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Excellent progress at Hunar Ghar school, India
Sat, 12th Aug 2017We fund two teachers at Educate for Life’s Hunar Ghar school, India We’re delighted to provide you with an update on how things are going at…
Points of Light Award from Number 10!
Tue, 25th Jul 2017We are so touched to announce that Joan and Bill Scott Aiton have just received a lovely letter from Theresa May. The letter was to tell us that Hazel’s Footprints…
Erin Milne: Footprinter Report from Malaysia
Thu, 13th Jul 2017My first placement was at MRSM TAR, which was located on the East coast of Malaysia. After a few weeks of being at the new school, we were eventually given…
Lucy Mytton’s Second Footprinter Report – India
Sat, 20th May 2017Hello, I welcome you find out more about my Art Workshops and life in India, let me tell you about the last 3 months. India bursts with colour, through the…
Ngambenyi school completed!
Sat, 20th May 2017We are so excited that the building of Ngambenyi Primary School in south east Kenya is now complete! The project was funded entirely by Hazel’s Footprints (£110,000) thanks to incredibly…
Murray Watson: Second Report from Guyana
Sat, 13th May 2017Murray Watson reports on his volunteer year at Sand Creek Secondary, Guyana. Time to write from Letham Day 110, again I’m in Lethem – 3 hours from Sand Creek. This…
Grant-funded Hunar Ghar pupils get top marks!
Thu, 11th May 2017We’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…
Murray Watson: Early Days report from Guyana
Sat, 4th Feb 2017Murray Watson lets us know how he’s getting teaching maths and science in Sand Creek, Guyana. To say he’s working with limited resources is an understatement, but he (and the…
Stephanie Smith: Final Report from South Africa
Sat, 4th Feb 2017Stephanie Smith writes her final report on her experience volunteering in Ngcizela, South Africa. My life in Ngcizela Yho, (this kind of loosely translates to a sigh in English) is…
Lucy Mytton’s first footprinter report (India)
Fri, 20th Jan 2017Its nearly one month until I get on the plane and fly east to India for one whole year. I will be running art projects and workshops for the whole 12…
Hector Wotherspoon: Footprinter off to Ghana
Wed, 11th Jan 201715 days to go and counting! Im so excited to be heading out to Ghana in the New Year. Woah, hold on a minute.. Ghana? I thought he was going…
Stephanie Smith: 3rd report from South Africa
Mon, 21st Nov 2016So at the end of my last report I said that the end of the third term would show the fruits of our labour and I believe that is just…
Footprints Ball 2016
Fri, 28th Oct 2016We are so thrilled that Footprints Events are supporting us in their inaugural Ball! It’s being held on 5th November in Folkstone, Kent. Guests can look forward to a glamorous evening…
Kitty Thomson: 1st report from Honduras
Thu, 20th Oct 2016I am happy to say that this is my first Footprinters report from within my country Honduras! For those of you who do not know, my name is Kitty Thomson…
Louisa Crookshanks: Final Report from Malaysia
Sun, 9th Oct 2016On the 20th August last year I got on a plane headed to Malaysia about to start the greatest adventure of my life so far. I spent a whole year…
Jem Warner: Final Report from Rwanda
Tue, 12th Jul 2016After finishing at the Excel school, I then started working at the Rwamagana Protestant school, a secondary school. Here I taught Maths to slightly older students, whose English was very…
Stephanie Higgins: 3rd Report from Uganda
Wed, 18th May 2016I cant believe how much time has flown since my last report! It is now the second term of teaching at Ruth Mother Care school in Nansana, Kampala. This term…
Emma Ralph: 2nd report from Senegal
Sun, 8th May 2016Since the last update, I’ve become more involved in the Fasjom evening classes for young girls who can’t attend school. It’s the part of the project that we feel the…
Jem Warner: Rwanda Report April 2016
Sun, 8th May 2016I’ve come to appreciate a few more of the quirks of Rwandan life. People insist – with rigour – that there is ‘no problem’, when sometimes there quite clearly is.…
Swawou School: Spring Update
Sun, 8th May 2016Swawou 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…
Ngambenyi Update: April 2016
Mon, 25th Apr 2016We 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…
