Karibuni Trust Projects

Tharaka Women's and Children's Programme

The Tharaka Children and Women Project in Marimanti is supporting 36 children at Kamatungu and other Primary Schools in the area, and 14 children in Secondary Schools.The new Headmaster at Kamatungu school, where the project is based, has changed the school completely.

• The girls dormitory has been completed.
• The kitchen has been cleaned, reorganised and extended.
• All but one of the classroom floors have been concreted and sealed.
• A covered veranda built the whole length of the school.
• The compound tidied and made safe.
• Solar power has been installed via the Methodist Time Travellers project. This provides light in the classrooms and dormitories.

A minister and his wife from Churches in Devon went on one of the working parties this year. Money from Churches in Devon provided a water pump and piping, new desks and mosquito nets. Unfortunately the drought this year was very damaging and the cattle were dying or unable to produce milk. Although the Karibuni Trust is officially only sponsoring a total of 50 children the whole school population remains at risk because of the fragility of the local economy.

The women continue to make very attractive baskets. Karibuni has some of these to sell at £6 each. Please contact us if you would like one.

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