I am raising money as part of Frank Recruitment Group, who is partnering with St Martin's School in Kibagare. Working with St Martin's we aim to raise over £30K in 2019; so hopefully you can all help us get a little closer. Over the next few months i'll be shamelessly asking you to donate towards a great charity, and in doing so i'll offer you the chance to watch me try and run my first 10K, eat numerous amounts of my baked goods, and maybe even push myself to a half marathon by September.

In Kibagare, one of Nairobi's sprawling informal urban settlements, millions of people live in cramped quarters on clay floors and in corrugated metal housing structures. These homes have very little access to the most basic of public services like running water, sewage and electricity.

St. Martin's School offers a safe environment where almost 1,000 of the most vulnerable children from the Kibagare slum can thrive through education and be empowered to change the futures of their communities.

The school also serves breakfast and lunch five days a week enrolled students and up to 800 who aren’t enrolled due to unfortunate financial constraints.

St. Martin's started in 1980 when the late Sr. Martin Wanjiru founded the Kibagare Good News Center. The center was built from locally sourced materials and became home to a desperately needed feeding program for impoverished children. Expanding on this with funds from local and international sources, a hostel was built in 1990 to accommodate 100 children, but Sr.Martin quickly realized that education was the key to sustainably changing the lives of these street children, most of whom had been surviving incredibly harsh living conditions.

Education really is the key to lifting the most disadvantaged out of poverty. Through the St. Martin's Primary and Secondary School, countless children have thrived in a challenging environment.