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Classes in Kenya overcrowded since free education

Click here to read the article with background information on education in Kenya. Article by Daniëlla van 't Erve, published in Het Onderwijsblad, 6 September 2003, the magazine of the Dutch Teachers Union AOb and published with permission on the Ukunda Schools Project website.

Klik hier voor Nederlandstalige versie

Click here for English version

Your help

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We suggest you start the Ukunda Schools Project at your school with telling the students what the project is about: raise school supplies and funds for very poor African schools. We think best way to help is donating money. Rose Anami and Rene de Vries will personally buy school supplies in Ukunda and / or Mombasa and deliver it directly to the schools.

We have bad experiences with getting a package from the harbor of Mombasa (click on the brochure-button to find out more about that - see text in red square). At the right of this screen are some guidelines if you decide to ship materials by airmail or boat to Kenya.

You can give background information about the country Kenya. You can use e.g. the section TRAVEL in which we describe the kindness of the people, how the people live, the landscape, and our adventures during our vacation.
You can give more information about the Kenyan animals and national parks when you read the reports we wrote under section ANIMALS.
Registered participants can use the photos on our website for free for their Ukunda project at school or community. Contact us if you need more photos, maybe we can help you out with it. All the photos on the site are made by Frank and René de Vries and Danuta Gorzynski.

You can organize several events ... We are very interested in the way you raise money and school supplies for the Ukunda Project, so please, keep us posted! We can publish your stories on this site, have a look at PARTICIPANTS.

Click here for the example of the charity walk of primary school De Wadden, including sponsor list, powerpoint presentation and more.

Start collecting school supplies and money, and once the project at your school is over, then let us know so we can make arrangements for you about how we can get the supplies and money to Kenya. So, keep all the collected items and money with you till your project is over. 
Note: if you want to donate money online, then surf to GSN's Just Give Page, fill in the donation amount and mention Ukunda Schools Project in the Designated donation field.

Thank you so much for your help. The students in Ukunda will be very happy with all you send! Let us know if you want to help us by answering the questions below (red = required):

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Making a donation:

Money:

  • Online donation through GSN (mention Ukunda Schools Project in the Designated donation field)

  • Schools in Holland:
    Donate money on our Dutch bank account. Contact Rene de Vries for more details.

  • Western Union Money Transfer - again, contact Rene de Vries for more details

Materials (such as books, furniture):

  • By airmail - contact Rose Anami for her full address. Do not send to a P.O. Box, otherwise it probably will not arrive or -if it arrives- we have to pay a lot of storage money to the post office.

  • Shipping by boat - this is cheaper for the sender (compared to airmail), but once the package arrives in the harbor of Mombasa, the bureaucracy starts. The receiver (we) needs to pay for a lot of things: unloading the ship, administration fees, tax fees, storage, clearance officer and much more.
    (There is a package waiting for us in the harbor of Mombasa, but we cannot get it unless we at least pay 500 EURO for it for administration fees and storage... 6 times more than the value of the package).
    As long as the harbor people of Mombasa do not co-operate with our charity program, we strongly discourage the use of shipping packages by boat!