

Regards,Samson.


 


Samson's wedding pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2016-12-04

Hi! Everyone,

Recently i had sent a post ref. Samson's interview before his wedding which successfully took place and further promised that i'll be posting his wedding pictures. Samson has just completed his honey moon period and getting settled with his newly wedded wife Joy!!!!!!!!!!!!Please have a look of Samson's wedding pictures from the picture gallery.enjoy your viewing.

Samson is the eldest among the sponsored kids in our Mtomondoni sponsorship program.Currently he is employed at the New Light Children's home as an assistant home manager.

From  all of us here in Mtwapa-Kenya would like to wish Samson a bright future in his new marriage and nay God bless them.

Regards,

Moses.(Sponsorship co-ordinator)


Alfred tops in KCPE results!!!!!!!!!!

2016-12-04

iHi! Everyone,

I guess you are all ok with your families.The year 2016 seem to gave gone so fast!!!!!!!!..........Can't believe that we are now in the last month of the year and just about to celebrate Christmas!!!!!!!!!!

Well, as you all know from the previous posts that,this last quarter of the year is normal an exam month for the final kids in both primary and secondary school here in Kenya.For the std 8 kids who were doing the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exam i.e KCPE,we had 3 kids in our Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program i.e Alfred,Asma and Happy.The exam took place between 1st to 4th of November this year.

Am happy to inform you that towards the end of last week,the KCPE exam results wre announced by the government through the minister for education.Am further happy to inform you that one of our kids boy i.e Alfred emerged top among all the candidates at Mtwapa Academy with a total of 371 marks out of 500 marks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Alfred is also among the best performers not only from the school but the entire  County which has almost 100 primary schools.

Due to this Alfred is mostly likely to be selected in one among the national school which are the top most schools here in Kenya.I was able to speak with Alfred and his mother yesterday and were both extremely happy with the outcome and have both sent their many thanks to all the sponsors and friends in our Mtomondoni sponsorship program.

With Happy and Asma,they both scored nearly average marks i.e 235 marks for Asma while Happy score 215 marks out of 500 marks.Since they are both girls they are mostly likely to get middle class secondary school which are still good and continue to improve as they proceed. Both are looking forward to join their new secondary school and also thank you their sponsors too.

Finally as we complete this year 2016,i'd like to thank you all of our sponsors and friends in our Mtomondoni sponsorship program who have continued to give support to all of the program kids here in Africa.I therefore would like to wish you all the very best in the New Year 2017 and Merry Christmas too.

Regards,

Moses.(sponsorship cordinator-Africa).


Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program-Kids education updates.

2016-12-11

Hi! Everyone,

I guess all i well with you,us too.Just needed to update you on our Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program kids edudation position in the next year 2017.From my self and on behalf of all the kids and parents from here in Mtwapa-Kenya want to thank you all for you as sponsors and friends of the program for your continous generous support towards the kids education here in Africa. It's exciting to see the kids to have grown big now  i.e from primary school to college to the university and some attaining adulthood when  a fews years back the same kids were inn the kindergarten and some were in the lower primary school!!!!!!!!!

Here below are the kids uducation updates;-

Name of kid................Current education position by year  2017 i.e primary school,

                                  ,secondary school,polytechnic,college,university and any other.

1.Baby Gail..............................primary school............std 3.

2.Gibson..................................primary school............std 5.

3.Mary Magdaline(junior)............primary school........... std 6

4.Asma.................................completed std 8(2016)......secondary school form 1(2017).

5.Happy................................completed std 8(2016).......secondary school form 1(2017).

6,Alfred.................................completed std 8(2016)........secondary school form 1(2017).

7. Ibrahim..............................secondary school form 2.

8.Albert................................secondary school form 2.

9.Wycliff..............................secondary school form 2.

10.Salwa.............................secondary school form 3.

11.Abdalla...........................secondary school form 3.

12.Loice.............................secondary school form 4.

13.Hamisi.........................secondary school form 4.

14.Baraka.......completed secondary school(form 4-2016)....proceeding to college or unversity.

15.William.......................polytechnic.....course in plumbing and pipe fitting.

16.Pendo........................polytechnic.....course in tailoring and dressmaking.

17.Justin........................polytechnic......course in motor vehicle mechanics.

18.Samuel.....................polytechnic......course in motor vehicle mechanics.

19.Zawadi.....................polytechnic......course in tailoring and dressmaking.

20.Esther......................polytechnic.vocational training..course in tailoring and dressmaking.

21.Lukman...................polytechnic........course in motor vehicle mechanics.

22.Zeina...................... polytechnic...course in tailoring and dressmaking.

23.Shila.....................  college..................course in tourism and hospitality.

24.Mapenzi................  .college...............diploma course in primary school teaching.

25.Mayee...........college.....certificate course in hospital records at the Kenya Medical

                                        Training Institute.

26.Diego............college.........course in Arts and Design.

27.Kabibi...........college.....course in teaching i.e Certificate in Early Childhood Development

                                        Education.

28.Timothy........college.......course in primary school teaching.

29.Magdaline.....business.

30.Joseph..........college....certificate course in hotel and catering management.

31.Vidzo............college...Dipoma course in computer technology,.Institute of Research and

                                      Development.

32.Teresia...........college.....certificate in hairdressing and beauty therapy.

33.Shadrack.........college...course in primary school teaching.

34.Ben...............college.......computer/certificate in business management.

35.Francis.........college.......Diploma course in Eletronics Engineering.

36.Grace..........University.....Degree course in Environmental Studies.


Mtomondoni sponsorship program kids updates-additional information on kds home/family status

2016-12-20

Name of kid........................where they live,home status,parents situation and work

1.Wycliff...............living in Mtomondoni village-Mtwapa.Their house is a three bedroomed mud walled with iron sheet roof.Wycliff lives with both his parents and 4 siblings i.e Justin,William,Samuel, and Zeina.Wycliff father  i.e Mr.Benson is a local traditional dancer whom together with his dancing team entertain tourists while at their hotels and even when the tourists visit the village.Also Mr.Benson works as a night guard in a nearby farm.Wyckiff mother is also a  local traditional dancer just like Mr.Benson ,a house wife and also does some local hand craft work of making local jewellery.

2.Pendo................currently living in Shariani about 8 miles away from Mtwapa. Their house is a two bedroomed mud walled while the roof is thatched with coconut palm leaves.Pendo lives with both his parents and 3 siblings whom among them are Esther,Kahindi and their young brother.Pendo's father is called Kitsao who is a young brother to Mr.Benson.However Mr.Benson has been taking care of his brother's wife and kids ever since Pendo and her siblings were in kindergarten thus adopting the name Pendo Benson .The father i.e Mr.Kitsao is local a palm wine tapper who later sell the wine so as to get income e,g a 750 mls bottle of palm wine is currently selling at Ksh.50/-

3.Abdalla............living in Mtomondoni village-Mtwapa.Unfortunately both Abdalla's parents passed on almost 14 years back.Since then Abdalla has been living with his grandmother,his uncle Mr.Antony and a brother Hamisi.Their current 2 bedroomed house is a permanent brick house which was built  courtesy of the Fletcher family through Sara and Gail after their old mud and coconut leaves thatched roof fall off. Abdalla's grandmother now nearing 80 years is a hard working woman who has been previously had a business of selling fresh vegetable produce so as to get food for her grandchildren.Unfortunately at the moment Abdalla's grandmother has been sick most of the the times due to old age and had therefore to stop doing the business.Abdalla's uncle is a wood carver who makes wood carvings for sale to local people and tourists which from this it helps the family to get their daily bread.

4.Justin...................living in Mtomondoni village-Mtwapa.Their house is a three bedroomed mud walled with iron sheet roof.Wycliff lives with both his parents and 6 siblings i.e Wycliff,William,Samuel, and Zeina.Justin's  father  i.e Mr.Benson is a local traditional dancer whom together with his dancing team entertain tourists while at their hotels and even when the tourists visit the village.Also Mr.Benson works as a night guard in a nearby farm.Justin'smother is also a  local traditional dancer just like Mr.Benson a house wife and also does some local hand craft work of making local jewellery.

5.Hamisi...............living in Mtomondoni village-Mtwapa.Unfortunately both Hamis's parents passed on almost 12 years back.Since then Hamisi has been living with his grandmother,his uncle Mr.Antony and a brother Abdalla.Their current 2 bedroomed house is a permanent brick house which was built  courtesy of the Fletcher family through Sara and Gail after their old mud and coconut leaves thatched roof fall off. Hamisi''s grandmother now nearing 80 years is a hard working woman who has been previously had a business of selling fresh vegetable produce so as to get food for her grandchildren.Unfortunately at the moment Hamisi's grandmother has been sick most of the the times due to old age and had therefore to stop doing the business.Hamisi's uncle is a wood carver who makes wood carvings for sale to local people and tourists which from this it helps the family to get their daily bread.

6.Zawadi...........living in Mtomondoni village-,Mtwapa with both her parents and 4 siblings.Their house is a two bedroomed brick walled house with iron sheets roof. Zawadi''s father also called Moses is a local fisherman who uses local wooden boats to do his fishing business.However due to poor fishing methods and lack of modern fishing equipment,Zawadi's father gets very small quantity and tiny kind of fish which after selling he get not much money to take full care of his family.Zawadi mother is a house wife who takesd acre of the kids while the husband is away to the the sea.

7.Samuel Benson.........living in Mtomondoni village-Mtwapa.Their house is a three bedroomed mud walled with iron sheet roof.Samuel lives with both his parents and 4 siblings i.e Justin,William,Zeina. and Wycliff. Samuel's mother is  the second wife to his father  i.e Mr.Benson who inherited Samuel's mother after the death of Samuel's biological father. Mr.Benson is a local traditional dancer whom together with his dancing team entertain tourists while at their hotels and even when the tourists visit the village.Also Mr.Benson works as a night guard in a nearby farm.Samuel's mother is a house wife who also hand makes house roofing materials i.e the coconut palm leaves..

8.Mayee............living in Mtomondoni village-Mtwapa with both of his parents.Mayee's family is a muslim family. Mayee's father is a local muslim teacher i.e madrassa while the mother is a house wife who also  does some local snacks sale business selling swahili snacks like chapati and mahamri which are made of wheat flour.Mayee's family leaves in a rented cubicle/room together with her 5 siblings.

9.Baraka.........living in Mtomondoni village-mtwapa.Baraka is one among the 8 sponsored kids who have been living at the children's home called New Light Children Home. The other 7 kids are Samson,Rama Ben,Diego,Dennis,Samuel Mbugua,Timothy and Joseph.The home day to day running depends from well wishers who have been assisting in various donations ranging from food,beddings and cothing etc.Thanks God Baraka and the above mentioned kids have been educated through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program.

10.Zeina............living in Mtomondoni village-Mtwapa.Their house is a three bedroomed mud walled with iron sheet roof.Zeina lives with both his parents and 4 siblings i.e Justin,William,Samuel. and Wycliff. Zeina's mother is  the second wife to his father  i.e Mr.Benson who inherited Zeina's mother after the death of Zeina's biological father. Mr.Benson is a local traditional dancer whom together with his dancing team entertain tourists while at their hotels and even when the tourists visit the village.Also Mr.Benson works as a night guard in a nearby farm.Zeina's mother is a house wife who also hand makes house roofing materials i.e the coconut palm leaves..Currently Zeina has two kids and has a dress making business who also attend dress making classes for further training.

11.Mary Junior..........living in Mtomondoni village-Mtwapa with her mother who is a single parent.Mary's mother works as a tailor and live in a one roomed cube.

12.Diego.................living in Mtomondoni village-mtwapa.Diego is one among the 8 sponsored kids who have been living at the children's home called New Light Children Home. The other 7 kids are Samson,Rama Ben,Baraka,Dennis,Samuel Mbugua,Timothy and Joseph.The home day to day running depends from well wishers who have been assisting in various donations ranging from food,beddings and cothing etc.Thanks God Diego and the above mentioned kids have been educated through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program.Currently Diego stays in Nairobi as he undergoes his art and design training.

13.Kabibi.......living in Mtomondoni village-Mtwapa with both of her parents.Kabibi is a sister to Vidzo and Loice.Kabibi's dad Mr.Michael is a local mason while the mother is a house wife who also does some local snacks sale to assist her husband in the upkeep of their family.Their house is a four roomed brick house with iron  sheet roof.

14.Baby Gail..........living in Mtomondoni village-Mtwapa together with her mother and dad. Babt Gail's family is a muslim family.Baby Gail's mother Amina is a cook who also cooks for all the Mtomondoni sponsored kids at Mtwapa Academy.Baby's Gail father is a local muslim school teacher i.e madrassa.Baby Gail's brother is Lukeman who also sponsored.Their house is a two roomed brick house with iron roof.

15.Timothy..........currently living in Vipingo about 7 miles away from Mtwapa at his relatives home  after exiting from the children's home when they had attained the home exit age limit.Eversince,Timothy has been living at the children's home and now in college doing some training in teaching.

16.Magdaline.........currently living at her aunt's home in Msumarini about 5 Miles away from Mtwapa.Magdaline also does some small scale business through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program while taking care of her boys child  who has also started school.

17.Joseph..........living in Mtomondoni village in a rented room  while undergoing his training and doing some part time job in one of a sweet manufacturing company.After exiting from the Children;s home Joseph has now get used to the outside life and happy to be still in the program.

18.Vidzo...........living in Mtomondoni village-Mtwapa together with his parents.Vidzo is a brother to Kabibi and Loice.Vidzo's dad Mr.Michael is a local mason while the mother is a house wife who also does some local snacks sale to assist her husband in the upkeep of their family.Their house is a four roomed brick house with iron sheets roof.

19.Teresia........living in Mtomondoni village.Unfortunately  both Teresia's parents have passed on with the recent death of her mother which happened this year in September. However Teresia has got  4 old  brothers and 3 sisters whom some of them stay at Teresia's home while some are having their own homes.Teresia has also one boy child

20.Grace.......currently living with her mother in Kilifi about 40 miles from mtwapa when she comes back home for holiday from the university. Grace mother  who is a single mother engages her self in second hand clothes selling business for he upkeep of her self and her daughter.

21.Shadrack.....living in Malindi about 100 miles from Mtwapa while  attending his training in teaching.Shadrack father is a local preacher while the mother is a farmer.

22.Esther.......living within Mtwapa village with her mother.Unfortunately Esther dad passed on recently.Esther also has 3  old brothers and two sisters.Their house is an 8 bedroomem local brick built house with iron sheets roof.Esther's mother works as an agricultural field extension worker.

23.Gibson........living within Mtwapa village with both his father and mother.Their house is a one roomed cubicle.Gibson also lives with her older sister called Enrita who is also in secondary school and his younger sister who is in lower primary school.Gibson father works as a local cook while the mother works in a local restaurant as a waiter.

24.Happy......living with her mother  and siblings in Shanzu some few miles away from Mtwapa.Unfortunately Happy's dad separated with Happy's mother.Their house is a one roomed temporay built house,all built with coconut palm tree  leaves.Happy's mother engages her self in fish mongering business where she buys fresh fish from the local fishermen and fry the fish to sale to the local people for the upkeep of family.

25 Ben.....living within Mtwapa with his mother and sister called Nelly who is in std 7.Ben 's house is a two roomed rented house.Unfortunately  Ben's dad passed on some few years back.Ben's mother engages her self in buying and selling of second had household goods for their upkeep.

26 Francis...... living in Mtomondoni village-Mtwapa with his aunt, uncle and cousins,currently in college.Francis house is a 3 roomed rented house,the aunt engages her self in selling of kitchen ware items at the local markets while the uncle works as a  lorry driver.

27.Mapenzi.......living in Mtomondoni village-Mtwapa with her  grandmother and uncle.The grandmother's house is a one bed-roomed,mud walled and coconut palm leanes thatched roof. Mapenzi grandmother being very old and sick she too depends on the uncle for their up keep,thanks to Mapenzi sponsors who most of the times send over food assistance to Mapenzi.

28.Salwa.......living within Mtwapa with her mother,brothers and siters.Their house is an 8 roomed  brick house.Salwa's family  is a muslim family who also live together as an extended family.Salwa's mother is a local school teacher while her father works in one of the local restaurants,

29.Sheila........living within Mtwapa with her aunt and auncle. The aunt works in a local office as a secretary while the uncle works in a local hotel.

30.Albert.......living in Mtomondoni village-Mtwapa together with both of his parents,sisters and brothers.Albert father is a farmer while the mother does some local snack selling business.

31.Asma.........living in Vipingo about 9 miles away from Mtwapa.Asma lives with her mother who also lives at her parents home who are Asma's grand parents after separating with Asma's dad some few years back.Asmas family being a muslim familu also live together as an extented family i.e aunts and uncles.Asma's mother engages herself in selling of fresh vegetables and fruits for her kids upkeep.

32.Loice........living in Mtomondoni village-Mtwapa together with his parents.Loice is a sister to Kabibi and Vidzo.Loice's dad Mr.Michael is a local mason while the mother is a house wife who also does some local snacks sale to assist her husband in the upkeep of their family.Their house is a four roomed brick house with iron sheets roof.

33.Ibrahim....living within Mtwapa.Ibrahim's family is a muslim father.Ibrahim lives with his grandmother and mother.Unfortunately his mother has been sick leaving the grandmother to take care of Ibrahim most of the times.Also at the grandmother and being a muslim family,Ibrahim lives together with his uncle and aunt who is a young sister to his mother.Ibrahim loves going to the madrassa during the holidays.

34.Alfred.......living within Mtwapa together with his mother who is a single parent. Also Alfred has got his sister called Phyllis who now in the university.Alfred mother works in a  local hotel.

35,William......living in Mtomondoni village-Mtwapa.Their house is a three bedroomed mud walled with iron sheet roof.William lives with both his parents and 4 siblings i.e Justin,Zeina,Samuel. and Wycliff. William's mother is  the second wife to his father  i.e Mr.Benson who inherited Williams's mother after the death of Wiilliam's biological father. Mr.Benson is a local traditional dancer whom together with his dancing team entertain tourists while at their hotels and even when the tourists visit the village.Also Mr.Benson works as a night guard in a nearby farm.William's mother is a house wife who also hand makes house roofing materials i.e the coconut palm leaves..

36.Lukman......living in Mtomondoni village-Mtwapa together with her mother and dad. Lukeman's family is a muslim family.Lukemans mother Amina is a cook who also cooks for all the Mtomondoni sponsored kids at Mtwapa Academy.Lukeman's father is a local muslim school teacher i.e madrassa.Baby Lukema's sister is baby Gail who also is sponsored.Their house is a two roomed brick house with iron sheets roof.


 


Merry Christmas to all of our sponsors and friends from Asma on behalf of all the program kids-Kenya

2016-12-22

Hi! Everyone,

My name is Asma,am 15 years old girl and happy to be part of the Mtomondoni sponsorship program.Am happy  to inform you that i recently sat for my final primary education exam i.e the Kenya Certficate of Primary Education (KCPE) where i attained total marks of 239 marks out of 500.Am therefore looking forwad to joining secondary school-form 1 next year 2017.I want to send my many thanks to all of my sponsors for continuing to support me in my education ever since i was in the lower primary upto the moment.

While at  Mtwapa Academy i was  actively involved in scouting club which from it i have learnt alot and especially being obedient to my teachers,parents and whoever is senior to me.

I live a distance from Mtwapa Academy and therefore i had to travel   onboard a local public transport van popolarly known as a 'matatu' for a travel time of about half an hour to and  from my home to school.Because of the distance i had to wake up very early at around 5.00 am when i start preparing my self,take my break fast which is normal tea and mahamri which are out local swahili snacks then i live for school.

My mother runs a business where  she deals with fresh vegetables like cabbages,kales,spinach,egg plants,tomatoes.potatoes,oranges,paw paw fruits,bananas,water melon,mangoes etc.She normal buys her fruits and vegetables from our local wholesale market nown as Kongowea situated near Mombasa.Because the whole sale market is far from where we live.Both me and my mother have to wake up early and leave together where i drop at Mtwapa while my mother proceed to the market.While at home i do assist my mother in some house e.g cooking and washing clothes for me and for my siblings who are young.

I also live with my grandfather,grandmother,my uncle together with my 3 siblings.My grandfather works as a bicycle repairer who is able to fix all the broken down bicycles in our village,while my grandmother is a house wife but sometimes she makes some swahili snacks to sell.Our family is a Muslim family and therefore i also attend our Muslim youth school called madrassa.During Ramadhan i also fast.

All of the kids here in Kenya appreciate all the kind of assitance which you've all contributed towards our education and itd through you all that we can foresee a bright future.On behalf of all the kids in our Mtomonfoni sponsorship program i want to send our Christmas greetings to all of you sponsors and friends and may God bless you all.

yours loving girl,

Asma.


Merry Christmas and thank you from Mtwapa-Kenya.

2016-12-28

Hi! Everyone,

Merry Christmas to you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope you had a lovely Christmas with your families,we all here in Kenya too had a great Christmas full of joy!!!!!!!! From myself with my family and on behalf of all the parents and kids of our Mtomondoni sponsorship program send our Christmas greetings with lots of thanks for everything which you've done to our kids and families here in Africa. I believe if it were not for your food donations some of the families could have nothing to celebrate during this year Christmas but thank God throuugh your great hearts of giving you positively changed and made the families happy during this Christmas.

Finally as we approach the New Year 2017,i want to wish you a happy New Year 2017!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for you  continued support and be blessed.

Please also read more on Christmas thank you messages from our kids in Mtwapa-Kenya

Regards,

from,

Moses.(Sponsorship co-ordinator-Africa).


From Gibson to Paula.

2016-12-28

Hey Paula!

Hope you are doing well. Thank you for the Christmas food which I was happy to receive. The food was good and by the grace of God and through you we were able to celebrate this year’s Christmas. We enjoyed a lot for the food that you donated to me and my family and I thank you for that. The food was soo delicious when it was cooked by my mother and sister.

May God shower with His blessings and wishing you a Happy 2017.Please pass my greetings to all in your family.

Yours sincerely and loving son,

Gibson.


from Esther to John Heggs!!!!!!!!!!!

2016-12-28

Dear John and Jane Heggs,

I love you soo much with all your family!!!!!!! and send you greetings this time of Christmas. I hope you are all well.Mum,brothers and sisters are well, am now 21 years old and am happy that I have begun to understand things well. I love my necklace which you brought for me when you previous came to Kenya. When will you come to Kenya again?

John and Jane, thank you for the Christmas food which was a lot and will take us a long time before we finish the food. Thank you also for the college fees, I wish to be a tailor so that I can make uniform for students. On 6th Dec, I went for another operation of removing the fixed plates in my thigh bone and I can now walk properly without any aid. I will be back to college in January next year.

I want to wish you a beautiful and a prosperous New Year 2017. Let it bring to you and your family lots of Joy, good health and may you all live long.You have been my blessing. My mum always prays for you and wish to see you and we go to eat Pizza at the Moorings!!!!!!!!!!

With lots of love,

From,

Esther.


from Esther to Mike Wann!!!!!!!!!!!

2016-12-28

Dear Mike Wann,

Mike you are like my father!!!!! Because you have really been a father to me with lots of support. I love you and I will always remember you.

How was did you spend your Christmas? With me my mother cooked for me lots of food. We thank for the food you sent to us we received a lot of rice,maize flour,beans,sugar,cooking oil ,onions and wheat flour .I thank you for the support for my college fees, I will be back to college in January.I want to be a good tailor.

Early this month I went for a second operation of my thigh bone where the fixed plates were removed and am happy that I can walk properly since the operation was successfully.

Mike I love you, my mother always prays for you. My family and  I wishes you a wonderful New Year 2017. Let it bring you joy, good health and long life. You have been a great blessing to my family through your support. We are all longing to see you one day when you visit Kenya

Finally we send our greetings to your wife and children with lots of love,

From,

Esther.


from Mayee to Vicky!!!!!!!!!1

2016-12-28

Dear Vicky,

Am gratefull and thank you for the Christmas food  that you gave to me during the Christmas.The Christmas festive is enjoyable especially when we received the food from you Hoping that you are having the best time of this season.

May the Almighty bless you and may you be blessed so that next year we also celebrate the Christmas well again!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From,

Mayee.


from Ben to Sara!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2016-12-28

Dear Sara,

How are you doing? It’s my high hopes that you are fine.How is your family doing too? I and my family are doing good.

My sister Nelly will be in std 8 next year and she is eagerly waiting,she can’t to finish her primary school level. Next year I will be continuing with my college as usual and also help my mother with her business on some times. When I have some few hours free as most of the time I’ll  be in college.

The food you gave out for me during Christmas made our Christmas day very good and more jotfull.Thanks a lot Sara, for all what you did to me and my family. May God grant you all your wishes and make your house a house of blessings and full of peace and harmony. It was lovely to receive and thanks again once more.

Please say hi! To the rest of your family on behalf of me.

Yours faithfully,

Ben.


from Mapenzi to Vicky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2016-12-28

Dear Vicky,

Hi! It’S my great pleasure if you are fine, likewise am fine to with my family. I hope everything in England is going on well.

I take this golden opportunity to thank you for the Christmas food gift that you donated for me.I was very glad to receive the gift of Merry Christmas!!!!!! I really liked it, surely you are a kind hearted person and I pray that you continue with the same spirit. May God bless the work of your hands.

On Christmas day I cooked ‘pilau’which is the delicious meal for us Kenyans which we normal cook it using rice and beef .My family was very happy to receive the food, surely we really loved taking the food.

Greetings to your family from you loving girl,

Mapenzi.


from Teresia to Alan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2016-12-28

Hi! Alan,

Merry Christmas!!!!!!!Hope you are fine with Linda, am fine too with my baby Jeremy. Jeremy has grown big now and learning to say some few words!!!

I want to say thank you for making my Christmas a joyful Christmas from the food which you made us receive. Me and my sister cooked ‘pilau’ during Christmas. It was more joy full since all my brothers and sisters came to our home and we all enjoyed the Christmas food together.

We are now getting strength after the loss of our mother recently and we thank you Alan from your great support financially and my college. May God bless you and your family,

From you loving daughter,

Teresia.


from Happy to Paula!!!!!!!!!!!!

2016-12-28

Dear Paula,

From me ,my mum and my family,I want to send this message of thank you for giving us the Christmas food which we all appreciate. When December started my mother did not have any money to do some Christmas shopping and especially on the food and so I was not happy because I was worried on how we will be spending our Christmas this year. Fortunately later when the Christmas was nearing Mr.Moses came to our home and informed us that I will be receiving Christmas food from you Paula, we are all happy to receive the news which we went to collect for the Christmas.

During Christmas we prepare lots of food like chapatti,mahamri’swahili snacks,rice with chicken stew . Later we went to the beach at the pirates beach to have a beach walk with my sisters and friends.

Thank you Paula for making my Christmas a success and may God bless you abundantly.

Yours loving girl,

Happy.


from Ibrahim to Steve and Karen Taylor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2016-12-28

Dear Steve and KarenTaylor,

Hello!!! Hopefully you are doing well with your family. Am doing ok with my family.

I would like to thank you for everything you have done to me during this festive season of Christmas, we were happy and pray happiness too with your family. We really enjoyed the food even though we are Muslims.

Any way how was your Christmas over there in England. Here there is lots of fun as we do have fire works at night and especially at midnight. It was really good!!!!!!!!

Lastly thanks once again and I will always pray for    you. Regards to your family and to yourself. My mother,grandmother,uncle and mu aunt also have sent their greetings to you.

Yours faithfully,

Ibrahim.


from Mary junior to Eve!!!!!!!!!!!

2016-12-28

Hi! Eve,

Hope you are fine, am also fine and I miss you. My family is well here in Mtwapa.Thank you for the food which I received from you during Christmas. My mother has also sent her greetings and thanks. During Christmas I went to visit my grandmother the food which I had received from you I went with it to my grandmother home where we cooked Christmas food. My grandmother was happy to see me and my mother bring her food and we all enjoyed.

Thank you once again and  wishing you a happy New Year 2017.

Take care and lots of love,

From,

Mary Junior.


from Salwa to Vicky!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2016-12-28

Dear Vicky,

How are you,I hope that you are fine during this Christmas. It’s aslo my great hope that you are ok.I really miss you. How is everyone at home.

The main reasons to sending this message is to thank you for the food.I really appreciate. We cooked a great meal together with my family and we really enjoyed, thank you very much.

May the Almighty God bless you. Please pass my greetings to everyone at home. Hope to hear from you. Have a blessed Merry Christmas and a happy New Year 2017.

Lots of love from you loving daughter,

Salwa.


from Albert to Lorraine!!!!!!!!!!!

2016-12-28

Dear Lorraine,

Hello! I hope you are well.My family and I are also fine.Am glad that am writing to you this message to let you know how you are doing.Am glad that am in a different stage in my studies.Since it’s my 1st year in high school I have been working hard in school and this term I managed to score good good grades.

I want to thank you for the gift of the Christmas food that you gave for me.I wish you well while spending this holiday. May happiness be with you in everything you do for success. Wishing you a happy Merry Christmas and a happy New Year 2017. Thank you for your support.

From,

Albert.


from Magdaline to Gail!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2016-12-28

Hi! Gail,

Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!! Thank you for the  Christmas food which you sent for me,I really enjoyed with my son together with the rest of my family. During Christmas we had a get together where my father,my mother, my sisters and brother were present and we all enjoyed celebrating the Christmas together. The food which I received from you I shared it with my family during the Christmas and preparing the Christmas lunch where we cooked pilau with beef.

All my parents also send their Christmas greetings to you and want to wish a happy New Year 2017.

Lots of love,

From,

Magdaline.


from Alfred to Gerald!!!!!!!!!!!

2016-12-28

Dear,Gerald,

Kindly receive our Christmas greetings and well wishes from Alfred and family. Mostly we want to than you for the Christmas that we received gfrom you. We had a great time and are very happy this Christmas season.

With the gift we made ‘chapati’ which is an African bread made of wheat flour and fried in a pan with oil. Most of the families here in Kenya make this bread over Christmas. Also we made ‘pilau’ which is a  Swahili delicacy made from rice, meat and other spices served with a special salad called ‘Kachumbari’ which is made of fresh tomatoes,onion,lemon,cucumber or cabbage.

How was your Christmas? We pray and hope that it was fine.

Next year in January, Alfred will be joining secondary school. At the moment Alfred has travelled to upcountry and will be returning to Mombasa soon.

Thank you and May God bless you and wishing you a happy New Year 2017.

Yours sincerely.

Alfred’s mother-Mercy.


from Vidzo to Shirley!!!!!!!!!!!!

2016-12-28

Dear Shirley,

Hello!!! How are you doing? It’s my great hope that you are doing fine with your family. Here in Kenya am doing good with my family while enjoying the Christmas festival.

How is England in general? In Kenya it’s now too hot. I want to take this golden opportunity to say thanks for what you have done for me during this Christmas and really appreciate for your sponsorship and may God bless you a lot.

I do also appreciate for the Christmas gifts and all my family says thanks for the gifts and sponsorship. Please pass my regards to your family. I don’t have a lot to say than say thanks and appreciating you what you are doing for me and may God bless and wish you a fantastic Merry Christmas and a happy New Year 2017.

Lots of love,

From,

Vidzo.


from the Benson's family to Val!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2016-12-28

Dear Val,

Hi! Val! How are you doing there in England? It’s our great hope that you and  your family are all ok. We are all fine here in Kenya. The main reason to why am sending this message is to say thank you for your kind donation to our family towards this year Christmas celebration. We receive lots of food from you through Mr.Moses and we were very happy. Therefore thank you for that Val and may God bless you so much. With the food we prepared lots of rice cooked with chicken,chapatti,,mahamri and many more.

Later in the afternoon during Christmas we went for a walk with my friends to the beach and did some swimming and bought lots of snacks.

I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2017.

Lots of love,

From,Wycliff of the Bensons family.


from the Benson's family to Steve and Karen Taylor!!!!!!!!!!!

2016-12-28

Dear,Steve and  Karen Taylor,

How are you? I hope you are fine together with your family there in England. We are all fine too here in Kenya. Thank you for what you’ve done to our family. We thank you for what you brought for us i.e the Christmas food and everything. We really enjoyed the food and we wish that you were also here with us so as we could have celebrated together.

We all here in our family wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year 2017.

From,Zena(Pendo’sister) on behalf of Pendo of the Benson’s family.

Dear Brian  Radesk.

Merry Christmas Brian!!!!!!!! Hope you also enjoyed your Christmas as we did. We want to send this message of thank you for sending your Christmas donation to our family. We believe that it was through your donation that our Christmas was successful. Father and our mothers are very grateful for everything and we therefore send our greetings and wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year 2017.

From, Samuel of the Benson’s family.


from the Benson's family to Sara!!!!!!!!!

2016-12-28

Dear Sara,

 Hi! Sara, How are you doing there in England? It’s my great hope that you and your family are doing fine too. Am also fine here in Kenya. The main reason of writing this message is to thank you for your great and kind heart which you did  for me and for our family. We received a lot of food through Mr.Moses from you and we are all happy to receive. Thank you Sarah and may God bless you.

Later I went to the beach at the pirates with my brothers and friends. At the pirates we enjoyed swimming and bought some snacks like crips,ice cream and fruit juices. Thank you once again Sara and wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year 20017.

Lots of love,

From Justin of the Benson’s family.


from the Benson's family to Lynne!!!!!!!!!!!

2016-12-28

Dear Lynne,

Hope you are fine and had a lovely Christmas time. Me and my family are also doing fine. I want to thank you for the Christmas food which we all enjoyed having eat. Our mothers prepared delicious meals from the food which you had provided to us to celebrate the Christmas.

I also went out with my friends and brothers at the beach where we enjoyed buying lots of snacks and camel ride. Also I did some swimming and later at night we went back home. At home we had organized some music with my brother where we invited our neighbors and danced together. It was really fun to enjoy the day. Thank you Lynne once gain and wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year 2107.

From,Samuel  and on behalf Pendo of the Benson’s family.


from Abdalla and Hamisi to Shirley!!!!!!!!!!!

2016-12-28

Hello Shirley,

How are you? It’s my great hope that you are fine. Am also fine with my family here in Mtwapa.Thank you for the food that you provided to us during Christmas. Surely we enjoyed the food, our grandmother cooked for us delicious food  i.e rice with fish stew during the Christmas day. Also I went to church where me and my friends acted a drama about the birth of Jesus Christ. Also we sang nice melodies of praising God and Jesus Christ.

Thanks once again for your support and may God bless you and wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year 2017.

Yours loving,

Abdalla and Hamisi.


from hamisi and Abdalla to Gill and Dave!!!!!!!!!!!!

2016-12-28

Dear Gill and Dave,

 How are you? It’s my great hope that you are fine together with your family. I want to thank you for the food that gave us for Christmas which we well celebrated. Actually we really enjoyed the food. My grandmother cooked for us delicious food during the Christmas day where she prepared rice and fried fish with tomato stew. Later on we went to church to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Generally we had a fabulous Christmas day.I want to send our Merry Christmas to you and your family and also a happy New Year 2017!!!!!!!!

From Hamisi and Abdalla.


from Abdalla and Haoisi to Clive Kidd!!!!!!!!!!!

2016-12-28

Dear Clive Kidd.

Merry Christ mas to you Clive and your family!!!!!!!!! How was your Christmas? Hope you enjoyed just like us. Thank you Clive for the donation of the Christmas food to our family. It was great for us all and especially to my grandmother for receiving the Christmas food from you. My grandmother was happy to also receive the food and so she prepared for us very good food which we all enjoyed

Thank you once gain and may God bless you, wishing you a Merry Christmas a happy New Year 2017.

