On 5th October 2014, I will be running the Basingstoke Half Marathon to raise funds for Kwasa School, South Africa.

Kwasa School is situated on the edge of Daggafontein, an informal settlement of 15,000 residents, 20 miles east of Johannesburg.

The settlement has no roads, electricity, or sanitation; water is supplied by 10 standpipes.  Aids, prostitution, alcoholism and domestic violence are widespread.

Kwasa provides 150 pre-school children from the settlement with an education that would otherwise be unobtainable.  It also ensures that the children are fed twice daily.  

Two purpose-built houses on the Kwasa site provide protection and care for children without families or who are especially vulnerable.  

With help from funds raised by The West Green Charitable Trust,  two permanent classrooms have been built so that the children who attend the pre-school have an opportunity to further their education.

Our aim is to build two classrooms per year to create a primary school and ultimately a secondary school.

Education is the only way the young people of Daggafontein can break out the cycle of poverty, unemployment and premature death. 

All donations, no matter how small, will help towards funding the future of Kwasa.

Thank you, Claire.