01/01/2026
I’m hoping 2026 will bring us plenty of opportunities for the trips out in Kenya if you read the news letter you’ll know what we achieved in. 2025 in so many ways to assist many so we will put all the children into school this year as well as a few extra on top of the 509 children and more glasses clinics as always but we need funding and big suitcases meds like painkillers pads for the ladies or a few quid will always help in case you missed the newsletter ill add it to this for now happy new year and bless you amen our address and details as follows
Kenya trip
15 October 2025
Good morning on this very cold day here in Allostock, Cheshire.
Home at last after a very hard and trying time out in Kenya. As always it’s difficult to know where to start, but let’s begin with the big project.
When I arrived I was eager to visit the school and all it’s challenges that were awaiting us. As eager as I was I had to be careful not to forget to make an appointment with the Headteacher of the school.
So my friends day two saw me chatting to not only the Headteacher but the infant teachers as well. It became clear that this was going to be a mammoth challenge but after building many projects out there it was easy to get an idea as to what materials were needed for each of the many projects.
So let’s fill in some facts:
On our last trip we gave the school a block with 2 toilets for the infants and a second block of 2 for the junior. These had to serve 700 children. There was already ten toilets which had become unusable. HENCE A MAMMOTH TASK.
Both blocks were in great need of repair, most had no doors and frames which had long gone. We replaced all the doors and fittings and every unit was rebuilt to a very high standard. This included the fascia boards, floors and roofing where needed. We painted them all in and out bringing the ten units back to life. We bought padlocks for each unit. Almost 8 weeks were spent on this rebuild.
I employed 14 workers including 3 fundies to oversee the daily duties and their daily wages put much needed food on their plates.
The project was the biggest yet but it turned out very impressive.
Now the two infant classes, do you remember the old school rooms the infant children had to use with there mud floors, rusty walls and rotten supports that were in desperate need of underpinning. They were in need of a total rebuild befre they collapsed
I wanted to keep the roof as we had spent time and money on it on the project before on out last trip. Where underpinning was required on the supports we not only used hard wood but we also concreted each piece in place giving the whole foundation a firm fixture, we added new concrete flooring in both classrooms and repaired some roofing timbers. We replaced all the lower walls with new tin sheets, added new doors and door frames where also required as they old ones were past repair. We added the surrounding concrete border around all buildings to keep the water out. We also added new 6x1 fascia boards all round and across the extended roof which was painted.
We used a massive amount of materials this is a list of what I can remember:
63 bags of cement plus ten waterproofing
58 ten ft tin sheets
230 ft of 6x1 timber
15 tins of green paint
20 door sliding bolts
28 cedar polls
36 four inch hinges
30 Ltrs white wall paint
30 round poles from local trees
15 kg roofing nails
10 kg 5 inches nails, 10 kg 4 inch nails, 10kg 3 inch nails
20 x 7 ft fence posts
6 tins blue paint
2 gallon paraffin
6 four inch paint brushes
6 two inch paint brushes
14 padlocks for toilets
One big gate lock
88 ft of 2x1 timber
12 ltrs silver aluminum paint
2 kg 2 inch nails
We undertook the project and completed it and I handed the project over on 7th December to the School Board Officials.
Other achievements on this trip:
We made a white cross out of timber and gave it to a local church that we work with and support.
While I was there Valma travelled by car to Nairobi to pick up eight suitcase that we had sent out in June. This took her 23 hours and cost 20,000 ks (about £120) The items were mostly intact and were soon distributed around the village.
We are still waiting the delivery of 4 suitcase from Mombasa to Nairobi. This time we will try using the coach to get them back to the site.
I treated several people on site for different medical issues and we managed to run some big glasses clinic’s giving over 600 people better vision.
We also paid to put 509 children into school for next year.
All in all a well worth while trip with amazing blessings for the community and well appreciated amen.
As always there will be things I have forgotten but I’m going to add this - I could not have achieved anything without you guys as it was a mammoth under taking with a huge amount of funding but because of you we did it amen.
It would be great if we could send out more suitcases as there is a huge need for our blessings but this has a price tag of £2.50 per kg with Kenya shipping, then we have to get it back to base. This is all doable but at a high price. Somewhere there may be a way to get better or cheaper transportation but for now this is how it is, expensive but a blessing to many amen.
We have seven suitcases ready to send out this week. They weigh 137kg which is costing £342 to get as far as Nairobi, then they have to be collected from there which will be another £118.
Well brother and sisters I thank you dearly for all you do to help run this amazing project thank you and God bless.
Just a thought we still need suitcases and bags. If you’re offering any meds please make sure they are in date painkillers and Imodium always in great demand please x