Yours loving

Abdalla and Hamisi.


Asma secondary school admission-form 1

2017-01-30

Hi! Everyone,

‘Happy New Year everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My name is Asma and proud to be in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. Am also happy to inform you that I have this year joined secondary school i.e form 1 after completion of my primary level of education at Mtwapa Academy last year. The name of my new school is called N’gombeni Girls’ boarding Secondary School located within our Kilifi County and about 40 miles from Mtwapa.Our school was built by the Kenyan government 4 years back and has a student population of 400 girl students from form 1 up to form 4.Each form is composed of 2 classrooms. The normal school day begins at 4.00am as the wake up time and start preparing for the busy school day. In summary here is our school daily routine;-

        6.00am-7.00am………………………………breakfast and general cleaning.

       7.00am-8.00am……………………………….special teaching and revision on previous day’s work.

       8.00am-9.20am morning classes

      9.20am-9.30am……………………………….short break.

      9.30am-10.50am……………………………second session on morning classes.

      10.50am-11.10am………………………….long break.

      11.10am-12.30pm…………………………third session on morning classes.

      12.30pm-1.00 pm……………………… .afternoon lunch.

      1.00pm-2.00pm………………………… revision work.

     2.00 pm-4.00pm………………………… afternoon class session begin

    4.00pm-5.00pm…………………………….break.

    5.00pm-6.30pm……………………………..games,debate,clubs etc.

    6.30pm-7.00pm-------------------------are evening meal/super.

General the kind of food menu we take for breakfast, lunch and super while at school  is ‘ugali’ with cabbage, beef with rice, beans with rice, rice with pigeon peas and pilau.For breakfast we normal take tea with bread.

The kind of subject I take at the moment are Business Studies,History,Chemistry,Agriculture,Mathematics,Biology,Geography,Physics,English and Christian Religion Education. Interestingly here is that, though am a Muslim but since the school is a Christian based I therefore take C.R.E.

Our school is built within a village where the locals are Christians from the Anglican Churches of Kenya (ACK).For their livelihood, the locals are farmers where the do agriculture and keeping of livestock. For the plants (agriculture),the locals plant mostly maize(corn) as their stable food. For the livestock keeping they keep goats and cows.

The main means of transport to and from our school which is about 4 miles away from the main road is by use of the village motorcycles popularly known as the ‘boda boda’.

Finally I’d like to send my many thanks to all of my sponsors for their continued support towards my education and may God bless you.

Yours loving girl,

Asma’


Esther

2017-02-15

Hi! Everyone,

I guess you are all doing fine with your work and families.Am happy to inform you all that Esther is now healed after the her leg injury without any walking aid and has resumed her training.This year she has transfered from her previous vocational training school which was far from Mombasa and has joined a nearby vocational training school at Bamburi called Tazama Vocational training centre where she has now specialised in embroidery.

At the moment Esther is  doing her  foundation stage in embroidery where she uses hand needle to do her embroidery work.After 6 months she will proceed to the next stage where she will be working on embroidery machines and later after that she will be doing her advanced training in embroidery.

Esther's teacher called Stella said that Esther seem to have passion in embroidery and loves working on her class work.Currently their are 11 Esther's  classmates and the number will soon be more as most of the girls in the community seem attracted to embroidery training according to teacher Stella..

Apart from the vocational training,Esther's centre has a school and a children's home.The school which is a primary school is open to the community while the children's home takes care of girls only.

Esther is happy to be at her new training centre and  sends her appreciations to all of her sponsors.

Please see our picture gallery for Esther's pictures while at her vocational training.

Thank you all for you continous support towards our Kids here in Africa and be blessed.

Regards,

Moses.


Alfred

2017-03-06

Hello everyone,

'My name is Alfred and am happy to be sponsored through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program.First and foremost i want to send my appreciations and many thanks to all of my sponsors and everyone who has been supporting me and all the kids in the program.Personally i feel very much priviledged and proud to be among the sponsored kids eversince i was in kindergarten,all through my primary school upto the moment where i have now joined secondary school,from 1.

The name of my secondary school is called Miathene Boys Secondary school.The school is located in the Eastern part of Kenya i,e about 100 miles from the capital city of Kenya -Nairobi at a place called Meru.

Generally the main economic activities of the local people of Meru are farmers where they plant crops like coffee,tea,bananas,potatoes,rice and horticultural crops.Also they do dairy farming.

Our school has a total student population of 1156 students.Being in form 1, we have a total of 5 form 1 streams-classrooms subdivided as stream J,K,L,M and N where i belong to stream N.

Our school being a boarding school has a total of 5 dormitories named as Tsavo,Serengeti,Nakuru,Masai Mara and Amboseli.The names are dirived from some of our East Africa major national parks where Meru too has some tourist attraction features like the slopes of Mount Kenya ,nearness to the Equator etc.

The kind of subjects i do are English,Maths,Kiswahili,Physics,Biology,Chemistry,History,Geography,Christian Religion Education,Business Education,Computer,Agriculture,French and Germany-optional.

For our daily school lunch and supper food menu we do take 'Githeri' which is a mixture of cooked beans and corn,cooked 'ugali' -corn flour with cabbages,rice with cabbage,beans stew with a piece of meat.

For breakfast we do have coffee with bread with fresh bananas.

In sports,we have all major sports and games kits on football,volleyball,Rugby etc where at the moment i have joined the babminton.

During weekend and especially on Saturday we go to school for morning classes until in the afternoon,thereafter we either rest or do some washing of clothes.On Sunday morning we attend a church service in the school chapel then later sfter church we relax waiting for the next Monday to start off the week.

Finally and once again i say thank you to all of my sponsors.

Yours loving kid-Alfred.'


Pendo

2017-03-18

Hi! Everyone,

'My name is Pendo Benson and now aged 18 years old, Pendo is kiswahili name meaning love.Am happy to be sponsored in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program,eversince i was in the kindergarten,primary school until at the moment where am doing my tailoring course. The name of my training institution is called Mkwajuni Youth Polytechnic located within our Kilifi county.Previously in the last year i was in another training centre called Mary Motherr of God but since the beginning of this year i transfered to Mkwahuni Youth Polytechnic due to it's boarding facilities.

The name of my department is Fashion Desighn and Garment making..In this course it is subdivided into 2 parts i.e theory and practicals including computer.In theory we cover topics like tools and equipment,stitches,seams,fastness and openess,arragement of fullness etc,Soon we cover all the above topics then i'll be able to run a tailoring business shop.Am happy that am now able to make blouses,skirts and dresses.

In our class we are 16 girls.The normal school day begins at 8.00 am followed by-

            10.00 am-10.30 am...............morning break.

           10.30 am-12.30 pm...............normal classes.

           12.30 am-2.00 pm ...............lunch break

           2.00 pm- 3.00 pm.................normal classes continue.

          3.00 pm-4.00 pm.....................games.

Since the college has boarding facilities we therefore sleep within the school compound where we have our own girls dormitory/hostel.The games we do are like football,volleyball netball.I enjoy playing girl football.

After games we go back to our dormitory we start preparing our evening meal where we cook food like 'ugali' with cabbage,'ugali/ and dried fish.rice and pigeon peas which we prepare by our selves..For break fast we normal have tea with 'mahamri' swahili snacks.

After taking supper i prepare myself to go to  sleep where i sleep at 7.00 pm and wake up at 5.00 pm ready for the next college day.

Finally i want to send my many thanks to all of my sponsors and frieds for making it possible for me to pursue with my education and may God bless you all.

yours loving girl,

Pendo'..
 


Justin

2017-03-18

Hi! Everyone,

'My name is Justin Benson aged 22 years old.Am proud to be among the Mtomondoni sponsorship kids program.Currently am doing a couirse in Motor vehicle mechanisc (MVM).The name of my training college is called Mkwajuni Youth polytecnic located about 30 miles from Mtwapa.I love my school as it has massive football playing ground and a cooll place hwere you can read.

The kind of subjects which i do in my course are like;-

-power unit (engine)

-applicaror system.Ignition system.

-caburation.

-compression ignition.transmission sytem.

-cooling sytem.

-fuel system.

At the end of the course i believe  that i'll be able to disconnect and assemble most of the motor vehicle engine part.Also i'll be able to service and maitain motor vehicle engines.

So as our lectures need to know our understing capability we are given weekly tests called continous assessment test (CATS).

We start our classes at 8.00 am and end up at 4,00 pm In between we do first have a mornig break from 10 am upto 10.30 am,also we do have lunch break as from 12.30 upto 2.00 pm.In between the break we have the normal clsses. Also we do go out for games where i like playing football.

thank you once again to all my sponsors,

yours loiing boy

.Justin.


Mapenzi

2017-04-12

Hi! Everyone

'My name is Mapenzi aged 20 years old and happy to be sponsored under the Mtomondoni sponsorship program.Am further happy and send my appreciations to all of my sponsors who have continously and tirelessly assisted me through out my education i.e from primary school,secondary school and until now am in college undertaking a primary teachers' training course(P1) and after having perfomed well in my secondary school final exam.

The name of my college is called Imara Teachers Training College located within Mtwapa and being one of the leading primary school teachers training college in our Kilifi county.As a P1 teacher,the training involves teaching and handling primary school kids both at lower and upper primary level.Lower level kids are kids form class 1-3 while the upper primary level kids are kids from class 4-8.

The basic subjects which we train on are Pysical Education (PE),Languages i.e English and Kiswahili,Education which is further divided into 4 categories i.e Curriculum,Foundation,Administration. and Psychology of education.The objective of these mentioned subjects is to make sure that the trained teacher learns basic skills of how to handle the learner who is the kid.

Our classes commence at 8.00 am and end at 5.00 pm.However we had morning breaks between 10.00 am-10.30 am while our lunch break is between 1.00 pm-2.00 pm.

Apart from the above mentioned theory subjects we also do teaching practice as practicals whereby we as teachers in training are sent out to different schools within our county and do some teaching lessons as our practicals,.the objective of the teachinp practice  is to put into practice the methodology and principles of teaching.The teaching practice duration takes between 1-2 months at least in every year until completion of the entire course.

In terms of exams we have both internal and external exams.For the internal exams,they are exams which are prepared and marked by our tutors while for the external exams are final exams which are prepared by the national exam board.

In terms of the exam ratings,for theory when a student scores above 40 marks out of 100 marks it's considered as a pass while for the practicals,when a student scores above 50 marks out of 100 marks it's considered as a pass..

Finally i'd like to once again say thank oyou to all of my sponsors for the food assistance which i always receive and which has really been helping me very nuch.Also i'd like to wish you all a Happy Easter holiday!!!!!!!!

from your loving daughter,Mapenzi.'


Zawadi's new born baby!!!!!!!

2017-04-12

Hi! Everyone,

I guess you are all doing fine.All is well here in Mtwapa,Kenya with all the kids doing fine.The schoolS are now closed for a 3 week Easter holiday until 1st May 2017.

Am happy to inform you that recently one of our sponsored girl kids,Zawadi got a new born baby girl named Rebecca who is now 3 weeks old!!!!!!! On behalf of Zawadi,please receive her lots of greetings to you all.

Until her delivery ,Zawadi was undertaking a tailoring and dressmaking course under the Mtomondoni sponsorship program.At the moment she is breast feeding her new born baby and she intends to resume her training in the next few months which we'll be informed to you all once the baby get stable as she plans to leave her back with her mum while she goes back to training.Please see Zawadi's new born baby from our picture gallery.Thanks

Wishing you a fabulous Easter holiday and thank you to all for your continued generosity towards the kids program here in Africa and God bless.

with lots of love,

from,

Moses (Sponsorship Co-ordinator).


Loice

2017-06-02

Hi! Everyone,

“My name is Loice,am aged 18 years old. The name of my school is called Bright Future Academy which is situated in Mtwapa.Am currently in the final class of secondary school i.e form 4.

Am happy to be sponsored through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program which has taken me through my education ever since I was in primary school until now. Ever since I joined secondary school, I feel that I have gained lots of courage to pursue life issues.

My career plan is to study medicine and become a doctor, Due to this, am therefore working hard in science subjects. In total I do 8 subjects i.e Maths, English, Kiswahili, Chemistry,Biology,C.R.E (Christian Religious Education),Geography and Biology. We also do have a science laboratory.

Our school has a student population of 185 students, the ratio of girls to boys is 3; 2.We have a total of 4 classes i.e from form 1-4.Herebelow is the school time table;-

                          6.30 am-8.00 am……………………….preparation and study.

                          6.30 am-10.50 am…………………….lessons.

                           10.50 am-11.10 am………………….morning break.

                           11.10 am-1.10pm…………………….lessons.

                           1.10 pm-2.00 pm…………………….lunch break.

                           2.00 pm-4.00 pm……………………classes.

                           4.00 pm-5.00 pm…………………..games.

                           5.00pm-6.30pm……………………lessons.

                            6.30 pm ………..end of school day.

In terms of games and sports, I do play football in my school  i.e position 2. I also do drama and music and am happy to inform you that in one of the recent music festival performance I managed to attain 2nd position. Other sports and games include netball, volleyball, scrabble and tennis.

I love my school as it has the highest level of discipline compared to the rest of the school around us. Also all the teachers are qualified from the university and are teaching us well. In terms of exam performance, each term we do 2 exams i.e midterm exam and end term exam. For us to maintain high standard of exam performance we as student sign a performance agreement with the teachers that incase a student fails to meet the required pass marks he or she is sent back home to look for another school.

My favorite subject is Biology and my interesting topic is food test.My hobbies are reading story books, singing and drama.

Finally to all of my sponsors I say thank you soo much for your support towards my education and may God bless you from your loving girl,Loice


Mayee

2017-06-10

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Mayee,am aged 21 years and currently in college studying in the medical training college here in Kenya. My area of study is Hospital Health Records. Basically my general kind of work after completion of my training will be mainly as follows;-

             1. Keeping of patients records.

             2. Admitting of patients.

            3. Taking statistical information about the hospital.

             4. Monitoring and planning of the activities taking place in the hospital.

             5. Doing surveillance of diseases.

             6. Conducting research in regard to diseases and reporting.

Generally, college life is not easy as such as we students go through different challenges but with perseverance and having positive interaction with college mates you end up getting used to everything. As a result and as a student you benefit through learning different cultural and social behaviors of different people who are within our college. Also you end up sharing knowledge and skills and in the end you see a bright future.

 The kind of subjects which I do in my training are as follows;-

                1. Statistics.

                2. Medical terminology.

                3. Community health.

                4. Data classification.

                5. Computer.

               6. Anatomy, physiology and pathology.

               7. Management.

               8. Health information.

                9. Health records.

In our entire college we are about 800 students and from our class we are 65 students. Our normal college timetable begins at 8.00 am-4.00 pm i.e

             8.00am-10.00 am…………………1s lesson.

           10.00 am- 10.30 am……………morning break.

           10.30 am-12.30 pm…………… 2nd lesson.

            12.30 pm-2.00pm……………lunch.

           2.00 pm-4.00 pm………………3rd lesson.

In terms of food, it’s pay as you eat in all the meals i.e breakfast, lunch and super. The kind of food we normal have is tea,bread,rice with beef, rice with beans, chapatti with beans, ‘ugali’ cooked corn flour,cabbage and fruits e.g mangoes, oranges and bananas.

In between our training we also go for internship in various government hospitals both in referral hospital which are regarded as national hospitals and a district hospital which is regarded as a community hospital. Am happy that I’ve been able to work in both the national and community hospital. The internship takes a duration of between 3-4 months.

In terms of the exams we  do have at least 2 type of exams i.e a yearly exam and a final exam. For the yearly exam it’s an internal exam while the final exam is a national exam whom the examining board is the government. Our pass mark is rated as GPA of 2, this means that in order to be considered that you have passed the exam, a student is required to get above 50 percent in all the subjects. Also during internship we as students are examined on the practical aspect of our training, the awarded marks are considered in the final exam.

My hobbies are drawing flowers, during weekends I like going to the nearby beach to relax with some of my friends.

My words of encouragement to the rest of the sponsored kids is that, they should keep on working hard in their studies and all what they are pursuing on with love which in the end they will get to the top.

Finally I want to say thank you soo much to all of my sponsored for their continued support towards my education which is bearing ‘fruits’ at the moment as am soon completing my college and proceed to work.

Soon I start working, I intend to start helping my siblings so as they can also get good education like me which I received through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. As a result I’ll be relieving my parents from their previous responsibilities of education my siblings.

Thank you once again and may God bless you all from you loving girl,

Mayee.’


Happy-secondary school,form 1

2017-07-08

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Happy aged 16 years and now is secondary school, form 1. The name of my school is called The Sea Breeze Senior Secondary school which is situated in our Kilifi county about 40 miles away from Mtwapa.Our school was started in the year 2010 has currently has a kids population of 120 kids with an average of 30 kids per class i.e  from form 1-4.  In our class we are 25 students out of which 11 are girls. Our school is a day school and since my mother lives in Mtwapa which is far from the school I therefore live with my aunt and uncle who stay nearby the school and so most of the time a just walk to the school. Here below is our school time table;-

6.30 am…………………………………….school reporting time.

6.30 am-7.30 am………………………morning special lessons.

7.30 am-8.00 am………………………school assembly.

8.00 am-9.20 am………………………start of normal lessons.

9.20 am-9.35 am……………………….short break.

9.35 am-10.55 am………………………normal lessons continue.

10.55 am-11.25 am……………………long morning break.

11.25 am-12.45 pm…………………..lessons continue.

12.45 pm-2.00 pm…………………....afternoon lunch break.

2.00 pm-4.00 pm……………………...lessons continue.

4.00 pm-5.30 pm…………………….…games.

5.30 pm……………………………………end of school day.

In terms of lessons, I do the following lessons i.e Mathematics, English, Kiswahili,History,Chemistry,Biology,Business Education, Christian Religion Education, Geography and Physics.

In terms of games, I do play football position 12, however we do have volleyball game too. During lunch break we take our lunch at school as we do have a school kitchen, the menu mainly being rice with beans or chapatti with beans.

I love both all my class mates and teachers as they are all helpful and friendly to me. During weekends and especially on Saturday, we do go back to school to learn for half a day and go back home in the afternoon. On Sundays I do go to church.

Finally I would like to thank all of my sponsors for continuing to sponsor me which hopefully I’ll be able to achieve my dream  career of becoming a doctor. Bye bye and with love,

From your loving girl Happy’


Teresia

2017-08-29

Hi! Everyone,

I guess you are all doing fine.Am happy to have this moment to greet you all in England and all  of my sponsors.Am further happy to inform you of my progress.I've been doing well in my hair dressing and beauty therapy course and towards the end of this year i hope to be doing my end of grade 2 exam.Thereafter i may either decide to go for further training for the next grade 1.My ambition is that soon i complete all of my training i hope to open up a hairdressing and beauty salon where i'll be self employed. Also when i  break for training and during weekends i do some part time jobs within Mtwapa.

Am also happy to inform you that am now married and blessed with a baby boy called Jeremy who is now nearing 2 years i.e 1 year and 11 months.I thank God that Jeremy is growing up well and more special thanks to God for having healed him completely from his leg problem of the cleft foot and now can walk very well.However before that Jeremy had been undergoing frequent foot corrections through constant visits at the orthopeadic's clinic for more than a year and at long last he can now finally walk well.Jeremy is now very playfull in and outside the house.Hopefully early next year he'll commence on his baby classes as he's now practising lots of talking and learning new words.

Our house is located within Mtomondoni village is a one bedroomed house with a lounge,kitchen,bathroom and toilet.It has has running water and electricity.Attached with please some of my pictures.

Thankyou to all of my sponsors and especially to Allan Frost and Linda Frost for all their financial support both towards my training and general support on my upkeep which i've been receiving through Gail and Sara.With the upkeep money it has helped me lots by buying infant food,fruits,various baby essemtial items e.g baby oil,soap,shampoo,clothes etc.Also the money has helped me in buying some of my family food and personal items.Thank you once again Allan and Linda Frost and to everyone else in the program and may God bless you for all of your support to me.

Bye bye for now from your loving girl,

Teresia.


Jambo! Lancaster school from Kenya-Mtwapa,

2017-09-06

Hi! Everyone,

Greetings from Africa, greetings from Kenya, greetings from Mtwapa and greetings from Mtwapa Academy School. It’s lovely to speak to you all in England with hope that you are all doing fine. From my self and on behalf of Mtwapa Academy school-Kenya,i would like to send my many thanks to Gail and Sara whom through them, Lancaster school England have been able to financial assist Mtwapa Academy school here in Kenya Africa. Being the pioneers of the sponsorship programs here in Mtwapa since 2005,Gail and Sara and through other schools and friends in England they have constantly been very supportive to the Mtwapa Academy school. There support range from rebuilding of the school classrooms from temporary classrooms to permanent classrooms, rebuilding of the school wall, sponsoring needy children in education, facilitating the school with computers and many more. I won’t hesitate to say that Gail and Sara support to the school have been positively felt and continue to be felt by the entire Mtwapa community. Thank you to you all who have also been supportive to the school whom I may not be able to individually mention their names and may I say, be blessed.

Finally I want to send many thanks to Lancaster school for the generosity and support to Mtwapa Academy School through Gail and Sara, your donation have been well received by Rahab the school director who will speak to you all in the next diary entry.

Attached with, please see from the picture gallery pictures of the Mtwapa Academy school kids and teachers.

Thank you Gail and Sara and also send our love to you all at Lancaster school.

Regards, Moses (sponsorship coordinator).


Thank you Gail and Sara,Thank you Lancaster school (England) with love from Mtwapa Academy(Kenya).

2017-09-06

Dear friends,

‘My name is Rahab,the director of Mtwapa Academy school here in Kenya. Before I go on I’d like to briefly speak about the school our school.Mtwapa Academy was established in the year 1992 and ever since has the school has been progressing on well with many of our students enrolled in very good secondary school and some have joined most of the national schools which are highly categorized schools and further proceeding to the various universities here in Kenya. Some of the kids have also been enrolled in very competitive colleges which offer high quality training and therefore bringing hope in terms of employment to our kids.

Currently the school has a total population of 250 kids under 16 members of the teaching staff with four supporting staff i.e a school security guard, cleaner and two school cooks.

Here below is the list and names of the teaching staff;-

Class……………………….Name of teacher.

1. Baby class………………madam Mary.

2. KG 1……………………..madam Joyce.

3. KG 2…………………….madam Rose.

4. KG 3…………………..madam Everlyline.

5. STD 1………………….madam Joyce Makena.

6. STD 2…………………madam Linet.

7. STD 3………………..madam Veronica.

8. STD 4…………………Mr.Lewa.

9. STD 5………………Mr.Were.

10. STD 6……………madam Mercyline,

11. STD 7…………….Mr.Ziro

12. STD 8…………….Mr.Baya

Other teaching staff are Mr.Mjomba(IRE),Mr.Joseph (upper class teacher),madam Frida and madam Rahab. The school head teacher is Mr.Baya assisted by madam Veronica and school senior teacher being madam Everlyline.

We have clubs in the school i.e Environment, debate, scout, journalism and Music. For the environment club they mainly deal with planting of flowers and making the school to look clean and beautiful. For the debate the normal hold weekly debates in the school where different motions are debated. Also with journalism they do weekly writing on school news.

Also the school do some yearly education trips outside Mtwapa  so as to expose the kids to nature and history of our country which is also beneficial to their education e,g last year our kids made a trip to the Tsavo national park where kids were exposed to seeing wild animals which most of them have been reading from their books.

I want to thank all of our friends in England and more special thanks goes to Gail and Sara of Mtomondoni sponsorship program whom through them sponsors and friends have too supported our school.

In relation to the above, I therefore today want to special welcome and send my lots of thanks to Lancaster school (England) who have financially supported our school through Gail and Sara. With this kind of support, the money will be helpful in sorting out the payment of our teachers’ salaries. Also some of the money will be used to buy 3 tables for the baby class,

Personally as the school director, I appreciate very much for the donation through Gail and Sara as it has boosted the school a lot. I therefore want to send my appreciations to the entire school i.e ,administration, kids and all the teachers of Lancaster school (England) and may God bless you.

 Generally the impact of all the school support ranging from rebuilding of the school, running water through the well digging, school library,computers,tables,chairs,kids sponsorship etc has been very positively taken by the local community with all the kids and their parents in the school are happy of. As a result the school has been attractive and enrolling at least every term new kids.

Finally I  say bye bye our friends, yours faithfully, Rahab  (school director).’


Ben

2017-09-14

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Ben aged 24 years, I feel soo much privileged ever since I was recruited into the Mtomondoni sponsorship program and being one of the eldest boys in the sponsorship program. Generally I can say the education sponsorship has helped me a lot as I have been able to learn by going through vigorous trainings and as a result I have learnt lots of life skills and through that am able to sort out different life issues. Also through my education am now able to judge out life situations whether good or not good.

Life throughout my education in the sponsorship program has been very interesting right from my primary school, secondary school up to college. So far the college training which I have undergone are computer studies and automotive course. Also am planning to soon do a course in forklifting. I believe through these trainings, they’ve helped me to broaden up my mind and through that I was able to come up with a business idea after learning from one of my friends.

The nature of my business is dealing with buying and selling of second hand domestic items ranging from house hold furniture like beds, coffee tables, stools, sofa sets, chairs, television sets, music system and the like. Recently I started in also dealing with new electronic items e.g bulbs and other related electronic items.

Mainly my customers are the locals i.e the villagers, neighbors and friends. Through my business many of the villagers are able to buy some domestic items at affordable prices unlike before when they were unable to be due to high prices of new items who most of them could not afford. My business day normal begins at 8.00 am and end at 7.30 pm when I close my shop.

So as to maintain my customers, I make sure that I sell for them affordable prices on the items bearing in mind that due to the poor economic income of the villagers. Also I sometimes call my customers whenever I bring in to the shop new items. Also to make sure that my business continue to run I do appropriate savings.

In terms of profitability of the business. I can say that the profit I make is not much but am happy that with it am able to sort out my bills e,g rent and power bills and the same time able to look after my sister and mum in terms of school fees for my sister and food at home.

So as to outshine my competitors, I make sure that I offer extra services to my clients e.g free repainting of the furniture items so as they look as good as new whereas some other competitors don’t offer such kind of service.

Before I finish, I have some advice to the youths and young adults like myself since many of them whenever they complete their studies or training and start looking for jobs which may not be able to get early enough such kind of youth start losing hope and get discouraged with life. To my advice I would say instead the youths and the young adults get discouraged with life  they may try some business ideas just like mine, after all the main objective of education is to broaden up your mind and start thinking big. That’s why I call the name of my business as Big Ben. Since  i was mentored into this business by one of my friends also I have been mentoring some of my friends too.

However in business there are some challenges like buying a second hand item from the owner thinking that it’s ok surprisingly later I find that the item I bought wasn’t working well and as a result  it becomes hard to sell such kind of an item at a good price and sometimes I end up in getting some loses.

Finally to all of my sponsors, I want to thank you very much for your support I would like to urge you that you please continue to give more support and eventually I believe with all the support fruits will be made which are the greater minds of the kids in the sponsorship program.

Bye,bye with regards from,Ben.’


Mary

2017-09-15

‘My name is Mary Magdaline,am 14 years old and now in STD 6 at the Mtwapa Academy. In my family we are 3 people i.e myself, my mother and my elder brother. The name of my mother is called Esther and my brother is called Emmanuel. We live in a village called Bamburi which is near Mtwapa.Our house is a one-roomed house. My mother is local hairdresser.

Am happy to be sponsored in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program and love going to school,Mtwapa Academy. During school days I wake up at 4.00am then start preparing myself by brushing my teeth, put on my uniform and final have a cup of tea with ‘mahamri’ Swahili snacks. My mother cooks my breakfast using a paraffin stove. I leave home for school at 5.00 am and start going to school where I reach at school at 6.00am. As from 6.30 we start our morning lessons until 8.00 am when we have school assembly up to 8.30 am where we go to our classes to begin the normal classes.

I love school because it is in good condition, well built, clean and the teachers are teaching well. For the subjects I do the following,Maths,English,Kiswahili,Science,Social studies and Christian Religion Education (C.R.E).My favorite subject is Maths.

In my school we have clubs and am happy to have joined some of the clubs i.e scout and debate clubs. In the scout/girl guide am the assistant commander while in the debate club am the debate organizer. My main work as a debate organizer is that I prepare the debate team and the motion to be debated. An example of one of the debates which I felt it was the best debate which I organized had a motion topic as……..’A teacher is better that a Doctor’ where the winning team were the proposers. To me I have at least two reasons to why the proposers won, firstly the teacher is the one who taught the doctor. Secondly I teacher helps pupils to reach their goals. The advantages of the debates are that they help the student participants to build confidence in talking to public and not be shy.

Also I love play games like football and handball in school. I have many friends in school and my  best friends are called Joyce,Fatuma,Esther and Angela. I love my friends because we study together and help each other in sharing knowledge. I love my teachers too.

My school day ends at 5.30 pm and arrive back home at 6.30 pm. Soon I reach home I help my mother with some house work before start doing my home work. While at home and during mealtime my favorite meal is rice and fish, cooked corn flour meal with fish.

During weekends I spend my time revising my school notes and also try to attempt model examination papers after that I go out play with my friends. On Sundays, me and my mother go to church for services, the name of our church is called ‘Neno Evangelism church situated at a place Burton.

Finally I want to say many thanks to all of my sponsors, through the sponsorship which have been a great support. Through the sponsorship my mother has been relieved as she’s been struggling to get a job and instead she had engaged herself in local hairdressing but unfortunately she sometimes doesn’t get enough money for us all.

Good bye,from your loving daughter Mary.’


Mapenzi

2017-09-20

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Mapenzi aged 21 years. Am very much happy to speak to you all today so as to know of my career progress being one of the eldest girls in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. Having completed my secondary school, I proceeded for a teacher’s training course at a teachers’ training college within Mtwapa called Imara Teachers’ Training College. At the moment am doing an internship where am doing some teaching work at my local village school here in Mtwapa called ‘Amukeni’ Primary school.

‘Amukeni’ is a Kiswahili word meaning wake up, the school is a private owned school with a kids population of slightly over 200 kids ranging from STD 1-6.It has a total number of 8 teachers and each class has an average of 40 kids.The school day at Amukeni primary school begins at 6.00am where all kids are first involved in the morning clean up of their classes and do some lesson preparations. Here below is the school time table;-

7.30 am-8.00am………………….Morning school assembly.

8.00am-9.10 am………………….Normal classes begin.

9.10 am-9.30 am………………….1st morning break

9.30 am-10.40 am………………..morning classes continue.

10.40 am-11.10 am………………2nd morning break.

11.10 am-12.30 pm………………morning classes continue.

12.30 am-2.00pm……………….lunch break.

2.00pm-4.00pm………………….afternoon classes

4.00 pm-5.00 pm games/sports.

5.00 pm End of school day.

 The major school subjects offered in our school are Maths, English, Kiswahil, Science, Social studies and Christian Religious Education. In sports we have foot ball for the boys while for the girls we have handball.

As for my work as a teacher, am a class teacher for STD 2and I have a total of 59 kids in my class i.e 27 boys and 32 girls. I teach all the 5 subjects as mentioned above. So as to make sure that all of my students have understood, I give them some exercise or a kind of a test before the end of my lesson and mark immediately. From the marking I’ll will have known which kid will not have understood and so as to make sure the slow learner hasn’t understood ,I do a one on one teaching before I do the next lesson. In my grading I may do comments like good, very good and sometimes I award the kids work with marks. Also I do monthly test for all the subjects for my class.

Before the kids leave for home in the evening, I do give some home work to carry home and then mark their work in the following morning. For the lesson plans, I do prepare my lesson by use of a teacher’s guide book which we are provided by the Ministry of Education, in addition to that I further research from other relevant teachers’ books.

I love all of my kids in class and are too very happy to be their class teacher.

Finally, I want to say thank you to all of my sponsors from Brockington college, England for their continuous support towards my education ever since I was in primary school until now that am undergoing the teacher’s training course. Also I would like to take this opportunity to further say thank you to Brockington College for the continuous food support to me, thank you and be blessed.

Yours loving girl,Mapenzi’.


Ibrahim

2017-09-23

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Ibrahim aged 17 years old and now in secondary school from 2.The name of my school is called Moi Forces Academy situated in the Southern part of Mombasa. Our school was established in the year 2001,unlike other secondary schools, our school was built and managed by the armed forces of Kenya i.e the Kenya Army, Kenya Navy and the Kenya Air force. The primary objective of building the school was for the purpose of the kids whose parents working in the forces to be learning in one school school and taken good care of as their parents are out at war or on other important security missions. However the management of the school further extended its objective and considered the civilians and that is why, I was too admitted at this school under the Mtomondoni sponsorship program.

In my form 2 class we are 72 students and all boys. Actually our school is a mixed school learning in the same building but separated in a way i.e we boys learn in the upper floors of the school while the girls are situated in the down floor of the school. In total we are about 600 students in the entire school with a total of about 30 teachers. The subjects we do at the school are Maths, English, Physics, Chemistry, Kiswahili, Islamic Religion Education (I.R.E), Geography and Business Education.

I love my school as the teachers are soo helpfull.Also most of the times, we students undergo guidance and counseling sessions and as a result all students are disciplined. Also the management is very strict in terms of making sure that no student is involved in drug use or any kind of indiscipline behavior. As a result our school has been able to produce very good results in the national exams with most of the years producing more than two thirds of the whole lot of the candidates admitted to the national universities which mostly is an average of 120 students sitting for the national exam.

In our school we have science laboratories i.e physics, chemistry and biology labs. Also we have a large school library where we go to read and do references. Also we have spots like football, basketball and rugby.

Here below is our school time table;-

7.30-8.00 am………………….school assembly.

8.10.-8.50 am…………………1st morning lesson begins.

8.50-9.30 am………………….2nd morning lesson.

9.30-9.40 am…………………short morning break.

9.40-10.20 am……………..3rd morning lesson.

10.20-11.00 am……………4th morning lesson.

11.00-11.20 am………….long morning break.

11.20-12.00 noon……….5th lesson.

12.00-12.40 pm……………..6th lesson.

12.40-1.10 pm……………..7th lesson.

1.10-2.00 pm……………..Lunch.

2.00-2.40 pm……………..8th lesson.

2.40 pm-3.20 pm……….9th lesson

3.20-4.00pm…………..10th lesson.

4.00-5.00 pm ……………Games.

5.00pm………..End of day class sessions.

Being a boarder, here below is the general school weekly food menu;-

Monday………………’githeri’(corn maize) mixed and cooked with beans.

Tuesday……………Rice with beans.

Wednesday………’ugali’ (corn flour) cooked with cabbage.

Thursday…………..’pilau’.

Friday…………….’githeri’

Saturday…………’ugali’ with cabbage.

For breakfast we always have tea with bread. The entire above menu is served with banana fruit.

After the games we break and proceed to our dormitories where we have shower, rest and go to take supper. After supper we have a short break then we do some night lessons i.e between 7.00 pm- 9.20 pm, thereafter we go to sleep. I wake up every day at 3.20 am, pray and start preparing myself for classes. In my dormitory we a 10 students and we are all co-operative.

For my future career I would like to be a pilot and that is why my favorite subjects is Maths.I do also love the other subjects too and that is why I’ve been performing well in the rest of the subjects too. Normal we have monthly exams called CATs i.e Continuous Assessment Tests then in the final third month of the term we do have the end of term exam.

Finally to all of my sponsors, I want to send my lots of thanks for the sponsorship which have really helped me ,grandmother and my mother is has been having a long illness unabling her to pay for me my school fees.

