June 2018

Dear Friends, First of all I would to tell you that we have a lovely new updated website. Big thanks to our great friend Ken who has given his valuable time and expertise freely. www.kinambaproject.org.uk If you think there should be something else on there please say! I also attach our newsletter for June 2018 which is about our secondary students. I have written about them before now but we have more students graduating each year and we have some new photographs which I think you will be interested in.

April 2018

Dear friends around the world, Please find attached our news for April. I know it is late but this year has been a challenge – not least because our boundary wall collapsed due to incredibly heavy and prolonged rain. The cost of repair is now covered thanks to some very generous donations thank you very much indeed.

February 2018

During January we have two preoccupations – admission of new children into the Nursery section and placing secondary students in a boarding school. Our sewing room has been very busy making new uniforms. We have a change this year, we have chosen a yellow check which we hope will distinguish us from other places.

January 2018

Dear Friends across the world, I attach the first news of the year 2018 which is about a very special day we held with the secondary students. It was a very fitting to our ten years seeing our students growing up into young people with ideas and ambition - it was a...

December 2017

Dear Friends, Happy New Year to you all, may it be full of good things for everyone. It is with real pleasure I am attaching our December news which is about the Primary Day. It was such a lovely day, one of the best so far, with a real sense of community and...

November 2017

Dear friends, I wish you the best of times over the holiday period and hope you enjoy a happy, successful, healthy and stress-free year in 2018. I attach news of the end of term celebrations for the nursery children. There will be a few more letters in January. I have...

October 2017

Dear Friends, I am now in Kigali, busy as ever, but Sunday the 17th was a day to really enjoy. I hope you like reading about our very own rugby tournament. Best wishes to you all, and thank you for your continued support for us, we cannot do anything without you, Meg...

September 2017

Dear Friends, Here is some news written by our friends Lesley and Steve Hooper who visited during September. It was immediately obvious that some of the children were at least understanding more spoken English and some were noticeably more fluent so I say a big 'thank...

August 2017

Hello to all our friends, I am very grateful to Els who has written this delightful news for us about the holiday school. We chose to work with mostly Primary 1 and some Nursery children as we can no longer accommodate all the children we are helping. I feel sure you...

June 2017

Click here to download the full article as a PDF. For our June newsletter we can read about our very special dance troupe which is going from strength to strength and becoming well known in Kigali. The local authorities invited the students to perform at a gathering...

May 2017

Dear Friends around the world, I hope this will find you in good spirits in spite of much doom and gloom around the globe. Hopefully this newsletter will lift your spirits a little. I have been asked recently what we do in the different sections of the project. Our...

February 2017

Dear Friends, I hope you are all well and enjoying life to the full. I am very slowly catching up on jobs and am now sending out a news for February/March. More will come eventually. In the meantime I am taking a holiday and will be back to it in late May I hope. Many...

January 2017

Click here to download the full article as a PDF. Better late than never they say, so here goes – Happy New Year! – wishing you all things you would wish for yourself, hoping you stay happy and healthy and loved. Home life for the majority of our children is about...

December 2016

Click here to download the full article as a PDF. Dear Friends around the world. I have been wondering for a while what to write for our December news. We are experiencing a time of unease and disorientation in this world of ours and it seems to me that we face a very...

October 2016

Dear friends everywhere, As ever time is running away with my days! I have been back in the UK for two weeks, but much of that time has been spent helping out with a fundraising event and organising things to take back with me in January. (Incidentally my wonderful...

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