Shrewsbury School Charities

Shrewsbury School's All Night Sports Event

Fundraising for The Sanata Charitable Trust - Restart Africa
£5,841
raised
by 150 supporters
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Participants: 32 Students taking part from 5th Form, Lower Sixth and Upper Sixth
We fundraise for Restart in Gilgil Kenya to transform lives of abandoned children

Story

Back after a short hiatus - the all night sports event is a popular Shrewsbury school charity event. The event has 32 students across the 5th, L6th and U6th competing in teams of 8 across a selection of 10 different activities and sports. Running from 9pm-7am, this event is the definitive 10 hour sporting challenge for the students.

Participants are raising money for the excellent charity Restart Africa, a charity partner of Shrewsbury School. 

Every £360 raised pays for the education of a street child from Kenya for a whole year. Raising not only their own aspirations, welfare and care; but also supporting the whole community of Gilgil, Kenya.

More information about the charity can be found at: 
www.restartafrica.org


About the charity

Restart Africa rescues destitute street children in Gilgil, Kenya. They are orphaned or abandoned, and often the victims of horrible abuse. We give them shelter, care, education and security. We also run projects to help the wider community in Gilgil, providing employment, opportunity and self-respect for local people. Restart now looks after over 100 children, aged from a just few months old, in a new centre (opened in 2014) providing food, shelter, welfare and education. Most of our children have suffered severe, often sexual, abuse and deprivation, all have significant emotional issues. It can take many months of love and care before they get over the hand to mouth existence they were leading on the streets, and are able to enjoy a more settled life in the Restart Centre. The charity supports a number of local initiatives to help employ and hence empower the community. These include a briquette making operation that provides the Centre with all its fuel requirements, and generates some income through local sales; a women’s craft group making bags, shoes and jewellery; our own agricultural plot supplying vegetables to the Centre and the village; an extensive herb garden that produces holistic medicinal treatments. The UK Trust is run by volunteers, so every penny you give goes directly to help the children who need it so much. To learn more about Restart, visit www.restartafrica.org
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Donation summary

Total raised
£5,840.05
+ £824.52 Gift Aid
Online donations
£5,840.05
Offline donations
£0.00

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