Bye bye from loving kid, Ibrahim’


Albert

2017-10-10

‘My name is Albert, am 16 years old and in secondary school. The name of my school is called St.George’s boys Secondary school. This school is located within our Kilifi County about 70 miles away from Mtwapa and is built on a hilltop where we see the entire surrounding community while at school.

The student population from form1-form 4 is about 800 students and all are boys. Am in form 2 and in our class we are 54 students. Our school is a boarding school and so all students sleep at the school, in our dormitory we are 18 students.

Our school day begin at 8.00am.However we have to wake up very early in the morning at 4.30am. Here below is the daily school schedule and timetable;-

4.30-6.00am…………………..wake up and do some revision.

6.00-7.00am…………………….breakfast,i.e tea and bread.

7.00-8.00am……………………lesson preparation.

8.00-8.40 am…………………..1st morning lesson.

8.40-9.20am…………………….2nd morning lesson.

9.20-9.30am…………………….morning short  break.

9.30-10.10am…………………..3rd morning lesson.

10.10-10.50am…………………4th morning lesson.

10.50-11.10am…………………2nd morning break.

11.10-11.50am…………………5th morning lesson.

11.50-12.30pm…………………6th morning lesson.

12.30-1.10pm………………….Lunch.

1.10-1.50pm…………………..7th afternoon lesson.

1.50-2.30pm…………………..8th afternoon lesson.

2.30-2.40pm…………………..short afternoon break.

2.40-3.20pm…………………..9th afternoon lesson.

3.20-3.50pm……………………10th afternoon lesson.

3.50-5.30 pm…………………Games and sports.

5.30-6.00pm…………supper.

6.00-7.00pm…………..rest.

7.00-9.00pm……………..free studying.

9.00pm………….sleep.

The subjects which am now doing are Maths, English,Kiswahili,Physics,Chemistry,Biology,Agriculture and History. We do have extra curriculum activities i.e games and sports as follows, football, Hockey, basketball, volleyball, handball.badminton, lawn tennis, Rugby and table tennis.

From the above sports and games I participate in rugby and am happy that eversince  i joined the school team our school has been performing extremely well in both locally and national tournaments. Am further happy to inform you that, I have so far gotten important rugby certificates both from the sub-county and regional games having emerged position 3.

I love my school very much as we have very good teachers who take good care of us while in class at during the games. While in class they make sure that all students have understood any kind of topic before proceeding to another topic, due to that my general class performance has been good. My class mates too are very co-operative and social.

For my future career I’d like to be an army where I intend to join the  Kenya Army so as to protect my country, I believe I have all the qualities needed to join the army due to my long height, physical body outlook and the good education I’ll have got through the Mtomondoni sponsorship programme.

As a boarding school, here is our school food menu;-

Monday………………lunch……..rice and beans/super……..’ugali’(cooked corn flour )and beans.

Tuesday…………….lunch………’githeri’(cooked corn maize with beans)/super…..’ugali’,cabbage and beef.

Wednesday……..lunch………..rice and beans/super……..ugali and beans.

Thursday………….lunch…………githeri/super………ugali and beans.

Friday………………lunch………rice and beans/super….ugali and beans.

Saturday………….lunch………ugali and beans/super……….pilau.

Sunday…………….lunch…………githeri/super……….ugali and beans.

During weekends i.e Saturday from 8.00am-10.00am, we do have morning classes. From 10.00am 12.00 noon, we do generally cleaning of the school classes and dormitories. Later in the afternoon we do washing of our school uniform then later go for sports practice. On Sundays we go to church in one of our local church located near the school.

In case of a student falling ill, in our school we have a club called the St.John’s Ambulance where the club members are coached by doctors on how to perform general first aid and treatment and so the st.John’s ambulance is like our school dispensary. However the doctor may be called in case of a serious student illness and if possible further hospital referral may be done by the doctor.

Finally to all my sponsors, I want to take this opportunity to thank you very much for the great assistance you’ve been doing to me towards my education since I was in the lower primary school and may God bless you.

Yours child,Albert’.


Loice speaking on her secondary school life as she prepares to sit for her final exam!!!!!!!!!!

2017-10-19

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Loice,am 18 years old. The name of my school is called Bright Future High School situated within Mtwapa Village. Am happy to be sponsored under the Mtomondoni sponsorship program  since I was in lower primary school until now that am in secondary school and in my last year in the high school i.e form 4.

Today I’d like to generally speak about my secondary school  life. Actually secondary school life is very interesting and in a way not easy in terms of the kind of subjects which are different from the primary school subjects. At first when I had joined form 1, the secondary school subjects looked similar to Std 8 work which is the final class in secondary school but later on  i.e as from form 2 the subjects started to look differently and getting tough .It was soon I had entered form 2 when I started thinking of changing my career from being a doctor to a teacher. While I was in primary school I used to like science subjects and that is the reason to why I had at first chose to be a doctor but soon I entered secondary school my favorite subject became English. Due to fluency in speaking English language I started to have passion in public speaking especially teaching kids.

In secondary school your mentally maturity keeps on developing highly and you start to have a self-driven habit in which you control yourself and with time you develop self-discipline and able to organize your own study schedule. Good enough, while at home my mother helps me a lot in doing some of my domestic work now that am a candidate, due to this soon I get back home in the evening, I take my shower then start doing my school work and revision.

While at school and now that am in form 4,we do lots of group discussions where we as classmates form discussion groups where we revise and discuss on all the subjects. The discussion groups are very helpful as we as students assist each other in any difficult subjects and sometimes seek help from our teachers.

Recently I fell very sick and I was unable to attend school for at least 2 weeks, due to that I definitely had to miss classes during the time I was absent from school. However after I had recovered and now back to school, I’ve tried to compensate the lost time of when I was sick  due to this, soon i arrive home after school  I do lots of revision after having my evening meal  i.e as from 7.00 pm-10.20 pm thereafter I go to sleep. In the following morning I wake up at 4.30 am to do more studying until 5.30 am then start preparing myself for school.

During weekends i.e Saturdays I also go to school in the morning 7.00 am-12.00 noon to study and do lots of revision. Later in the afternoon at 2,00 pm I get back to school to have some special tuition with some of my teachers so as to help me compensate the lost time when I was sick. On Sundays I normal go to church, the name of my church is called Jesus Celebration Centre(JCC)  where I attend the morning service and then get back home in the afternoon, after which I relax and prepare myself for Monday.

Towards the end of this month i.e as from 30th October, I’ll start doing my end of high school examination popularly known as Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE),we hope to complete our final secondary school exam towards the end on November. The Subjects which I’ll be examined on are Mathematics, English, Kiswahili, Biology, Chemistry, Christian Religious Education (C.R.E) and Business Education.

My plans after completing my secondary school and before starting to attend college I would like to take some training in driving as I have a dream of buying my own car soon I start working.

Finally, I want to thank all of my sponsors for their continued support towards my education and I would like to promise that I will give out good results as I believe that I have so far puts lots of effort in my studies throughout my secondary school.

Yours loving girl,Loice.’


Mtwapa Academy school-new school kitchen building project work.

2017-11-17

Hi! Everyone,

 It's my sincere hope that you are doing fine with your families.First and foremost i'd like to thank each and everyone who has been part of us in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program through donations and any kind of contribution and assistance to the Mtwapa Academy school.Many more thanks goes to Gail and Sara for their continued support in which through them well wishers and sponsors have assited our school-Mtwapa Academy.In general lots of good things have been happening at the school since the beginning of the year  and even in the previous years through Gail and Sara efforts.

As we come to the end of the year 2017,am happy to inform  you that our school-Mtwapa Academy vhave received yet another great support through Gail and Sara of which a new school kitchen block is now under construction.Previously the school kitchen was temporarily built through use of old iron sheets with poor ventilation,cooking area etc. At the moment the work is ongoing and hopefully soon the work will be complete where we as a school will celebrate our new permanent kitchen block.

Thank you once again Gail and Sara together with your riend sponsor who has made the project work possible.

May God bless you all,

Regards,

from,

Rahab (Mtwapa Academy school director).


Mayee

2017-11-17

Hi! Everyone,

'My name is Mayee,am 22 years old.Once again am happy to say that am priviledged to be among the sponsored kids in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program.In my previous website report it was prepared while i was still in college and am today happy to inform you that i've now completed my medical training course and it has been made possible through all of my sponsors whom some of you are part of my sponsors,thank you.

In my training course,i trained in health records and information.In a common man's language my training and work involved the following;-

1.Retriveval of patient files for clinic follow ups and doctor's appointments and bookings.

2.Research and disease surveillance in the hospital after which we do statistical disease Vs patient,theirafter we do analysis and finally do a data processing information entrance by use of computer.

3.Monitoring and evaluation of hospital activities especially in the wards by checking on the patient's/drug usage as per the hospital budget drug request to the specific wards.

4.Admssion of patients.

5.Discharge of patients.

6.Billing.

The related subjects which we did during the course were statistics,human resource and management,medical terminology,data classification,anatomy and physiology,community health and information computer technology.

During the training,i was able to go for intership in at least 2 government referral hospitals where i gained lots of experiences which gave me lots of confidence to work. Now that i've completed my certifiacte course i intend to proceed for a diploma course next year. I'll also be graduating this comong month i.e 7th December 2017.

At the moment am planning to do some volunteeer based kind of work as i wait for next year to do the diploma course. Also am looking forward to the Christmas time and thank you once again to  sponsors.

yours loving girl,

Mayee.'


Vidzo

2017-11-17

Hi! Everyone,

'My name is Vidzo,am 26 years old.Am extremely happy to get this chance to greet you all and inform you of my eduaction success which i've been undertaking through the assistance of the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. My college was located in Nairobi and was called Airades Institute,previously i was in Nairobi Aviation college. My training was basically in graphics and desighn and mainly using computers.

The major areas of work training is decoration of Christmas cards,desighn of house wall paper and stickers,car branding,house wall branding,office wall branding and tinting of cars.In case a client needs her or his house installed on his house wall we use a vinyl sticker material.However lots of work is involved in the adjustments of the clients originall scanned picture so as it does not  at the end look defective when installed/fixed on the wall.So in general the work involves desighn,printing and installation.

During training i was able to get intership in one of the reputable branding companies where i was assighned jobs on car tinting,office wall branding and decoration. However their are challenges in this work as for a client to be happy with the  work you as a technician desighner need to get quality stickers and printing machine so as to produce quality desighn and wall paper printouts.Also during installation of the stickers or wall paper a technician desighner need to avoid 'bubbles' which are either caused by improper alighning of the wall paper or dust during car tinting especially when you are doing outside car tinting. Also car tints are different in quality and so a technician desighner need to know the original tints for the intended purpose.

For my future plans i'd like to open up my own branding shop where i would be self employed.Also  in the next year i would like to do another course which takes 2 months.The training is based on forklifting training,the aim of doing this extra course is that i'd like to balance the job market as for the  graphics and desighn training i will end up being self employed while for the fork lifting course mostlly likey i may end up being employed.

Finally i would like to give my many many thanks to all of my sponsors who have assisted me in my education and training which am now proud of.

yours kid,

Vidzo'.


Christmas thanks from Mtwapa to all the donators in England!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2017-12-30

Hello Everyone,

Merry Christmas to you all from me nad my family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.I hope that you all had a great Christmas with your families. We all here in Mtwapa too had a lovely Christmas day. From myself and on behalf od all the sponsored kids and parents here in Mtwapa want to thank each and everyone of you who sent over the Christmas food gift etc through Gail and Sara and once again say thank you for everything you did to ths kids and families here in Africa who all aprreciated and may God bless you all.Generally the food received by the kids/families was maize flour,,wheat flour,rice,beans,sugar,cooking oil and onions.Here below is the order list of the kids who received the Christmas food gift this year;-

Mary  1875 shillings for food from Shirley

Hamisis 1875 for food from ShirleY

Albert 4000 shillings for food, 2250 for other gifts of their choice from Lorraine

Happy 2500 shillings for food 2250 for other gifts of their choice from Paula

Gibson 2500 shillings for food and 2250 shillings for other gifts of their choice from Paula

Theresa 6250 shillings for food and other gifts needed for the baby from Alan

Ester 2500 for food from the Heggs family

Joseph 2500 for food from the Heggs family

Timothy 2500 for food from the Heggs family

Magda 2000 shillings from the Fryer family

Kabibi 2000 shillings from the Fryer family

Sheila 2000 shillings from the Fyer family

Baraka 2000 shillings for food from the Fryer family

Alfred 2500 shillings for food from Gerald

Abdalla 2500 shillings for food from Gill and Dave

Zawadi 3000 shillings for food and anything else needed from Vicky

Salwa 3000 shillings for food from Vicky

Baby Gail 2000 shillings for food from Gail

Moses 2000 shillings for food from Gail

Rahab 2000 shillings for food from Gail

Ben 2000 shillings for food from Sara

Justin 2000 shillings for food from Sara

Mpenzi 2000 shillings for food from Sara

 As we approach the new year 2018,i would like to wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018 from me,y family,all the sponsored kids and parents here in Mtwapa.

Regards,

from,

Moses (sponsorship co-ordinator-Africa).


from Mary Magdaline to Shirley.

2017-12-30

Hi! Shirley,

Meryy Christmas to you Shirley!!!!! Am sending this Christmas message and saying many thanks for the food which you had donated to me through Gail and Sara.My mother was happy to receive the food together with me.The food made us enjoy our Christmas day.During the Christmas day we travelled to visit my grandmother who live about 70 miles away from Mtwapa and so we carried with us our Christmas food gift from you so as to celebrate together with my grandmother.

Thank you once again Shirley and wishing you a happy New Year 2018 and may God bless you,from your loving girl,

Mary Magdaline.


from Hamisi to Shirley.

2017-12-30

Hi! Shirley,

How are you,hope you are doing fine together with the rest of your family.Am alos fine here together with our granmother and my brother Abdalla.We all had a great Christmas which it was because of you whom you made our Christmas look great for the food which you donated to us through Gail and Sara and which we were given by Mr.Moses.I therefore want to thank you  for what you did for us this Christmas,actually we really enjoyed the present,my grandmother and my uncle are also thankfull for the food.

Mean while may you have a fabulous and a great New Year 2018 and may you be blessed and best wishes from,

Hamisi.


from Albert to Lorraine.

2017-12-30

Hellow Lorraine,

How do you do? I hope that you are fine with your family,am happy too with my family.We are having having a good Christmas celebration here in Mtwapa with my family.This festive season is a speacial time as the only time when we get together with almost all of our relatives and friends and celebrate to gether.

During Christmas i spent most of my time with my friends ad we had good time together and wish that everyday is like Christmas! We had lunch and dinner together.My Mother and my sisters prepared different dishes from the food which you had sent for me through Gail and Sara but my favourite dish was 'pilau.' Thank you too Lorraine for everything.

Hope you spent your Christmas well,for the new year i want to wish you a Happy New Year 2018 and may God bless you.

yours faithfully,Albert.


from Happy to Paula.

2017-12-30

Hi! Paula,

 Am happy to write this short letter to you to thank you for the Christmas food. We used the food to cook 'pilau','chapati','mahamri'.With me i spent my Christmas with my mother,aunts,uncles and my siblings at home in Shanzu. However in the afternoon after lunch i went out for some with my friends where we went to the Pirates beach,Since the beach waters were packed with lots of people,me and my friends did not swim but instead we took some walk along the beach while enjoying drinking coconut water,crisps and ice cream. the following day i went out for some shopping on my personal items from the money which was sent from you.

Am now looking forward to next year and joining my new class in secondary school i.e form two. How did you spend your Christmas Paula? I hope you enjoyed too just like me. Thank you Paula for your great assistance towards my education too and wishing you a Happy New Year.

from your loving girl,

Happy.


from Gibson to Paula.

2017-12-30

How are you? I hope you are fine.We are all fine here in Mtwapa and still on holiday. During the holiday i help my mother in doing some house work and also playing with my friends. thank you very much for the food with the money which my mother bought for our family some other good things like soaps,washing powder,cakes,biscuits and other things.

May God bless you and wishing you a happy  New Year 2018 form your loving son,

Gibson.


From Teresia to Alan and Linda Frost.

2017-12-30

Hi! Allan and Linda,

I was extremely happy to receive the Christmas gift from you which included the Christmas food.With the gift money i was able to buy some personal items for myself and my kid. too.

Jeremy is doing very well and can now speak some Kiswahili words and very playfull in the house. For my Christmas i spent it in my house but later i was joined by my sisters who came to visit me.For the Christmas food i received from you we cooked 'pilau' and 'chapati'.

As we enter the New Year,i would like to wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018 and want to thank you for every thing which you've done to me and my kid over this year and be blessed.

From your loving daughter,

Teresia.


from Esther to the Heggs family.

2017-12-30

Hello,John and Jane,

Hello my beloved parents John and Jane.I love you and wish to send you many sincere greetings this time of Christmas and the new year which is about to reach. I hope you are all fine,am fine too.

I have been going to college and now i can make bedside mats,door mats and table mats,i will give you one when you come to Kenya next time.

Thank you so much my dear father and mother for the Christmas food present which you sent for me,we have enjoyed the food by cooking it during the Christmas and also we will cook it in the new year.May God bless you and your family and may you live long and see many Merry Christmas days,thank you once again for the food.

Am now a big girl aged 22 years,may the new year  bring you lots of joy and happiness.I have always been happy at college,thank you for the fees  and wish you success in everything you do daily. My mother has sent you greetings and i also greet you with everyone in youir family and telling you that we all love you and praying to God for your good health.

Stay well and bye bye.

from Esther and mother.


from Timothy to The Heggs family.

2017-12-31

Hello,Heggs family,

My name is Timothy,am glad to get this priviledge to express my heartfull thanks for being part of me during this festive season. Its my hope that you enjoyed your Christmas and i hope for the same as we approach the new year 2018. Am 25 years old and i have a wonderful family in Kilifi village in a place called Vipingo.My family is composed of 3 brothers,4 sisters and a single mother.

Before i used to live in the New Light Children's home until when i completed my secondary school under the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. Am happy that this Christmas am with my foster family and are all doing well.

Once again i want to express my gratitude to you for taking time and your resources to bless me with the Christmas food.I did had a great moment celebrating with my dear family.During  this festive season we visited our attractive sandy beaches with friends and had lots of fun.

Please receive lots of greetings from my dearest family and hoping that you'll pass my regards to your friends too.

Have a blessed Christmas time and A HAPPY 2018.

From,Timothy.


from Magda to Fryer family.

2017-12-31

 Hello,Fryer family,

 Merry Christmas to you all!!!!!!!11 Actually i have no good words to express my happiness for all what you've done to me during this Christmas because during this year Christmas i did not know how i would spend my Christmas and was happy to be informed by our coordinator,Mr.Moses that i was needed to collect my Christmas food.I was very happy to receive the food from you and i can only say that....may God bless your family.

During the Christmas i celebrated the day with my parents,brothers and sisters. To our family the Christmas day was like a double celebration as we were also celebrating the good exam results of my younger brother Kelvin who had completed STD 8 at Mtwapa Academy and who scored a total of 313 marks out od 500.With such marks my brother will be joining a good government secondary school in January 2018.

My son Lamic is doing good too and have started going to school and now in KG 2,next year he will be in KG 3.

Finally, i want to wish you a happy new year 2018.

yours loving,Magdaline.


from Kabibi to Fryer family.

2017-12-31

Dear Fryer family,

 How are you? I hope you are fine wherever you are with your family.How is England? Am going on well with my family here in Kenya. During this December holiday i visited my grandparents and enjoyed having fun with them and helped them cook food.

I thank you for the Christmas presents which you sent for me,i and my family realy enjoyed the food which i received from you.

i wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018 with your family.

Lots of love from,

Kabibi.


from Baraka to Fryer family.

2017-12-31

Dear Fryer family,

Hoping you are doing well s0 do i  here in Kenya particularly from Mtwapa.Am so glad to take this golden opportunity to return my sincere gratitude for the great support towards making this Christmas holiday enjoyable.

Anyway how  is Laura doing in her studies at the University,its my great hope that she is going to do well in her studies,i guess she is about to finish her studies,isn't it.

During the Christmas day i spent some of the time cleaning our housse commpound and relaxing with my family members. For the food which i received,my foster mother prepare for us 'pilau'.'mahamri' and 'chapati'.

May the Almighty God bless you and happy New Year 2018.

yours faithfull,

Baraka.


from Abdalla to Gill and Dave

2017-12-31

How are you.its my great hope that you are fine,also me am fine too with my family,,however my grandmother reccently was not feeling well but she is now doing better and we do thank God for her recovery.

All in our family celebrated Christmas well and all enjoyed it.On Christmas day we went to church whereby some of our church youths did a drama play in the church as part of the celebration,the play was based on the birth of Jesus.After the drama we sung different songs and danced.

I take this opportunity as am glad to give thanks to you for the food which you sent for us through Gail and Sara,actually we enjoyed it an thus my family is also sending thanks to both of you and your family.

May God bless you for your good care,you have been soo good to me and may God reward you guide your family too.Finally i want to wish a prosperous New Year 2018

your faithfully son,

Abdalla.


from Salwa to Vicky.

2017-12-31

Dear Vicky,

How are you? i hope you are doing well,with me here am doing good with my family.It has been a while since i heard from you but it's my greatest hope you are doing fine. Am writing this letter to thank you for the Christmas gift,i really appreciate.We had a family gathering and cooked lots of food,we really had enjoyable time.Even though we are muslims but when we cooked the food we were like celebrating the Christmas together with the Christians.

I also have some good news for you,recently just after Christmas by cousin had a muslim wedding and so we again ha a celebration!

And now tha schools are nearly reopening am preparing myself  to go back to school.Am happy that next year i'll be joiningthe last class in secondary school i.e form 4,hopefully you'll send over to me a success card.

Wishing you a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018,i love you soo much,

from your loving daughter,

Salwa.


from Rahab (Mtwapa Academy school director) to Gail and Sara.

2017-12-31

Dear Gail and Sara,

Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!! Thank you soo much for the Christmas food,actually i had travelled to my rural home so as to join my family for the Christmas but soon i reached there i had to return to Mtwapa as the KCPE results were out and so needed to give the kids there results.Good enough,i was happy to receive the Christmas food from you and therefore send my many thanks and thanking you more for everything which you've one to me an my school.

Am happy to inform you that the KCPE were out and our kis at Mtwapa Academy performed very well  with the 1st kid  named Juliet scoring a total of  401 marks out of 500 marks.

Am sure Moses will send you over more details of our school kids results.

Thank you once again Gail and Sara for the greatest concern to our school and may God bless you all.

from your loving friend,

Rahab.


from baby Gail to Gail

2017-12-31

Hello Gail,

How was your Christmas? Thank you for the Christmas food,me and my family all were happy to get the food,my mother has sent her many thanks to you. During the Christmas day my mother cooked for us chapati and we all enjoyed it. Also the food has helped us in the family as my mother has been cooking for us good food.

Next year i will be going to STD 4 and am happy to go to the new class. Thank you for remembering me during this Chrstmas an for all what you are doing for my education.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018,

from

baby Gail.


from Ben to Sara.

2017-12-31

Dear Sara,

How are you doing? Hope you are good.My family and i are doing ok.How is Gail? things are good back here after the election politics ended as Kenyans are now trying to get to back to their normal life.

My business still is running as normal although it was difficult to maintain during the campaingn season due to many people travelling to their rural home to vote.

Thanks for the food you sent to me during the Christmas day it helpe my family alot as we cooked and shared with our neighbours so that they could also have that feeling of Christmas.It was good to share with friends dduring the festive Christmas day.

Please send my greetings to Gail and wishing you a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018.

yours faithfull,

Ben.


from Justin to Sara.

2017-12-31

Jambo! Sara!

Merry Christmass!!!!!!!! How are you with Gail? Please greet for me Gail. I take this opportunity to thank you for the Christmas food which you made me receive through Mr.Moses.My mother and dad were happy as the food helped us to have good Christmas. uring that ay my mother made for us 'pilau' as we all celebrated the Christmas at our Mtomondoni home.

Later in the evening,i went out with friends to Mtwapa town and visited various shops which we bought for ourselves some goodies.Also in the village one of our neighbours organised for an open disco at night and so me and my friends attending the disco which we were celebrating the Christmas.

Finally i want to wish you all. a HAPPY and a PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 2018.

with lots of love,

from Justin.


from Mapenzi to Sara

2017-12-31

Dear Sara,

How are you? it's my grat pleasure that you are all fine likewise to me and my family.Am doing good with my studies at college though were have closed due to the Christmas and the New year.

About my course am taking a course as a P1 teacher and on completion i'll graduate.However i hope to continue with studies even after completing my P1 teaching course,hopefully in future i'll be a professor in education.

Am glad that you sent me the Chrstmas food,am very happy for your concern and love that you have shown to me and my family.may Go bless you all.

I wish you a prosperous New Year 2018 with lots of love,

from your loving girl,

Mapenzi.
 


Mtwapa Academy KCPE kids shine!!!!!!!!!!!!

2017-12-31

Hi! Everyone,

Am happy to inform you that the KCPE results for this year came out before Christmas and more happy to tell you that this time round the STD 8 kids perfomed extremely well!!!!!!!! In total there were 15 candidates who sat for the final class 8 examination,out of the 15 kids,9 kids managed to score above 300 marks with the top scorer a girl named Juliet Wangoi scoring total marks of 401 out 500 marks.

7 kids scored more than 250 marks which is above average and good while only 2 kids scored below 250 marks.

Here below is the full list of all the STD 8 canidates at Mtwapa Academy who sat for their final class 8  Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exam;-

Name of kid................................Total marks obtained out of 500 marks.

1.Juliet Wangoi....................................401

2.Anne Mwenda...................................365

3.Lenny Ngala......................................358

4.Sumeiya Omar..................................348

5.Rose Kanze......................................345

6.Faith Ngei.........................................321

7.Charles Mungai.................................316

8.Kelvin Tsuma.....................................313

9.James Chivatsi.................................303

10.Faith Munbi....................................299

11.Harriet Wango.................................298

12.Sharleen Kitsao.............................267

13.Nelly Kambua................................265

14.Harrison Mugo...............................230

15.Christine Kadzo.............................212.

For the kids who scored above above 350 marks there are mostly likely to join natinal schools which are the top most schools in Kenya.

For the kids who scored 300 marks but below 350 marks they will be joining provincial schools which are also very good school after the national schools.

For the kids who scored above250 marks but below 300 marks they are most likely to join county/district schools which are also good and are rated after the provincial schools.

Finally for the kids who scored below 250 marks they will be joining some of the private schools in and outside Mtwapa as some of these secondary schools perform well too.

Finally as we come to the close of the year 2017 and ushering in the new year 2018,i want to send my heartfelt appreciations and many thanks from myself and on behalf of all the kids and parents in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program here in Africa Thank you to all friends who supported the school i.e Mtwap Academy  as i belkieve through such kind of support it has helped the school achieve good results.

I therefore wish you HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 2018.

Regards,

from Moses (sponsorship coordinator-Africa.


Mtwapa Acdemy new permanent school kitchen completion and thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2018-01-17

Mtwapa Academy new permanent school kitchen project.

Hi! Everyone,

Happy New Year 2018 to you all !!!!!!!! it’s my sincere hope that you ushered in well the new year. All is well here in Mtwapa-Africa. The schools are now reopened for the 1st term of the New Year and all the kids are happy to back to school after the December holiday. Previously in the last year the academic calendar was affected to the general election here in Kenya and which was repeated. However this year all is well and we are having a 14 week academic period this term which commenced on 3rd January.

Am happy to inform you that apart from the new year celebrations,Mtwapa Academy is double celebrating due to the completion of the new permanent school kitchen which was sponsored by Gerald Trevor (England) through Gail and Sara of the Mtomondoni sponsorship program.

From myself and on behalf of all the kids, headteadher, teachers, staff and the school director of Mtwapa Academy send our many many thanks to Gerald Trevor,Gail and Sara for the great assistance they’ve made to the new by making it possible for the school to keep a new permanent kitchen!!!!!!!!! Please visit our picture gallery for more details of the thank you pictures from Mtwapa Academy!!!!!!!!!! Also here below are special thanks from the school director and the cooks who were happy to say……………..

From Rahab,the school director of Mtwapa Academy.

The kitchen looks very good and smart!!!!!!! On behalf of all the staff and children of my school I’d like to send my appreciations to the sponsor Gerald Trevor and for all the kind of generosity he’s done to our school through Gail and Sara. Now the kitchen looks perfectly and smart!!!!! No more smoking!!!!!!!!! Previously the kitchen used to smoke as the cooks prepare the food and unfortunately the smoke used to affect the kids while at assembly during the morning assemy but eversince the new permanent kitchen was completed there’s no more smoke!!!!!!

 Am now happy to even take  around the school kitchen any of the visitor to our school as I feel no sham as the previous kitchen was in a very bad condition. The cooks are very happy too and now enjoying their cooking due to the good ventilation and no more affected by the smoke.

The children are happy too of the new kitchen project and enjoy being served from the new kitchen.

For sure Gerald Trevor,Gail and Sara have shown real friendship to our school as they’ve always been concerned about our school welfare and have never departed from us and always’ extend their hands’ to us. May the Almighty God bless you all and in a special way by abundantly adding what you’ve assisted us with. Thanks once again from the school director,Rahab’.

From the cooks

All the three school kitchen cooks named Ansilla,Mary and Maryanne had a common view and comment in regard to the new permanent school kitchen and the trio general said that…………………………’The kitchen looks good as we are not using lots of fire wood as the way its made is like an energy saving ‘jiko’.Also the too much heat we used to experience from the previous kitchen has now very much reduced and so thanks to the sponsor’.

With that and on behalf everyone here say bye bye,

With lots of love,

from,

Moses ( Exchange program co-ordinator).


Mtwapa Academy school-new permanent school kichen building work!!!!!!

2018-01-20

Hi! Everyone,

Hope you are all having a good weekend. Following the previous updates on thanks ref.the Mtwapa Academy school  new pemanent school kitchen,i today needed to post some more photos on the building work i.e from the initial stages upto the last stages of the constrction work,please see our picture gallery for details of the building work.Once again i say thanks to the sponsor Mr.Gerald Trevor of England through Gail and Sara of the Mtomondoni sponsorship program.Have a blessed weekend with lots of love,from,

Moses.(sponsorship  program co-ordinator-Africa)


Gibson's new special school admission.

2018-01-24

Hi! Everyone!

I guess you are all having fabulous week.We are all fine here in Mtwapa-Kenya.As previously infomed you the school reopened early this month for the 1st academid term.

Well today i needed to send over a special edition ref.Gibson.Gibson now aged 17 years old who has been learning at Mtwapa Academy eversince he was sponsored into the Mtomondoni sponsorship program in 2007 when he was aged 4 years and admitted in KG 1 has now been transferred and admitted to a special vocational school in the outskirts of Mtwapa.

Eversince Gibson was recruited into the Mtomondoni sponsorship education program he's been learning basic theory both at the kindergatern and in the primary school.However due to his special need case i.e down syndrome,Gibson had to repeat at least twice in every class of his primary school learning so as to be able to have a good understanding of the particular class teachings.

As from end of last year upto this new year 2018, we as a program with the advise of the program directors Gail and Sara thought that it was time to make another education move in regard to Gibson's education i.e instead of  him continuing learning in a normal school he instead do some vocational training from a special school. Am happy to inform you all that,Gibson is now transferred and admitted to a special vocational school called Sahajanand special school since yeaterday. Before Gibson was transferred from Mtwapa Academy he had to undergo repeated eduactional assessment from the Ministry of Education in charge special education who finally approved Gibson to be admmitted into an intergration programe for  vocational trainng.

The special school is a boarding school situated about 3 kms from Mtwapa Trading Centre towards the Indian Ocean. While at the school Gibson will be doing vocational training in makings of beaded jewellery,wood work,metal work,shoe making etc.either he will also learn some more basic literacy and nuneracy.Please see our picture gallery for some pictures of Gibson during his admssion into the special school.

I'll do some more updates on Gibson soon he settles for his vocational classes.Finally i would like to send my many mant thanks to all of Gibson's sponsors through Gail and Sara for making it possible for Gibson to transfer to the special school which is like a new home to Gibson.

Bye bye,

Regards,

Moses (sponsorship cordinator-Africa).


Alfred to Gerald.

2018-01-30

Hello Gerald,

Am writing this message to you Gerald on behalf of my brother Alfred who is away at school in the high lands of Kenya. Unfortunately he was unable to come to Mtwapa over the Christmas holiday and instead spent his Christmas holiday with my grandmother in the highlands where it\s near his school. However on his behalf and on behalf of our mother I want to send many thanks for the food which we received from you.My mother says with the food which you given to us it will assist us a lot and give us relief on our food budget due to the current economy status of our country where food is now very expensive.

Alfred who at the moment in secondary school form 2 is going on well at school and we thank you Gerald for your continued support to his education. Myself am pursuing a degree course in Business management.

May the Almighty God bless you Gerald and your family,

With love.

From Phyllis (sister to Alfred).


Mapenzi to Brockington College-England.

2018-01-30

Dear Brockington College.

Am soo much happy to you all always!!!!!!!for always remembering me by providing me with food. The food which you always provide me with has really assisted me especially now that I live in a rented house while attending my teaching practicals in a nearby village school. With the food which you always give me has made me not to buy food most of the times as you most of the times assist me with. Thank you also for continuing to sponsor me with my teaching college classes, please send my greetings to everyone at Brockington College.

Bye bye from,

Mapenzi.


Samuel to Lynn Wann

2018-01-30

Hi! Lynn Wann.

Thank you Lynn for your great remembrance and kindness by giving me food,my mother was happy to know that I’ve received some food from you through Mr.Moses,Sara and Gail. We are happy for the food as we had missed chapatti for our break fast,I therefore know that everyone at home will enjoy the food. Unfortunately last week we lost one of our aunts i.e sister to our father due to T.B.We are now settling after the funeral and both my mother and father has sent their greetings to you. We pray that God to bless you more together with your family.

With love,

From,Samuel.


Shila to Heggs family

2018-01-30

Dear the Heggs family.

 How are you all!!!!!!!! I want to send my many thanks for giving me the food.During the Christmas holiday I had travelled to visit my aunt who lives from from the current place of my residence i.e Likoni in the south coast of Mombasa. While at my aunts place I stayed for some time until after the New Year week. How was your Christmas? Where did you spend it? I hope you all enjoyed. I now stay with my elder sister in Likoni while attending my college in town, my sister has also sent her greetings to you all.

Wishing you a happy New Year 2018!!!!!!

From,Shila.


Joseph to the Heggs family.

2018-01-30

Hello the Heggs family.

 Hope you all had a great Christmas holiday and New Year. Mine is to return my appreciations to you and your family for the food which you made it possible for me to get. Am now working as a sales representative where I sale different commodities and enjoy talking with people whom I know after winning their hearts they buy our products. Thank you once again and be blessed,from Joseph.


Zawadi to Vicky

2018-01-30

Hi! Vicky

Hello Vicky, it’s lovely to write this message to you and happy to receive the food from you. I can remember you very well when you came with JCC School to our school while I was in the lower classes at Mtwapa Academy.I feel soo happy because you remembered me too and offered me food. Am now a big girl and in college training in tailoring and dressmaking. Recently in the last year I had new born baby now 11 month old and also doing well. During the Christmas time I went to visit my mother who lives in Malindi and spent both the Christmas and New Year with her before coming back to Mtwapa.

Thank you Vicky for you great concern on the food which will support me for some few days.

Yours loving girl,Zawadi.


Pendo to Lynn Wann

2018-01-30

Dear Lynn Wann.

