Kipepeo Foundation is a small family charity supporting Africans in their initiatives to improve education and sports facilities for orphaned and disadvantaged children. We aim to reduce marketing and administrative overheads by emphasising direct personal connections and involvement in small projects. To ensure long-term sustainability of our projects and contribution from the local community, we sponsor only projects started by the Africans. We believe that developing opportunities that the community considers valuable makes a bigger difference than financing our ideas, no matter how grand. We operate in the Likoni slum near Mombasa, Kenya.
Kipepeo Foundation
Giving Children Future
Registration number: XT32102
Helping Children Grow
contact@kipepeofoundation.org.uk
MANY THANKS to our donors
Lenka and Vladimir Pilarovi, Christopher White, Eva Kucerova, Gabina Jirkovska, Helena Pilarova, Irena and Jamie Smith, Irena Sindelarova and her colleagues from the Prague School of Economics, Ivana Pourova,Ivana, Petr and Honza Kaslikovi, Lenka & Honza Curinovi and their friends, David White, Levi Allan, Lida Kaslikova, Lucie and David Struplovi, Mary and Anthony Spender, Michal Diatka, Tamara Cermakova and her friends, Mirka Capkova, Nick and Judith Hubscher, Nigel and Hanneke Wood, Olga Bircakova and her colleagues from UNDP Bratislava, Pavla and Mike Scholes, Renata Diatkova, Pavlina Kaprova, Pete Patel, Peter White, Robert White, Roger Brooker, Stepan Kroupa, Vanessa Winsor, Vera and Frantisek Vachovi, Zdenek Dvorak, Andy Ledger, Antonia Robson, Chris Ottewell, Jody, Kristelle Getzler, Lee Chapman, Sherie Morais, Lindsey Rix, Katie Powney, Melvin Warwick, Sarka and Lothar Buyny, John Smith, Tom Player, Stefan Buxton, Chris Beer, George Thomas, Pavlos Papaefstathiou, Stephen Balogh, Sumathy Santhalingam, Guillame Leveziel, Vijay Deolia, Jessica White, Richard Peralta, AdityaTalwar, Mari-anne Chiromo, Making Projects Work Ltd, Eliska Psikova, Jana Komankova and www.ProtiSedi.cz, Kveta Uhlirova, Pavel Beseda, Danial Javandel, Martin and Shirley Sarmiento-Blaha, Ravin Mehta, Karolina Houzvickova Solcova.
Where your donations help
All roofs at St Bernard Academy have been replaced.
The school now has a new "assembley courtyard" which also serves as a playground.
A new nursery was built.
The classes immediately next to the road have been moved so the children are no longer disturbed by the noise from the shops and have more peace and quiet for learning.
Your donations help with the school cashflow so that all staff can be paid.
Your donations bought footballs and volleyballs for the children .
Your donations covered Ritah's and Justus's school fees.
Your donations improved lives of the orphans from the Mombasa/Likoni slum.
How can you donate
We are now registered with mydonate so giftaid can be collected. Please use this button to go to our page there:
We send all your donations to Kenya via Western Union
How can you help.
Financial help for the schools:
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- building repair
- classroom enhancement (floors and blackboards fix)
- school library and teaching aids (wall maps, charts, educational posters etc.)
- computer classes
- PE classes (balls, bats, racquets etc.)
To give you an idea, to build an entire slum school costs around 7000 GBP.
Sponsoring children:
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Orphans who want to continue their studies at secondary schools and universities need a sponsor. A year at a secondary school in Kenya costs approx. 350 GBP. Living expenses amount to another approx. 300 GBP. Universities are more expensive, depending on subject studied and the location.
It certainly isn’t necessary to pay the whole sum. Any amount will be appreciated!
Material gifts:
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People often ask whether they may donate material gifts. It is certainly possible, although I would recommend only donation of things difficult to obtain locally.
- maps
- calculators
- English learners dictionaries
- laptops, cameras
- children's books (not school books, unless they are Kenyan school books)
Please only donate what can be easily transported.
This year we learnt the hard way that dumping taxes imposed on some used good may make material donations not worth considering.
Time:
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We need help with
- admin tasks
- IT support
We currently do not need volunteers in Kenya.
If you are interested in helping, please contact us at kipepeo.mombasa@gmail.com.
Thank You!
Copyright Kipepeo Foundation 2011
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