Advent Calendar 18th December
It’s a musical post today! Here are the young children from KiMMta ECD with a special Christmas message. You can support our work in the area of education by: – making a donation – sponsoring a child –...
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Advent Calendar 23rd December
Today’s post is a bit different…because yesterday was a bit different! Thanks to a number of Vision Africa supporters we hosted a great day out for around 50 children and staff from Kandara Children’s...
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Top 5 of 2014
2014 is drawing to a close and I can’t help but have a quick look back before looking forward to 2015. It has been a privilege to share so many great stories and photographs throughout the year and it...
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Spread The Love
As you may or may not know, one month ago I became a mum to (I may be biased here) a gorgeous little boy. Several times over the past few weeks I’ve sat looking at him and thought about the little ones...
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Roar With Laughter
After the success of last year’s “Rock With Laughter” event in Glasgow, this year the organisers invite you to “Roar With Laughter”. The evening of comedy and music will take place on Saturday 18th of...
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My experience so far with Vision Africa.
Ever wondered what it’s like to volunteer with Vision Africa? Of course, every experience is different but read on to find out more about Stephanie’s time with us. Stephanie arrived about four weeks...
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I am aiming higher
As we continue to focus on our afterschool tuition programmes this month, we thank Elvis from Village of Hope for sharing the story of one of their students. Village of Hope, through its after school...
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Measuring the impact of our work
It’s wonderful to visit projects, to meet the children we work with, to be inspired by their stories of transformation. It’s exciting to share with Project Leaders, hear their stories of impact and...
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Volunteer Opportunities
We love volunteers! The more people who can engage with our work, and help to give our children and young people brighter futures, the better! Just in the past week we’ve had volunteers design new...
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My Volunteering Experience
Stephanie was introduced to our work by one of our new board members, Andrew, who happened to be a teacher at her school, John Paul Academy in Glasgow. She has just completed three months of...
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Amuka for Empowerment
We recently posted about the network of empowerment clubs that have been set up through our partner projects. Work is currently ongoing to develop a core syllabus that will be used by all clubs...
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Little By Little
This week, GlobalGiving UK is running a campaign called Little By Little. To encourage lots of people to make small donations that will have a big impact, they are offering 50% matching on donations of...
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Giving Tuesday 2015
The 1st of December marks the annual Giving Tuesday. Started in the USA as a response to the commercialisation of the festive season, this event has grown and is now celebrated in many countries. This...
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Reflections from a balcony
As I write this I am sitting on the balcony of my borrowed apartment in a quiet moment on my latest visit to Nairobi, catching my breath before the next manic few days when we head out to Western...
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Partnerships: From ‘Good’ to ‘Great’ to ‘World-Changing’
It was a pleasure to host two representatives from Boo Charity (UK) last month at our projects in Kenya. Boo and Vision Africa have shared a special relationship for a number of years now and we are...
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Highlights of 2015
It’s hard to believe that 2015 is coming to a close already. At the final project leaders’ workshop of the year, we asked each person to give the highlight of the year for their project. Mr Wanyoike,...
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Rights of the Child Training – by Mary Mwangi
In 2015, I went round all our projects on a mission to evaluate our children’s understanding of their rights as well as train them on the rights as outlined in the constitution in the Children’s Act...
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What’s our message?
At our staff meeting on Tuesday we were considering our style of communications – What do we tell people? What do we think we tell people? What do people want to hear when it comes to our type of...
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Volunteer – Corporate Fundraiser (UK Based) What does the role involve? Develop and subsequently pursue a Corporate Networking and Partnership Strategy which should include the following: Creation of a...
View ArticleVolunteer Vacancy – Events Fundraiser
Volunteer –Events Fundraiser (UK Based) What does the role involve? Develop and pursue an events strategy that will allow you to raise awareness of and resources for the work of Vision Africa. This...
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