How are you Lynne? How was you Christmas? With us here we are doing fine and now back to college. This message is to thank you a lot for the food which you sent for me. My mother and father were also happy to know that you gave me food. My college is a boarding institution and we normal buy and prepare our own food, so with the food which I have received from you it’s going to help me a lot to use it while at college.

Also I want to say thank you once again for your generosity and support towards my education and am happy to tell you that am now becoming a qualified tailor and now able to make dresses, skirts and shorts. May God bless you. Lynn.

With lots of love. From Pendo.


Abdalla to Clive Kidd.

2018-01-30

Hello Clive Kidd.

How are you?  It’s my great hope that you are fine, am also fine with my family. Am soo glad and happy to get this opportunity to write to you and to thank you for the food which we received from you, my grandmother and my brother Hamisi also has sent their  many thanks to you and all join our hands to thank you with your family.

Am also doing well at school and now in the final class i.e form 4.i do thank God for his protection throughout my secondary school life and thank Him to for also giving you good health so as to make me continue to support me in my education up to this level.

May God bless you in everything you do and also bless your family from your loving kid,Abdalla.


Alfred

2018-02-09

Hello  everyone,

‘My name is Alfred,I have now joined secondary school last year as a form 1 and  now am in form 2. The name of my school is called Miathene Boys High School located in the highlands of Kenya in the Mount Kenya region.

My schools has student population of 1,100 students and are all boarders. Our school has a total of 6 dormitories i.e some are small while others are large dormitories. For the smaller dormitories it accommodates 200 kids per dormitory while for the bigger dormitory it accommodates upto 300 students.

The total number of subjects which I do are 11 subjects i.e Mathematiscs,Physics,Biology,Chemistry,English,Kiswahili,Christian Religion Education(CRE),Geography,History,Business Education and Agriculture, However in the 2nd term I’ll be required to drop 2 subjects thereafter remain with 9 subjects. My favorite subjects are Mathematics, Physics and Biology.

Am happy to tell you that I’ve been doing well in my end of term exams like in the previous term I was ranked as position 6 out of 55 students in my class.Also am happy to tell you that am still doing very well in Mathematics and in addition to it I di very well in Physics i.e in the previous term I scored 77 percent  in Mathematics while in Physics I had 80 percent.Am proud of my teachers who have been very good to me and especially in their teachings.

The school day begins at 4.50 am when I wake up,here below is the summary of our school time table;-

6.00 am-6.30am…………..breakfast i.e coffee with bread.

6.30am-7.10am………….school cleaning.

7.10am-7.50am………….morning assembly.

8.00am-9.10am…………1st session of morning classes.

9.10am-9.20am………..short break.

9.20 am—10.40am……….2nd session of morning classes.

10.40am-11.10am……….morning long break.

11.10am-1.10pm………..3rd session of the morning classes.

1.10pm-1.40pm………..lunch.

1.40pm-4.30pm……….afternoon classes.

4.30 pm-5,30pm……….games.

5.30pm-6.00pm………evening break.

6.00pm-7.00pm…….supper.

7.00pm-8.00pm…….night break.

8.00pm-10.00pm…..night private classes.

10.00 pm………..sleep time.

In terms of school menu here below is the menu;-

Monday………lunch……….’githeri’ i.e a mixer of cooked beans with corn. Maize

                       Supper……….’ugali’ i.e cooked corn flour with cabbage mixed with beef.

Tuesday…… lunch……….’githeri’ i.e a mixer of cooked beans with corn. Maize

                       Supper……….’ugali’ i.e cooked corn flour with cabbage mixed with beef.

Wednesday……….lunch………….rice with cabbage.

                                Supper……’githeri’.

Thursday……………lunch……’githeri’.Supper…….’githeri’

Friday, Saturday and Sunday……. lunch……….’githeri’ i.e a mixer of cooked beans with corn. Maize

                       Supper……….’ugali’ i.e cooked corn flour with cabbage mixed with beef.

During  weekends  i.e on Saturday we do school cleaning, personal clothes cleaning while on Sunday I go to church.

My favorite games and sports  are football, badminton and swimming

Finally I’d like to send my many thanks to my sponsors for the continued support towards my education and may God bless them,

from your loving kid,

Alfred.


Diego

2018-02-18

Hi! Everyone,

I guess you are all ok. My name is Diego Denis aged 23 years and am happy to speak to you all today and also send my greetings to you all the sponsors in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program whom am also the beneficiary.

As you all know, I was recruited in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program while in the children’s home i.e the New Light Children’s home situated in the Mtomondoni village,Mtwapa. However on attaining my 17th year and as per the children’s home policy here in in Kenya, it was time for me to move out of the home and start leaving outside the children’s home. Through Gail and Sara,I was able to get accommodation and food outside the home where I continued with my secondary school when I later completed and commenced my college.

After secondary school I joined a college in Nairobi training in graphics and desighn.Later on while in Nairobi I was lucky to be reunited with my grandfather i.e father to my deceased dad who lives in Uganda. Due to that I had to transfer to Uganda and continue with my training in graphics and design. The name of my college where I study in Uganda is called Engineering Management Institute located in Kireka,Kampala-Uganda.

The system of Education in Uganda is 7-6-4 i.e 7 years in primary school,6 years in secondary school and 4 years in the University. Unlike Kenya system of education called 8-4-4 i.e 8 years in primary school,4 years in secondary school and 4 years in the university.

The main tribes in Uganda are the Bagandas.The staple food of the Ugandans is ‘matoke’ i.e cooked green bananas which maybe mixed with beef, vegetables and cereals like beans. Unlike Kenya  the staple food is ‘ugalI’ i.e cooked corn flour.

For my breakfast I normal take tea with bread while for my lunch or supper I take ‘matoke. During my free time I normal like watching movies or go out for swimming. My future plans after completing my course I’d like to be self-employed where I intend to open up my own small office where I can be able to do my graphic and design work and earn my living out of it.

Finally I want to say  thank you to Gail and Sara, all of the sponsors ad everyone in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program it is through your combined efforts that you’ve made me to see a bright future through my sponsorship and may God bless you all.

Yours,loving kid,

Diego.


Gibson

2018-02-23

Hi! Everyone,

Hoping that you are all doing fine. It’s another great moment to speak to you all and happy to inform you that one of our  kid i.e Gibson who as from this year transferred to a special school called Sahajanand special school located within Mtwapa is now settled on class doing his vocational skills.

Gibson aged 17 years has a special need case i.e down syndrome and thanks to his sponsors his been able to proceed with his learning since he was recruited into the program and admitted at Mtwapa Academy ever since he was in the kindergarten and now has joined special training doing some vocational skills. The special school where Gibson’s learns has a total population of 120 kids with special need cases, however the vocational Centre classes are subdivided into 3 streams/class each with an average of 40 kids per class with an average number of 3 teachers per class. Each teacher has his or her own specialty in teaching.

The different special needs or disabilities in all the 3 classes are down syndrome, epilepsy, microcephalaus,dyrocephalaus,learning disabilities, communication disabilities e.g cerebral palsy or mental health and hearing impairment.

The subject involved in the vocational class include  Maths where they learn basic maths e.g number work and how to give back correct change in case the kid has started his or her own business.Entepreneurship where they learn how to be self-reliant after training and be able to start their own businesses. Communication skills, ICT,P.E,First Aid. Vocational skills or projects involved include e.g making of doormats, beading/jewellery e.g making of bracelets and necklaces. Handcraft, leather work e.g making of shoes.Homescience where they learn on how to take care of the house, cleaning of the house and washing of utensils. Other optional subjects include Agriculture where kids learn how to do some basic agricultural activities e.g land/soil preparation, sowing at the school green house where they practice planting of vegetables e.g tomatoes and spinach. Metal work,wood work,Poultry keeping, construction e.g brick making and tailoring.

Here below the daily school timetable.-

8.00 am-9.00am…………morning prayers and beginning of morning class.

9.00am-10.00am……...2nd morning class period.

10.00am -11.00am…..break.

Note-the above class periods include subjects like maths, entrepreneurship, life skills, first aid, communications skill etc depending on the day. However all the vocational skills classes begin after break.

11.00am-12.00 pm……………..vocational skills.

12.00pm-1.00pm…………….lunch

1.00pm-2.00pm………………vocational skills

3.00pm-4.00pm…………games/sports…..involves football, recreational activities e.g playing draughts.

Exams are only done as assessment and through observation as the special need kid do his or her own practical work. Also a kid should be able to write his or her name and be able to do some of the basic mathematics.

By the end of the day special need kids end up doing lots of successful projects especially in bead work and handcraft. Due to this the teachers have a special appeal to everyone since they do not have a ready market that whoever is interested in the finished products is welcomed to buy the products and can also make special arrangements for the products to be sent to them. At the moment the school depends entirely on the visitors who come to the school to visit the kids and then buy the products. All the proceeds or sales help in buying some more teaching material for the kids. Please see the picture gallery for pictures of the Gibson’s special school activities.

With that I say thank you to everyone involved in the support of the Mtomondoni sponsorship program and more special thanks goes to Gibson’s sponsors for their continued and generous support to Gibson’s education.

Yours in service,

Moses Kopulo-(sponsorship coordinator-Africa).


Asma

2018-03-15

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Asma,aged 15 years and now in form 2 in a secondary school called Ng’ombeni Girls High School which is located within our Kilifi County. The school was originally built by the local Anglican Church of Kenya where they’ve built a church near the school. The school has a student population of ………………kids.

In my class we are 41 students. The total number of subjects we do are  11 subject namely Mathematics, English, Kiswahili, Chemistry.Biology, History and government, Physics, Geography, Christian Religion Education (CRE), Business Education and Agriculture.

Our school is a girls’ boarding school which makes us accommodated into the school hostels /dormitories each dormitory is subdivided into cubes and each cubes accommodates 10 girls. The cubes are also named for each identification and our cube name is called Mount Kenya which represents our famous and top most mountain called Mount Kenya.

Our official day starts at 7.00 am, however we normal wake up at 4.00 am where we start preparing ourselves for at least 30 minutes thereafter proceed for the early morning classes. The early morning classes which commence at 4.30 am are normal remedial classes whereby we do lots of revision work until 6.00 am. From 6.00-6.30 am we go for our morning breakfast where we have tea with bread. From 6.30 am until 7.00 am we do praise and worship whereby we assemble all together and sing lots of Christian songs and prayers. Before we start the official class sessions, please see our class time table in the picture gallery for all of our class sessions.

Our official day ends at 4.00 pm where we go back to our dormitories so as to change our school uniform to normal clothing, this is normal a break of about 20 minutes. Thereafter we go back to our classes more remedial classes until 5.00 pm.

From 5.00 pm-6.00 pm we normal have games and clubs depending on the day like;-

Monday……………………….games and sport, where  we plays different game like netball, Volleyball, women football.

Tuesday………………………Debating, where different kinds of debates are proposed and moved e,g ‘Boarding schools are better than day schools’

Wednesday………………Drama, and am happy to inform you that I have now joined the school drama club   where we sometimes go out to compete with other schools during the schools drama festivals

Thursday………………….Religious services, whereby Christians do go for their Christian service classes and do lots of bible reading and teachings while for the Muslims whom I belong do proceed for the special Muslim classes.

Friday………………Games and sports.

Saturday………….morning classes until 12,00 noon then later in the afternoon after lunch we do washing of our clothes etc.

Sunday…………..church service in the morning then later in the afternoon we are free.

For our daily school meals, here below is the menu;-

Day…………………………………………...lunch…………………………………………………..……super.

1.Monday………………………..Rice with beans……………………………………...’ugali’ and cabbage.

2. Tuesday….’Githeri’ i.e cooked corn maize mixed with beans…………...rice with green peas.

3.Wednesday…………………cooked rice mixed with beans…………………..’ugali’ with cabbage.

4. Thursday………………….’ugali’ with beans…………………………………….’ugali’ with Sukuma wiki.

5. Friday…………………….’Githeri’…………………………………………………’rice with green peans.

6. Saturday……………………’pilau’……………………………………………’ugali with cabbage.

7. Sunday………………………..’Githeri’………………………………………..’ugali’ with cabbage.

Generally I really enjoy my classes and I love all of my classmates and teachers.

Finally I want to send my lots of appreciations to my sponsors for the great assistance of continuing to sponsor me.Thank you to you all, from your loving girl,Asma.


Salwa

2018-03-27

          

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Salwa aged 19 years old and in form 4.The name of my school is called Lulu Girls’ High School situated in the South Coast of Mombasa at a place called Ukunda. Our school was established in the year 2007 and started as a mixed school, however it was later separated into girls and boys school after the school management built a separate girls’ school while the original school remained for the boys. We girls were only transferred to our new school buildings of the girls high school last year in 2017.

Our school has a student population of 103 girls with 11 teachers, each form has 1 stream making a total of 4 streams from form 1-4.Am so happy to have reached up to this level and now that am about to complete my secondary school, form 4 which am very thank full to my sponsors through Gail and Sara of the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. It is through this program which has taken me to this level of learning especially me being a girl.

Our school is a boarding school comprising of 4 large dormitories or houses namely Rain,Zambezi,Nile and Tana. Each dormitory is subdivided into 12 cubes, each cube is occupied by between 4-6 girls.

My school day begins very early in the morning as shown below;-

4.20 am…………………………….wake up time thereafter start preparing  myself, then pray after that go for the early morning classes.

5.00-6.10 am…………………….early morning classes.

6.10am-6.30am………………..cleaning of school compound.

6.30am-7.00am…………………breakfast i.e tea with bread.

7.00am-7.40am………………..short break and preparation for assembly.

7.40am-8.00a…………………..school assembly whereby assemblies are only conducted on Mondays and Fridays.

For the other days i.e…….Tuesdays and Thursdays……..class meetings whereby we all assemble with our class teachers to give out our views and concerns to the school management through our teachers for any kind problem in the school which we as students are encountering without our teachers’ knowledge or anything we as students would like the school management to do for us.

                                            Wednesdays………House meetings, whereby we discuss matters related to the dormitories/houses. The issues discussed in the house meetings are electricity issues, leaking roofs. Electricity sockets problems and general house repairs.

8.00am-10.00am………….official morning lessons commence.

10.00am-10.20am……break.

10.20am-12.20pm……..2nd session of morning lessons.

12.20pm-1.00pm……….lunch.

1.00pm-2.00pm…………after lunch break.

2.00pm-4.00pm………afternoon class sessions.

4.00pm-4.45pm……..games and clubs(only on Tuesdays and Thursdays).

The games are like volleyball,basketball and football,with me I participate in scouting and red cross clubs.

                                    Mondays………..English and Kiswahili debates.

                                    Wednesdays…..religious services or worship.

4.45pm-5.00pm……..go back to our dormitories so as to wash and change from our school uniform to normal clothing.

5.00pm-6.30pm……..go back to our classes for revision classes.

6.30 pm-7.00pm…….evening super.

7.00pm-10.10pm…..general revision work. Officially we are supposed to go to sleep by 10.10 pm, however us being candidates (form 4) we sometimes exceed our night classes due to class group discussions. In our class we have set up special discussion groups on different subjects like Biology,Mathematics,Chemistry,Kiswahili and Physics whereby we discuss different subject challenges and work out on them. Due to such kind of group discussions we sometimes extend our night learning up to mid-night then go to sleep.

Our school menu is as follows;-

Monday……………….’githeri’ i.e corn maize cooked with beans for lunch while for super we have rice with beans.

Tuesday………………..rice with beef for lunch while for super it’s ‘ugali’ with vegetables like cabbages.

Wednesday……………’githeri’ for lunch while for super it’s ‘ugali’ and vegetables.

Thursday……………..rice and beans for lunch while for super it’s ‘githeri’.

Friday………………..’pilau’ for lunch while super we have chapatti with beans.

Saturday……………’ugali’ with vegetables for lunch while for super we have rice and beans.

Sunday………………’githeri for lunch while for super its rice and beef.

Finally, I want to once again say thank you to my sponsor for her contribution towards my education and I promise to well in my final examination which I’ll be doing towards the end of this year.

Yours loving girl,Salwa’.


Hamisi

2018-04-08

          

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Hamisi aged 19 years old. Am now in from 4 at a school called Mtwapa Starlight High school located within Mtwapa. Our school has a kids population of 264 kids. In our form 4 class we are 74 students in total i.e 32 girls and 42 boys. The subjects which we are doing arte Mathematics, English, Kiswahili, Chemisrty, Physics, HIstory, Biology, Business Education, Geography and Agriculture. Among the named subjects my favorite subject is History.

My school day commences at 4.30 am as it’s the time when I wake up and start preparing myself for school. Soon I wake up ,I take my birth, dress up and do my reading. Thereafter I take my breakfast which I normally have black tea with ‘mahamri’ Swahili snacks. After taking my breakfast I begin my journey of going to school as am expected to be in school at 6.45am.Here below is my daily school timetable;-

7.00am -7.30am………………………morning preps whereby we do have free reading.

7.30am-8.20am………………………morning school assembly.

8.20am-10.20am……………………1st session of morning lessons begin.

10.20am-10.40am………………..morning break.

10.40am-12.30pm………………..2nd session of morning lessons.

12.30pm.1.30pm…………………..lunch, during lunch and break we have private mother cooks who come to the school to cook and sale food to us students at affordable prices..Most of the food they cook are like chapatti, beans, samosa, fried potatoes, mahamri and pilau.

1.30pm-4.00pm………………..afternoon class lessons.

4.00pm-5.00pm…………………….games.

5.00pm-6.00pm…………………..remedial/evening classes.

6.00pm……………………..leave for home.

In school games and sports, I normal participate in playing football whereby I play as position 6.In  athletics I do participate in field track running i.e 100 metres.

In summary I like to thank all of my sponsors who have been taking care of my education ever since I was in the kindergarten, throughout my primary school, secondary school since form 1 and now am in form 4 remaining with only 2 terms to complete my secondary education. I believe if it were not for the sponsors I would not been able to reach up to this far. Due to the sponsors support am now able to foresee my future as a bright future and I hope that all will be well soon I complete my secondary school. So far all what I have achieved through out my education will be of great help towards my future life. I also want to give my many thanks to all of my teachers who have taken me through my learning.

In terms of my career, previously when I was in primary school I had wanted to be an engineer but ever since I joined secondary school; and especially immediately i joined form 4 I started to have an idea of changing my career i.e from being an engineer to a hotel chef. The reason for being a chef is that I have my friend chef who has so far succeeded in his life from his work as a chef as result he’s the one who has given me the motivation to choose the career.

My hope is that when I complete my college and be employed as a chef I’ll be able to help my family and uplift them financially.

As I prepare for my final examination i.e the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) towards the end of this year I’ve been studying hard and doing lots of revision and I therefore believe that I’ll perform well.

Lastly for my hobbies, I love going for swimming and listening to music. However before doing any of my hobbies I most of the time and especially when am free at home I normal help my grandmother and my young brother in different household work like cooking, washing utensils and fetching water.

Thank you once again to all of my sponsors and everyone, goodbye,

From,

Hamisi.’


Mapenzi

2018-04-25

 Hi! Every one,

‘My name is Mapenzi aged 22 years. Am happy to inform you that am going on well with my teaching course at the Imara Teachers’ College and soon completing my course i.e next year in July.

The subjects which am doing are Mathematics, English,Kiswahil,Social Studies,Christian Religious Education(CRE),Physical Education (PE).Creative Arts and Education. The Education subject is subdivided into 4 sections i.e Admistration where we study about general office management incase a teacher is given the responsibility of heading a school.The second subsection in education is curriculum whereby we learners study on the new developments in curriculum like now our Kenya school curriculum is being changed. The third subsection in education is psychology whereby a teacher is supposed to study a student learning ability,mind and skills.The fourth subsection of education is foundation whereby we learners are studying the history of education.

As I had said above,the Kenya Curriculum is changing and generally I like the new curriculum as its activities based curriculum in which it’s hard for students to forget.

 So far I have got lots of confidence in teaching due to the teaching practice which am now used to it as a result it further gives the confidence to speak in public.Also during my teaching practice I have learnt that kids have different learning abilities i.e some are slow learners while some re fast learners. Due to that I have found that the best way to assist a slow learner is to have a quick summary of revision with the specific kid on her/his previous class work and begin from there going up to the level of class he is.By doing so and as a teacher you’ll have assisted the child to have a good understanding of the subject topic.

My best subjects which I enjoy teaching are English,Social studies,Kiswahili and CRE.

At college while having class sessions each subject has a duration time of 2 hours i.e

8.00 am-10.00 am …………………1st lesson starts.

10.00am-11.00 am…………………morning break.

11.00 am-1.00 pm…………………2nd lesson.

1.00 pm-2.00 pm…………………..lunch break.

2.00 pm-4.00 pm…………………..3rd lesson.

4.00 pm-6.30 pm………………….free study and group study.

In terms of our internal exams we do them at least after every 2 semesters. Am working very hard  in college so that I can achieve my future life plans of being a college lecturer. Also I’d like to be a role model to the community and am sure I’ll encourage more girls who have being having challenges in their lives and difficulities in proceeding to go to school by giving a helping hand to some of the village girls just like me whom my entire eduiaction has been funded by you as my sponsors.

My hobbies are playing football and visiting friends.

Finally I say thank you to my sponsors who have stood by me eversince I was in primary school and now am just about to complete my college.

From your loving girl,

Mapenzi’


Abdalla speaking on his final year in secondary school!!!!!

2018-05-19

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Abdallah aged 20 years. Am happy to inform you that am in the last year of my secondary school and only remaining 1 term before I do my final secondary school exam i.e towards the end of this year. However I’d like to thank my sponsors for their continued  support towards my education ever since I was recruited into the program when I was in the kindergarten until now!  If it were not for my sponsor support I would not have reached to this level.

Now that am in form 4 am doing a total of 7 subjects i.e Mathematics,English,Kiswahili,Chemistry,Biology,History and Christian Religious Education (C.R.E). Initially when I was in form 1-2 I did a total of 11 subjects but I moved to the higher classes  i.e for 3 and now form 4 the subjects started to reduce. My favorite subject is History. In our class we are 52 kids i.e 30 are girls while for us boys we are 22.

My day begins at 4.00 pm when I wake and start preparing for school and my school day schedule is as follows;-

4.00-5.00am…………………wake up and preparation time.

5.00-5.30am………………..breakfast where I most have black tea with bread.

5.30-6.00am…………………walk to school.

6.00-8.00a.m…………………revision work while in class.

Note; However during Mondays and Fridays we do have school assembly as from 7.30-8.00am.For the rest of the days during that time we only do revision work.

8.00-8.40am………………….1st official morning lesson.

8.40-9.20am………………2nd morning lesson.

9.20-9.30am………………..short break.

9.30—10.10am………….3rd morning lesson.

10.10-10.50am………… 4th morning lesson.

10.50-11.30am…………..long morning break.

11.30-12.10pm………..5th lesson.

12.10-12.50pm……….6th lesson.

12.50-2.00pm…………lunch.

2.00-2.40pm…………..1st afternoon lesson.

2.40-3.20 pm……………..2nd afternoon lesson.

3.20-4.00pm………………..3rd afternoon lesson.

4.00-6.00pm……………..revision time.

Note;- On Tuesday and Thursday we have school games as from 4-6pm.The kind of games we have at school are netball  for the girls and football for us boys.

For our school examination this year, we’ll be doing the normal school examination followed by mock examination which is a pretrial exam before the main and final exam i.e the Kenya Certificate of Secondary exam.(KCSE).

So as to prepare for my final exam, we have formed a discussion group whereby each member contribute in the discussion what she or he is very good at so as to like ‘teach’ his or her colleagues. During the discussion we do use past examinations question papers so as to give us a clue of how the main exam looks like.

Also at school we have laboratories i.e for Physics, Chemistry and Biology where we do lots of science practicals.Specifically in Biology I love doing the plant germination test and food tests while in Chemistry I like doing practicals on titration and test for cation.

For my career I’ve now made up my mind that I would like to be a teacher. My favorite food is rice and beans

Finally once again I want to say thank you my sponsors who have made me realize my dream and may God bless you all, from yours sponsored kid,

Abdalla.’


Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program,sponsored kids school list-2018

2018-06-03

Hi! Everyone,

 Hope you are all fine with wherever you are.We all here in Kenya are fine too despite the recent long and unsusual flooding rains which have been on since the month of April through out the month of May and now this month the rains are starting to reduce.Due to this hundreds of thousand of families here in Kenya has been displaced and almost 200 lives lost due to the floods. However we thank God none of us here in Kenya and especially the families under our Mtomondoni sponsorship program were not directly and negatively affected and are going on well with their daily activities.

In relation to the above Kenyan situation due to rains,i want to send my many appreciations to everyone of you as friends and sponsors of the Mtomondoni sponsorship program that through your contributions and generosity towards the kids families,some of the families have benefitted by being built either permanent houses or semi-permanent which are also stable houses. These kids families who have benefitted from the housing projects include Hamisi,Abdalla,Justin,Wycliff,Samuel,Pendo and Zena's. Due to such kind of projects the families have overcomed the flooding situations which has recently affected the entire nation of Kenya and if it were not for such kind of help these kids could be out in the cold with no place to leave as there previous houses were badly off and about to fall down.

Apart from the housing project,also through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program,Mtwapa Academy school which was the initial school where all the sponsored kids started learning from was at first a temporary built school (built of iron sheets all over) but through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program under the coordination of Gail and Sara-England who looked out for sponsors like you all and some assistance from some of the England schools,Mtwapa Academy school was rebuilt to a permanent school and now it's fully permanently built. As i speak now some of the schools here in Kenya were closed even after reopening due to the recent floods and kids have not been able to go to school,thanks God and through your assistance as sponsors and friends of the program,kids at Mtwapa Academy are happily learning in permanent classrooms.

Finally,today i needed to post a  school list of all of our Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program kids as shown on the table below;-

                                     Kids school list-2018

Name of kid

Category e.g primary, secondary school, college, polytechnic and university.

1.Asma

Secondary-form 2 at Ng’ombeni Girls High School

2.Happy

Secondary school-form 2 at The Sea Breeze Secondary school

3.Alfred

Secondary school-form 2 at Miathene Boys High School

4.Ibrahim

Secondary school-form 3 at Moi Forces Academy- Mombasa.

5.Albert

Secondary school-form 3 at St.Georges High School

6.Wycliff

Secondary school-form 3 at Msumarini Secondary school

7.Hamisi

Secondary school=form 4 at Mtwapa Starlight High school

8.Abdalla

Secondary school-form 4 at Mtwapa Elite Academy secondary school.

9.Salwa

Secondary school-form 4 at Lulu Girls High School

10.Baraka

Completed secondary school, not yet joined college.

11.Loice

Completed secondary school yet to join college

12.Justin

Polytechnic at Mkwajuni youth polytechnic undertaking Motor Vehicle Mechanics.

13.Pendo

Polytechnic at Mkwajuni undertaking Tailoring and Dressmaking

14.Esther

Vocational Training school at Tazama vocational training centre. Undertaking embroidery.

15.Zawadi

Polytechnic at Mary Mother Mother of God undertaking tailoring and dressmaking.

16.Samuel

Polytechnic at Nesbony College undertaking Computer packages.

17.Shila

College in Hospitality at Mombasa Aviation College

18.Mapenzi

Teachers’ college at Imara Teachers Training College

19.Zeina

Polytechnic at Mary Mother of God Training school.

20.Kabibi

Teachers Training College at Imara Teachers Training College

21.Timothy

Completed teachers training course.Also undertaking training in fire fighting.

22.Shadrack

Completed teachers training college and now working

23.Mayee

Completed certificate in Medical Records course and now planning to  continue with diploma course in September

24.Joseph

Completed a course in hotel cookery, later employed at a sweet manufacturing company and currently working as a sales and marketing employee.

25.Lukeman

First trained at the Polytechnic undertaking Motor Vehicle Mechanics later changed and now undertaking driving lessons.

26.Francis

College at Rift Valley Institute of Technology undertaking Electronics Engineering

27.Teresia

Polytechnic at Kisauni  Youth Polytechnic undertaking a course in  Saloon and Beauty Therapy

28.Vidzo

Completed college in Computer graphics and design and now working.

29.Grace

University of Eldoret under taking a degree course in Environmental Sciences

30.Ben

Completed college in Computer Studies and Business Management and now running his own business.

31.Magdaline

Running her own small scale business at her home

32.Baby Gail

STD 4 at Mtwapa Academy

33.Mary Magdaline

STD 7 at Mtwapa Academy

34.Gibson

Vocational Training school at Sahajanand Special School

With that i say thank you all for your support and may God bless you,

Regards,

from,

Moses.


Getting ready to welcome Charlie

2018-06-14

We are very much looking forward to welcoming Charlie, a teacher from England who knows Sara as she trained at Babington Academy. She will be coming out to Mtwapa on 24th July to spend some time working at Mtwapa Academy. We are hoping that she will use her art skills, from her first class art degree, to paint pictures on ten walls of the new classrooms. She will be staying with Moses during her visit and will be in Mtwapa for around 8 weeks. 


Friends across the miles... Babington Academy and Mtwapa Academy

2018-06-17

This week we are launching our new pen friend programme. Students from Mtwapa Academy and Babington Academy will be exchanging letters with the aim of getting to know one another better and develop an understanding of each other's different cultures... Although many of the students at Babington understand African culture as many of their families come from Africa. There are actually many Kenyan students that attend Babington Academy. It will be very interesting to see the friendships grow and students develop an understanding of life in Mtwapa and Beaumont Leys.


Hamisi and Abdalla's grandmother passes on!!!!

2018-06-30

Hi! Everyone,

                It is with deep sorrow to inform you of the passing on of the grandmother to Hamisi and Abdalla who passed on last week on Wednesday 2oth June due to high blood pressure while she was on her way to a referral hospital.

As you all know Hamisi and Abdalla who are orphans are sponsored kids in our Mtomondoni sponsorship program and it was the late grandmother who has been taking care of the boys ever since the boys were in kindergarten up to the moment when they are about to complete their secondary school i.e form 4.

The loss of their grandmother is like a double tragedy to the boys as they have lost their parents and now they’ve lost their grandmother.

All in all from me and on behalf of Abdalla,Hamisi,Antoney and the entire family,I want send  many thanks to Gail and Sara as they have been able to send over their personal donation of Kshs.7,500/= to the family who all sent their many thanks to  both Sara and Gail so as to assist in the funeral arrangement. At first the total estimated budget for the funeral was Ksh.50, 000/= which is supposed to cater for things like morgue preservation daily charges, coffin purchase, grave digging cost, transport costs, food expenses, tents and chairs hiring, public address system etc.

Yesterday Thursday 29thj June was the day when the deceased body was taken out of the hospital morgue for a church service in Mtwapa (Mtomondoni), thereafter the deceased was taken to her home for an overnight stay where the mourners had lots of singing waiting for the next morning and start preparing for the funeral. It was until today when the funeral took place. Please see pictures for details of the grandmother final journey.

Finally I want to send and on behalf of and the entire Hamisi and Abdalla   family my many thanks  to Gill and Dave Fletcher for the generosity which they’ve  done to this bereaved family by helping them built a permanent house and with no doubt even though their grandmother is gone but at  least the boys are having a permanent home.

With that I say,bye byer,

Regards,

Moses.


Thank you Thank you Val from the Benson's family!!!!!!!!

2018-07-01

Hi! Val,

‘Am Mr.Benson and happy to get this great opportunity to write to you Val this message of Thank you. Am doing fine with my family here in Mtwapa. We have been having a lot of rain since the month of April until now and so we have been busy planting some food crops like maize and cassava. My family is doing, however my wife (mother to Wycliff and Justin) has gone to visit her sick brother who lives far from Mtwapa and so am only alone with the kids, and hopefully she will be back before the end of this week. When she comes back I’ll inform her of your donation to our family. My other kids Wycliff and Justin are doing fine with your school.Wycliff is still in secondary school now in form 3 and only remaining with 1 year before he completes his secondary school. I therefore want to say Thank you Val for your continued support to Wycliff education since he was in the kindergarten until now when he is about to complete his secondary school. We therefore pray to God to continue blessing you for the good work you have done to my family. Justin is in the polytechnic doing his training in Motor Vehicle Mechanics and am happy that this year he will be completing his training. As from next week he will be starting his internship in one of the local vehicle maintenance workshop here in Mtwapa, thereafter i.e towards the end of the year he’ll be doing his final examination and then graduate.

Once again say Thank you Val for you recent financial support to me and my family, I well received your total  donation of Kshs.3,150/= to myself and Wycliff.I received the money through Mr.Moses,our coordinator which also sent to him by Gail and Sara, may the Almighty God bless you Val with your family.

As we start a new week and a new month, please Val I want to wish you all the best and whatever you do. Thank you with

Regards from Mr.Benson and family.’


Non-uniform day at Babington Academy

2018-07-06

Hi all,

I am really excited to announce that next Friday, the students at Babington Academy will be holding a non uniform day. Students will be paying 50p and adults a £1 to be able to wear what they wish on that day at school. All funds raised will go towards the education sponsorship of a child through the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Programme.  We are very much looking forward to hearing about how the day has gone... Hopefully there will some pictures from the day.


It's coming home!

2018-07-10

So, tomorrow our friends at Babington Academy will be celebrating England being in the semi-finals of the World Cup. As part of their celebrations students will be able to wear the shirt of their favourite team during the day. I wonder if anyone will be wearing the Kenyan national kit?  At break time there will be a cake sale. 10 members of staff have been working hard baking hundreds of tasty cakes to sell on the day. All proceeds will go to Mtwapa Academy to buy sports equipment, specifically footballs! So, football is certainly coming home! 


Former Babington Academy teacher visits Mtwapa Academy-Kenya,Africa!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2018-08-01

Hi! Everyone,

Am happy to speak with all again after a while! Hope you are all doing fine with your families. All is well here in Mtwapa, Kenya.

Courtesy of Miss Sara Fletcher of Babington Academy,England and Gail Hammonds of Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program, am happy to inform you that late last week on 26th July, Mtwapa Academy school received a former Babington Academy teacher named Miss Charlotte Jermy who is a Mathematics, History and Arts teacher. Miss Jermy has been a former teacher at Babington Academy,England.

Briefly, Babington Academy,England being a very close friend to Mtwapa Academy through Miss Sara Fletcher has been assisting the Kenyan school through the initial building work of the school kindergarten department which now accommodates a total of 143 kids only in the kindergarten. The overall total kids population currently at Mtwapa Academy stands at 477 kids, thanks to the tireless efforts of Miss Sara Fletcher and Miss Gail Hammonds of the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program who have been able to find various well-wishers and donors so as  to upgrade the school facilities i.e by  building  of new permanent classrooms, school library, school computers, digging of school well, building of the school kitchen, sponsoring needy kids in the school among other assistance like helping the school in paying for its school teachers’ salaries.

It’s through the above efforts on assistance of Miss Sara Fletcher and Miss Gail Hammonds to Mtwapa Academy which has now attracted so many kids from the local community to the school where the students population has risen from 300 to 477 kids,thanks Sara,thanks Gail and all the well-wishers who have contributed in upgrading Mtwapa Academy.

It’s through the upgrading and financial support to the school that now Mtwapa Academy is posting very good results in the national examinations and a very good example is last year 2017 where Mtwapa Academy emerged to a 2nd position  out of  530 schools in our Kilifi County in both Mathematics and English subjects. Nationally Mtwapa Academy was among the top 10 schools to post excellent results in both Mathematics and English subjects where two of the students scored 97 percent in Mathematics and 96 percent in English in the Kenya Certificate Of Primary Education (KCPE).As a result 4 of the students at Mtwapa Academy were enrolled into national school while the rest were admitted into very good provincial/county schools.

