News
Stories and updates from Hazel's Footprints Trust, our Partner Schools, Educational Projects and Footprinters (volunteers).
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…
Team Kenya: libraries and teacher training supported with £5k grant
Thu, 11th Aug 2022Early in 2022, Hazel’s Footprints Trust awarded an educational project grant of £5,000 to Team Kenya, a UK charity working in Ndhiwa, rural Kenya. Team Kenya supports girls in accessing…
Ngambenyi School all set for 2021 with COVID-safety
Thu, 25th Feb 2021As schools start to return in Scotland this week from another COVID-lockdown, we are thinking about all of the schools around the world which are less fortunate. For most of…
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…
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…
News (and a great photograph) from Ngambenyi
Sat, 27th Jun 2015We’ve been trying to keep abreast of developments from Kenya and the work African Promise are doing on a new primary school. A week ago we received the latest news,…
News from Team Kenya
Mon, 22nd Jun 2015We’ve had some great recent news from Team Kenya. They’ve rounded it all up for us in this PDF attachment that you can download here. Some highlights: Six secondary students…
A Happy Start to 2015 from Team Kenya
Tue, 10th Feb 2015The New Year brings new students applying for sponsorship. Team Kenya is currently campaigning to send 20 girls to school with the #TeamKenya20 campaign. Check it out on our Facebook,…
Charity update from Future Hope Montessori School August 2014
Wed, 24th Sep 2014Hazel’s Footprints is excited to be supporting The Vipingo Village Fund in Kenya with a £10,000 grant. Here’s a little bit more about the work they do. The Vipingo Village…
Updates from Kisimenyi Primary & Wakadogo
Tue, 3rd Jun 2014We’ve just had two reports in from some fantastic project. The first is at Kisimenyi Primary School in Kenya: In this report we update you on the current situation at…
Update from Team Kenya
Fri, 18th Apr 2014We donated £2440 last year to Team Kenya for help with teachers and the rest of the wonderful work that they do. They’ve just sent us this update: Top performance…
A celebration of the new school at Kisimenyi – Brilliant video from African Promise
Tue, 17th Sep 2013A celebration of the new school at Kisimenyi from African Promise on Vimeo. Last week we received a link to this wonderful video of Kisimenyi School in Kenya from Charles…
Update from Madaraka Community School in Kenya
Sun, 8th Sep 2013(We’ve received this report from the Madaraka School in Kenya – £3000 which is money well spent by the sounds of it!- Well done to Hannah Headden and all those…
Kianda Transition Class Report
Sat, 17th Aug 2013The Building Work When our centre in Kianda village of Kibera slum (Nairobi, Kenya) closed for Christmas holidays, building work for our new Transition classroom and microfinance office began. We…
News from Kisimenyi Primary in Kenya
Sat, 18th May 2013Hazel’s Footprints have donated £13200 to African Promise to help in the construction of new classrooms and girls loos. Here’s their update on the project. Current status – building-by-building/ Nursery…
Mid-term report by Sarah Croxford
Thu, 18th Apr 2013How can I summarise the last six or seven months in Kenya? Exciting, scary, tough, amazing, sad, joyful, a dream come true, a life-changing experience All of these and more!…
Sarah Croxford: Initial report
Wed, 12th Sep 2012Hello, Im Sarah, Im a primary teacher with 7 years experience, and Im taking a sabbatical year from my job in order to volunteer in Kenya. Its just over a…
Adongo the Alarm Clock by Vicki White
Thu, 12th Apr 2012Amosi! (Hi) I cant quite believe I have been in Kenya for just over 2 months, the time has gone so fast! I have been volunteering with the charity Team…
Vicki White: Initial Report
Wed, 1st Feb 2012Not long now!!! Hi there! My name is Vicki White, I am 23 years old and live in Newcastle upon Tyne. In February I will be volunteering in Kenya for…
Fundraising Issues by Callum Henry
Fri, 16th Dec 2011Nearly three months has passed now here in Kenya and they have been the most busy, exciting and stressful months of my life without a doubt. This update will not…
