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Quiz Time for the Kenya Education Project
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The annual table quiz in aid of the Kenya Education Project takes place next Thursday night, April 12 in the Castlerosse Hotel at 8.30pm. Tables of four are available for €40 while juvenile tables are €20 each.
The Project helps young people in the slum village of Embulbul, Nairobi. At present 100 young people are sponsored to complete their primary and secondary education as their own family circumstances make it very difficult to meet the cost of books, uniforms and fees. This is the highest number ever of students sponsored by the Kenya Education Project.
Some past pupils of the school are also helped to continue their education and training by paying college fees as well as travel and subsistence allowences. To date the project has helped students to obtain training in childcare, secretarial, computing, journalism and social work which is a major boost to their families in their dream of obtaining a job to ease the financial burden on their families.
In recent years the Project has increased its work with families in the village through the local branch of SVDP. Needy families have received beds, blankets and household utensils to help ease the burden of poverty. Also the village feeding programme provides a hot meal each weekday evening for 100 needy children from the village. The Kenya Project helps to offset some of the costs of these monthly food bills for the parish.
The project continues to support sporting activities in the school and village by providing playing gear, footballs and training equipment to those involved in soccer, basketball and volleyball.
The support the Project continues to receive each year from the people of Killarney is encouraging and heartening and enables many young people to be helped and supported. All involved would like to everybody who has supported the Project to date
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