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Richeldis Brosnan reports ahead of year in Jiayuguan
Thu, 6th Jun 2019September 14th 2018 was the day I announced to my parents that I wanted to do a gap year in China with the Project Trust. They were immensely supportive and…
Katie Hughes is heading to San Alfonso, Chile
Sat, 1st Jun 2019We have awarded one of our Footprinter Grants this year to Katie Hughes. She’s heading to San Alfonso in Chile to teach English at a primary school. It sounds like…
Tanzanian Secondary School has been “Made with Hope”
Thu, 16th May 2019Last 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…
Izzy Richard’s Second Term at Otjikondo
Thu, 25th Apr 2019Parents’ Day Project We’ve spent most of this term getting ready for the Otjikondo’s annual “Parents’ Day”. It’s a day where parents and guardians of everyone in the school are invited…
A spoonful of sugar from St Mary’s, Melrose
Tue, 16th Apr 2019We’d like to express our enormous thanks to St Mary’s School, Melrose, for choosing Hazel’s Footprints as the beneficiary of their charity performance of Mary Poppins in March. Pupils at…
Porridge and Pens build 4 classrooms!
Wed, 13th Feb 2019In 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…
Izzy Richards: First Term at Otjikondo
Sat, 2nd Feb 2019So here I am, very nearly 3 months into my gap year, and what a 3 months it has been. It is very easy to say there is never a…
Update on Open Way Pre-Schools in Ethiopia
Sun, 25th Nov 2018In 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,…
Guest blog by Educate for Life’s Iona-Jane Harris
Wed, 14th Nov 2018We 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…
Fundraising Success – Footprints Ball
Tue, 18th Sep 2018The Footprints Ball 2018 has raised £17,740.77 – and we are absolutely thrilled! The event was held earlier in the summer in aid of both Hazel’s Footprints Trust and Pilgrims…
Jamie Blaikie: final report on return from Roatan, Honduras
Sat, 15th Sep 2018Jamie Blaikie is just back from a year in Roatan, an island just off Honduras. He’s been teaching in a village school and has done it all with bucket loads…
Ngambenyi – a “model” school in Kenya
Sat, 1st Sep 2018We 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…
Izzy Richards: Off to Otjikondo School, Namibia
Wed, 22nd Aug 2018Izzy Richards is just about to leave for Otjikondo School in Namibia she has been awarded one of our Footprinter Grants for volunteers heading to educational projects in disadvantaged communities.…
Jamie Blaikie: 2nd Report from Roatan, Honduras
Sun, 6th May 2018We are over the 8 month mark. A completely ridiculous thing to think about. For me – Jamie Blaikie – it is such a crazy thought as I have become so…
Amazing film showing the completed Ngambenyi school
Sat, 20th Jan 2018We 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.
Jamie Blaikie First Report from Roatan Island, Honduras
Sun, 31st Dec 2017As we head into 2018 I thought this would be a good time to tell you about our first few months in Central America. I’m volunteering as a teacher at…
Finished building project in Madagascar
Tue, 21st Nov 2017We 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…
Catherine Roy-Stanley’s First Report from Ghana
Sat, 11th Nov 2017After nearly two months in Ghana, I can safely say that the mad way of life here feels almost ordinary. Power cuts, taxis with doors falling off and the absence…
Computer room completed in The Gambia
Wed, 11th Oct 2017We 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 an Educational Project grant…
Hector Wotherspoon’s final report from Ghana
Wed, 13th Sep 2017As I sit here back home in my comfortable kitchen, its hard to believe that only four weeks ago I was standing up in front of a class of 55 pupils.…
Superb New IT lab at Ngumbe School, Malawi
Sun, 20th Aug 2017Earlier 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. …
