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Work for Team Kenya!
We’re delighted to be recruiting for two new positions, to join our dynamic and growing organisation. Team Kenya is a small North East based charity that works to reduce extreme poverty and inequality within poor communities in Western Kenya. Our programmes promote gender equality and sustainable development, so that girls and women in rural Kenya can create their own bright futures and whole communities can break the cycle of poverty. We’re looking for a CEO and a Fundraising Officer to join our team in Newcastle, UK. Both positions will initially be part time, with the potential to develop into full…
Read moreThank You for an Incredible 2018!
This year, Team Kenya has celebrated our 10th Anniversary! We are delighted to have celebrated with a successful and exciting year, thanks to your incredible support. Whilst our financial year does not end until the turn of the year, we already know that this year has been our most successful fundraising year to date. This has had a huge impact on our work in Ndhiwa. Here are just a few examples of the impact our work has been able to have in 2018. Expansion of our holistic school model to eight partner schools – we are now offering our holistic…
Read moreMeet Jemima!
Jemima received agricultural training as a result of last year’s Big Give Christmas Challenge. The training empowered her to increase her income to 4.5 times its original level. In March this year, Jemima received agricultural training, funded by our wonderful supporters’ donations to last year’s Big Give Christmas Challenge. As a result of the training, Jemima has been able to embrace more efficient agricultural practices. Jemima has been able to increase her crop yields and her income, empowering her to provide for herself and her four grandchildren. Agricultural training helped Jemima to improve her farming methods and diversify the crops…
Read moreLucy Bronze Shirts Raise £800 at Auction!
A huge thank you to England Lionesses and Olympique Lyonnais Féminin star Lucy Bronze, who kindly donated two signed shirts for auction to raise funds for Team Kenya! The items sold for just under £800, which will have a fantastic impact on Team Kenya’s work in Ndhiwa, western Kenya. Why is Lucy Bronze an Ambassador for Team Kenya? “I am proud and excited to be an ambassador and supporter of Team Kenya. As an organisation, Team Kenya performs valuable work to empower girls and women in Ndhiwa, a community where marginalisation of girls and women is rife. I was shocked…
Read moreLucy Bronze Shirts for Auction!
Thank you to Lucy Bronze, who has very kindly donated two signed shirts for auction to raise funds for Team Kenya! Lucy plays for both the England Women’s team and the Women’s French club Olympic Lyonnais, who she signed with on a 3-year contract in August 2017. She became a member of the England Senior team on 26th June 2013 and has since then gone on to help England finish third in the 2015 World Cup. One of the shirts she has donated was worn during the Champions League. She is the first England Women’s player to ever win the…
Read moreJoanna’s Cycle Across Kenya
The last ten days have been an adventure of physical strength, mental determination and emotion. From cycling 225km under the African Sun to meeting some of the most inspirational people I have ever met in Ndhiwa, it has been a journey that I will look back and cherish forever. As I landed in Nairobi, on my very first trip to Africa, I was full off anticipation and nerves as what to lay ahead. Although I have recently set myself some gruelling physical challenges, I am not normally one to travel alone and set off on an adventure with a group…
Read moreYour Favourite Team Kenya Memories!
As we are in our 10th Anniversary Year, we asked our supporters for their favourite Team Kenya memories. As always, our incredible supporters delivered! Here are a selection of our favourite memories that were shared: Hannah O’Gorman – “After volunteering for Newcastle University Team Kenya Society and doing lots of fundraising events to raise money to support Anatalia, one of the best memories was receiving a letter from her. It was so amazing to hear how our support has helped Anatalia become an educated, empowered and happy young woman.” Katie Wilkinson – “So hard to just choose one! On…
Read moreKenya Cycle Challenge
Congratulations to our heroic Kenya Cycle Challenge team, who tacked 230 kilometres of dusty, rocky dirt tracks and steep slopes whilst encountering giraffe, zebra, hyena and wildebeest on their way to Ndhiwa! The group travelled into Nairobi and all participants chose to stay at Wildebeest Eco Camp, a beautiful, sustainable tourism site. Here, the group met John Blissett of Willetts Safaris, who developed and coordinated the cycle. The adventure began in the small village of Talek which is near Narok, a town in South West Kenya with a population of approximately 40,000 people, mostly Maasai. The team settled into Crocodile…
Read moreNCEDP Shortlisted for Pan-African Awards
We are happy to announce that our close delivery partner the Ndhiwa Community Empowerment and Development Project (NCEDP) has been shortlisted for the Pan-African Awards for Entrepreneurship in Education. The nomination is based on the programmes that NCEDP and Team Kenya have developed in Ndhiwa. The awards, hosted by The Saville Foundation and Teach A Man To Fish, celebrate organisations and charities leading hands-on entrepreneurship training programmes or using business solutions to fund education for young people in countries across Africa. NCEDP is one of 50 other organisations shortlisted for this years’ awards, with the winners to be announced in…
Read moreCarmel’s Placement in Ndhiwa
Earlier this year, I visited Ndhiwa on a research and volunteering placement with Team Kenya, as part of my MA International Development and Education at Newcastle University. In a few weeks, I’ll be handing in my dissertation and putting on my Team Kenya vest for the Great North Run. So, as two very different finish lines creep nearer, it feels a good time to reflect on what it’s all for. Here’s what it’s like to be on placement in Ndhiwa… Karibuni Eco Cottages Like most Team Kenya volunteers, I stayed at Karibuni. This place is much more than accommodation. It…
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