They made it! Drumming up support from highest mountain
Our Patron Dame Evelyn Glennie – who took on the huge challenge of scaling Mount Kilimanjaro with a team of disabled Africans reached the peak early this morning (Wednesday 1 December). Congratulations to everyone involved! Evelyn, who is an international percussionist, literally “played” her way up the mountain with her drumsticks to raise awareness of [...]
Kili Climbers On World Service
Last week the BBC World Service interviewed two of the disabled African campaigners who are climbing Kilimanjaro for AbleChildAfrica ahead of their challenge. As The BBC website says: “Kenyan Frederick Ouko and his Ugandan team-mate, Florence Ndagire, haven’t let their disabilities get in the way of their success” You can hear their interview right now [...]
Florence is one in a million
We are currently running a campaign asking supporters to sign up to Give Every Disabled Child the Right to an Education. Florence works as a campaigner with USDC our partner organisation in Uganda. Her story shows just how important an education is in making a difference to the life chances of disabled children in Africa. [...]
Smiles party success
The charity night at Boujis in South Kensington on 9th June was a massive sucess. So many lovely people came out to support us and raised £5000 on the night to support surgery for disabled children which will take place in Uganda later in the year. We have also raised over £2,500 online before and after the [...]
Triple Marathon Challenge
Unbelieveably John Thornton has pledged to go for the triple this year when he takes part in not one but three Marathon’s in support of AbleChildAfrica in 2010. John’s triple challenge starts with London which, this year, is on April 25th. After that he will be off to Edinburgh to run another marathon 4 weeks later [...]
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, [...]
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