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Gap Kenya: 21 children move from the Joseph Centre into school
Sat, 7th Nov 2026In November 2025, the Trustees agreed a grant of £4,500 a year for two years to Gap Kenya, with a possible third year to be considered at the end of…
Irene and Junior: training two teachers at Brightlingsea Academy, Kumasi
Sat, 7th Nov 2026In December 2025, Hazel’s Footprints Trust gave £2,326 to Porridge and Pens Ghana through the Big Give Christmas Challenge, where our donation was match funded. The grant pays for the…
A new school for Oromia: we are funding the student block
Wed, 4th Nov 2026In September 2025, Hazel’s Footprints Trust paid a grant of £8,172 to the Workneh Dechasa Education Foundation (WDEF), a small London-based charity building a new primary school in Oromia, Ethiopia.…
“The word I keep coming back to is gratitude”: Robyn Youens returns from Senegal
Wed, 9th Sep 2026Robyn Youens, a Footprinter Grant recipient, has returned home after seven months volunteering with Project Trust in Senegal, and starts her medical degree this autumn. She wrote to the Trustees…
Otjikondo in 2026: our annual grant, a trustee visit and a busy second term
Tue, 8th Sep 2026Otjikondo is where Hazel’s Footprints began. Hazel spent her gap year at Otjikondo School Village in Namibia’s Kunene region, and the Trust has made an annual grant to the school…
511 books and a library to put them in: a new partnership in The Gambia
Fri, 28th Aug 2026At our May 2026 meeting the Trustees agreed a grant of £3,000 to Building Futures in The Gambia (BFiG) to build a library at BFiG Busumbala Nursery School. It is…
Fifteen laptops and a lost fear of computers at Door of Hope, Guatemala
Wed, 19th Aug 2026In November 2025, Hazel’s Footprints Trust agreed a grant of £5,600 to Street Kids Direct for computers at the Door of Hope (Puerta de Esperanza) centre in Guatemala City. This…
Kidogo Kids: the two Eunices, and a fourth and final year of support
Sat, 25th Jul 2026In 2023, Hazel’s Footprints Trust made a grant of £3,600 to Kidogo Kids, which supports disadvantaged children in the slums of Nairobi, to pay the salaries of the school’s head…
“They completely stole my heart”: Georgina Graham’s year of teaching in Honduras
Wed, 15th Jul 2026Georgina Graham, a Footprinter Grant recipient, has completed her year volunteering with Project Trust in Honduras. Here is her final report on what teaching was really like. Not the year…
Footprinter Georgina Graham is half-way through her Honduras volunteering year
Mon, 20th Apr 2026Georgina Graham, a Footprinter Grant recipient, shares her reflections at the half-way point in her year of volunteering with Project Trust in Honduras. Okay, so a lot has happened since…
Robyn Youens’s reflections on her first weeks in Senegal for Project Trust
Tue, 31st Mar 2026Robyn Youens, a Footprinter Grant recipient, sends us a report on her first month of her volunteer post with Project Trust in Senegal. She will remain with the project for…
Two Months in Honduras: A Footprinter’s Journey by Georgina Graham
Fri, 31st Oct 2025Georgina Graham, a Footprinter Grant recipient, shares her reflections after two months volunteering with Project Trust in Honduras. I’ve been in Honduras for about two months now. Overall, I’m settling…
Accomplish Children’s Trust impact report: St Agnes classroom block transforms lives
Fri, 19th Sep 2025“Certainly the benefits this new classroom block will bring to so many students in the future are huge.” These words from Accomplish Children’s Trust perfectly capture the significance of what…
Kidogo Kids update: impacts beyond the classroom
Fri, 19th Sep 2025“The impact that your donation is having has been way beyond what we had imagined. It has brought stability to the school with all the benefits that that entails. Happier…
From Island Dreams to Laboratory Reality: Funzi’s New Science Lab
Thu, 18th Sep 2025“It’s amazing to be part of the first class to study in the new lab – a great experience and eye-opening.” These are the words of Fauzia Abba, a Grade…
Awamu opens doors at Hazel’s STEM Library for Kampala girls
Fri, 8th Aug 2025“My dream is to become a biomedical researcher and support my community during outbreaks like Ebola, COVID-19 and Mpox. I want to help change the course of development in places…
A new chapter: Team Kenya’s STEM and library project completion
Tue, 25th Feb 2025Thanks to a grant of £14,500 from Hazel’s Footprints Trust, Team Kenya has successfully completed a renovation and extension of the Learning & Resource Centre (LRC) at Twende Pamoja, Ndhiwa,…
Kidogo Kids have a year of ups and downs in Nairobi
Sat, 1st Feb 2025During the summer of 2023, Hazel’s Footprints Trust made a grant of £3,600 to Kidogo Kids, supporting disadvantaged children in Nairobi slums, Kenya. The grant was provided to pay for…
Classroom complete at Tubarere School, Rwanda – photo update
Fri, 6th Dec 2024We are thrilled to see photos of the completed classroom at Tubarere School, Rwanda. Aid for Education developed this project following a grant from Hazel’s Footprints Trust just six months…
Oscar McNicol’s first report from Thailand
Sat, 2nd Nov 2024Oscar McNicol is currently volunteering in rural Thailand, at a school teaching English, supported in part by a Footprinter Grant from Hazel’s Footprints Trust. Oscar has arranged his volunteer project…
St Agnes classroom block completed ahead of schedule!
Tue, 29th Oct 2024In late 2023 we provided a grant of £8,500 to Accomplish Children’s Trust to fund a new classroom block. In June 2024, we heard of the speed at which the…
