November
23rd 2007: Rathgar Parish
hold the Celtic Tenors concert in aid of Kyuso. The concert
was a sell out as soon as tickets were released!
November
14th-20th 2007: Aidan
Corless is visiting Kitui in the company of Fr Paul
Lavelle, Parish Priest of Rathgar. They will visit Kyuso
Parish, which is partnered with Rathgar, and in particular
inspect progress on other Friends of Kitui projects,
especially the new school construction.
September
4th 2007: The St Michael's School
Building Fund has now reached €200,000. Another €250k
to go!
August
25th 2007: Added
details for Nguutani Parish in the Diocese of Kitui which
is seeking a partner community in Ireland.
July
17th-July 26th 2007: Pat
Torpey from Friends of Kitui visited Kitui to review
current projects, review handover details for Friends of
Kitui Projects with the outgoing Diocesan Administrator, Fr
Paul, and to meet with Bishop Martin.
July
17th 2007: Bishop Martin
Kivuva of Machakos Diocese takes over the administration of
the Diocese of Kitui.
June
15th 2007- Added an extract from the World
Bank-sponsored Arid
Lands Resource Management Project which
produces monthly drought monitoring bulletins for 21
districts in Kenya.
Details HERE
June
14 2007: Details of Trocaire-Friends of Kitui Bank Account
confirmed
A
dedicated bank account has now been set up for Friends of
Kitui projects. Details Here
May
30th 2007: Fr. Paul Healy to study Development Management
at LSE:
Fr.
Paul has announced that he will take up a 12 month Masters
Degree course in Development Management at London School of
Economics. Read more here..
May
18th 2007- Friends of Kitui and Trocaire team up!
To strengthen our support of the people of Kitui,
Friends of Kitui have entered a three way agreement with
Trocaire and the Diocese of Kitui. Trócaire, which has an
office in Nairobi, has for a number of years had a strong
relationship with Kitui diocese. Friends of Kitui
volunteers will provide, at their own expense,
on-the-ground mentoring and training to help build
management capacity in the Diocesan administration, and
will continue to fundraise, develop and manage projects as
before. Trocaire will handle all donations raised by
Friends of Kitui and will continue to ensure that 100% of
the value of donations gets to the intended projects.
Selection of projects will be guided by the 2007 Diocesan
strategic plan, which has as one of it's main objectives
"service to people on need". Trocaire will
provide local monitoring and evaluation of projects,
co-ordination of project activities to avoid duplication,
and will improve accountability to donors.
This new partnership expects, apart from achieving cost
savings and synergies, to contribute substantially towards
capacity building, empowerment and sustainability in Kitui
April
18th 2007- Visit to Kitui
During
the week from April 9th to April 16th, Pat Torpey, Aidan
Corless, Dermot O'Rourke and Seamus McDermott from Friends
of Kitui have been in Kitui to follow up on, and
inspect, all projects under way in Kitui. We
will publish more details shortly
March
24th 2007
Site
Map page aded to aid navigation. Apologies to those
who have found the site confusing.
March
23rd 2007
Rathgar
Parish gets underway with a partnership arrangement with
the Parish of Kyuso in Northern Kitui. Read more
here
February
27th 2007
-
Read
the latest letter from Fr. Paul Healy HERE
-
In this
new video Kevin O'Boyle talks to Josephine, Children's Officer with the Diocese of Kitui Medical Department, and together they visit the home of one of the sponsored
children.
February
26th 2007
We
have now put all information videos on Google Video. To see
all Google's video information on Kitui, follow this link http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Kitui.
Videos are now embedded on the relevant pages in this
site- for example, click here
to see the video on Empowering Women through the Honey
Project
February
10th 2007
We
are appealing for donations of engineering workshop equipment to
rebuild the Diocesan workshop facilities, and also for
anyone who could donate a printing press to improve the
communications office. Click HERE
for more details. If you know someone who may be able to
help, PLEASE either let us know or pass on the link to this
site and ask them to contact us.
January
12th 2007
Kevin
O'Boyle undertakes a sponsored weight loss programme on
behalf of the Street Children of Kitui and the St John
Eudes Rehabilitation Centre.
You
can see a short video of the St John Eudes Centre by
clicking Here
December
21st 2006
Video
of a visit to Musuoni and Kiatineni wells, which were the
first two to be constructed of the wells sponsored by
Friends of Kitui in 2006, now available HERE
December
14th 2006
The
first batch of 200 beehives for the Womens' Empowerment
project (The Honey Project) arrives in Kitui
November
7th 2006
Water
Projects Video added
October
15th 2006
Kitui
Diocese celebrates it's Jubilee on October 22nd
October 9th 2006
Urgent appeal for sponsors for
support for education of AIDS orphans
September 2006:
Update letter from Fr. Paul
Healy September 23 2006
Project
for Empowering Women is launched
Initial
target reached for raising school fees for children orphaned by AIDS
August 2006:
Aidan
Corless launches School Building Project
July 2006: "Wells
for Africa" Group presents cheque to Fr Paul Healy for funds raised
by Loreto National School, Dalkey
July 2006: Loreto
National School helps build a well in Kitui
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