African Promise awarded Optimist Charity Award - Africa and Asia Venture

African Promise awarded Optimist Charity Award - Africa and Asia Venture

Two years on from being founded by 2003 Kenya Community & Conservation AV Charles Coldman, his charity, African Promise, has been announced as one of the five winners of the Optimist Charity Award 2009/10.

Founder of Optimist World, Achim Kram, explained that African Promise demonstrated "with clarity the potential outcomes [it] could offer those who rely upon [its] support, even with relatively small funding - and the effectiveness of [its] operations."

African Promise is working to redevelop primary and nursery schools in the rural Kasigau community of south-east Kenya and is involved in a wide-range of projects to address the needs across many areas of school life: building, furnishing and stocking libraries; constructing and renovating classrooms; installing rainwater harvesting capabilities and sanitation facilities; providing educational resources, classroom furniture and playground equipment; and much more.

Our Kenya Community and Conservation groups currently spend one month of their placement working alongside Charles, his charity and the schools and communities it supports. Later this month a team of twenty-four gap-year students and graduates will be leaving the UK to spend a month in each of Kasigau (where they will find themselves painting nursery classrooms, developing school kitchen gardens and playing sport with the children), the Soysambu Conservancy (removing snares, building hides and driving 4x4's) and Kenya's idyllic Indian Ocean coast. 

Sound like your cup of tea? Looking for something worthwhile to do in your gap-year or after university? Find out more about our Community & Conservation project in Kenya.

Find out more about African Promise and its work at http://www.africanpromise.org.uk/

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