As per Miss Charlotte Jermy  visit to Mtwapa Academy, she has so far helped in teaching where she has  taught Mathematics in both STD 7 and STD 8.From Miss Jermy views she says and I quote………………’The behavior of the kids At Mtwapa Academy is good. The kids are soo enthusiastic and understand very quickly and really focused. However I noted some difficulties in both STD 7 and 8 students while I was teaching them Algebra i.e collecting like terms. I found out that some kids were having difficulties in working on negative numbers, some were having difficulties in working out on decimals but later on after teaching them they were all able to work them out easily. Other difficulties I saw in the kids were working on indexes in Algebra in both classes but later on after teaching them, more than half of the classes were able to work out on the indexes easily’ end of quote.

Apart from teaching, Miss Charlotte Jermy has helped in cooking at the school by joining the school cooks in cooking food for the kids at school especially during the official school closing day where the menu was ‘pilau’.The kitchen where Miss Jermy worked in is the same kitchen which was recently built by a donor called Gerald Trevor through Miss Sara Fletcher and Miss Gail Hammonds of England. While at the kitchen Miss Jermy helped in washing of the dishes, mashed garlic in preparation for cooking pilau and also helped to serve the kindergarten kids with porridge. Apart from teaching and working in the kitchen, Miss Jermy has financial assisted the school by donating a total of Kshs.12,000/= to the school through the Mtwapa Academy school director,Rahab. The donated money is to assist Rahab is paying for some of her school teachers’ salaries. Rahab was happy to receive the donation from Miss Jermy and has not only thanked Jermy but also has extended her appreciations to Miss Sara Fletcher and Miss Gail Hammonds for connecting Miss Jermy to Mtwapa Academy through the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program. Please see pictures from our picture gallery ref.Miss Jermy Visit and Mtwapa Academy in general.

All schools in Kenya are officially closing by this week Friday, however Mtwapa Academy is officially closing today. However Miss Jermy will resume her teaching at the school as the STD 8 kids will be back to school next week on Monday 6th for their holiday tuition in preparation for their final KCPE examination scheduled toward the end of October 2018. Thereafter on 24th August, Miss Jermy will depart back to England marking the end of her Kenya visit.

With that I say…..’kwaheri’ bye l and thanking  you all for your support towards the Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program, be blessed.

Regards,

Moses Kopulo (Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program coordinator-Africa).


Mtwapa Academy launches a story book project..........'My book buddy'!!!!!!!

2018-10-14

Hello Everyone,

 Hope you are doing fine wherever you are. It’s been a while but thanks God we are all fine here in Mtwapa.We’ve now entered the 3rd term of the school year calendar which started in the 1st week of September.

Well today I needed to update you all that, recently Mtwapa Academy launched a storybook project through a book aid well-wisher. The story book project is called ‘My book buddy’.This project is similar and like an extension support to our already existing Mtwapa Academy library which was built, equipped with chairs, reading tables and books ranging from Mathematics, Geography, Science and technology, English, Fiction and non-Fiction books etc through our Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program and through the co-ordination of Gail and Sara of England.

In the ‘My book buddy’ project, a total of 450 African writers story books were purchased by the well-wishers enough for every kid in the school. Apart from the books also book shelves for each class were bought by the well-wisher. In this book project it’s like bringing a library to the classrooms. In his book project a special story book reading day has been set aside by the school I,e every Wednesday afternoon during clubs time. During this period,all Mtwapa Academy kids  in the upper classes i.e from STD 4-8 are supposed to read their story books, make a summary of the story the kids may have read by composing an English composition about the story the kid has read. In doing so it helps the kid to learn more of English words and train in writing good English composition.

All in all Mtwapa  Academy kids and teachers have special periods every day of visiting the school library so as to learn more from the school library books which has a large range of books.

For details on pictures of ‘My book buddy’ please see our picture gallery.

Finally I needed to inform you that this 3rd term, the Std 8 kids at Mtwapa Academy will be sitting for their final national examination popularly known as KCPE.The exam is supposed to commence on 29th October -1st November 2018.We therefore ask for your prayers as the kids approach the end of primary school exam. For pictures of the STD 8 kids at Mtwapa Academy,please visit our picture gallery.

From the Mtomondoni sponsorship program we’ll be having a Std 8 candidate next year 2019 i.e a girl named Mary Magdaline who is now in STD 7 and doing very well.

With that I say bye ,thanks for your support to the kids and the school and be blessed.

Yours in service, Moses Kopulo.

(Mtomondoni sponsorship program co-ordinator-Africa)


Grace.

2018-10-31

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Grace Sanita aged 22 years.Am proud to be in Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program and being one of the successful kid girl in the program. Am very much thank full to Gail and Sara who are the directors of Mtomondoni  sponsorship program through Mr.Moses who recruited me into the program in the year 2006 when I was in the lower primary i.e STD 4.For sure it’s been  a long journey of sponsorship after I first successfully completed my STD 8 and later proceeded to secondary school for 4 years and thereafter to the university where am now remaining with only 2 semesters at the university before completing my degree course. All these have happened through the help of my sponsors through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program.

The name of my university is called University of Eldoret and the degree which am studying is Bachelor of Environmental studies. Our university is one of the public universities in Kenya and was founded in the year 1946 by white settlers as a large scale farmers training centre. Our university is located in the highland of Kenya where the major economic activities of the locals are tea and dairy farming.

Generally what am studying in my degree is about studying the physical,chemical and biological conditions of the environment and it’s effects on organisms or human beings and how we can control for the betterment of the human life and animals. A good example here in Kenya was the recent ban on manufacturing, importation and distribution of plastic bags through the Kenya National Environment Management. This is because most of the traders were using plastic bags to pack food etc,unfortunately during disposal of the plastic bags they become a nuisance to the environment and also harmful to animals especially when then plastic bags are disposed in the oceans and rivers. Other environmental issue which we study are about deforestation,desertification,poaching,degraded water quality,flooding and pollution.

Hopefully when i compete my degree course early next year i hope to be employed by environmental related organisations as a nature conservative, recycling officer or an environmental education officer.

Apart from being a student also am a leader in the student union as treasurer therefore we sometimes hold inter university conferences where we do talk about important university issues. Through this it has given me confidence in public speech.

Also in our university we do have sports like rugby,football,basketball,badminton and atheletics. Lucky enough our university is situated in the ‘heart’ of leading Kenya athletes who have made Kenya proud by getting lots of gold medals internationally like in the Olympics,the recent one being the Berlin marathon and the Amsterdam marathon. Just to name a few of the Gold medallist living in Eldoret are Korir(marathon),Cherono(marathon),Kipchoge Keino(legend),Kipruto who won the Olympic 3000m steeplechase,Julius Yego (Javelin) and Hellen Obiri(3000m).

Finally I’d like to send my lots of appreciations to everyone involved in the program and more specifically to all of my sponsors who have walked with me throughout my education ever since I was I lower primary school up to the university and now that am about to graduate and start working. May the Almighty God bless you all with your families as we approach the Christmas season. Thank you

Yours loving girl,Grace.


Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program Kids updates and Mtwapa Academy National exam(KCPE) success!!!

2018-11-23

Hi! Everyone,

 I guess everyone is doing fine together with your families.All is well here in Mtwapa Kenya,it’s now 3 weeks eversince the school closed for the 3rd term. The 3rd term is normal a national exams term as we do have 2 of the major national exams which take place in the 3rd term i.e the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) for the STD 8 students and the other major exam is the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examination i.e KCSE for the form 4 kids. Good enough in our Mtomondoni sponsorship program we had 3 kids who did the KCSE marking the end of their secondary school education, these were Salwa.Abdalla and Hamisi.

Am happy to thankyou all as sponsors and well wishers of our kids program for your support towards the kids education in the program ever since we started 13 years ago!!! Am further happy to inform you that most of the kids who were recruited into the program when we started  have now either completed secondary school (form 4),college,polytechnic or are now completing their university courtesy of your support. This group of kids are now adults of which some have already started working while some are having their own families.

Here below is the updated list of kids in our program comprosing of junior category and the adult category.

List of kids in primary school 2019.

Name…………………………………….class.

1.Gail Nuru…………………………..5

2.Mary Magdaline………………..8

List of kids in secondary school 2019.

Name………………………………class

1.Asma……………………………..form 3

2.Happy…………………………….form 3

3.Alfred…………………………….form 3

4.Ibrahim………………………….form 4

5.Albert……….……………………form 4

6.Wycliff……………………………form 4

List of kids who complete form 4-(2018).

Name…………………………………class.

1.Salwa

2.Abdalla

3.Hamisi

List of kids with special needs training in vocational centres.

Name………………..training.

1.Gibson……….Jewellery making.

2.Esther………………Embroidery.

Generally list of adults’ kids who either have completed form 4 or attended college/polytechnic, university or working.

Name………………………………………….category

1.Hamisi………………………………………completed form 4

2.Abdalla……………………………………..completed form 4

3.Salwa………………………………………..completed form 4

4.Baraka Omar………………………………complete form 4

5.Loice………………………………………….completed form 4

6.Shila…………………………………………..completed form 4/attended college (Hospitality)

7.Mapenzi……………………………………..completed form 4/attended college(Teacher’s training).

8.Kabibi………………………………………..completed college/attended college(teachers’s training)

9.Timothy……………………………………..completed form 4/attended college(teaching and computer and fire fighting.

10.Shadrack……………………………………...completed form 4/attended college(teaching).

11.Mayee………………………………………completed form 4/attended college(Hospital records and IT)

12.Joseph………………………………………completed form 4/attended college(catering).

13.Lukeman………………………………….completed form 4/attended college(Motot Vehicle Maintenance and repair,driving).

14.Diego…………………………………….completed form 4/attended college(computer studies).

15.Francis………………………………….completed form 4/attended college(Electronics Engineering).

16.Teresia…………………………………..completed form 4/attended college(Hair dressing and Beauty Therapy).

17.Vidzo…………………………………….completed form 4/attended college(Computer graphics and Desighn).

18.Ben………………………………………completed form 4/attended college(Computer studies and Business Management).

19.Grace ………………………………..completed form 4/attended University(Degree in Environmental Science).

20.Magdaline………………………..dropped in secondary school and opted for business.

21.Samuel…………………………….attended Polytechnic(Computer studies).

22.Justin……………………………….attended polytechnic(Motor Vehicle and Maintenance and repair.

23.Pendo………………………………attended polytechnic(Beauty Therapy and Tailoring.

24,Zena……………………………….attended polytechnic(Tailoring and Dressmaking).

25.Zawadi……………………………..attended polytechnic(Tailoring and Dress making.

Apart from the above sponsorship,from myself and on behalf of Mtwapa Academy school I’d like to thank all the individual sponsors and schools through Gail and Sara who has helped to rebuild,equip the school and helping in teachers’ salaries fro Mtwapa Academy.Am therefore happy to inform you that due to this support,the school has made tremendous improvement in regard to the quality of education and guess what? For this year KCPE results Mtwapa Academy has be able to give out excellent results with the top most kid scoring 426 marks out of 500,the second scored 406 marks out of 500 and while the 3rd scored 386 marks out of 500.With these kind of marks the these kids will automatically join the national secondary school which are the top cream school here in Kenya! The mean of 17 candidates who sat for the KCPE  was 320 making all the kid who sat for the exam get good government schools.

Finally as we approach the Christmas festivals I’d like to send my message of appreciation to everyone involved in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program and to my Director Gail and Sara who have brought about the success of the program and with that I want to wish you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you,

Regards,

Moses (Sponsorship Coordinator-Africa).


Hello everyone at Babington and Lancaster schools with lots of thank from Mtwapa,Kenya!!!!!!!!!!

2018-11-27

Hi! Everyone,

Much greetings from us here in Mtwapa,Kenya. Hoping that everyone at both schools is doing well, us too. It was great to hear of the good news in regard to your intention and need to sponsor 3 kids from Mtwapa Academy. We all received the good news with lots of happiness as the number of sponsored kids at Mtwapa Academy under the Mtomondoni sponsorship program had reduced to only 2 kids while the rest are in secondary school,colleges,polytechnics and university. So your idea of recruiting new young kids at Mtwapa Academy is a very big boost to Mtwapa Academy,i further think the idea is like a rebirth of the Mtomondoni sponsorship program as young recruits are again getting back into the program to learn and get quality education and replacing the adult kids.

Please be informed that the school Director at Mtwapa Academy madam Rahab has also received on the good news in regard to the new sponsored kids and has also sent her message of appreciations to you all!!! She further hopes that more kids from the school will get sponsorship as many are struggling to pay their school fees. All in all she's happy with the first 3 recruits who will soon join the program.

Here below are the names of the new kids who have been selected for the sponsorship under the care of Babington and Lancaster schools;-

Name of kid.........................Sex.........class 2018.................class 2019.............Age.

1.Ian Ismail............................Boy............STD 2...........................STD 3.................8 years.

2. Mwanatumu Hassan..........Girl............KG2/PP1.....................KG3/PP2..............5 years.

3.Alice Kadzo..........................Girl............STD 2..........................STD 3...................7 years.

Am happy to inform you all that, today i have posted a website report for the above 3 kids  i.e Ian Ismail. Tomorrow i'll be doing the 2nd entry of the 2nd recruit i.e Mwanatumu Hassan. Finally on Thursday i'll be doing the 3rd journal entry for the 3rd recruit i.e Alice Kadzo.

Please also visit our picture gallery for the new recruits’ pictures in every journal entry. With that i say, bye and thank you all for your support towards the kids’ education, be blessed.

Regards,

Moses Kopulo (Sponsorship coordinator-Africa).


Ian Ismail

2018-11-27

Hi! Everyone at Babington and Lancaster schools-England.

Ian Ismail is a boy aged 8 years and a Muslim and now in Std 2 (Grade 2),next year he'll be in Std 3(Grade 3) at Mtwapa Academy. Ian teacher is called madam Lynette. In Std 2 Ian learns the following subjects;-Science, Kiswahili, Social Studies, Islamic Religious Education (I.R.E), Mathematics, English and Computer.

Ian lives near Mtwapa Academy about 200 meters from the school. He lives with his mother named Furaha aged 29 years old, grandmother aged 58 years old, and great grandmother cousin sisters and an uncle. In general, apart from the mentioned family members, Ian's family is an extended family comprising of 4 aunts who are sisters to his mother, uncles who are brothers to his mother. However the other 4 aunts are married while for the 2 uncles one in married while the other is still at secondary school.

Ian's mother is a single mother who earns a living through some scale business of selling fruits juices and cooking food. For the fruit juices she sells passion and orange juices while for the food she cooks Chapati, beans, rice etc. However Ian's mother income is very low to a point where she is unable to pay for her son's(Ian)school fees and at the same time look after her aging mother and great grandmother apart from taking care of Ian's cousin sisters and the uncle who is still in secondary school.

Unfortunately Ian's grandfather who had 7 kids and who was taking take of the entire extended family passed away in the year 2002 the grandfather was working with the Ministry of Agriculture. Due to that all the responsibilities of taking care of the extended family was left to Ian's grandmother who by then was a housewife. As a result it further made Ian's mother not to be able to further her education making her stay back home and start doing some small scale business so as to help her widowed mother. Later on Ian's mother gave birth to Ian. Here below are thank you quotes from Ian's mother and grandmother.

'Am happy soo much with many thanks and gratefulness to hearing that my son Ian is being sponsored!!!'from Ian's mother. 'I want to send many thanks and blessings to Ian's sponsors, it’s like God has remembered us after struggling for soo long' from Ian's grandmother.

 Ian is very hardworking boy at school as he always wakes up at 6.00am,brush his teeth, take shower, take his breakfast i.e tea with bread ,after that put on his school uniform and then go to school by 6.30 am which is a walking distance to Mtwapa Academy.

For this just ended 3rd term which was between September-end of October,Ian scored the following marks;-

Subject..........................Marks obtained.................out of 100 percent.

1.English...............................98..........................................100

2.Kiswahili...........................100..........................................100

3.Mathematics.....................96............................................100

4.Science...............................98...........................................100

5.Social Studies....................100...........................................100

 Total marks obtained..........492.......................................500

Ian's favorite food is 'ugali with cabbage' and Rice with beans.

Ian's favorite colour is yellow while his favorite game is rolling down old car tyres.

Ian's friend names are Cyril and Mulili who are both boys too, he loves them because they are good friends who also play together and also perform well in class.

For his future career, Ian would like to be a doctor. Finally to Gail and Sara and all of Ian's sponsored whether at Babington or Lancaster schools, from me and on behalf of Ian's mother, grandmother and the great grandmother want to say thank you to you all and lots of blessings too.

With regards,

from,

Moses(Sponsorship co-ordinator-Africa).


Alice-New Kids recruit.

2018-12-07

Alice Kadzo is Christian girl aged 7 years and learning at Mtwapa Academy in STD 2 next year she’ll be in STD 3.

Alice live with her single mother called Joyce who is 29 years old and with her elder brother called Baya who is in STD 5  and next year he’ll be STD Alice mother works as a tailor in one of the Export Processing Zone (EPZ) companies. Unfortunately Alice father passed away in the year 2016 due to a motorbike accident, before his death Alice father was a carpenter and a metal joiner. As a result Alice mother was left with the responsibility of taking care of Alice and his brother and this is the reason why Alice needs sponsorship.

Alive favorite subject is Mathematics, however she does the other subjects like Kiswahili,English,Social Studies, Science and C.R.E.In future Alice would like to be a surgeon.

For her favorite food she loves Rice with Beans while for her favorite game she loves ‘skipping rope’. Alice friends at school are called Holliness and Oscar. Alice is a very hardworking girl as she wakes up at 5.00am every school day and start preparing for school as she lives about 800 metres from the school. She likes taking tea with bread in the morning.

For her progress report at school, for this 3rd term Alice scored the following marks;-

Subject…………………………marks obtained……………………………..out of 100 percent.

1.English……………………………..99…………………………………………………100

2.Kiswahili………………………….100……………………………………………….100

3.Maths…………………………….100…………………………………................100

4.Social Studies………………….100………………………………………………….100

5.Science……………………………100………………………………………………...100

 Total marks obtained…………499………………………………………….500

Finally both Alice and her mother are happy to receive the good news of the sponsorship and are sending lots of greetings and thanks to the sponsors.

With that I say ‘kwaheri’

Lots of love,

From,

Moses.


Mwanatumu-New kids recruit.

2018-12-07

Mwanatumu Hassan a Muslim girl aged 5 years old. She is in KG 1 also called PP1 i.e Pre-Primary school at Mtwapa Academy, next year she will join KG 2 (PP2).

Mwanatumu lives with her mother, her elder sister, her cousin sister, her father, grandmother and grandfather. Her mother’s name is called Saida while the father is called Hassan. The name of Mtwanatumu’s grandmother is called Tatu while the grandfather is called Ramadhan.They all live within Mtomondoni about 400 metres from Mtwapa Academy. Mwanatumu’s mother does some small scale business of frying ‘samosa’ and potatoes for her daily income.

The father Mr.Hassan used to work in the hotel industry some time back but unfortunately he stopped working as the hotel where he used to work ran bankrupt due to decrease in number of tourists in their hotel. As a result it made Mwanatumu’s mother to be the only ‘bread winner’ in the family in taking care of her entire family including paying for Mwanatumu’s school fees.

Unfortunately Mwanatumu’s mother income is very low from her sale of ‘samosa’ and potatoes. Apart from taking care of Mwanatumu school fees, the mother also takes care of Mwanatumu elder sister who is in STD 6 at Mtomondoni Primary school (a government school in Mtomondoni village) and also takes care of her sister’s kid who is in STD 4 also at Mtomondoni Primary school apart from taking care of the grandmother and and father.

Due to the above family situations,Mwanatumu’s mother has been struggling to pay for her daughters school fees at Mtwapa Academy and thus there had been a need for sponsorship.

Mwanatumu’s favorite game is a ‘Teacher game’ In this game Mwanatumu gathers her village friends and she Mwanatumu will pretend to be a teacher while her friends are students!!! As a result it has made Mwanatumu to want to be a teacher in future.

Her favorite subject is English while her favorite color is pink. For her food she loves ‘ugali’ with cabbage and also rice with beans.

Mwanatumu is a very hard working girl as she wakes up at 6.00am every school day and start preparing herself then take her breakfast i.e tea with ‘mahamri’ or chapati before going to school.

While at school Mwanatumu’s friends are called Zulekha and Abigail as they all like playing together.

During the end of this 3rd term,Mwanatumu scored the following marks;-

Subject……………………………Marks obtained……………………out of

1. Number work………………….98………………………………………..100

2. Language………………………..90…………………………………………100

3. Oral…………………………………48…………………………………………50

4. Reading……………………………..50………………………………………50

5. Environment………………………76…………………………………….100

6. Creative Activities………………96……………………………………..100

Total marks obtained…………458……………………………………..500

Finally both of Mtwanatumu’s parents and grandparents all send their appreciations to all of Mwanatumu’s sponsors.

With that I say, bye, I’ll tomorrow be doing the final post of the 3 new kids.

Regards,

Moses Kopulo (Sponsorship co-ordinator,Africa).


Christmas 2018 food supply,thank you everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2019-01-05

Hi! Everyone,

Merry Christmas to all,

Hope you all had a happy Xmas time with your families us too. Well just needed to send my many many thanks to each and every one of you for making the just ended last year 2018 Christmas  here in Africa a  great success. From myself and on behalf of the kids and  parents of the Mtomondoni sponsorship program send our appreciations to every one of you for your kind donations towards the Christmas food supply  packages and shopping which the kids got and shopped, be blessed. The food items included maize flour, wheat flour, sugar, rice, beans, cooking oil, salt and onions which are the most basic food supply most needed among our Kenyan families.

The food supply was in 3 categories first category was a 1 week supply which has a value of Kshs.2,245/=,the kids who received in this category are Esther,Albert,Alfred,IbrahimMagdaline,Baby Gail,Mary Magdaline,Mapenzi,Ben,Asma,Shila,Timothy,Salwa.Apart from the kids who received a 1 week food supply was Rahab(Mtwapa Academy Director) and Moses. Second category was a 2 weeks supply which has a value of Kshs.4,465/=, the kids who received in this category are Gibson,Happy and the Benson’s family. Third category was 3 weeks food supply which had both a  1 week supply and a 2 weeks food supply and was received by Abdalla. The last category was a 1 month supply which has a value of Kshs.8,980/= which was received by Teresia.

Apart from the food supply as above, there are some few kids who further had more Christmas gifts by doing a Christmas shopping for their personal item choices. For the shopping the following kids were taken by Moses to the nearest supermarket i.e Mtwapa Tuskys where they enjoyed doing some shopping courtesy of their donators. Here below is the kids list who benefited from the shopping, Happy courtesy of Paula Burton who had sent for Happy Kshs.650/=,Gibson courtesy of Paula Burton who had sent for Gibson Kshs.650/=,Albert courtesy of Lorraine who had sent for Albert Kshs.650/=,Samuel Benson courtesy of Lynn Wann who had sent for Samuel Kshs.3,000/=,Wycliffe Benson courtesy of Val Murphy who had sent for Wycliffe Kshs.650/=,Alfred courtesy of Gerald Trevor who had sent for Alfred Kshs.1,250/=,Pendo Benson courtesy of Lynn Wann who had sent for Pendo Kshs.3,000/=.Finally in this category was Justin who only received cash of Kshs.2,400/= courtesy of Sara Fletcher.

However needed to inform you that there are two kids i.e Alfred and Shila who are yet to receive their Christmas gifts as they had travelled afar before Christmas so as to visit some of their relatives and are yet to arrive, soon they arrive they’ll have their gifts. Thanks.

Also from myself and family and on behalf of all the kids and parents from the Mtomondoni sponsorship program want to send many and more thanks to Gail and Sara for their hard work and coordination  with all the sponsors and donators who have all together made last year 2018 Christmas a success!!!!

As we celebrate this New Year 2019, I’d like to wish you all a Happy and prosperous New Year 2019.

Please also see more thanks messages from our kids here in Africa.

Regards,

Moses Kopulo (Sponsorship Coordinator-Africa).


From Gibson to Paula!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2019-01-05

Hey Paula Burton,

Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!! Hope you are doing great with your family. I really want to appreciate for the food and also to thank you for my Christmas gift shopping. For the shopping I bought items like petroleum jelly, milk,washing powder and cloth pegs. May God shower you with blessings and may you also enjoy this festive season .Also may God bless you abundantly and continue with the same spirit. Finally am wishing you a prosperous 2019!!!!!!

Yours sincerely,

Gibson.


From Happy to Paula Burton!!!!!!!

2019-01-05

Dear Paula,

Hi!  I hope you are fine with your family and parents. Am saying thanks for what you have done to me.Am very happy that we have celebrated happy Christmas which was smart and enjoyable!!! We really enjoyed very much after receiving the food and gift from you Paula!!!

In our family we slaughtered a goat and we prepared mutton pilau  with the rice which I received as food from you which was really delicious!!! which I enjoyed eating until I overeat!!!! We then later went to the beach with my family and friends.

This New Year 2019 I will be turning 18 years old and I will be celebrating my birthday before the end of this month of January.

For the Christmas gift shopping I bought the following things, Vaseline skin lotion, facial cream, hair food and sanitary pads. Finally I want to wish you all the bet in your work and have HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019!!!!!!

Yours faithfully,

Happy.


From Esther to the Heggs family!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2019-01-05

Hello my parents Jane and John Heggs!!!!!!

How are you as it’s been many days ever since we met? Am fine plus with my brothers, sisters and my mother. I hope you are also doing well. How is your place there? Here at Mombasa is now very hot and the temperatures are very high.

My mother also says that she is very grateful for the food which you sent for me through the program for the Xmas.We are really thankful as we did not have enough as food for the Christmas and through your donation we were able to have enough food and so we were able to eat well together with our friends from church.

Now also I want to wish you all a happy and prosperous New Year 2019 and may you live long and healthy!!! I hope you will again come to Kenya and bring for me presents like the other time when we ate pizza with my mother and your family.

I will love you always and remember you. You have done so much for me and have made me happy and good progress in my education, now I can make mats i.e bedside rugs.

I love you all,

From,Esther.


From Albert to Lorraine!!!!!!!!!!!

2019-01-05

Dear Lorraine,

Hello!!! Hope you are doing great in your country. My family and I are also doing great. In my studies am trying my very best to achieve my goal by working hard and smart as I believe it’s the only way to success In life.

We are now in our festive season where we are all coming together and celebrate. I just want to let you know that am happy to receive the Christmas gifts which you sent to me and further want to wish you a happy New Year 2019.Thank you Lorraine for the great support you have for me in terms of school fees and the presents For the Christmas.

I think this Christmas was the best Christmas I have ever had, I just wanna thank you for the shopping that I did in the supermarket. Actually it was fun selecting what I wanted, I really enjoyed the moment while at the supermarket where I bought items like, fruit squashes,noodles,beef flavours,fresh milk and biscuits.

My family also is very much thankful for the kind of heart you’ve got for me.May God bless you and be with you in everything you do with your kind heart.

Wishing you a HAPPY New Year!!! May God help you and protect you towards everything you do.

Yours faithfully,

Albert.


From the Benson's family to Lynn Wann and Val Murphy!!!!!!!!

2019-01-05

Dear Lynn Wann and Val Murphy,

It’s our great hope that you are fine with your family in England. We are also going on well here in Kenya. The main reason of writing this letter is to thank you for the food that you sent over to our family through Mr.Moses and which we well received. We appreciate the kind of support which we’ve been receiving from you to our family, we really thank you for that. How did you celebrate your Christmas? Our uncles came to visit us and later went out with them for a family outing where we went to the beach. From the food package we had received from you our mother prepared for us very delicious food i.e pilau after that we went to the beach.

May the Lord God bless you plus your family and we finally wish you a prosperous New Year 2019!!!!

Lots of love from,

Wycliffe on behalf of,

The Benson’s family.


From Teresia to Allan Frost!!!!!!

2019-01-05

Hello Allan,           

How have you been doing since I last wrote to you? I hope by the grace of God you are doing fine. Any way the purpose for writing this letter is to thank you for the Christmas presents you sent for me.

Am glad I received them and Moses took some photos which I hope you’ll be able to see my latest photos. In addition I thought it would be nice to let you know how am getting on. I thank God am fine and now got a job here in Mtwapa,it’s not far from where I stay and I enjoy it a lot.

I pray to God that He continues to give you strength and good health as we get into the New Year 2019.Once gain I say thank you for your support ad your helping hand towards my education, may you be blessed for that. This is what I have for today, may you have a nice holiday back in your country.

Yours sponsored child,

Teresia.


From Abdalla to Shirley and Clive Kidd!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2019-01-05

Hi! Shirley and Clive Kidd,

 How are you? It’s my great hope that you are fine, am also fine too with my family. Am so glad to have this opportunity to say thanks for the food that you provided for us. Actually we were in the middle of nowhere as we had no enough food and thank God for sending over the food to us. My family and I are joining hands to give lots of thanks to both of you during this Christmas time. On the Christmas day we went to church where we had a church service. Apart from the church service we had church youth drama where it was about the birth of Jesus Christ also we did lots of singing praising God. For sure we enjoyed the Christmas really well and we were so glad.

Thank you for your support on all what you’ve done to me and my life ever since I was a child,may God bless you abundantly and continue to give you good health and reward you.

Yours faithfully son,

Abdalla.


From Magdaline to Gail!!!!!!!!!!!

2019-01-05

Dear Gail,

Merry Christmas!!!!!!! And a happy New Year 2019!!!!!!!!! How are you doing? It’s my hope that you are fine and just pushing on well with the life battle.

How is everyone there. Am fine with my son and just thanking God for his strength and life which He has given unto us. I really miss you soo much,I also miss visiting England again!!!

Let me thank you for the presents which Moses gave to me from you, for sure I had a very nice Christmas and I wish the New Year will be good also. Mine is to appreciate the kind of love you have for me and my son as you have helped us soo much. May God bless the work of your hands and give you a long life.

Say hi to everyone at home and all of your friends. Wishing you a happy New Year 2019!!!!!!!

Yours,Magdaline.


From Mary Magdaline to Yvonne Pitt and Vicky!!!!!!!!!!!!

2019-01-05

Hello Yvonne Pitt and Vicky,

It’s with great joy that I write this letter to you. How is you and the rest of the family members? I hope they are all fine. Am also fine with my family members and I thank God for that.

Am particularly writing this letter to thank both of you for everything which you have done for me and my family. I really thank you for the food with the chicken. It was very good and I liked it so much.

For now there isn’t much to write but to than you. Please pass my sincere greetings to the rest of your families. Thank you once gain and may God bless you all.

Yours faithfully,              

Mary Magdaline.


From Mapenzi to Yvonne Pitt!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2019-01-05

Dear Yvonne Pitt,

 It’s my great pleasure if you are fine, likewise to me and my family. In our country Kenya everything is going on well.

I take this golden opportunity to thank you for the marvelous thing that you did to me!!! Thank you Yvonne for the Christmas presents. The rice which I got from the Christmas food package I used to cook some chicken pilau.I was very happy to receive the gift and may you continue with the same spirit and the Lord Almighty bless the work of your hands. You are one in a million that have got kind hearts.

Please receive greetings from my family and I. We love you so much and wish you a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year!!!!

Yours loving friend,

Mapenzi.


From Ben to Sara!!!!!!!!!!

2019-01-05

Dear Sara,

 Hi! How are you?

 Hope you are doing well and Gail. My family and I are fine too.

My sister Nelly is now going to form 2 next year. She is hoping to finish soon and joining college too. She has grown very fast and she is taller than me.

Thanks for the Christmas gifts that you sent over for me.We cooked some on Christmas and we also carried food to the beach where I took my sister for swimming that day, she really enjoyed that day. The food meant a lot to me and it was very helpful to us.

Say hi to Gal and the pet

Yours faithfully,

Ben.                   


From Asma to Yvonne Pitt!!!!!!!!!!!

2019-01-05

Dear Yvonne,

How are you?  I hope you are fine. How is you family doing? How is England? Hope all is well. How is the weather over there? here in Kenya it’s very hot.

Thank you for remembering me during this Christmas by giving me Christmas presents, although am a Muslim but am happy to tell you that I have celebrate the Christmas just like you!!! And am happy for that and being soo lovely to me. Me and my mother cooked delicious food and just wished you could be here with us so as we eat together.

May God bless you and your family.Am very happy for you even though we have not yet met and we only know each other by name but I hope we’ll one day see each other.

Wishing you a happy New year and a happy holiday with millions of greetings from myself and family.Thank you once again.

Yours faithfull,

Asma.


From Timothy to Gerald Trevor!!!!!!!!!!

2019-01-05

Hello Gerald,

Merry Christmas!!!!!!!  And happy New Year 2019!!!! My name is Timothy of Mtomondoni sponsorship program. Am joyful and happy during this festive season that you sacrificed you Xmas budget for me too and my family. It’s a great privilege that you were part of my family’s happy moments.

Please receive my family hearty greetings,hoping that you too have the best cheerful lifetime as we enter for the New Year 2019. Indeed it’s time I say a BIG THANKS for the Xmas food package that you happily shared with us here in Kenya. May this same blessings be showered to you abundantly.

You are also welcomed to our beautiful country Kenya,hoping that one day you’ll make a visit. I wish you well and please pass my Christmas greetings to your family at large. May God bless you.

Yours faithfully,

Timothy.


From Salwa to Vicky,Sara and Gail!!!!!!!!!

2019-01-05

 Dear Vicky,Sara and Gail,

How are you?I hope you are fine.Am also doing fine here with my family. Am writing this letter to thank you for the Christmas food,we cooked ‘ beef biriani’ with my family and all really enjoyed!!! Thank you soo much and may God bless you.

Have a blessed and prosperous New Year!!!

Yours faithfully.

Salwa.


From Rahab(Director Mtwapa Academy) to Gail,Sara and Vicky!!!!!!!!

2019-01-05

Jambo Gail,Sara and Vicky,

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2019!!! How have you been since we last met in 2014 at your house in England? I hope your fine .To my side am doing well together with my family, we are still on holiday though we are opening on 3rd January 2019 which is just next week.

Am really great full for the gift of Christmas treat you sent to me through Mr.Moses,it was like a surprise to me and my family. We really enjoyed the chicken for it was delicious as we cooked chapatti and rice. Thank you soo much for remembering me a time like this!!! May the Lord bless you BIG in a special way.

This year we did the national examination and we had a mean score of 307.9 marks out of 500 marks, am happy that we are still coming up to our original position of well performing school come 2019. In this coming year we want to do better that what we’ve done this year.

Kind regards to your family and friends. Bye for now and wish you all the very best in 2019 with lots of love,

From,

Rahab.


From Justin to Sara!!!!!!!!

2019-01-05

Dear Sara,

Hello Sara!!!! How are you doing there in England with your family? It’s my pleasure that you and your family are doing good. My family and I are all ok having celebrated the Christmas peacefully. How was your Christmas day?

The reason to why I have written this letter is to thank you and the entire program and your kind heart towards my successs.Having closed last year 2018 and now in the New Year 2019,we are expecting to do a lot here in school this year. I also thank you with my family for the Christmas present that you sent to us through Mr.Moses Kopulo and we all appreciate you and the entire program. Therefore take this chance to thank you for the money that you sent over to me i.e Kshs.2,400/=.I got the money from Moses and am great full towards it. I say thank you and once gain I say thank you for everything you did to me and my family, I  therefore wish you a prosperous happy New year. May God bless you and the work of your hands, pass my greetings to Gail and family.

Lots of love,

From,

Justin Benson.


From Samuel to Lynn Wann!!!!!!!!!!

