Hi everyone,
St Brigids Parish Cabinteely is having a musical evening on Sunday 14th of June at 7.30pm in the church.
We hope to raise funds for St Michael’s School in Kitui.
Please come and support us.
Many Thanks
Aidan Corless
ps email me if you need more information- corlessa@eircom.net
We want to announce that our group, 7 students from 6th year in Clonkeen College who form the Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme group, will be developing a small business enterprise which will raise funds for Friends of Kitui. We hope in this way to support the construction of a new school for a poor community in Kitui, Kenya.
More details to follow later
A group of 7 students from 6th year in Clonkeen College who form the Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme group, will be developing a small business enterprise which will raise funds for Friends of Kitui.
Hello to all readers- if there are any!
This is the first post to our new blog for Friends of Kitui. I hope that between us all we will develop some interesting themes over the coming weeks and months. If you are reading this it is likely that you have already heard about Kitui, and maybe you arrived here from our website www.friendsofkitui.com
There is such a lot to say about Kitui, and about the relationship between Kitui and the so-called western, or more developed, world. I suppose the underlying theme is that of inequality and injustice. And the niggling suspicion that much of the imbalance in favour of the developed world came as a result of the unfair exploitation of the resources of the developing world.
Today I just want to thank the very wonderful people who have responded so generously to my recent appeal for food aid for school children in two schools in eastern Kitui. These schools, at Makayauni and Yimbuva, are the most incredible examples of dedication and committment on the part of parents, teachers and students alike. Just two weeks ago we heard at first hand how many of the children were coming to school without breakfast, then going through the day without any food whatsoever because the government food allocation was only lasting for two weeks out of a 12 week term. Any parent knows that hungry children lose concentration in a learnign situation. So they suffer the double whammy- hungry to start with, then unable to benefit properly from their education. If we don’t do something about it, in time these children will get low grades, further reducing the likelihood of proceeding to a secondary, or high school, education.
Pat