Hi everyone, some of you will remember the attention Ahmed (real name, Joseph) received in 2019 when the story about his dreams to be a footballer made the local press in the 'East Anglian Daily Times' and also in the national press, 'The Mail Online'.

See the links below*

Last week, Ahmed’s family home in Kapkoi, Kitale, Kenya was devastated by fire and they lost most of their possessions. I am trying to raise money to help them rebuild their home and also their lives. Ahmed’s parents and family are traumatised by this awful event and are all struggling to come to terms with the loss of nearly everything they have (see photos below).

I have kept in touch with Ahmed since he appeared on the Ipswich Town Football Club Twitter timeline in 2019 and we have become friends. He is an exceptionally sweet, polite, funny and extremely bright boy, speaking five different languages and studying Bio-Statistics at JKUAT University in Nairobi. He deserves to go far in life.

I would really love to help in any way I can by raising money to help the family get new and/or replacement materials to repair their home and start to piece their lives back together again.

Just a small donation will go a long way. Thank you so much for reading this and hope you can help in some way.

Jane

September 2021

* EAST ANGLIAN DAILY TIMES

* MAILONLINE