2019-01-05

Dear Lynn,

How are you there in England, it’s my great hope that you are fine there in England together with your family.Am fine too here in Kenya and going on well, I just want to thank you for your kindness towards me and I really appreciate for sending over money for me so that I can do some shopping. I went shopping and bought things like, plastic chair, washing powder, maize flour, toothpaste, cooking oil, body lotion,sugar,blue band etc. I really thank you and may the  Lord God bless you. I really enjoyed the food which you also gave us for Christmas. What about you? How did you spend your Christmas? It’s my hope that you enjoyed.

I wish you a Happy New Year 2019!

Lots of love from Samuel Benson.


From Wycliffe to Val Murphy!!!!!!!!!!!!

2019-01-05

Dear Val Murphy,

How are you with your family there in England? I hope that you are going on well, we are also fine here in Kenya. Am going on well with my studies. The aim of writing this letter is to thank you for the money you sent to me, I really appreciate your kind support unto me,I went shopping and bought things like youghurt,cakes,toothpaste,washing powder and body lotion. The things which I bought from the supermarket will help me into the beginning of next year.The Christmas party was very nice that we enjoyed ourselves. Receive greetings from my family. How did you spend your Christmas?

 May the Lord God bless you and wishing you a happy New year 2019!

Love from your sponsored child,

Wycliffe Benson.


From Pendo to Lynn Wann!!!!!!!!!

2019-01-05

Dear Lynn Wann,

How are you? Receive greetings together from my family. We are all fine. How about you? I say thanks for what you have done to me,I went to the supermarket and bought what it was good for me like,fruit squashes, baking flour, maize flour,spaghetti,cakes,biscuits,green gramas,rice,sanitary pads, petroleum jelly,sugar,toothpaste,moisturizer etc.

Greet for me your family, friends and relatives, I really miss you all. I celebrated well Merry Christmas, how about you?i pray to God this coming new year to be joyful and blessed celebration. May god bless the work of your hands. Say thank you very much. May you be blessed celebrate well the New year.

Receive with joy from Pendo Benson.      


From Ibrahim to Yvonne Pitt.

2019-01-05

Hello Yvonne Pitt,

Hopefully you’re doing well with your family. Thanks God am doing great with my family. The schools opened this week on Thursday 3rd after the long Christmas holiday and now happy to be joining a new class, form 4 which is the last class in secondary school.

 I would like to thank you for everything you did to me over the festive season especially with the Christmas food supply, which we were very happy to receive, we therefore pray for you and your family for the gift from you, we enjoyed the food.

Anyway how was the festive season over there, hope you celebrated it very nicely. Here in Kenya,Mtwapa it was fun with lots of fireworks during the midnight!!!!!! I guess in England it was more fun!

Lastly thanks once again because I will always pray for you and send my regards to you and your family. Hope one day you will come to Kenya and so as we can meet.

Yours faithfully,

Ibrahim.


From baby Gail to Gail,

2019-01-05

Hello Gail,

How are you? I hope you are fine, us we are fine too. Thank you for the Christmas presents you gave for me, may God bless you. My mother cooked for us some chapati and rice stew from the food which you gave to me.

During the Christmas holiday I went to visit my aunt who lives in Kilifi and I stayed there until after Christmas. While at my aunt’s place I helped her to do some house work like washing of dishes and sweeping the house. When my aunt comes from work she used to buy some cakes for me which I really enjoyed.

This year i’ve joined STD 5 after being promoted to go to the next class after we did the end of term examination last term., Am happy to be in a new class and good that I have moved with my friends who I was with them I n STD 4.

This year I want to work hard in school so that I get good marks when I reach STD 8.

Thank you for continuing to sponsor me and may God bless you.

Bye bye,

From,

Baby Gail.


Thank you Babington school England for the new footballs with love from Mtwapa Academy,Kenya,Africa!

2019-01-16

Hello everyone at Babington!!!

Happy New Year 2019!!! It’s with great pleasure and happiness to send over my New Year greetings to everyone of you at Babington. The schools are now reopened for the 1st term here in Kenya after the long Christmas holiday and am happy to inform you that all of our kids are back to school.

Thank you soo much Babington school for the footballs donation to Mtwapa Academy here in Kenya. Personally I feel the partnership and friendship between Babington School, England and Mtwapa Academy has been of a blessing to us. I was very happy to receive the new footballs from Babington School through Sara and Gail which were further handed over to me by Mr. Moses who has been very well co-coordinating our entire school program with you all. Also am happy to tell you that all the teachers and kids at the school were all happy to receive the new footballs.

May God bless you all for such a great support to our school. Happy New Year once again with lots of love from,

Rahab (Mtwapa Academy Director-Kenya, Africa).


Thank you to Babington,school England!!!! Message from the Head Teacher,Mtwapa Academy,Kenya.

2019-01-16

HI! Everyone,

Happy New Year everyone at Babington!!! My name is Mr. Simon Baya, the head teacher at Mtwapa Academy, Kenya.I would like to send my appreciations and many many thanks for the great assistance of the new footballs donation to our school. Actually the receiving of the new footballs is like a dream come true and in another way like God has answered our prayers.

Actually we’ve been longing to have such kind of games facility but unfortunately we had not yet got. Previously we’ve been paying what is called activity fund to the County Education Office. This fund is a mandatory fund which every school is supposed to pay annually in order to be allowed to participate in all the County schools games. Unfortunately if the school fails to participate in the County schools games due to reasons like lack of games facility then automatically the activity is unused and in a way becomes a loss to the school.

Therefore your donation of the new footballs to our school will heal the above said problem and I believe very soon Mtwapa Academy will soon be ranked among the best school in sports in our Kilifi County.

From myself, and on behalf of all the teachers and kids at  Mtwapa Academy want to send our lots of thanks for the great gift to our school. Wishing you well in everything you do with regards,

From,

Mr.Simon Baya (Headteacher, Mtwapa Academy).


from Albert to Mike Wann with thanks!!!!!!!!!

2019-02-05

Dear Mike Wann.

 Hello! Mike, Hope you are doing great with your family. My family and I are also doing fine. In my studies am putting efforts so as to do perform well in my final secondary school exam. Am now a candidate i.e form 4 and am working hard so that by the end of this year I may succed.It’s my hope am going to make it.

Thank you for your support and may God bless you in everything you do. I really enjoyed my Christmas it really gave us good memories with my family. We celebrated it with my relatives at my grandmother’s place where we all came together and had fun. We cooked different types of meals and we enjoyed working together as a family preparing the Christmas food. Hope you and your family had a good Christmas.

Am really happy for your gifts of the food supply meant for Christmas, my family including my parents, brothers and sisters are all happy and have sent their many thanks to you Mike. I just wanna wish you a happy New Year! Be blessed.

Yours faithfully kid,

Albert.


from Alfred to Gerald Trevor with thanks !!!!!!!!

2019-02-05

Hi! Gerald,

Happy New Year 2019!!! Hope you ushered in well the New Year together with your family, we too.

However myself,my son Alfred and his elder sister Phylis all travelled during the Christmas holiday to the far highland of Kenya so as to visit my parents who are also grandparents to Alfred and Phyllis. We had therefore had to spend the entire Christmas holiday plus the New Year’s 1st week together with my extended family in the highlands.

Since Alfred’s school is near his grandparents homestead, soon after New Year Alfred had to prepare himself to go back to school and was therefore unable to get back to Mombasa.

Due to the above situation, Alfred was unable to collect his Christmas food supply on time when Phyllis who is Alfred’s sister collected the food on Alfred’s behalf. I therefore want to thank you soo much Gerald for your kind heart and donation towards the X-mas food. I further want to thank you for your continued support to wards my son Alfred’s education, may the Almighty God bless you.

Briefly Alfred is now in the 3rd year in his secondary school education i.e form 3 is working very hard in school and has been among the good performing students.

Alfred school is very far from Mombasa and I therefore do travel so as to visit him. How has been your family Gerald? Where did you spend your Christmas holiday?

Finally I’d want to say thank you once gain for everything and all what you are doing to Alfred and our family in general.

Your loving,Alfred’s mother.

Mercy


from Shiela to Yvonne with thanks!!!!!!!!!

2019-02-05

Hi! Yvonne,

 Happy New Year!!! My name is Shiela aged 22 years. First of all, I want to say thank you for the food donation to me which am very happy to receive. Am also happy to know that you are my friend. Am further proud to continue to be among the sponsored kids in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program and all the education support you are giving to the program.

After my completion of my secondary school, I joined a college in Hospitality where I’ve been doing a certificate course in catering and hospitality. However I’ll be proceeding to a higher level of my previous course. Meanwhile am intending to open up a small business food and catering where I’ll be selling chips, sausages, sodas, omelets and water. From the profit of this business I’ll be adding to the money which am receiving from the sponsorship program so as I can be able to pursue my high level course in Hospitality and catering.

Yvonne, I’ll be happy if you would one day send over to me through Mr.Moses your photo so as I can see your face.

During Christmas I went to visit my cousin sister where we later went to the beach and took some family photos with my cousin and her two kids. Before that we cooked beef biriani,chips and beans.

During New Year, I further travelled to visit my grandmother who live very far away from where I current live in Likoni which is in the south coast of Mombasa. Reaching at my grandparents’ home I met with my uncles, aunts, my cousins and friends where we all celebrated together. On that New Year my uncles slaughtered a goat and prepared and cooked mutton pilau and barbeque with ugali.

Thanks once gain for the food and I’ll take some of the food to my grandmother so as I can share with her as I love her soo much.

Yours loving girl,

Shiela.


Mtomondoni Sponsorship program new kids at Mtwapa Academy!!!!!!!!!!!!

2019-03-24

Hello Brian Radesk,Sara,Jane Ashman,Peter Sutton, Bradbury family and from Jonathon Cox Brown from Eversholt.

It’s my sincere hope that everyone ids doing fine with your families. Am happy to inform you that our new kids in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program i.e Imu,Mercy and Amos started their school last week at Mtwapa Academy.Imu was admitted in PP1 equivalent to KG 1,Amos was admitted in PP1 B also equivalent to KG 1 but abit lower while Mercy was admitted into baby class.

Generally, since they were new into the school having come from their village homes the kids were at first nervous in their new classes but good enough, they were able to get used to the school, their classmates and teachers and now happy at school.

In regard to Mercy aged 3 years she’s catching up with her class activities like singing and colouring. Also, Mercy is attentive in class and enjoys taking her lunch.

In terms of Amos aged 4 years, he is now able to join letters and numbers, his class teacher says that once Amos understands anything in class, he does it very actively.

For Imu aged 8 years he can copy and write and settled. Above all his class teacher says that she intends to do for Imu some extra coaching so as he can be at per with his classmates in terms of class work and stardard.

I therefore believe as all the above kids continue to settle in school they’ll be able to improve.

There parents are happy too as their kids are getting used to school.

Please check on the picture gallery for the kids pictures which were taken while in school in Mtwapa Academy.

With that I say,thank you t all of you as sponsors for your kind and generous support to the kids above,be blessed.

Regards,

Moses Kopulo (Sponsorship co-ordinator-Africa).


Mercy

2019-04-07

HI! Jane Ashman,Peter Sutton and the Bradbury family.

‘My name is Elizabeth, aged 28 years and the mother to my lovely daughter Mercy whom you sponsor through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. I want to first thank you soo much for sponsoring my daughter Mercy to go to school. To me I feel like a dream come true since I’ve been praying for at least one of my kids to be sponsored and thanks God and through you all, my daughter Mercy is able to go to school. Due to my happiness I’ve been giving testimony of thankfulness to my church in the village and everyone in our church is happy to hear of the good news of Mercy’s sponsorship.

Mercy who is 3 years old is the 7th born with other 6 siblings i.e 3 boys and 3 girls. Their father is called Joseph who works as a building and construction worker. Unfortunately his work is seasonal and of low paying, due to this we sometimes have difficulties in taking care of our seven kids in terms of food, housing and education. Good enough you as sponsors have given us a big relief to this situation by sponsoring Mercy in her education.

Generally Mercy is a very charming girl and very social to everyone. She loves going to school and while at home she likes singing and sometimes like teaching her father on how to sing her school songs. Am soo happy to see my daughter Mercy being able to count, say some English greetings like how are you? Am fine etc. Mercy has also very good appetite to food and loves taking rice with beans, chapatti with beans and fried potatoes. Her favorite games are dancing games and she loves dancing very much!

Finally from myself and on behalf of her father, we want to  send our lots of appreciations and thanks for the great support you’ve made to our daughter and may God bless you all with your families’.

Regards,

From,

Elizabeth.

(Mercy’s mother).


Imu-new kid

2019-04-14

Hi! Jonathon Cox Brown from Eversholt,

‘My name is Chizi,aged 42 years old and the mother to Imu whom you are sponsoring. First and foremost, I want to take this time to thank you all for sponsoring my kid Imu.Actually the sponsorship has come to be a blessing to us as a family as we’ve be struggling very much so as to earn a living as most of the times we are struggling to get food for my kids and even beddings like buying of mattresses, chairs and tables. For my daily work activities I do some freelance work like doing some laundry work to people at a small fee, playing traditional dancing though I have now started to do some fish mongering business where I buy fish and then fry and sell to my neighbors at a small profit. My mother  who is also the grandmother to Imu also assist me in taking care of the kids, however both of our incomes are very low which make it difficult for the kids at home to go to school.

Imu who is 8 years old loves going to school, normal he wakes up early in the morning at 6.00am, prepare himself, take breakfast which is mostly black tea and some ‘mahamri’ Swahili snacks there after that  Imu goes to school. I normal escort Imu to school in the morning then I go pick him up in the evening at 4.30pm  when they’ve finished their school day.Imu’s siblings 7 i.e  Hamisi,Faiza,Riziki,Amina,Hassan,Zuberi and Tima.

Finally as a mother I was to send my appreciations to you all sponsors and may God bless you.

From,

Chizi (Imu’s mother).’

Here are some few words from Imu himself.;-

‘My name is Imu and In PP1 at Mtwapa Academy school. My class teacher is called madam Rose. I love going to school very much. When I finish up my studies I’d like to be a policeman. My favorite game is football. At school I love all the subjects but above all what I enjoy most is English language. At school I have now got new friends who are Joshua and Peter. Also at home and especially now that we are on holiday, I like also playing football with my friends. Thank you for sponsoring me.

Yours loving kid,

Imu’.


Amos

2019-04-29

Hello Brian Radesk and Sara,

‘My name is Zawadi and the mother to Amos whom you sponsor through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. First and foremost I want to thank you all for the great relief you’ve done to me in regard to Amos schooling by sponsoring him. Amos has always loved going to school but unfortunately I’ve been unable to take him to school due to my low income as am unemployed and only depend on some casual freelance jobs e.g doing laundry work at some of my neighbors houses or sometimes assist my mother in selling out some of her traditional medicines to her sick clients as my mother who is the grandmother to Amos is a African tradition herbalist.

Amos who is now in PP1 wakes up very early in the morning at 6.00am and starts preparing himself for school by washing his body, brushing his teeth and then takes his breakfast which is either black tea with bread or porridge. Amos’ favorite subject is Mathematics while for his favorite games he loves playing football. He likes playing football his age mates mostly in the weekends. Amos favorite food is ugali with vegetables e.g cabbage or kales.

                At school, Amos has made friends and his best friend is called Mokas.While at school he enjoys his lunch too.

Amos has an elder brother called Kasiwa who is in Std 5 at Mtomondoni primary school which is a village government school.

Finally I’d want to once again thank both of you for Amos’ sponsorship and may God bless you.’

Yours friend,

Zawadi (mother  to Amos).


Ian-new kid.

2019-05-07

Hello Everyone at Babington and Lancaster schools-England!!!!!!!!!!!!!

‘My name is Ian, aged 9 years and in stage 3 (Std 3) at Mtwapa Academy. The name of my class teacher is madam Makena.My school day start very early in the morning as I normal wake up at 6.00am,wash my body, brush my teeth and then I take my breakfast which is normal tea with bread. I arrive at school at 6.30am.The subjects which I do at school are Mathematics, English, Kiswahili, Hygiene and Nutrition and Environmental. My favorite subject is Mathematics.

We’ve just opened the school after the Easter holiday where I played a lot with my friends by playing football and also did some little revision. My family is a Muslim family and as from this week we have started our Ramadhan, however since am too young to fast am not fasting but the rest of my family including my mother are fasting.

I want to thank everybody at both Babington and Lancaster schools for supporting my education at Mtwapa Academy and being part of the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. I therefore promise to work hard in my studies. I have four best friends at Mtwapa Academy i.e Cyreen,Ian,Simon and John. When I finish my studies I’d like to be a policeman.

Here below are my results for the previous end term examination;-

Name of subject…………………………….Marks obtained.

1. Mathematics…………………………………96

2. English………………………………………..96

3. Kiswahili……………………………………....92

4. Hygiene and Nutrition………………….....…96

5. Environmental…………………………….….88

Total marks obtained out of 500….........…468

Finally I want to say thank you very much to everyone and may God bless you all.

Yours friend, Ian Ismail’.


Gibson.....Interview with Gibson's vocational class teacher.

2019-05-19

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is madam Mbeyu and the class teacher to Gibson. Am happy today to give a progressive report on Gibson’s who has been with us for the vocational training since last year after being transferred from a normal school i.e Mtwapa Academy. Here at Sahajanad Special school we deal with different special need cases ranging from down symdrome,epilepsy,speech problems,celebral palsy, cleft palate,deaf,hydrocephalus and microcephalus.For Gibson he is down syndrome. However we have 3 classes of Down syndrome i.e mild, severe and profound. For Gibson it’s mild class of down syndrome meaning that he can be able to learn and train though in a very slowly way. Good enough since Gibson’s vocational training class consists of all inclusive special cases, we as teachers are able to understand each and every one kid stage of learning. From my experience down syndrome kids take long periods to catch up with whatever kind of training he or she’s undergoing compared to a normal kid. For a normal kid it may take a year to be perfect in a given training whereas for a down syndrome kid it may  take up to a minimum of 4 years so as to be good in the same training.

Ever since Gibson joined our vocational training centre he’s been training on making of African jewellery,good enough so far Gibson is able to fix the jewellery beads in the string without any problem using the same beads colour.However Gibson is yet to train on how to colour match the beads using different colours.

Am happy to say that so far Gibson has now achieved the following;-

1. Socialisation;-Gibson is able to socialize well with his classmates and hostel mates and always happy.

2. Understanding his environment;- Gibson is now able to know where he is, what purpose he’s at  a certain environment? Who is he with?

3. Gibson is able to wash his clothes and dress himself and walk from his hostel to his vocational class every day.

4. Gibson can differentiate people and know their names.

5. Speech improvement;- Gibson’s speech has so far improved and it’s easy to understand him what he is talking about.

The above achievements take a very long period for a special kid situation like Gibson but thanks to the training, it has made him achieve the above mentioned areas.

My final advice to all the guardians and parents who have kids with special needs, please make sure you give enough time for a special need kid in terms of learning and training so as the kid get to understand properly all whatever he or she’s learning.

Thank you and may God bless you.

Regards from,

Teacher Mbeyu (Gibson’s teacher).


Mwanatumu

2019-05-31

Hi! Everyone at Babington and Lancaster schools, England.

‘My name is Mwanatumu ,a girl aged 6 years  and in Pre-Primary 2(PP2) at Mwapa Academy. I come from a Muslim family as both my parents are Muslims. We are now on Ramadhan however I haven’t fast since am young but my parents and the rest of my family are fasting. The name of my teacher is called madam Everlyine,she is a good teacher and I love her soo much. My school day begins at 6.00am when I wake up and prepare for school as am supposed to report to school by 6.30am. During weekends I also go to Madrassa where we learn about the Holy Quran.

At school the subjects which we do are Mathematics, English language, English writing, reading and oral. Also we learn Kiswahili language and reading, Environment and Creativity. My favorite subject is English, this is because I would like to be a Teacher when I grow up. While at home I like playing a game called ‘teacher’ where I teach my friends in an open air class outside our house. My best friends at school are Abigail and Zulekha.

I want to thank you all for the sponsorship and am working hard at school.’

From Mwanatumu’s class teacher……..’Mwanatumu is a very hard working, smart girl and very attentive in class which makes her general performance to be excellent. She enjoys coming to school and also has a good appetite to her school lunch. Since early this week until today Mwanatumu and the rest of the PP2 class and even the rest of the school have been having an end of month of May examination. Am therefore happy to give you the encouraging examination results for the end of this month of May as follows below.’

Name of Subject……………………..Marks obtained out of 100 percent.

1. Mathematics………………………………………………………………100

2. English (Language, Reading and Oral)……………………….........….96

3. Kiswahili (Language, Reading and Oral)………………………...........100

4. Environmental………………………………………………………….…..96

5. Creativity…………………………………………………………………...100

Total marks obtained out of 500 marks……………………...........….492

Finally from Moses (sponsorship coordinator)….’Many thanks to everyone at both schools for the education support to the girl and be blessed.’


Alice

2019-06-08

Hi! Everyone at Babington and Lancaster schools-England!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

‘My name is Alice, am an 8 year aged girl and studying at Mtwapa Academy in STD 3. The name of my class teacher is called madam Makena.Am very happy to speak with you all as my sponsors and happy to be sponsored through Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program.

My school day begins very early in the morning when I wake up at 5.00 am and start preparing myself for school by brushing my teeth, wash my body, put on my school uniform, take my breakfast which is tea with bread and then I leave for school where I report to school at 6.30 am.

The subjects which I do in my STD 3 class are Mathematics, English i.e both reading and writing, Kiswahili both reading and writing, Science, Social Studies with Christian Religion Education (C.R.E).

I love going to school and I always work hard to get good marks. Here below are my opening of second term (end of May, monthly examination);-

Name of subject.................................................Marks obtained out of 100 percent.

1.Mathematics................................................................98

                   

2.English (Reading and Writing).......................................99

                   

3.Kiswahili (Reading and Writing)....................................100

                   

4.Science.......................................................................96

                    

5.Social Studies and C.R.E.............................................98

                    

Total marks obtained out of 500 marks........................491

                  

For my position in class from the above examination results I was position 2 out of 42 kids in our STD 3 class.

While is school by best friends are Holiness,Martha,Dora and Mercy.

For my future career I’d like to be surgeon.

For my out of school activities and since am a Christian, I love going to church on Sundays and while in church I normal join the Sunday school class where we practice lots of Christian songs ,bible memory verses and prayers. Also while at home and especially during weekends I like playing skipping rope game.

My favourite food is ‘ugali’ with fish stew also rice with beans.

Finally I want to say thank you to everyone of you and am happy for you all for the support in paying for my school fees and may God bless you all.

Yours loving girl, Alice.’


Mary

2019-06-16

Hi! Shirley,Kate and Vicky.

‘My name is Mary, am happy to tell you that am now in STD 8 which is the final class in primary school. I expect to do my STD 8 (Kenya Certificate of Primary Education)-KCPE examination towards the end of the in the month of November. I want to thank you all for the support which you’ve given me in my education since I joined the Mtomondoni sponsorship program and I can’t wait to join secondary school next year!

So as to prepare for school normal wake up at 4.00am when I read my school work and notes until 5.00am.Between 5.00am- 5.30 am, I start preparing myself for school after taking my breakfast. I arrive at school at 5.40am.Soon I arrive at school I start revising by attempting some past examination questions through a special revision textbook called Mentor. I’ve been working soo hard at school so that I can get good marks and if possible ne admitted to a national secondary school. For my previous examination which is the end of May exam, I got the following marks;-

Name of Subject………………………………………..Marks obtained out of 100 percent.

1. English……………………………………………………………87

2. Kiswahili (Grammar and composition)……….….................84

3. Mathematics………………………………………....…….……72

4. Social studies and Religion (CRE)…………….........……….70

5. Science…………………………………………………….….…92

Total marks obtained out of 500 marks……............………405

For my future career I want to be an accountant. At school I have 5 best friends whom we share our school work in a form of a study group and we are all hardworking girls. I also do enjoy my lunch at school.

On normal leave school in the evening at 6.30 pm and soon I arrive back home I like helping my mother to wash the dishes and cook, after that I take a bath and do my home work up to 11.00pm when I go to sleep.

During weekends on Saturday I go to school for weekend tuition for half a day then get back home in the afternoon. On Sunday’s I normal go to church.

Finally I want to thank you all once again for the great support you’ve given to me and which has made live a happy life as I know my future is well taken care of, may God bless you all.

Yours loving girl,

Mary'.


Mtwapa Academy school updates in relation to Mtomondoni Sponsorship Program.

2019-07-17

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Rahab,the school Director of Mtwapa Academy, Kenya –Africa. From myself and on behalf of my school headteacher,Mr.Simon and on behalf of all the school teachers and non-teaching staff, am very much delighted to speak to you all of our friends and sponsors in England. Before I proceed I want to give my many many thanks to the Directors of Mtomondoni  Sponsorship Program i.e Gail and Sara who are also based in England from their tremendous efforts of assisting our school here in Africa through the sponsorship of some of our kids and also through assisting us to build permanent brick walled classrooms like the kindergarten department building project which was initiated by Babington school England and Gerald Trevor of England too who is also one of the sponsors in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. Other school building projects under the coordination of Gail and Sara  were building ,equipping and furnishing of our school library with a classroom and a separate classroom block which consists of 3 classrooms which were build through the combined efforts of some of the England schools  and individuals i.e John Cleveland College,Gatree High school,Brockington College and Boris a sponsor in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program who individually assisted the school library with books ,building and  made the library furniture. Other school projects which were also assisted by our England friends and schools include the rebuilding of our school well which included building of the water tank tower, purchasing of the water tank and connecting the school toilets with running water. Other school projects coordinated by Gail and Sara included the purchase of the school computers and connecting of the school internet and the school kitchen among other projects which I think the list is long. Due to this I want to give my many thanks to Gail and Sara for rebranding of our school through the rebuilding and all the other related projects towards rebranding of our school, Mtwapa Academy.

Due to all of the above mentioned rebranding work our school, Mtwapa Academy has now been attracting lots of kids into the school which initially before the rebranding of our school we had a kids population of about 200 kids. Am happy today to give you an update and achievement as a result of the school rebranding as mentioned above and am therefore happy to inform you that Mtwapa Academy has now a kids total population of 400 kids!!! With a total teaching staff of 20 teachers i.e  13 female teachers and 7 female teachers.

Am further happy to inform you that Mtwapa Academy is now excelling in the national exams i.e the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) whereby in the last KCPE exam the top most kid scored total marks of 426 marks out of 500 marks.

For the kindergarten classes the number has been increasing too due to the good status of our permanent classrooms. Also the Kenya government through the Ministry of Health has recognized our school kindergarten department and as result we’ve been benefiting from all the National children health campaigns like the Polio Vaccination campaign which has been undergoing in the last 5 days and am happy to inform you that all of our kindergarten kids have been vaccinated while at school.

In regard to the new curriculum changes am further happy to inform you that Mtwapa Academy is already adapted to the new curriculum changes and am happy to inform you that this year in September our grade 3 kids are going to sit for the 1st National examination under the new curriculum.

The importance of the new curriculum is that it natures kids talents due to lots of creativity activities. Also under the new curriculum kids also get opportunity of expressing themselves which makes them understand better. This automatically includes kids like Amos, Mercy and Imu who are in the kindergarten classes under the sponsorship of Mtomondoni sponsorship program.

However Mtwapa Academy is still experiencing some challenges of having more needy kids in the school who need support. This new ‘bunch’ of needy kids has come as a result of some of the kids parents business premises demolished due to the ongoing road construction in the village which is being undertaken by the government, some kids parents loosing jobs from the hotels due to reduction of the tourists, deaths of some parents due to prolonged sicknesses and the current economic hardship in Kenya which has made the basic commodities like food to rise.

In terms of the extra curriculum activities, Mtwapa Academy has the following clubs i.e debate, Environental, Games and sports, Music, Drama and Scout.

Finally I want to send my greetings to everyone involved in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program and be blessed for everything you are doing to support education here in Kenya,Africa.

Regards,

Rahab.

(Director,Mtwapa Academy,Kenya).


Esther's vocational training skills!!!!!!!!

2019-07-27

‘Hello everyone,

This is Esther’s mum and speaking on behalf of my youngest daughter Esther who is a beneficiary of the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. Esther is now aged 23 years old and will be turning 24 years in September this year. First and foremost I want to send my many thanks to all of Esther’s sponsors who have taken her through her education life ever since she was sponsored into the Mtomondoni sponsorship program when she was still in lower primary school up to college level. Also I’d like to send my many thanks to the directors of Mtomondoni sponsorship program i.e Sara and Gail for their tireless efforts of making sure that Esther’s education is well taken care of and am happy to tell you the efforts have ‘bared fruits’!!! Am today happy to inform you that Esther has now completed her vocational training where she has been training in Embroidery work. In addition to the embroidery training, Esther has also trained in doing patch work on different types of fabrics. Also she has trained in the making of door mats. For the embroidery work, Esther is now able to design different flower patterns on cloth materials which can be used to cover tables, decorate sofa sets and chairs. For the patch work, Esther can now design different patch work and come up with either a baby shawl or a baby bed cover which she can sell to mothers who have got new borns and also in the maternity. For the door mats they can be used outside homestead doors and offices to help clear out dust, mud from shoes and bare feet before getting into the house.

From the above training on Esther, I therefore see a great achievement for Esther and once again I say thank you to all of her sponsors. Now that Esther is through with her vocational training, we as a family suggests that Esther gets an embroidery machine so as she can start a small scale business specializing on embroidery work. Then we as a family can help her in doing the marketing and sales and any money from Esther’s embroidery business will be used to promote or develop her business and with the profit she can save and help herself with in any of her life needs.

Also I want to thank Mr.Moses for his co-ordination work which has helped Esther to go on well with the training until now she’s completed her vocational training.

Also as a family we’ve tried to buy for Esther a smart phone which she is learning how to be digital also in future the smart phone may help her google on some important applications related to embroidery work where she can learn of more flower patterns. We are all happy that she is getting used to her smart phone. In general Esther is now getting to understand things and we are seeing a great improvement in her development.

May the Almighty God bless you all for the great support you’ve all given to my daughter Esther.

Yours friend, Grace (Esther’s mum)’.


baby Gail

2019-08-02

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Gail Nuru aged 11 years old and studying at Mtwapa Academy in STD 5.Am happy to sponsored through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. During school days I wake up at 5.30am then start preparing for school by washing my body,brushing my teeth and then take my breakfast i.e tea with either chapatti or ‘mahamri’ Swahili snacks. I normal arrive at school at 6.30 am.

My favorite subjects are Kiswahili and English. We have now closed the school for the August holiday. At school I have my best friend called Zalha who is a girl like me.I love Zalha because she sometimes helps me on how to work out best in Mathematics a subject which challenges me most.

Here below are my end of term examination results;-

Name of subject………………………..marks obtained out of 100 percent.

1. English………………………………………………………57

2. Kiswahili…………………………………………………….63

3. Mathematics…………………………………………….....38

4. Science……………………………………………………..28

5. Social Studies and Religion………………..…........……48

Total marks obtained out of 500 marks……................234

For extra curriculum activities I like athletics and especially running, though our school playing ground is not big enough for such kind of sport but we’ve been making use of it in sports.

When I get back home in the evening at 6.00pm I first do my homework and then I go to play out with my friends. I like the cooking game whereby myself and friends try to cook some various foods e.g vegetables and rice etc. Also during the holidays and because we have more time to play games I also like to do the game of making dolls and sewing doll clothes using needles and threads. However also as a Muslim girl I also find time to go to the ‘Madrassa’ which is a young Muslim school so as to learn more about our religion.

For my future carrier after completing my studies I’d like to be either a teacher or a doctor.

For my family, I have 3 brothers i.e Lukeman,Yassin and Naushad. My mother is called Amina and we are all a Muslim family.

Yours loving girl,

Gail Nuru.


End of term 2 examination results for program kids at Mtwapa Academy.

2019-08-15

Hi! Everyone,

It’s my belief that you are all well with your families wherever you are. The school August holidays are on and am happy to inform you that all of our kids have been having a restful visiting friends and families and also helping their parents too. Am happy also to inform you that their school progress has been wonderful and encouraging for nearly all of them and hopefully they’ll perform well in their national examinations.

For this year 2019,one of our program kids in Mtwapa Academy who is also senior among the program kids at Mtwapa Academy i.e Mary will be doing her final primary school examination popularly know as KCPE (Kenya Certificate of Primary Education) scheduled to take place in early November. The good news is that Mary had been performing extremely well in all of her internal examinations and she’s expected to be among the top most performers in the school in the soon to come national KCPE exam.

Here below are the results for all the program kids at Mtwapa Academy for this end of term examination including the new kids ;-

1.Mercyline-Baby class;-

Subject title…………………………………marks obtained out 100 percent.

1. Number work (Maths)……………..68

2. Language…………………………..100

3. Reading and Oral……………….…85

4. Environment………………………..80

5. Creative activities………………....95

Total marks obtained out 500……428

2.Amos-Pre-Primary (PP 1);-

Subject title…………………………………marks obtained out 100 percent.

1. Number work (Maths)……………..100

2. Language……………………………95

3. Reading and Oral……………….….100

4. Environment………………………...79

5. Creative activities…………………..75

 Total marks obtained out 500……438

3.Imu-Pre-Primary (PP1).

Subject title…………………………………marks obtained out 100 percent.

1. Number work (Maths)……………..100

2. Language……………………………100

3. Reading and Oral……………….….100

4. Environment………………………...98

5. Creative activities………………….98

 Total marks obtained out 500……496

4 .Mwanatumu-Pre-Primary2(PP2);-

Subject title…………………………………marks obtained out 100 percent.

1. Number work (Maths)……………..90

2. Language………………………….100

3. Reading and Oral………………...100

4. Environment………………………..98

5. Creative activities………………….100

 Total marks obtained out 500……477

5. Ian-STD 3;-

Subject title……………………………..marks obtained out 100 percent.

1. English……………………………………………97

2. Kiswahili…………………………………………100

3. Mathematics…………………………………….94

4. Science…………………………………………..98

5. Social Studies and Religion…………………...98

Total marks obtained out of 500………………..487

6.Alice-STD 3

Subject title……………………………..marks obtained out 100 percent.

1. English…………………………………………………98

2. Kiswahili………………………………………………..98

3. Mathematics……………………………………….…100

4. Science……………………………………………….100

5. Social Studies and Religion………………….…....100

Total marks obtained out of 500……………....…..496

7.Gail

Subject title……………………………..marks obtained out 100 percent.

1. English………………………………………………57

2. Kiswahili…………………………………………….63

3. Mathematics……………………………………….38

4. Science…………………………………………….28

5. Social Studies and Religion………………….….48

Total marks obtained out of 500………………..234

8.Mary-STD 8

Subject title……………………………..marks obtained out 100 percent.

1. English…………………………………………………81

2. Kiswahili……………………………………………….71

3. Mathematics………………………………………….58

4. Science…………………………………………….…80

5. Social Studies and Religion………………….…....70

Total marks obtained out of 500……………….....360

With that I say bye and from myself and on behalf of all the kids and parents want to send many thanks for all of your great support to everyone towards the Mtomondoni sponsorship program.

Moses Kopulo (Sponsorship co-ordinator-Africa).


Gibson's progress at the vocational centre.

2019-09-27

Hi! Everyone,

Hope you are all doing fine. The schools are now reopened for the 3rd term since September 2nd after the August holidays and the kids are back to school and getting on well with their studies. As we get close to the end of year,i thought it better to give some updates on progress ref.Gibson who is at the vocational Centre where he is specializing in jewelry making.It really gives lots of hope when you see all the kind of beautiful art and craft work made by the kids with special needs at the vocational Centre where Gibson is training. Here are some of the words from Gibson’s class teacher/trainer…..’Gibson is now able to coluor sort out clearly without supervision all the beads/material used for jewellery unlike before when he had difficulties and needed assistance. By so doing it’s a great progress on Gibson as he is further able to colour pattern the jewellery piece and finally come out with a beautiful and completed jewellery product which can be sold out in return for cash.

