Hazel’s Footprints sends £10,000 to Otjikondo School in Namibia every March, to mark Hazel’s birthday. Otjikondo is very close to our hearts so it’s always so rewarding to hear how the funds have been allocated, and how the school is doing. This year, as for so many schools across the globe, Coronavirus has brought many challenges. The school has shown its usual resilience and ingenuity in doing as much as it can to minimise the impact as far as possible for all of the children. Here […]
Hazel’s Footprints has been supporting Pamoja Leo, an amazing charity operating in Tanga, Tanzania. Pamojoa Leo works to support orphaned and vulnerable children who struggle to access education. Hazel’s Footprints initially agreed to a grant of £4,500 to pay the salary of a social worker who works to help children to access formal education, and we have now also provided a second annual payment of the same amount. Find out how the grants have helped children to stay in education during the Coronavirus pandemic. Pamoja Leo […]
Last month, we received a letter from Jemma Williams, Founder of Porridge & Pens, to update on school life in Ghana amid the global pandemic. In 2020, we agreed to fund the salary of Head Teacher Ben Antwi – since then, it sounds like he has gone to heroic efforts to help the children of Brightlingsea Academy. We wanted to share this letter with our supporters as it’s such an incredible story of resilience and dedication, made possible with the funds that all of you help […]
Hazel’s Footprints Trust has been supporting an incredible organisation, Open Way, which operates in rural Ethiopia, since 2017. We provide funding for the salaries of 9 pre-school teachers. Overall, Open Way has over 1200 students enrolled at 8 pre-schools. Open Way schools faced some COVID-closures in 2020 We are very relieved to hear that Covid-19 does not seem to swept through the rural area where Open Way is working in Ethiopia. Any number of factors may explain this including a young demographic and a swift government response. It […]
Last summer, we made a “third aim” grant of £8,900 to a wonderful UK-based charity called Made with Hope. A brand new school, CHETI Secondary, is now open thanks in part to this grant. Made with Hope should be very proud of bringing the very first secondary school to Nadaoito, a disadvantaged rural community near the city of Arusha. We are so thrilled with how everything has turned out, and wish all CHETI Secondary pupils and staff all the best of luck in the school’s first year! A school Made […]
In 2018, Hazel’s Footprints “third aim” grant funding supported the construction of 4 new classrooms at the Brightlingsea School, Kumasi, Ghana. Here’s an update from our partner on-the-ground, Porridge and Pens Ghana. Brightlingsea School in Ghana “The trustees of Porridge and Pens Ghana would like to update you on funding you kindly sent us to construct 4 new classrooms at the Brightlingsea School, Kumasi Ghana. We are so pleased to let you know all 4 news classrooms (and our school library) were completed in 2018. […]
In November 2017, Hazel’s Footprints agreed a grant of £3,600 for Open Way, a charity which supports pre-school education in rural Ethiopia. The grant funds the 2018 running costs, including salaries, of 9 pre-school classes. One year on, we are very pleased to share an update on how well they’ve been getting on. The Trustees of Hazel’s Footprints are very impressed so far. Consequently, we have decided to that Open Way will receive funding for the same 9 classes again in 2019. How the grant is being used […]
We are very excited to share a blog written by Iona-Jane Harris who is one of the Directors of Educate for Life. This is an incredible British charity working at grassroots level in India. More specifically, Educate for Life have been successfully created, alongside local partners and some outstanding Indian teachers, a “model rural school” near Udaipur in Rajasthan. That school is Hunar Ghar. Iona-Jane is just back from a visit to the school and reports on what she’s found. by Iona-Jane Harris In October […]
We are so happy to hear from African Promise that Ngambenyi Primary School in Kenya, the rebuilding of which was fully funded by Hazel’s Footprints, has been recognised as a “model” school by its local County government. Charles Coldman, founder of African Promise, received a letter from the Honourable Daniel Mwakisha of the local County government over the summer. The letter praises African Promise for standard-setting work in the Kasigau region, and singles out Ngambenyi in particular: “I note with a lot of appreciation that […]
We were so excited to be sent this film by our partners African Promise – it’s of Ngambenyi Primary School in Kasigau, south east Kenya. This is a school which Hazel’s Footprints Trust was able to fund in its entirety and it’s fair to say we all had goosebumps watching this. We hope you enjoy it too! You can find out more about the project on our dedicated page for the school.
We are really pleased to get word last week of the completion of another one of our Third Aim projects, this time in Madagascar. In summer 2016, Hazel’s Footprints agreed to contribute £10,000 to an excellent high school capital project in the Anosy region in the south of the country. The project was masterminded by SEED Madagascar – formerly Azafady – and builds on two previous projects we’ve worked together on. The school – Manambaro Lycée – had provision for just 100 pupils a few years ago, but the […]
We were really pleased to see photos of the new computer room at Bakau Newton Lower Basic School in The Gambia. This is the result of funding via a Third Aim grant given to UK charity Affecting Real Change. The lab has been named the “Hazel Scott Aiton Memorial Computer Lab”. Our third aim grant funded the transformation of an old pavilion into a fully functioning computer room at Bakau Newtown Lower Basic School. This involved installation of over twenty computer stations, electricity and security with locking door and windows. Affecting Real […]
Earlier this year, we agreed to fund a project with IT Schools Africa in Malawi. We provided a third aim grant of £1,300 to refurbish the IT lab at Ngumbe Community Day School. The grant was put to work extremely quickly, and we’re delighted to see the result! The works included repairs and repainting of the security door, refurbishment of the classroom walls, a new whiteboard to replace the old blackboard (no more nasty chalk in the computers!) and new power sockets.
We’re delighted to provide you with an update on how things are going at Hunar Ghar, India. We are one year into three years of funding teachers’ salaries at this inspirational school set up by our UK partner Educate for Life. Hunar Ghar is based in a rural area near Udaipur, Rajasthan – one of the poorest states in all of India. Update after 12 Months of Funding All teachers at Hunar Ghar, including two funded by one of our “Third Aim” education project grants, receive regular […]
We’ve just heard some incredible results from Hunar Ghar school in rural Rajasthan. Every single pupil in Standard 5 class has been awarded an A grade in recent state board exams. This is one of the schools we fund under our Third Aim. It’s run by a superb team at Educate for Life, a UK charity responsible for running the project in India. The 100% A grade success rate is completely unheard of in a rural school in India. That’s because the vast majority of parents in the […]
Swawou School in Sierra Leone received funding from Hazel’s Footprints to pay for the head teacher’s salary for a period of 2 years. This is a school which was severely affected by the recent Ebola crisis. Here is the first report from the school since the grant was awarded at the end of 2015. Intro It’s been an exciting few months for the Swawou School Foundation. Work commenced on completing the construction of our new school in January and we’re pleased to report that […]
We recently heard from Charles Coldman, Director of African Promise, on the progress that’s being made at Ngambenyi school in Kenya. We are so excited about this school: we are funding the entire school building project, the biggest we’ve ever done, and we made the decision having worked with Charles in much smaller ways on the other schools African Promise has supported in the area. African Promise are fantastic and doing all of the hard work needed to get this school off the ground…here is the […]
