The Old School Sports Day MetCon with prizes for Kenya
Alexander Kennedy is raising money for Regenerate
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- We are putting on an old school sports day MetCon at 11am on the 18th October in aid of the Feel Good Bakery and Kenyan orphanage Sure 24, a very worthy charity Momentum member Alex Kennedy helped to set up. Alongside the usual brutal MetCon session there will be games, delicious snacks and amazing prizes:
- 1st prize: £200 of AQAQ vouchers AQAQ (kindly donated by the lovely Steph O’Neill)
- 2nd prize: a PT session at Momentum with the ledge Geoff Stewart
- 3rd prize: Some Frank cosmetics Frank Body
- Bonus Prize: A months supply of Vitacoco
- There will be various other giveaways on the day, including free Crosstown Doughnuts, Paleo goodies made by Momentum members Kim and Shareen, and to wash it down, coconut water from Vitacoco and non dairy mylks from Rebel Kitchen.
- Momentum will donate £5 to Sure 24 for every person that joins in the fun. All you need to do is book in here.
- About the charity…
- Sure 24 is an orphanage in Nakuru in Kenya. It is primarily there to help kids orphaned in the past Kenyan election violence. It is an organisation that provides homes for 135 orphans and vulnerable children, mainly street children. It also acts as a school for 280, a weekly feeding programme for over 250 local children and a general support hub to the local community.
- The orphanage in Kenya also links back to Hackney and to south London as it is the base of a youth support programme in London that sends 20 kids from south and east London every year out to Nakuru to work in the orphanage for 2 weeks. These young people are mainly ex gang or recently out of prison. The trips to Kenya serve to impress on London’s disaffected youths that some of their peers around the world are far worse off than them and that estate life in London would be seen as a luxury in Kenya where a lot of the kids from the orphanage grew up on a rubbish dumping site. The results of this project have been amazing with the majority of past Kenya trip young people having set up businesses, held down jobs, not re offended and one amazing individual invited to study a masters degree at Cambridge. Read more in an article published by the Independent here.
- Alex, Ali and Andy (who runs things in the youth project in south-London) have as a result of these Kenya trips set up a bakery in South London that employs ex gang members to make sandwiches to sell to local businesses. We operate on a ‘buy one give one free’ where each unit we sell will feed a kid in the feeding project in Kenya. This way, just by buying your lunch from us, you are helping young people from London and in Kenya and at no extra cost. Check out the Feel Good Bakery HERE.
