For a number of years Kingsfold supported a small charity which funded a school in the Mphande Hills in Zambia. However, that work has now been taken up by the Zambian government and the Help Africa charity. So we at Kingsfold have decided to give our support to FKC. This charity had its origins in 2004 when Sandra Noon, a member of Alvaston Methodist Church in Derby where John Maiden was once minister, met Kenneth Kimeu, a pastor in Eldoret in Kenya who had a vision to care for orphans in Lodwar as well as starting a school in Eldoret. He killed two birds with one stone by establishing his school and taking the Lodwar orphans as boarders with the local children as day pupils. Sandra was challenged to help him and at first got as many friends and acquaintances as she could to contribute £1 per week to help finance the project. From this very humble beginning the charity has grown so that in the last financial year its funds totalled £35706.
We got involved at Kingsfold when it became necessary to provide assistance in ensuring that the teachers were paid a competitive salary. To do this FKC set up Project 36 which is seeking to find 36 individuals/organisations who will commit to giving £25 per month over a period of three years. We committed ourselves to this as a church and are in fact now contributing £50 per month through the regular giving of some of our members as well a number of generous “one-off” gifts. Our Tuesday Afternoon Fellowship has a separate project to help to provide trainers and shoes for the pupils and have so far raised £219. In addition we have made extra donations amounting to several hundred pounds to help feed over 500 children in Lodwar over a period of several months during the drought which affected the northern desert regions of Kenya as well as Somalia in 2011. ReverendJohn Maiden
We got involved at Kingsfold when it became necessary to provide assistance in ensuring that the teachers were paid a competitive salary. To do this FKC set up Project 36 which is seeking to find 36 individuals/organisations who will commit to giving £25 per month over a period of three years. We committed ourselves to this as a church and are in fact now contributing £50 per month through the regular giving of some of our members as well a number of generous “one-off” gifts. Our Tuesday Afternoon Fellowship has a separate project to help to provide trainers and shoes for the pupils and have so far raised £219. In addition we have made extra donations amounting to several hundred pounds to help feed over 500 children in Lodwar over a period of several months during the drought which affected the northern desert regions of Kenya as well as Somalia in 2011. Reverend John Maiden