Also Gibson is able to freely socialize with his class mates, able to identify sounds and alphabets when doing some theory and has improved in his spoken English. Apart from training improvement, Gibson is able to do some important tasks in class e.g refilling drinking water bucket for his class when the water bucket is empty. Also Gibson is able to understand himself in regard to his personal hygiene e.g able to know when he needs the next hair cut as recommended by the school’.

Just as the rest of Gibson’s classmates,by the end of his training,Gibson will be able to do some amazing jewellery pieces which he can be able to open up a shop. As clearly shown in the picture gallery, please see the fine finished art and craft products which Gibson’s class have done ad which are ready for sale. Good enough the income from all the sold art and craft items both helps in buying more materials which is made for the vocational shop and also some of the materials is given to the trainees themselves while going for the holidays for them to make different items which they are allowed to sale for their personal income while on holiday.

Due to the above art and craft work, the vocational centre has appealed to us a program and well-wishers to support the vocational Centre products shop in selling out their finished products. The finished products include doormats, beaded table mats, beaded serviette holders, necklaces, beaded key holders, African open leather shoes, decorated dry flowers, bracelets and assorted jewellery and art pieces.

In the picture gallery please also see pictures of Gibson in their class workshop together with his classmates. Apart from art and craft, Gibson vocational centre also trains special needs kids to practice in modern/economical gardening methods especially in establishing a kitchen garden where they plant vegetables. After training the graduates’ kids can be employed to make such king of kitchen garden as shown in the picture gallery.

Finally we thank you for the support to the Mtomondoni sponsorship program where Gibson is a beneficiary and may God bless you all.

Yours in service,

Moses Kopulo (Sponsorship co-ordinator-Africa).


Wycliff

2019-10-04

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Wycliff Benson aged 18 years. Am happy to have been recruited into the Mtomondoni Sponsorship program since I was in kindergarten 1 (KG 1) in the year 2005. Am happy now that am just about to complete my secondary school (form 4) where I’ll be doing my last secondary school examination i.e Kenya Certificate of secondary Education (KCSE) exam.which is scheduled to begin in 4th November this year.

In terms of subjects which I’ll be doing in the exam will be 8 subjects i.e English,Kiswahili,Mathematics,Biology,Chemistry,History and government,Christian Religion Education (CRE) and Agriculture.

In preparation for the major examination, in our class we’ve formed study groups where we do lots of revision after classes during weekdays and in the weekends.

Our school Msumarini Secondary school is a day’s mixed school, however  it’s far from my parents’ house in Mtwapa. Due to this I live with my uncle and aunt who are live not far from the school though it’s a walking distance. At my uncle’s place we have a special boys’ house where I stay with my cousin brothers who are also in secondary school. In the boys house I have a special table and chair which I use to do my homeworks and studies whenever am back home from school as shown in the pictures.

Near my uncle’s home there is a nearby hospital/dispensary where we go for treatment in times of sickness like this week I have been unwell due to chest pains and cough and I had to go the the hospital.Good enough Mr. Moses came to our school to help me go to the hospital and thanks God I got treated.

My school day begin very early in the morning at 4.00am when I wake up and start revising my school work. Thereafter I take my bath and then take my breakfast which is normal tea with ‘mahamri’ Swahili snacks, finish preparing myself for school and then leave the house at 5.30am  where I reach at school at 6.30am. Our school day ends at 5.30 pm thereafter we do extra curriculum activities like drama, poetry, football,science club and volleyball until 6.30pm. With me I like playing football as it’s my favorite game.Thereafter we may either go home or continue doing some study group work until 8.00pm.

Finally I want to send my lots of thanks to all my sponsors and may God bless you all,

Your loving,

Wycliff.


Jambo everyone from Mtwapa,Kenya-Africa.

2019-10-18

Hi! Everyone,

It’s my hope that you are all well wherever you are. It’s another great moment to say ‘jambo!!!’ to everyone in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program as we enter the last quarter of the year 2019. Mine is to say thank you to everyone involved in the program for assisting our kids here in Africa get quality education, be blessed.

Am happy to post over today some updates ref.Albert who is one of the eldest kids in our sponsorship program and who is also in his final year in secondary school. However Albert has recently i.e this 3rd term transferred from his previous secondary school i.e St.George’s high school to Mtwapa  Elite high school due to illness which the doctor advised that Albert be moved from his previous boarding school to a day school so that he can be closely monitored in terms of treatment. Good enough since his transfer to Mtwapa Elite high school which is a day school Albert has been getting on well in terms of his health and progressing on well at school.

Please read on Albert's school updates in the next post and also a message from Mtwapa Elite high school Deputy Principal,Mr.Phillip.

Thank you all again.

With regards,

From,

Moses (Sponsorship coordinator-Africa).


Albert final year in secondary school (form 4).

2019-10-18

Hi! Everyone,

My name is Albert aged 18 years old.I feel soo happy to be among the eldest kids in the program who are now in the final year of the secondary school having been in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program since I was in the kindergarten.

Am also happy to inform you that I’ve currently transferred to another school called Mtwapa Elite high school from my previous school i.e St.Georges’s high school. Unfortunately I had to transfer from my previous school due to illness which the doctor advised me to be readmitted to a day school so that he could monitor me closely in terms of treatment.

My school Mtwapa Elite high school has a total student population of about 500 students in the entire secondary school from form 1-4.Each form has 3 streams with a student population of 40 kids per stream.in terms of teachers it has a total of 25 teachers i.e 15 male teachers and 10 female teachers.

In the morning reporting time at school is 6.30am and end school at 6.00pm.However we do have morning break time at 10.30am,lunch break at 1.10pm-2.00pm.

The list of subjects I do are Maths,English,Kiswahili,Physics,Chemistry,Biology,Agriculture and History.

Am happy to tell you that out school Mtwapa Elite high school is well facilitated in terms of Science laboratories where we have well equipped labs with living creatures’ specimens in the Biology laboratory, the same with Physics and Chemistry laboratory. Also our school library is well stocked with varieties of text books.

For extra curriculum activities, am a member of the school rugby team. Also while at home and especially during holidays I love involving myself in music entertainment as a DJ and have been participating in some of our County Disco Jokey competition and emerged one of the top winners.

As for the forthcoming Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) am so well prepared as I’ve so far done lots of revision work and looking forward to the exam.

Before you read a message from our school Deputy Principal, I want to thank you all of my sponsors for the tireless efforts you’ ve shown in sponsoring me through the Mtomondoni  Sponsorship program.

Yours loving,

Albert'.

Here below is a message from the Mtwapa Elite high school Deputy Principal………..

Hello Everyone,

‘My name is Mr.Philip,the Deputy Principal OF Mtwapa Elite high school here in Mtwapa –Kenya and being a teacher to one of your kids whom you sponsor,Albert.Thanks also for  the good work you are doing in sponsoring the needy kid here in Africa through your sponsorship program,through Mr.Moses whom we’ve known him for a very long period.

Our school is one of the best private secondary school in our Kilifi County. Just to brief you you all, last year 2018,22 of our students succeeded to be admitted in the public universities while 58 students students’ succeeded to be admitted in the training colleges e.g diploma in medicine,mechanics,computer technology etc. This success has been brought about by the following factors ;-

1. Discipline as a ‘subject’ in all the study period of the students.

2. Also we’ve trained all our students to have freedom with their teachers so as whenever they feel to meet and talk with their teachers they are at liberty to do so.

3. We’ve always encouraged team work among teachers and students.

As we prepare the form 4 students to their final secondary school examination i.e (KCSE) which is scheduled to take place in the next month, there are strategies which we’ve set up so as to make our kids perform better than last year. Firstly we’ve made  sure that the students are learning in a conducive environment and also make sure that all unwanted materials which are not allowed in school e.g phones are not brought in to the school by the students. Also as a school we’ve been well prepared ever since the year started so as by the time the students are about to do the exams have completed the entire syllabus which gives confidence to the students before doing their final exam.

In terms of school games and sports, we as Mtwapa  Elite high school have all the major ball games like football,basketball,volleyball and netball. Good enough our schools have been participating in all of the major ball games tournaments and have got top positions.

Apart from ball games, our school has Taekwondo and karate whereby professional coaches have been contracted by the school administration to come to the school and coach the students. Due to that both our school Taekwondo and karate team have participated in the National tournament whereby they’ve been awarded Silver and Bronze medals. As a teacher and also having interest and love in sports am also the coach in the school karate team.

Thanks with regards',

From,

Mr.Phillip,Deputy Principal-Mtwapa Elite High school.


Schools close......End of 3rd term kids' academic results@Mtwapa Academy.

2019-10-26

Hi! Everyone,

We've now come to the end of the 3rd term which is the final term in the school year calendar and now the kids have started their 2 months holiday in readiness for Christmas.Next year 2020,the kids will be proceeding to their new classes.

Am happy to inform you that among all the 7 sponsored kids at Mtwapa Academy,one of the eldest i.e Mary Magdaline will be doing her end of primary school examination popularly known as Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) scheduled to commence on 28th-31st October,thereafter Mary will be proceeding to secodary school.Am further happy to inform you all that Mary is one of the top most performing kid in the STD 8 at Mtwapa Academy and we all look forward to her being admitted to a top most school next year,thank to Mary's sponsors.I'll be soon before Christmas be posting over to you Mary's KCPE results,please let us all put our prayers to Mary as she prepares for the KCPE exam next week.

For the rest of the sponsored kids,they've been having their internal end of term/year examinations in their respective classes before they closed school yesterday.Please see on the next post for the kids' academic results.

Finally i want to thank you all as sponsors for your continued support to the kids education here in Africa and may God bless you all.

Yours in service,

Moses Kopulo (sponsorship coordinator-Africa).


kids end of term/year results

2019-10-26

1.Mercyline..........playgroup.

Name of subject.......................Marks obtained out of 100 percent.

1.Number work.....................................80

2.English language...............................80

3.English reading.................................90

4.Environmental...................................93

5.Creative activities..............................95

Total marks obtained out of 500...........436

2.Immu....................PP1

Name of subject.......................Marks obtained out of 100 percent.

1.Number work.....................................100

2.English language...............................100

3.English reading.................................100

4.Environmental....................................99

5.Creative activities...............................100

Total marks obtained out of 500...........499

3.Amos................PP2

Name of subject.......................Marks obtained out of 100 percent.

1.Number work.....................................90

2.English language...............................90

3.English reading.................................92

4.Environmental....................................96

5.Creative activities...............................94

Total marks obtained out of 500...........462

4.Mwanatumu............KG 3

Name of subject.......................Marks obtained out of 100 percent.

1.Mathematics.....................................100

2.English .............................................96

3.Kiswahili.............................................92

4.Environmental......................................94

5.Creative activities.................................98

Total marks obtained out of 500...........480

5.Ian............................STD 3

Name of subject.......................Marks obtained out of 100 percent.

1.Mathematics.....................................100

2.English .............................................96

3.Kiswahili............................................98

4.EnvironmentaL,Hygiene and I.R.E........98

Total marks obtained out of 400..........392

6.Alice.......................STD 3

Name of subject.......................Marks obtained out of 100 percent.

1.Mathematics.....................................100

2.English .............................................98

3.Kiswahili............................................98

4.EnvironmentaL,Hygiene and I.R.E........98

Total marks obtained out of 400..........394

7.Baby Gail (Gail Nuru)........STD 5

Name of subject.......................Marks obtained out of 100 percent.

1.Mathematics.....................................34

2.English .............................................55

3.Kiswahili............................................64

4.Islamic Religious Education ( I.R.E.)....58

5.Science and Agriculture......................56

Total marks obtained out of 500..........267


Mary’s final primary school exam.(KCPE 2019)-Short interview with Moses and farewell party.

2019-11-01

Mary’s final primary school exam.(KCPE 2019)-Short interview with the Sponsorship Co-ordinator(Mr.Moses) and farewell party.

Hi! Everyone,

 It’s another great moment to speak with all again. As I had previously informed you, this week the Std 8 class which is the final class in the primary school have been doing their final examination i.e Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) which commenced this week on Monday 28th October and ended yesterday 31st October. Am happy to inform you that one of the eldest sponsored kids in primary school, Mary Magdaline (15 years old) was one of the KCPE candidates this year 2019. Here below is a short interview of her through the sponsorship coordinator (Mr.Moses).

Question 1;-(sponsorship coordinator);- Congratulations Mary for making it up to this far, it’s been a long journey of primary school life and am soo happy that you’ve today come to the end of your primary school life. I first want to ask you Mary, briefly describe your primary school life ever since you joined Mtwapa Academy and especially as from upper class STD 4-8?

Answer 1 (Mary);-Thanks, generally my primary school life has been good and interesting. At first I used to like going to school but with some little conditions e.g I would love going to school if one of my friends in school could promise me some goodies e.g chocolate or buy for me some fried potatoes or any other snack. However as I matured and moving to class 7 and 8 I felt that coming to school is very important for future progress. Also I needed to challenge my elder brother who few years back completed his primary school and attained 320 marks.

Question 2 (sponsorship coordinator);-Now coming to your final class std 8 what kind of preparations had you made before the exams?

Answer 2 (Mary);-I’ve been studying so hard and had a good plan in readiness for my final KCPE exam. I was an early riser as I used to wake up very early in the morning at 4.00 am-5.00 am so as to study. Then in the evening as from 8.00 pm-11.00 pm I used to again get back to study and made sure that am the last person in the house to go to bed.

Question 3 (sponsorship coordinator);- Did you therefore allocate yourself some playing and refreshing times in between your studies?

Answer 3 (Mary);- Yes, I did during the weekends, I made sure that in the morning between 6.00am-8.00pm I made sure that I use that time to play and also help my mother in some domestic work e.g cooking and washing dishes.

Question 4 (sponsorship coordinator);- Any challenges you encountered during your primary school study especially in your final class STD 8? And how did you overcome the challenges?

Answer 4 (Mary);-Yes I had some few challenges especially in Mathematics in which my working speed was low which sometimes made me not to finish all the 50 questions from the question paper. However so as to overcome the challenges I started practicing to first answering the hard questions then I finish up with the easy questions, by so doing I was able to to answer all the 50 questions from the question paper. This is the very tactic which I have used to do my KCPE EXAM. I  also had some little challenges in social studies but I was also able to overcome it by doing lots of references from the related books.

Question 5 (sponsorship coordinator);- Have been your teachers been helpful to you during your primary school study?

Answer 5 (Mary);-Yes, very helpful especially first from my Social Studies teacher, he used to call me personally during free time like lunch time or in the evening after classes so as to go through together a Social Studies test paper and by so doing he helped me to revise the test paper and also helped me to correctly answer all the test questions which made me to improve very well in my Social studies.

As for my Mathematics teacher, he used to give me lots of Mathematical formulas and told me to work hard or else I won’t be his friend which really helped me to improve.

Question 6 (sponsorship coordinator);-Which was or were you favorite subjects?

Answer 6 (Mary);- Science and  Mathematics.

Question 7 (sponsorship coordinator);-What your future career?

Answer 7 (Mary);- An Accountant.

Question 8 (sponsorship coordinator);- What are you extra curriculum activities?

Answer 8 (Mary);- Dancing.

Question 9 (sponsorship coordinator);- How was the KCPE Exam in general especially when you  started to attempt the 1st paper which was Mathematics?

Answer 9 (Mary);- I felt soo happy as I was well prepared since I’ve been revising and so I had lots of confidence from my first attempt until the final paper.

Question 10 (sponsorship coordinator);- How many marks do you hope to get in your final KCPE results?

Answer 10 (Mary);- 380 marks and above

Question 11 (sponsorship coordinator);- Which secondary school are you looking forward to be admitted into next year 2020?

Answer 11 (Mary);- St.Mary’s Girls’ High School, which is a national school.

Question 12 (sponsorship coordinator);- What’s your vision soon you are admitted into secondary school next year?

Answer 12 (Mary);- First I want to work soo hard as my vision is to excel in my secondary school examinations and proceed to the University. By soo doing I’ll be able to get rid of my family poverty level and eventually uplift my mother and my brother who are still struggling in life.

Question 13 (sponsorship coordinator);- Soon you were recruited into the Mtomondoni sponsorship program, how did you feel now that your mum was getting a relief in terms of school fees payment,uniform,food etc?

Answer 13 (Mary);- I felt soo good,infact I was always praying that one day I get sponsored so as I can continue with my education. So being recruited into the Mtomondoni sponsorship program was like a God answered prayer.

Question 14 (sponsorship coordinator);- What do you have to say about the sponsorship program? Is it helpful to the kids in the community?

Answer 14 (Mary);- Yes, the sponsorship program is very helpful to the kids and the whole community as it assists the less privileged families just like myself and so I ask the sponsors to continue with the spirit of assisting the community.

Question 15 (sponsorship coordinator);- What do you have to tell the rest of the kids in the lower classes who are looking forward to reaching the final primary school classes in the few years to come?

Answer 15 (Mary);- They should work hard so as to achieve their goals, I also urge them to always have a self-drive towards studying and not to be forced to do anything especially while in school. In addition to that they should always listen to their teachers and id they combine all that they’ll do better in their exams and eventually succeed.

Question 16 (sponsorship coordinator);- What do you have to tell your mum now that you are through with your primary school after walking with her in this long school life journey?

Answer 16 (Mary);- I want to thank her very much as she’s been struggling to making sure that I wake up very early in the morning, organize for me a motorbike so as am taken to school without getting late and also she made sure that I again taken back by motorbike late in the evening after school, this is because  used to leave far from school.

Question 17 (sponsorship coordinator);- How do you feel now that you are through with your primary school?

Answer 17 (Mary);- I feels soo happy and looking forward to joining the ‘club’ of the secondary school lot as mates. I further feel that am promoted to the next level of school life.

Question 18 (sponsorship coordinator);- What are your plans during this long holiday period upto Christmas before joining secondary school next year?

Answer 18 (Mary);- My plans are to do lots of dancing as it’s my passion. Previously I didn’t have enough time to do lots of dancing practice as I was busy preparing for my KCPE exam, but now that am through with the exam, I’ll put more time in dancing as I love music too. Also I plan to visit my friends.

Thank you to all and God bless.


Ian

2019-11-11

Hi! Everyone.

‘My name is Ian aged 9 years old and in Std 3 at Mtwapa Academy. I first want to thank all of my sponsors for their support in my education in this year. Generally my learning has been good as I’ve understood all of my subjects well. The teachers have been very good too. Am therefore looking forward to joining Std 4 next year as I have been promoted after performing well in my final STD 3 exam.

Now that we’ve closed school and having a long holiday, I’ll be attending madrassa (Junior Muslim School) whereby I leave the house at 6.30 am-12.00 noon, I then get back home for lunch from 12.00 pm-1 pm. After lunch I get back to the madrassa until 4.00pm. However after Madrassa I do lots of football playing with my friends.

As we approach Christmas I want to wish you all of my sponsors a Merry Christmas and may God bless you all. Here below are also thanks greetings from my mother………….

‘Hello everyone my name is Furaha and mother to Ian. I want to take this opportunity to thank all of the sponsors for sponsoring my kid. For sure the assistance has been great as Ian has been going on well at school. It has been a great relief to me as before he was sponsored I use to struggle in paying school fees due to my low income but ever since he was sponsored it has been of great help, thank you. I therefore pray and hope that you’ll continue with his sponsorship next year 2020 as Ian is a very hardworking boy. May God bless you all.

From Ian and mother.


Mwanatumu

2019-11-11

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Mwanatumu aged 6 and a half years old and schooling at Mtwapa Academy PP2. Am happy that next year I’ll be joining STD 1. I want to thank you all of my sponsors for helping to pay for my school fees, previously my mother and my grandmother have been struggling to get my school fees but since I was sponsored it has helped them a lot and are both happy. Am also working hard in school so that when I complete my school I can become a teacher. Since it’s holiday I’ll do lots of playing with my friends where we play cooking games like cooking rice with stew, spaghetti with eggs using onions and tomatoes, this also I love cooking.

Also as  a Muslim girl I go to Madrassa in the morning and afternoon but on Thursday and Friday I don’t go to Madrasa so I use my time to play the cooking games with my friends.

My grandmother and mother are both happy for my school progress since I was sponsored by you, hoping that you’ll continue to sponsor me next year. We all wish you all a Merry Christmas next month.

Yours loving girl,

Mwanatumu.


Alice

2019-11-11

Hi! Everyone,

‘My name is Alice aged 8 years old and in Std 3 at Mtwapa Academy. Am soo happy to be among the sponsored kids in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. Next year I’ll be joining std 4. A continuing to work hard in school as my teachers have been very good to me.

For this holiday I hope to visit my aunt and also look forward to playing lots of skipping rope games with my cousins and friends. Also am planning to be going to church to start practicing for Christmas songs with my friends in church.

Am happy to inform you that this year we did the first examination after the change of curriculum and am happy to inform you that I also did well in the new curriculum subjects. I love the new subjects like Hygiene, nutrition and Environmental activities.

As we come to the end of the year, me and my mother want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and may the Almighty God bless you all.

Yours loving girl,

Alice.


Updated list of Mtomondoni sponsorship program kids for the year 2020.

2019-11-20

Hi! Everyone,

It's my sincere hope that you are all well. As we come to the close of the year 2019,here below is the list of kids for the year 2020.Thanks to everyone for your continued support to the kids here in Africa and be blessed as we approach Christmas and the New Year.

A.List of kids in Primary school 2020.

Name......................................................................class.

1.Mercy...................................................................PP1

2.Amos...................................................................PP2

3.Imu......................................................................PP2

4.Mwanatumu.......................................................STD 1

5.Alice....................................................................STD 4

6.Ian.......................................................................STD 4

7.Gail Nuru.............................................................STD 6

B.List of kids in secondary school 2020.

1.Mary Magdaline...............................................Form 1

2.Asma...............................................................Form 4

3.Happy..............................................................Form 4

4.Alfred...............................................................Form 4

C.List of kids who have completed secondary school 2019.

1.Ibrahim

2.Albert.

3.Wycliff.

D.Name of kid with special needs/training in vocational school.

1.Gibson.......................Jewellery making.

E.Name of kid with special needs who have completed vocational training 2019.

1.Esther..........................Embroidery;- Now planning to get an embroidery machine so as to start up a small scale business on embroidery work and doormats making.

F. General list f adult kids who have either completed form 4 since 2018/completed college/completed polytechnic and still supported.

1.Sheila......................completed hospitality and cookery training course.At the moment doing some part time job and having plans to open up a fast/chips cafe business.

2.Magdaline...............doing some small scale business.

3.Teresia....................completed hairdressing and beauty therapy course at the polytechnic and now working.Also she's married and now a mother to a baby boy called Jeremy.

4.Mapenzi.................completed her primary shool teachers' training course 2019 and lookig forward to fully employment in teaching as from next year.

5.Abdalla....................completed secondary school (form 4) 2018 and doing some casual job.

6.Hamisi......................completed secondary school (form 4) 2018 and doing some casual job.

With that i say 'kwaheri' and wishing you a blessed week.

Regards,

Moses.

(Sponsorship coordinator-Africa).


Mary's KCPE results are out........a briliant performance from Mary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2019-11-23

Hi! Everyone,

Hoe you've all had a good week. From the recent interview on Mary,am today happy to inform you that Mary's KCPE results are now out and has scored a total of 350 marks out of 500 which is excellent,here below is her performance per subject;-

Name of subject............................marks obtained out 100 percent...........Grade

1.Mathematics.....................................63...........................................................B

2.English..............................................66...........................................................B

3.Kiswahili............................................87...........................................................A

4.Science..............................................67...........................................................B

5.Social Studies and C.R.E..................67............................................................B

 Total marks obtained out 500...........350

From the above excellent performance from Mary,she's more likely to join anational school which are the top most school in Kenya.Hopefully the secondary school admission letters will be out before Christmas.

Thank you once again to everyone for your continued support to our kids here in Africa.

Regards,

Moses.....(Sponsorship coordinator -Africa.)


Xmas is coming!

2019-11-28

Hi all, hope everyone is keeping well and looking forward to the festive season. Its that time of year again when a lot of our sponsors like to send gifts for their kids and their families. Once again we will be taking orders up untill December 18th. if you wish to send money for food or gifts for the kids just let us know and we will collate the information, Moses will then buy the food and distribute it to the families and also take any kids shopping for gifts bought with the money you send through. Once again pictures of all this will be put on the website for xmas.

As a guide;

1. One weeks supply of food costs  £25

2. One chicken costs £5

3. One months supply of charcoal costs £20

All money for food or gifts needs to be sent through to us and cheques made out to Mtwapa School Account. Direct payments into the bank account can also be made. 

If you require any further details on this then please contact us at

gailyhammo@yahoo.co.uk.

Once again thank you all for your continued support.

Gail and Sara 


Mercy

2019-12-07

Hello, Jane Ashman, Peter Sutton and the Bradbury family.

‘My name is Kadii aged 53 years and the grandmother to Mercy whom you sponsor in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. I feel so much happy today to send over my messages of greetings to you all for sponsoring my granddaughter Mercy. From myself and on behalf of her mother Elizabeth who is currently unwell want to send over a message of appreciations for your kind support to my granddaughter education.

Mercy was born on 15th April 2016 and she is now 3 years old and happy enjoying at school and getting on well with her lessons. For sure your support to her education has been very helpful to our family as Mercy has other 5 older brothers and sister who are all in school. Due to this and because Mercy’s mother has no job and the income of Mercy’s father who is a building laborer does not get enough wages to take care of his family in terms of food,education,housing etc. As a result the parents have been struggling to take their kids to school and it was like an answered prayer when Mercy was sponsored into the program.

Mercy is now on holiday and she enjoys playing a lot with her friends as she likes dancing and singing plays. As we approach the Christmas, we want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and may God bless you all with your families’.

Yours loving,

Mercy’s family-Kenya


Mary

2019-12-07

Hello, Shirley, Kate Cook and Vicky.

‘Am Mary, hope you’ve all been doing fine. I want to take this chance to send over to you a special message of thank you for your assistance to my education and to my side, I’ve been working very hard so that I also make you happy by performing well in my studies. As you’ve previously been informed by Mr.Moses,I recently completed my STD 8 final exam.(KCPE) and am happy to tell you that I got a total of 350 marks out of 500 marks. With these marks I hope to join one of the best girls’ schools here in Kenya. I believe if it not for your support I would not been able to make it to STD 8 as my mother is always struggling to make ends meet as she works as a casual laborer in one of the garments factories here in our Kilifi county. Unfortunately her job is not permanent and she sometimes has no job.

Am now awaiting to receive my secondary school admission letter which I think Moses will inform you soon I receive it.Am also using this time to visit my friends and relatives as did not have time to visit them when I was a candidate.

Finally I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2020. May the Almighty God bless you all and your families.

Yours loving girl,

Mary (Mariana)


Ibrahim's interview after completing his secondary school.

2019-12-16

Hi! Everyone at Wolver Church (England).

It’s my hope that you are all well with your families. As we come to the close of the year 2019, personally as the sponsorship coordinator here in Africa, I want to thank you all for your generous support towards the education of our kids here in Africa. I feel we all need to celebrate the successful journey of supporting the kids’ education as we see kids like Ibrahim who has been supported through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program ever since he was in the lower classes i.e STD 1 up to now he’s completed his secondary school, form 4.

Am happy to inform you that over the months of late October-the end of November, Ibrahim has been doing his final form 4 examination and so as to give a general overview of Ibrahim’s secondary school life and his career plans, following next is an interview which I’ve done with Ibrahim. Also see some updated photos of Ibrahim at his home waiting for his examination results.

Finally from me and family and on behalf of all the kids and parents in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program want to wish you all a MERRY Christmas and may God bless you all.

Regards,

Moses (sponsorship coordinator-Africa).

Moses……..Opening statement;-Congratulations Ibrahim for completing your secondary school!!! It’s ben a long journey as we remember you being recruited into the Mtomondoni sponsorship program when you were just a little boy in your lower classes and now you’re a teenager!!!

Ibrahim…….Thank you!!!

Question 1 (Moses)…….To start off and for everyone to know,what’s  your age Ibrahim?

Answer 1 (Ibrahim)……..Am 19 years old.

Question 2 (Moses)……..Briefly describe your boarding school life since in form 1 upto form 4?

Answer 2 (Ibrahim)……..Generally my secondary school life has been good as our teachers were very concerned and helpful as they were ready to make you understand whenever you could need their assistance anytime. Also our school made me satisfied as it had enough reading facilities like library where we used to do our references as we study, also it had a well equipped computer lab.

Question 3 (Moses)……..What lessons can you learn from learning in a boarding school especially in terms of self responsibility, diet and socialization while in the hostel?

Answer 3 (Ibrahim)………Learning in a boarding school has been helpful as it has taught me on how to some personal decisions especially while in the hostel which made me grow. Also in terms of diet, some days we loved the menu and some of the days you could not love the menu but by the end of the day it taught me how to eat well when the budget is good and how to be economical in diet when you’re financially low and still be happy. Boarding school life has also taught me on how to live well with people through being honest and trustworthy as while in the hostel we need to take care of each other’s personal belongings and this brings good friendship.

Question 4 (Moses)……..When did you start your classes in the morning?

Answer 4 (Ibrahim)………In the morning the official classes used to begin at 8.10am,however we used to have early morning free study classes as from 6.30-7.30am on Mondays and Fridays. Later we had morning assembly between 7.30-8.10 am. Then on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday we didn’t have early morning free studies so we only went for assembly after breakfast.

Question 5 (Moses)……What time did you take your lunch and supper?

Answer 5 (Ibrahim)…….Lunch was at 1.00pm-2.00pm while supper was at 6.00-7.00 pm.

Question 6 (Moses)……..Any interesting subject throughout your secondary school?

Answer 6 (Ibrahim)……….Mathematics was one of the most interesting subjects.

Question 7 (Moses)…….Any challenges throughout your secondary school life?

Answer 7 (Ibrahim)….Chemistry.

Question 8 (Moses)……Specifically on form 4, how has it been? Briefly explain about form 4?

Answer 8 (Ibrahim)………Generally it has been good though sometimes challenging as you need to recollect in your mind all what you’ve been taught throughout the 4 years in secondary school so as you can be able to give good results. In terms of subjects I did 7 subjects in form 4  i.e Mathematics,English,Kiswahili,Chemistry,Physics,Islamic Religion Education (IRE) and Business Studies.

Question 9 (Moses)…….How have you been preparing for you final exam, form 4 examination i.e the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) ?

Answer 9 (Ibrahim)…….My maximum preparation for the KCSE was in the 3rd term when I was in form 4,this is because it is during this term when our teachers give us enough study time since it’s the final term before the final exam. So during this term I had a 6 hour study plan per day whereby I scheduled my studies as follows;-

5.30-6.30 am……..1 hour.

9.00-11.00am…….2 hours.

2.00-4.00pm………2 hours.

8.00-9.00pm……..1 hour.

By so doing I made sure that I have made enough revision and study which I further believed that if I continue with that trend I would have made enough preparations on my final form 4 examination and it worked!!!

Question 10 (Moses)…….Did you have a discussion group and when did you have your discussions?

Answer 10 (Ibrahim)…….Yes, we had a discussion group made up of 10 students where we chose a discussion leader. However each and every one of us in the group used to contribute and by doing so we used to teach one another. So in generally the discussion groups were very helpful. We used to do the discussion every day after classes mostly before going for our evening meals. In a day we could do a discussion of 2 subjects.

Question 11 (Moses)…….Which science subject did you do in the final exam? Did you enjoy doing the science practical?

Answer 11 (Ibrahim)…….Chemistry and Physics. Yes I enjoyed doing the practical like in Physics I did practical on the importance of a resistor in power supply or voltage while in Chemistry I did practical on quantitative analysis and burning of ethanol.

Question 12 (Moses)…….Did you finish all the exam papers?

Answer 12 (Ibrahim)…….Yes, I did as I had done enough preparation before the exams.

Question 13 (Moses)…….How many exam papers did you do per day?

Answer 13 (Ibrahim)……. We did 2 exam papers per day i.e on different subjects. Some of the days we could do up to 3 exam papers per day. The entire exam was spread throughout the month of November.

Question 14 (Moses)…….Did you have enough time to rest before doing another exam paper?

Answer 14 (Ibrahim)……. Yes, as we could have the 1st paper at 8.00am-10.00am then we break for 2 hours before doing another paper which could start at 12.00pm-2.00pm.Therefater we go back to the hostels, take a shower, rest and do some little study in preparation for the next day exam.

Question 15 (Moses)……..What career do you need to pursue now that you are through with form 4 especially if you happen to join the university?

Answer 15 (Ibrahim)…..My career is to be a pilot and so I’d want to do an aviation course.

Question 16 (Moses)…..Now that you are still waiting for your results, what plans do you have in the meantime?

Answer 16 (Ibrahim)……My plan at the meanwhile is to look for a job so that I get some picket money before joining the university or going for a training course.

Question 17 (Moses)…….How did you spend your weekends especially while you were in form 4?

Answer 17 (Ibrahim)……On Saturday we used to go for classes as from 7.00am-4.00pm, however we had 2 breaks including lunch break. Then after 4.00pm we used to go and watch TV in the school hall until late at night before going to sleep.

On Sundays in the morning all Christian students used to go to Church while Muslim students including myself used to go to the mosques. However we were all required to get back to school as from 2.00pm since we also had Sunday classes as from 2.00pm-4.00pm then the next class session would start from 7.00pm-9.00pm.

Question 18 (Moses)…..Any extra curriculum activity you did at school?

Answer 18 (Ibrahim)…..Rugby

Question 19 (Moses)….What were the other games facilities did you have in your school?

Answer 19 (Ibrahim)…..Football, Handball, Volleyball and Basketball.

Question 20 (Moses)…..Have you been continuing with scouting like when you wre in primary school?

Answer 20 (Ibrahim)……. No,I left scouting because we didn’t have an active scout commander.

Question 21 (Moses)…… Your hobby Ibrahim?

Answer 21 (Ibrahim)…….Drawing.

Question 22 (Moses)…….Any advices to the rest of the kids who are joining form 4 next year?

Answer 22 (Ibrahim)……. They should start getting serious in all of their studies and not to be playfull.They should take life serious and never follow friends on what they do as they could lead you astray. If you are to choose a friend look for a friend who is helpful to you  in your studies but mostly follow the teachers’ and parents advice for good results.

Question 23 (Moses)…..What do you like to say to your sponsors at Wolver Church in England?

Answer 23 (Ibrahim)……I thank them all for their support in my education and may God bless them all. Also I’d want to wish them all and their families a Merry Christmas and happy New Year 2020. From their loving kid, Ibrahim.


Merry Christmas 2019!!!!!! and Thanks to our friends in England!!!!!!!!!

2019-12-30

Hi! Everyone,

Merry Christmas to everyone!!! It’s with great joy from us here in Africa to send our Christmas greetings to everyone of you in England, we all hope that you are all well this festive season and enjoyed your Christmas.

With us here in Africa, we’ve had a fantastic Christmas, thanks for your Christmas food donation which made the kids’/families have a wonderful Christmas. If it were not for your donation on the food packages most of the families could have nothing to celebrate due to the hard economic times. From me, my family and on behalf of all kids and parents here in Mtwapa –Kenya send our lots of appreciations to everyone of you who gave out her or his contribution towards this year Christmas here in Africa.

