International Women’s Day
Today is International Women’s Day and I wanted to tell you about two remarkarkable Kenyan women who I am honoured to call my friends. Lily Oyare the Director of Little Rock Early Childhood Development Centre is a constant inspiration to me. The project she founded has so far helped more than 500 children from Kibera, [...]
Dancing on Wheels
Last night I was watching Dancing on Wheels a spin off of Strictly come dancing where a wheel-chair bound dancer is paired with someone able bodied. Some of the scenes reminded me of something I had been thinking about earlier this week when I went to visit Anne Wafula-Strike. Anne is a Kenyan born Para-olympic [...]
No prizes for guessing who will finish first?
In six weeks I will be doing the Silverstone Half Marathon for AbleChildAfrica with Anne Wafula-Strike a British Paraylmpian who grew up in Kenya and one of the world’s leading wheelchair sprinters. No prizes for guessing who will finish first! Yesterday I was on the East Africa FM Breakfast show talking with Jimmy Kabwe about [...]
Are you willing to go the extra mile?
One of our 2010 marathon runners has already gone the ‘extra-mile’ and visited Uganda in advance of the run itself! Kat Tucker, who has previously lived and worked in Uganda visited in December and ran a training session for some of the teachers working with disabled children in schools we support. The feedback from the [...]
Changing Childrens lives in Uganda
My name is Saskia and I am an advocacy volunteer with USDC, the organisation which AbleChildAfrica works with in Uganda. My work in the first few weeks involved traveling around Uganda and meeting disabled children, their families, teachers and local officials. It was an honor and a privilege to be able to do this. I [...]
A Story From Uganda
First of all a Big Thank You to everyone who has so far supported my on-line campaign. I have now raised over £3000 on-line – 6% of my target. In order to reach my target of £50,000 by 7th Janurary to ensure the continuation of AbleChildAfrica’s valuable work I need to reach a lot more [...]
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