Charity Diagrama Foundation, which has pledged to support an African school visited Kenya to see what help was needed.
David McGuire, Chief Executive, Diagrama Foundation accompanied by Marina Rubio, Head of Professional Standards took two eight-hour flights to Kenya, followed by an eight-hour drive from Nairobi, to visit the Rusinga Friends Spotlight School in Homa Bay.
Moved by the plight of the 302 children who live and learn at the school, Diagrama opened a Go Fund Me page earlier this year to raise £5,000 to improve conditions and fund the basic items needed to allow the children to learn every day.
David McGuire, Chief Executive Diagrama Foundation said, “As a charity that supports vulnerable children, young people, and adults to live their best life, I have been particularly moved by the needs of the children who attend or live in the Rusinga School in Homa Bay. One of our Kenyan associates visited the school on our behalf earlier this year but it was important that I made the visit to see first-hand what was needed to give the children the best chance of a good education and a better life.
“We now know the huge impact that £5,000 would make to the school children. It would allow them to finish the project to change the old metal classrooms into brick built structures and fence the area that was destroyed by the recent devastating floods. Fencing this land would mean that they could once again have animals and grow vegetables to feed the children and sell any surplus.
“Although we are a charity that relies on donations and grants to improve the lives of the adults, young people and children in our care, we cannot sit back and do nothing for these Kenyan children and we hope our friends and supporters might join us to reach our target.”
Tom Amuka, Rusinga Friends Spotlight School said, “We were honoured to welcome David and Marina from Diagrama Foundation to Rusinga and show them what life is like here for the children. Every day is a struggle and a donation of £5k would make such a positive change to the lives of so many children and give them the chance of a more optimistic future.”
To donate to the Diagrama Foundation appeal to raise £5,000 for Rusinga Friends Spotlight School please visit www.gofundme.com/f/rusinga-friends-spotlight-school-fundraiser
About Rusinga Friends Spotlight School
The Rusinga Friends Spotlight School teaches over 300 children, of which many are orphans and the remaining are from vulnerable families. Some of the children have disabilities, there are children with sickle cell disease and two of the children are HIV positive.
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About Diagrama Foundation
Diagrama Foundation is a Kent based charity that supports vulnerable children, young people, and adults to live their best life.
Diagrama has a Supported Living Service across Bromley and Mid Sussex, three homes for adults with learning disabilities in Orpington, an eight-bed care home for adults with learning disabilities in West Sussex with a Community Services Programme a fifty-bed care home for the elderly with nursing and dementia needs in Essex, and a fostering and adoption service in the southeast. Plus, a 100 acre property offering farm and craft day Services cross West Sussex.
- The Supported Living Service, cares for 33 adults with learning disabilities, in seven schemes across Bromley and one scheme in Mid Sussex, helping them to develop skills and confidence to live in their own house either on their own or with others.
- At Cabrini House in Orpington the charity promotes the development of core skills for 23 adults with learning disabilities so that they can lead independent lives integrated within their community.
- Duckyls Farm, a 100 acre residential care home in West Sussex for residents with learning disabilities, allows the charity to explore the physical, mental and social skills and benefits that working with animals and in nature can offer to people with a learning disability.
- Diagrama Community Services operates at Duckyls Farm and across Sussex. This is a day care provision Hub and Outreach Support for people with a learning disability, physical and sensory impairment, acquired brain injury and/or autism.
- The team at their nursing and dementia care home, Edensor Care Centre in Clacton on Sea, support vulnerable residents to live life to the full.
- Diagrama’s voluntary adoption agency and not-for-profit fostering service cares for children who wait the longest for homes in London, Kent, West and East Sussex, Berkshire and Surrey.
Many vulnerable children and adults don’t get the support they need to develop their true potential, but the Diagrama team know that when someone has time and belief invested in them, they come alive, because that investment has made them feel valued and worthy.
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