Please read on further Christmas thanks and appreciations from individual kids/families who received the food gift in the next post. However 4 kids i.e Teresia,Sheila,Happy and Alfred had travelled afar before Christmas visiting relatives during this long holiday and will also receive the Christmas package soon they are back after New Year.

As we approach the New Year 2020, we want to wish you all a happy and prosperous New year. May the Almighty God bless you all with your families.

Regards,

Moses (sponsoship coordinator-Africa).


from Mercy to Bradbury

2019-12-30

Dear Bradbury,

Hello,Bradbury! It’s my sincere hope that you are fine with your family members. We are all doing fine here in Kenya with Mercy. Christmas being the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, we all feel happy because a new child is born, because of this we dress on new clothes too. Also we cook good food like pilau and chapati.We therefore thank you for the food gift which we received from you and it helped us be able to cook the good food. We were able to also invite our friends and neighbors and we ate together. Thank you very much Bradbury and may God bless you with your family.

Yours loving,Mercy’s grandmother.


from Abdalla and Hamisi to Shirley

2019-12-30

Hello Shirley,

Merry Christmas!!! We hope you are well,also we are both fine too.I do take this opportunity to give our thanks for the Christmas food gift that you provided for us, we really appreciate your effort to make sure we enjoy our Christmas here in Africa. May God bless you and reward you abundantly.

We enjoyed the Christmas well on that day we also went to church and sung some Christian praise and worship songs. We are now eagerly waiting for the New year. We also thank you for your support towards our education which has made us feel great and hoping for a prosperous life.

May God bless you Shirley once more,

Yours loving kids,

Abdalla and Hamisi.


from Albert to Lorraine

2019-12-30

Dear Lorraine,

Merry Christmas Lorraine!!! It’s my hope that you are doing great with your family.My family and I are also doing fine here in Kenya.I thank God for being with us upto this moment,we are really happy to celebrate together as a family this Christmas and during this festive season. I also want to thank you for the food you bought for me for my Christmas,I really enjoyed it and also had good time helping my mother to prepare the Christmas food. I really appreciate you and thank you for your kindness.

I wish you happy holidays, Merry Christmas and happy New Year 2020!! May God bless you and your family.

Yours loving,

Albert.


from Gibson to Paula

2019-12-30

Dear Paula,

Merry Christmas!!! Hope you are doing good wherever you are with your family. Am good together with Gibson and his sisters. I really appreciate you Paula for all what you’ve being doing to my son Gibson and my family in general. Gibson is progressing on well with his training and we are all happy for the progress, thank you Paula for your efforts towards Gibson education. Because of your helped I’ve been also been trying hard to also educate Gibson’s sisters and am happy to inform you that Gibson’s elder sister Enrita completed her form 4 last year and she’s now training on some computer studies. His younger sister proceeding to grade 2 next year.

Thank you soo much Paula for the Christmas food gift which made our Christmas great and may God shower you with abundant blessings.

Your loving,Gibson’s mother.


from Mary to Shirley

2019-12-30

Dear Shirley,

Merry Christmas Shirley!!! I hope you are fine,am glad that am writing this letter to you.We are all fine with my mum and my brother and we thank God for the gift of life.

First and foremost I would like to thank you for the Chrsitmas food present that I got,it was nice and it made our Christmas look good,we are all happy that you always remember us,we pray that the Almighty God to shower you and your family with blessings.

During Christmas it was awesome as we cooked chapati for breakfast and pilau for lunch,then later we went to the beach with my neighbours.We also put on our best clothes and we all looked pretty!!!

I now wish you a happy New Year.Am eagerly waiting for the New Year as next year I’ll be joining form 1.Please give my greetings to your relatives and family members and thanks once again for the presents. May God bless you.

Yours loving girl,

Mary.


from Ibrahim to Wolver church

2019-12-30

Dear Wolver Church,

Merry Christmas!!! Hope you are doing well with your families.Thank s God we are doing well with my family.Am happy that I have now completed form 4 and looking forward to join college next year.

I would like to thank you for everything you have done to me in my education and also during this festive season.Actually we were all very happy together with my mum and grandmother for the Christmas food gift and we indeed praying for you all and may you have a happy and long life with your families. We really enjoyed the food very much.

How was the Christmas in England,hope you all celebrated nicely.

Lastly thanks once more and pray for all of you and wishing you all a happy New year.Bye

Yours loving,

Ibrahim.


from baby Gail to Gail

2019-12-30

Hello Gail,

Merry Christmas!!! How are you, I hope you are fine. Am doing fine with my mum and my brothers. I take this opportunity to thank you for the X-mas present of food. We were very happy to receive the food gift as my mother did not have food at home and it really helped us when we received the food from you. Next year I will be gong std 6,thank you Gail for helping me in my education too and may God bless you. My mother has also sent her Christmas greetings to you.

I wish you a happy Christmas and a happy New year!!!

Yours loving girl,

baby Gail.


from Wycliff to Anna and John

2019-12-30

Hello Anna and John,

Merry Christmas!!!,Anna and John!!! How are you doing with your family in England? It’s my great hope that you are fine.Am fine too with my family here in Kenya.This Christmas season am happy that we were all well and celebrated the Christmas together,it was an awesome festival for me and my family.Am writing this letter to thank you for the Christmas food package which you sent for me.My family are all very grateful for your generosity, may the Almighty God bless you and your family.

During Christmas we went to the beach with my friends and we all had funny together at the beach.

Wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy New year 2020!!! God bless you all.

Yours loving,

Wycliff.


from Magdaline to Gail

2019-12-30

Hi! Gail,

Merry Christmas!!! Thank you soo much Gail for the Christmas food gift which I received from you. Thank you for remembering me always and especially this festive season. I hope you had a good Christmas with your family.

Am now 23 years old while my son Lamic is 6 years old,next year he’ll be joining grade 2 at a school called Msumarini Light Academy. Am happy to tell you that Lamic is doing good at his school. Apart from doing my business, am sometimes get some part time employment at a local syringe manufacturing company where I do packaging of the syringes before it’s delivery to the clients which are pharmaceutical shops.

During this Christmas, I spent at my aunt’s place where we prepared various foods like pilau and mahamri.Thank you Gail for the food gift which really helped us a lot during this Christmas.

Finally I want to wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!!!

Yours loving,

Magdaline.


from Imu to Lorraine

2019-12-30

Hi! Lorraine,

Merry Christmas!!! From me Imu to you Lorraine.Am happy to tell you that this Christmas I got your present of food which my mother used to cook for our Christmas food. Also my mum bought for me new clothes so I was happy to enjoy my Christmas with good food from you and dressed in my new clothes.We had milk tea with mahamri ‘swahili snacks’ which our grandmother made for us.After breakfast we went to a neighbor church,then we were back in the afternoon for lunch.We had rice with chicken stew for the lunch,I also helped my mother to go to the shop to buy some  spices for the chicken stew. We celebrated Christmas with our neighbors’ too and also gave some food to our neighbors so as we can all celebrate together.We thank God for giving us a good Christmas.

Thank you Lorraine,we all wish you a good Christmas season and success in everything you do. Also wishing you a happy New Year with lots of blessings and may you live long and happiness.

Yours loving kid,

Imu.


from Amos' family to Lorraine

2019-12-30

Dear Lorraine,

Merry Christmas!!! Lorraine!!! Please receive our lots of greetings from me,Amos’s mother,we are all happy to receive the Christmas food gift from you.It’s our big hope that you are good wherever you are.

The aim of writing this letter is to send our lots of thanks to you for the Christmas gift.The gift made us have an enjoyable Christmas where we cooked food like pilau for lunch and chapatti for breakfast.We all celebrated and ate together with our family members. Also we bought sodas and juices.Later in the afternoon Amos went out with his friends and cousins to the beach for a walk and he was back in the evening.

Finally we wish you all a happy New year 2020.

Your loving,

Amos’s mother (Zawadi).


from Asma to Sara

2019-12-30

Hi! Sara,

Merry Christmas to you Sara!! Am Asma Alex and sending my Christmas greetings to you Sara!!! First of all,I want to thank you very much for the Christmas food present which I received.Also please Sara receive lots of thanks and greetings from my mother and my grandmother and everyone in our family during this Christmas.

Though we are Muslims but with the gift  of food you gave for us you made us celebrate together with you and everyone in this program.

Next year I’ll be joining form 4 and am really working hard in school.I therefore also thank you with Gail for continuing to sponsor me in the program which has helped me a lot.

Finally I want to wish you all a happy New Year and may God bless you.

Yours loving girl,

Asma.


from Esther to Jane and John

2019-12-30

Dear our friends Jane and John,

Merry Christmas!!! I hope you are both doing fine with your family.Am doing fine too with my kids and am happy to tell you that Esther is doing well too. Am very much happy for the Christmas food which we received from you, you really made our Christmas look wonderful because we had enough food even to eat with friends who came to visit us. How are you grandchildren doing on? I hope you are all well and had a beautiful Christmas.

Here in Kenya now the temperatures are now high but we get some showers of rain sometimes. Thank you soo much for everything you’ve been doing for me and my family and especially to Esther’s education. Esther is working hard in making door mats. We all love you stomach as you’ve been our good friends, may God bless you all and wishing you all a happy New Year. May you live long and many merry days and see more of your grandchildren. Thank you once again for the food and may God bless you

 Bye,we love you and please greet your family.

Yours loving  Esther’s mum (Grace).


Thank you for your generosity.

2020-01-06

Hi everyone, once again I would like to thank all of our sponsors that contributed to the xmas appeal. The families were all very grateful for your support and hopefully you have seen the website messages and pictures from the distribution. We have just a few families that had travelled over the festive period and will be receiving their gifts this week, Updates will follow for each of the families involved including Teresias family,Sheila,Happy and Alfred.

The following is a full list of the contrbutions sent to the families;

1.Wycliffe-1700 shillings from Anna and John.

2.Ibrahim -1500 shillings from the church at wolvey.

3.Abdalla and Hamisi -2000 shillings from Shirley.

4.Alex Asma- 1850 shillings from Sara.

5.Sheila - 1850 shillings from Sara.

6.Justin 2000 shillings in cash from Sara.

7.Alfred 1750 shillings from Gerald.

8.Gail and Amina - 2000 shillings from Gail.

9.Magdaline 2000 shillings from Gail.

10.Moses and family-2000 shillings from Gail.

11.Albert 3500 shillings from Lorraine.

12.Amos 5500 shillings from Brian.

13.Esther-4300 shillings from Jan and John.

14.Gibson-5300 shillings from Paula.

15.Happy -5300 shillings from Paula.

16.Imu - 2500shillings from Lorraine.

17.Teresia -8300 shillings from Alan.

18.Mercy -5300 shillings from the Bradbury family.

19.Mary - 2000 shillings from Shirley.

Once again, thank you for your continued support. We wish all of you a very Happy New Year!


Christmas 2019-gifts on remaining kids.

2020-01-19

Hi! Everyone,

Hope you all ushered in well the new year 2020.We all here in Africa are happy to welcome the new year. The schools re-opened this month on 6th January and our kids are starting to settle in their respective schools. Am happy to inform you that Mary who completed std 8 last year have now joined secondary school form 1 after successfully performing well in her KCPE exam. I’ll soon be updating on her new secondary school admission updates.

Well today I needed to complete updating you ref.the Christmas 2019 gift receiving for the kids who were not available to receive their Christmas gifts i.e Teresia,Happy,Alfred and Sheila. However since Alfred has already reported back to school which is very far from Mtwapa i.e about 800 miles way, her elder sister Phyllis who completed university last year collected the food gift on Alfred’s behalf. Also for Sheila her aunt who has been like her mother received Sheila’s Christmas gift on her behalf. Unfortunately Sheila fall sick while she had travelled to her relatives over the Christmas season and soon she recovers she’ll be back to her aunt who lives with her.

Please see on the next entry for the individual/family thanks.

Finally I’d like to thank everyone for your support towards the Mtomondoni sponsorship program and may God bless you all.

Regards,

Moses (sponsorship coordinator-Africa.)


from Teresia to Allan

2020-01-19

Hi! Allan,

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s great to send to send over to you this new year message hopping that you’ve been going on well.First and foremost, I’d want to send my many thanks to you Allan for everything which you’ve been doing to me.Thank you for the Christmas gift of food and shopping which I bought some other grocery apart from food.

Am getting on well with my son Jeremy who has this year joined PP2 which is the final class in kindergarten thereafter next year he’ll be joining lower primary school i.e grade 1.Am happy to inform you that Jeremy is now very fluent in talking and keeps me very busy while in the house and enjoy going to school.

Am currently doing some sales and marketing job in one of the local margarine manufacturing company. I therefore leave my house very early in the morning at 6.30 am and get back home in the evening at 6.00pm.During weekends I do some laundry of my clothes and Jeremy’s. On Sunday’s I go to church and then get back in the afternoon at 2.00pm.In the afternoon on Sunday after church i take some rest as I prepare for the next week work.

Over Christmas I travelled with my Jeremy and was back recently, however I was unwell too during Christmas.

Thanks Allan for the money which you’ve been sending over for me, it helps me in my needs.

Bye Allan and thanks again for your support and may God bless you.

Lots of love,from Teresia and Jeremy.

Note;-Teresia’s total gift cost was Kshs.8,300/- i.e Kshs.5,300/- was for food and Kshs.3,000/- was for shopping at the supermarket. The shopping items were as follows, sodas, washing powder, dishwashing powder, dishwashing paste, soaps, hand and body lotion and general skin care products, perfumed cloth washing liquid, toilet cleaners, washing bar soaps, tooth pastes, yoghurt, mosquito repellants, crisps and milk.

For the food items she received, wheat flour, maize flour, sugar.beans,cooking oil, rice and salt.


from Happy to Paula

2020-01-19

Hi! Paula,

Happy New year Paula!!!!!!!!!! How have you been my dear friend? Am doing fine with my mum and my siblings. Thank you Paula for the Christmas gift which you sent over for me.Unfortunately I had traveled visiting my grandmother over Christmas and so I was unable to receive my gifts during Christmas. Good enough when I was back I was able to collect my Christmas gift which am happy for also doing some shopping in one of our local supermarkets here in Mtwapa. The items which I bought will be useful while at school as they were things like toothpaste, washing powder, hand and body lotion and hair food.

I’ve now joined form 4 this year and am expecting to do my final secondary school exam towards the end of this year.Thanks  Paula for all of your support in regard to my school fees too which without your support it could have been very difficult for me to continue with my secondary school education and complete my secondary school which am now just about to complete.

May God bless you Paula, for all what you’ve been doing for me and am really working hard at school so as I perform well in my exams.

Yours loving girl,

Happy.

Note;- Happy’s total gift cost was Kshs.5,300/- i.e Kshs.3,300/- was for food and Kshs,2,000/- was for shopping at the supermarket. The items which she bought at the supermarket were hair food, hand and body lotion, toothpaste, petroleum jelly and giant washing powder.

For the food items, she had maize flour, wheat flour, beans, rice, cooking oil, sugar and salt.


from Sheila's aunt to Sara.

2020-01-19

Hi! Sara,

Happy New Year!!!!!!! Sara, Am writing this appreciation message on behalf of my niece Sheila who had travelled over Christmas and is yet to return.  Am Sheila’s aunt and a mother of two boys i.e Erick  who is in the university and Steve who is in class 2.Unfortunately Sheila  fall sick while she had travelled and soon she recovers she’ll be back. Thank you very much Sara for the Christmas food gift and the financial support which you’’ve given to my niece Sheila. As Mr. Moses had informed you before of Sheila being an orphan after both of her parents passed on and it was me with my husband who has been taking care of Sheila since she was young. However due to family financial burden it came to a point when I had difficulties to educate Sheila and good enough you recruited her to your program which am very much thankful for that support.

Sheila is now a responsible girl and we are all very happy about her, we believe it’s through your support  that she is positively changed and has a good vision for her future. We also as her guardians give her some advices on life and good enough she’s been taking our advices positively too.

Thank you once again and wishing you a prosperous new year 2020.

From.Sheila’s aunt.

Note;-Sheila’s food gift cost was Kshs.1,850/- which she received food i.e wheat flour, maize flour,beans,rice,cooking oil,sugar and salt.


from Alfred to Gerald.

2020-01-19

Hi! Gerald,

Happy New year!!!!! My name is Phyllis, am an elder sister to Alfred whom at the moment is at school. On behalf of my young brother Alfred and my mother, I’d like to send over our appreciations and many thanks to you Gerald for your continue support on my brother’s education ever since in primary school and now that he’s about to complete his secondary school. Since our mother is a single parent, she’s been struggling to educate us and for sure it could have been impossible for her to educate both of us as her income is very little and sometimes she has no job. Lucky enough when you offered to sponsor my brother Alfred, it really helped my mother to educate me as Alfred had already got  your sponsorship. As a result am happy to tell you that I completed my university degree last year and am now doing some part time job.

Please Gerald  see a picture of me with my brother Alfred during my graduation ceremony at our university.

With the food which he’s received, it will help us in our daily usage with my mother as sometimes we struggle in getting food.

Finally, I’d want to say thank you for your support on Alfred school fees which has assisted him until this far and may God bless you and your family.

Bye bye Gerald and wishing you a prosperous and happy new year.

Yours loving,

Alfred sister (Phyllis).

Note;- Alfred's food gift cost was Kshs.1,750/- The food items received were Maize flour,wheat flour,rice,beans,sugar,cooking oil and salt.


Acknowledgement and thanks from Rahab,the Mtwapa Academy school director-Kenya ,Africa.

2020-01-22

Hi! Everyone,

Happy New Year 2020!!!!! I feel soo happy to have this great moment to speak to everyone. My name is Rahab,the school director of Mtwapa Academy,Kenya-Africa.I also feel much privileged as our school has been like a ‘mother’ school of all the sponsored kids in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. Through this partnership, our school has greatly benefited apart from the school fees payment for the sponsored kids in various projects like building of permanent classrooms, desks, tables and chairs, school computers, school well digging and construction with water storage tank and water pump, school library, school kitchen and reconstruction of the school wall after it was demolished during the government road expansion project. Thanks to Sara and Gail of the Mtomondoni sponsorship program who have been at the forefront coordinating all of the above projects in linkage with other schools in England like Babington school, John Cleveland College, Brockington college,Gartree high school and Lancaster school.

The schools reopened two weeks back after the long Christmas holiday and all the kids are back in school. At the moment the kids’ population of our school is 350 kids out of these,150 kids are in the kindergarten department. Due to the change of curriculum, the kindergarten department is composed of baby class (age 1-4 years),Pre-Primary 1 (PP1,age 5) and Pre-Primary 2 (PP2,age 6).

 In general the new curriculum is good as it’s more of practical oriented, however it’s soo much involving in terms of the stationery and textbooks as the kids are required to have lots of stationery, textbooks and practical materials. All in all the kids and teachers are getting used to it and enjoying their class activities.

The total teacher population of our school is currently at 16 teachers out of this 10 are male teachers while 6 are male teachers. Am happy to inform you that our teachers and kids have been soo hardworking and last year KCPE our school had a mean score of 394 marks out 500 marks with one of the sponsored kids i.e Mary Magdaline being among the top 5 kids in the school.

I was happy to hear from Mr. Moses and through Gail and Sara that the sponsorship for the Lancaster and Babington school kids i.e Ian,Mwanatumu and Alice will be continuing, I therefore send lots of thanks as it’s good news for this new year. Am also happy to inform you that the kids are getting on well in their new classes i.e Mwanatumu (grade 1),Ian and Alice (STD 4). Thanks once again Babington and Lancaster school for you continued support to the kids, we acknowledge your support all the time and be blessed.

Before I end up, I’d like to give you some new development in our school especially this new year. Am happy to inform you that we’ve installed cctv cameras in all the classes whereby the school management can monitor all the classroom activities through the office screen which further helps to know how teachers are working with the kids in their respective classes. Also we’ve added more taps for the kids to wash their hands anytime they need too especially after visiting the toilet or before and after taking their lunch,thanks for the initial idea of digging the school well as we now have enough running water.Also we’ve renovated the school assembly shade, repainted the entire face of the school including the school kitchen. In general our school has a new face!!!

Finally I want to send my many thanks to everyone and all of our friends in England who have been ‘walking’  with us for all those years until now and we believe you all had a hand in all the achievements, progress and developments in our school, Mtwapa Academy and may God bless you all.

Regards,

Rahab-(Mtwapa Academy school director).


Gail Nuru speaking on her new STD 6 class!!!

2020-01-30

Hi! Everyone,

Happy New year 2020!!!,

My name is Gail Nuru aged 11 years. Am happy to tell you that I’ve this year joined  STD 6 which is a tough class compared to my previous class i.e STD 5 but am working hard to perform well in my new class. The subjects which I do in class 6 are English,Mathematics,Science,Social Studies,Islamic Religion Education and Kiswahili. The name of my class teacher is called Mr.Vincent.

 I wake up early in the morning at 5.00am to prepare myself to go to school and report at school at 6.00am.For my breakfast I take tea with bread or ‘mahamri’. At school my best friends are Zalha and Riena who are both girls. My favourite subjects in class 6 are Maths,Science and Kiswahili.

For my extra curriculum activities, I’ve joined drama club as I like acting. However for my future career I’d like to be a nurse. When I arrive back home in the evening at 6.00pm,I first do my homework, then I help my mother with some domestic work and then take my super, after that I go to sleep at 9.00pm,.

Being a Muslim girl,I also go to ‘madrassa’ i.e the Muslim youth classes on Mondays-Wednesday at 4.00pm-6.00pm also on Saturday’s morning until noon I also do go for the madrassa. However I do like playing especially during my free time whereby I love running games and other interesting games.

Finally am happy to my sponsors for continuing assisting me in my education and I promise to continue working hard.

Thank you from your loving girl,

Gail Nuru.


Abdalla and Hamisi

2020-02-07

Hi! Shirley,Gill,Dave,Sara and Gail.

It's us Abdalla and Hamisi,first and foremost we'd want to send over our New Year greetings to you all,we hope you've all been doing well.Also we'd want to send our appreciations to you all for your continued support to our education and general upkeep on both of us as brothers.Your long term support eversince we were in kindergarten upto date  of which i Hamisi am aged 21 years while Abdalla is aged 20 years is unforgetable and this is the reason why we are sending this appreciation message.Special thanks goes to you Gill and Dave whom you've helped us to build a permanent bricked house and which we've been living in it upto date. More special thanks goes to Shirley who has tirelessly supported us upto date.Also we'd like to thank Sara and Gail who have been hand in hand together will Gill,Dave and Shirley supporting us through the Mtomondoni sponsorship program.

Soon after completing our secondary school we happened to get some training in forklifting at our Mombasa port where we successfully completed a 1 month training in forklifting.However we are awaiting for job calling letters.Meanwhile so as to keep ourselves busy and also get some little income,we've been doing some casual jobs.Our future plans are to starting some small cale businesses where i Hamisi would want to deal with selling of second hand clothes while Abdalla will deal with selling of second hand shoes as we've found some potential market within our village.

All in all we want to thank you for the financial assistance which we've been receiving from you upto date through Moses as the money has been helping us to buy food and other domestic expenses like buying of water,bathing soap,tea leaves,tooth paste etc.

Finall we would want to wish you all blessed moments in your dail life.

With thanks from,

Hamisi and Abdalla.


new uniform and books for sponsored kids!!!!!!!

2020-02-18

Hi! Everyone,

 It's another great moment to speak with you all from here in Kenya,Africa.As you all know the schools are in the 1st term of the academic calendar,however this week they are on a mid-term break and they will be back to school next week on 24th Feb.

Well,am happy today to post over the didtribution of our kids new school uniform and books i.e for Gail (Std 6),Amos (PP2),Imu (PP2) and Mercy (PP1) who are learning in Mtwapa Academy,the total cost for the uniform and books was Kshs.15,470/= From my self and on behalf of all the kids nd parents i wpuld like to send over our heartfelt appreciations to everyone in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program for you generous contribution towards the purchase of the new uniform and books.

With regards,

from,

Moses


from Stanley's family (new recruit) to Mike Wann.

2020-03-01

Hello,Mike Wann,

Hope you are doing fine with everyone in your family.My name is Glady's and the mother to my son Stanley whom i was happy to hear that you'll be his new sponsor towards his education.I received the news of the sponsorship through Mr.Moses,the sponsorship coordinator of Mtomondoni sponsorship program here in Africa. Actually we were all happy in my family together with Stanley's siblings who is Georgina( 8 years old) and his brother George aged 13 year.For sure Stanley sponsorship has brought a big relief on my responsibilities of taking care of the kids especially in regard to education as my wages are very little from my tailoring work in the village,thank you soo much Mike and may God bless you.

Stanley is aged 10 years now and in grade 2,he loves learning alot and in the last year when he was in grade 1 he was position 3 in his end of year exam out of 21 classmates. Her below are the results as per subject;-

Subject........................................................marks obtained out of 100 percent.

1,English.................................................................88

2.Reading...............................................................100

3.Kiswahili...............................................................86

4.Maths....................................................................86

5.Social Studies and C.R.E......................................86

6.Science..................................................................72

Total marks obtained out of 600..........................518

Stanley loves playing football and also a fan of English teams.

Previously Stanley was learning in a government school which he took alot of time i.e almost 1 hour to walk to school.Am therefore happy that with the new sponsorship he'll get a relief in walking as the new school i.e Mtwapa Academy is not far from our house.

Thank you once gain Mike Wann for everything and may God bless you.

regards from,

Glady's (Stanley's mother).


Happy

2020-03-07

Hello Paula and everyone,

 My name is Happy aged 19 years old. Am soo much happy to speak to you  Paula and all the rest of the sponsors in the Mtomondoni  sponsorship program. Being one of the sponsored kids girl in the program, I feel soo much excited to inform you that I have now reached the final class in secondary school i.e form 4, a sponsorship journey which I’ve walked through ever since I was in the lower primary school.

The name of my school is called Kilifi Sea Breeze senior school which has form 1- form 4. The school is a Christian based school. In our class we are a total of 24 students. The no. of  subjects we do are 7 subjects i.e Maths,English,Kiswahili,Geography,Biology,Business Education and Chemistry.

I normal report to school at 6.00am where we first do our morning preps until 8.00am,thereafter we officially continue with our normal morning classes until 10.30am where we have a long morning break until 11.00am.From 11.00am we continue with classes until 1.30pm where we go for lunch. During lunch time I take chapati with beans or rice with beans and cabbage. After lunch we continue with classes from 2.00pm-5.30pm when we end our lessons.

However during weekends i.e on Saturday we go for Saturday classes from 8.00am -12.00 noon. Since our school is a day school, when I get back home I normal help my aunt to fetch water and fire wood in preparation for cooking. However after supper i.e 8.00pm-10.00pm I normal do some extra studies.

My hobbies are playing football. As a candidate and now that am expecting to do my final exam October –Nov.this year am really preparing myself so as I perform well in my Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exam by doing lots of revision from some of the previous examinations. Also in our class we’ve a discussion group where me and my classmates have formed the special study group where we revise and discuss some of the subjects challenging areas.

Finally I want to say thank you soo much to my long term sponsor Paula for her continued support towards my education and also to the rest of the sponsors in the program who as well been supportive to the program.

From,Yours loving girl,Happy.


Corona Virus in Kenya

2020-03-30

Hi all, we really hope this finds you all well given the awful state of play all over the world with the Coronavirus outbreak.  Much has been shown on the news of the devastation caused by this virus across many parts of the globe, however Africa does not seem to have been mentioned much and we thought you would like to hear how the families in Mtwapa have been affected. The country has been badly hit, they are in a full lockdown with curfews in place. Schools have been closed for a few weeks now along with businesses, hotels and most  other  sources of employment for our families. Consequently people are out of jobs and food is scarce with prices having been inflated vastly. We have tried to help by sending some money for food as well as hand sanitiser, gloves and masks. Moses has done a fantastic job in trying to distribute this out to the families, given the restrictions with travel it has been a very difficult task as you can imagine. A huge  thank you to him.The families are all very thankful for the donations and we thank the sponsors that have contributed. Unfortunately, unlike here in the UK, there is no government help with money,healthcare or food and one can only imagine how tough life out in Mtwapa is at present. We pray that all our families and friends STAY SAFE during this awful time. There are some pictures of some of the families receiving their parcels. Once again thank you for your continued support and please STAY SAFE.


schools reopening ref.corona situation;-short interview with the school director,Rahab.

2020-11-25

Hi! Everyone,

It's been a while eversince the last website post due to the covid 19 situation as the schools were closed.Am happy to inform you that the schools have been now reopened in phases i.e STD 4,STD 8 and form 4 as they are all canditate classes. Today am happy to post a short interview with the school director of Mtwapa Academy,madam Rahab speaking  interviewed by Mr.Moses about the school situation due to the covid 19 effect,thanks from the sponsorship coordinator,Mr.Moses. Here below is the interview;-

Question 1;-What was your reaction  especially in regard to school soon the government announced of the corona virus situation in Kenya?

Answer (Rahab);- At first when we had of the corona virus we were not aware of what it was exactly as it was a strange disease to us and were were shocked! However since the government had instructed all the schools to close we had therefore to accept the announcement and sent our kids back home.Also some of the kids had already heard from the radio on the announcement and so they decided not to come to school,unfortunately it took a long time to reopen the schools from March to mid October.

Question 2;- How has the covid-19 situation affeccted the school?

Answer 2 (Rahab);-The corona virus has really affected us negatively as i've been struggling to pay my teachers since they were not in school and the same time the school having no kids to pay schoool fees which is the school income. Also most of the parents had been laid off their work due to closing of the work places especially from the hotel industry where most of my school kids parents work. Now that the schools are reopened we are still struggling on the school income as most of the parents are still not at work.

Question 3;- What are the control measures which the school has taken;-

Answer 3;- (Rahab);-In terms of control measures,we are happy that all the kids are coming to school with masks and we make ure that the kids put on their masks at all times,good enough we had enough running water and taps so the kids are able to wash their hands with running water and soap which is provided by the school.

Question 4; What about social distance?

Answer 4 (Rahab);-  Social distance has affected the spacing of our kids desks as in some of the classes we have to use upto two classrooms per class.A good example is class 4 which has a total of 24 kids.previously we could accomodate them in one classroom but due to social distance we have to use 2 classrooms,This means in future we have to build more classrooms to accomodate all of our kids.

Question 5;- Is the government helping the private schools like yours?

Answer 5 (Rahab);- No,unfortunately we've had no aid from the government and we depend everything on our selves despite the few resources or income.

Question 6;- Any case reported at school?

Answer (Rahab);- No, good enough no covid-19 case has been reported at our school and all kids and teachers are safe and continuing well with their classes.

Question 7;- Are the kids prepared for their final exams?

Answer 7;- Am happy to say that the candidates are seriously preparing for their final exam and are about to complete their syllabus thereafter they'll strt their revision.

Question 8;- What do you have to say finally?

Answer 8 (Rahab);- Covid-19 is real and everyone is supposed to take all the precatiouns through the ministry of health guidelines and plase keep safe wherever you are,thank you.


Ian

2020-11-25

Hi! Everyone,

 'My name is Ian,am 10 years old and in class 4 at  Mtwapa Academy.Since the corona virus started i was at home with my parents and i used to help my mother and grandmother with some house hold work.However i also used to go for some private tuition so as to remind myself with some school work.At  private tuition where i used to go at one of my teacher's house i did Maths,English,IRE and science while at the private tuition i used to wear masks.

Now that we've reopened the school,we are supposed to wash our hands before going for classes.Good enough our school has enough running water with soap.We always put on our face masks while in class.However we are not supposed to interact so much witn each other while we are in class so as to avoid infecting one another.Our class teacher names are madam Violet,madam Hadija and Mr,Vincent. Our class at at 6.30 am until 5.00pm.

The subject which am doing are Art and craft,English,Maths,Science,Home science,Kiswahili,IRE and Social studies.

For my favourite games,i like playing hide and seek,football and running.

Due to the covid 19 situation we no longer go to madrassa.Finally i want to say thank you to all of my sponsors for their continued support to my education and keep safe.

yours loving kid,Ian.'


Alice

2020-12-02

Hi! Everyone,

'My name is Alice,am 10 years old and studying ata Mtwapa Acdemy in STD 4.Before the schools reopened i used to play and sometimes reading. However most of the times i spent my time in the house due to the corona virus.While visiting friends i used to wear mask.

The subjects which we do are science and technology,mathematics,English,Kiswahili,Social studies and C.R.E.My favourite subject is Maths.My best friends are Holiness and Dora.My favourite game is skipping rope.My favourite food is chapati with beans.

Am working hard in schol as i would want to be lawyer after completing my studies.

During weekends i.e Saturday,before entering the church we are first checked on our temperature not be above 37.5 centigrade by use of the thermogun,wash our had with soap or antibacterial and also wear masks.On sunday i rest.

Finally i want to say thank you to all of my sponsors and keep safe.

Yours loving kid,Alice.'


Happy New Year 2021!!!

2021-02-02

Hi! Everyone,

Happy New year to you all.Hope you are all keeping safe.Unfortunately the covid-19 pandemic situation has brought to a standstill on our kids program as the kids had been at home for a long time in the last year,thanks God our kids are all safe.However over the last year we had lost 2 parents of the program i.e Magdaline's father and Vidzo's mum.Unfortunately again this year last month we again lost a parent i.e Mr.Benson.However their passing on wastn't related to covid-19.

Am happy to inform you that this year the schools are fully reopened and the kids are all back to school.However the schools have been advised to adhere to strickly safety regulations like wearing of the face masks,washing hands with soap and maintaining social distance.Am further happy to know that despite the situation you as sponsors through Gail and Sara have made sure that our kids are supported to get back to school i.e both at secondary school and the kids at Mtwapa Academy.Please see on the picture gallery for our first lot of the kids receiving support i.e Gibson,Alfred,Imu plus the Bensons family receiving donation towards the funeral of their dad Mr.Benson who was laid to rest last week but one on Saturday. Thanks to everyone once again,

from,Moses (sponsorship co-ordinator)


Hello from Mtwapa.

2021-02-15

Hi! Everyone,

I hope you are all keeping safe with your families. We all here in Mtwapa are fine.The schools are on and the kids are getting on well at school.Well i today needed to send over some updates ref.the second round of kids money,please see photo gallery for the updates. Once again from me and on behalf of the families send our appreciations for the support to the kids.

Thanks,

yours in service,

Moses (Sponsorship coordinator).


Updates.

2021-03-01

Hi! Everyone,

Hope every is doing good. We are all getting on well.Here are some more updates for kids who recently received their money. Thanks to everyone,yours in service,Moses


Thanks message from Rahab.

2021-03-03

Hi! Everyone,

Hope you are all well with your families.We all here in Mtwapa  Academy are doing fine.The schools are still on and we expect to close before end of March.At the moment we have a total of 15 teachers of which 5 are male while 10 are female. Due to the covid-19 we had to add some more staff for cleaning the classrooms  which has made us spend more,unfortunately lots of parents are still not working due to the covid -19 pandemic.

Thanks to the Mtomondoni sponsorship program through  Gail and Sara for their recent support of money which really helped to pay teachers and added some school  toilet taps. Due to the additional taps it has really helped to any covid-19 infections and we are happy that we have  not yet experienced any infections at the school. However eversince the schools were opened,we have so far recorded an 80 percent  reporting of students.

In the next 3 weeks the STD 8 kids  i.e 10 kids shall be sitting for their  KCPE exam.Also the grade 4 kids i.e 24 kids will also be sitting for their final exam. With the grade 4  they have a project on water sources and the way to purify water which they'll be tested in their final exam.

Thanks once again for your support towards our school.

from,

Rahab(Mtwapa Academy school Director).