Kisima Sponsored Cycle page

Builders Merchants Federation Ltd is raising money for Educational Frontier Trust

Participants: John Newcomb, Sue Newcomb, Mark Dickins, Julie Dickins

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Kisima Sponsored Cycle · 6 August 2022

The Educational Frontier Trust (TEFT) supports Kisima Mixed Secondary School, which is a free residential school in Kenya for disadvantaged young people. It is among the top-performing schools in the country, with 94% of the students achieving a university entrance grade (national average 20%).

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John & Sue Newcomb and Mark & Julie Dickins cycled 100+km the weekend of 6/7 August 2022 to raise funds for The Educational Frontier Trust, a UK charity which supports Kisima Mixed Secondary School in Nyahururu, Kenya. The planned cycle route was from Devizes, Wiltshire to North Bristol and back.

Opened in 2005, Kisima is a free residential school for 160 pupils aged between 14 and 18 years. School places are divided equally between boys and girls. TEFT funded the original purchase of the 5 acre site and construction of the school in 2001. Since then TEFT has supported the school’s annual running costs and other capital projects. Kisima School’s first class took their Kenyan Certificate of Secondary Education in 2008 and since then on average 94% have achieved university entrance grades (the national average is 17.5%).

Kisima School mainly serves communities in northern Kenya, in particular pastoralist communities. Northern Kenya is a marginalised region with virtually no public services, suffering recurrent drought, banditry and violent conflict. Many people are illiterate and depend on relief aid for survival. The school offers young people from these communities the chance to transform their lives through education. Students come from different tribes and faiths and learn to live happily together free from the conflict and civil war that blights many of their communities in the struggle for scarce resources.

For more information, please click this link: https://teft.org.uk/kisima.php.

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