News
Stories and updates from Hazel's Footprints Trust, our Partner Schools, Educational Projects and Footprinters (volunteers).
RedEarth’s Girls’ Hostel: Expanding Educational Opportunities in Rural Uganda
Mon, 23rd Sep 2024Thanks to a grant of £3,400 from Hazel’s Footprints Trust, RedEarth has successfully completed Phase 1 of a girls’ hostel complex at Bishop Willigers Secondary School in rural Uganda. This…
Staff housing well underway at Uphill Junior School
Wed, 24th Jan 2024After breaking ground in October 2023, there has been lots of progress on a new staff accommodation block at Uphill Junior School, Western Uganda. In 2023, Hazel’s Footprints Trust granted…
Girls’ Space, Rwanda: 2023 graduates
Mon, 9th Oct 2023In 2021, we agreed to support a fabulous vocational training programme for 16/17 year old girls in Rwanda. The £6,000 grant covered the salaries of three staff members who run…
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,…
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…
Hazel’s Footprints at Wakadogo Library
Tue, 24th Mar 2015It’s great to see a photograph of this sign outside Wakadogo Library in Uganda. If you’d like to read more about our involvement with this library project there are more…
Exciting News from African Promise
Mon, 16th Mar 2015We’ve recently had some exciting news from Charles Coldman, the director of African Promise, who provide better primary schools for Kenyan children. HFT is building and funding the whole project…
News from Azafady in Madagascar
Sat, 21st Feb 2015Azafady is a UK charity and Malagasy NGO working on sustainable development in southeast Madagascar and a few years ago we donated £9,500 towards their project to build a new…
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,…
Wakadogo Library
Tue, 10th Jun 2014Third update on school library building in Acoyo village, northern Uganda (News just in from Acoyo in Uganda!) Thank you so much to the Trustees of Hazels Footprints Trusts for…
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 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…
Update from HFT HQ – Summer 2013
Sun, 18th Aug 2013The all new Hazel’s Footprints Website By Bill Scott Aiton Welcome to our fantastic all-new website. A huge huge thanks to Pete Moore for all the hours of work he…
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…
Project Sekoly in Madagascar
Sun, 28th Aug 2011Thanks to a generous donation of £9,500 from Hazels Footprints Trust, Azafady is able to initiate the fourth and final stage of Project Sekoly, assisting the community of Mahatalaky with…
Project Report A new kitchen at Sarah Ntiiro High School, Uganda
Fri, 19th Nov 2010In August 2010, Hazels Footprints Trust gave PEAS (Promoting Equality in African Schools) a grant of £7,100 to build a permanent kitchen building at Sarah Ntiiro High School in Eastern…
Funding report: Eramba School by Sophie Rodgers
Sun, 20th Sep 2009During the two months of July and August 2009, I spent my time at Eramba Mixed Secondary School in the Kisii region of Kenya working on a sustainable resource investment…
Cameroon Library Update
Sat, 20th Jun 2009Joe Abel has sent us another few photos of the Lycee de Lara Library in the Cameroons we built last year. Maybe Ben and his merry gang on Rally Africa…
Funding Report: Action for Children in Conflict by Jo Bayley
Fri, 20th Feb 2009In October 2008 I began a year long voluntary placement with Action for Children in Conflict, a UK based charity which works in Thika, Kenya to prevent and rehabilitate street…
Edinburgh Global Partnerships – New Vision School in Mugajwale
Fri, 20th Jun 2008New Vision School in Mugajwale, northwest Tanzania, is an English-medium nursery and primary school, where pupils learn in Kiswahili and English as well as the local language Kihaya. Being able…
