Apr 18, 2017 | Fundraising
The education system in Kenya consists of 3 terms within the academic year, pupils usually break for the holidays in the months of April, August and December. During these holiday periods children are at a higher risk as they are frequently left without parental care....
Mar 31, 2017 | Fundraising
Photo: Jo West, Director at Rubicon Recruitment Group; Jeremy Gill, Boo Charity & Emma Rhodes, Financial Controller at Norco Holdings Ltd. We are delighted to announce that Rubicon, a Dorset based recruitment agency, has chosen Boo to be the recipient of its March...
Mar 15, 2017 | Fundraising
Founding trustee Russell Hicks is currently visiting Kenya and catching up with all the collaborators in each of the centres, as well as making sure our funds go to the right places. One of his first visits was to the Life Skills Centre in Nyamache, where 600 children...
Mar 13, 2017 | Fundraising
Boo has provided new learning materials to one of the Early Childhood Development Centres (ECD) in Busire. As a result of the funding, the children were gifted exercise books, textbooks, pencils, crayons and other stationary items for the classroom. The new school...
Feb 22, 2017 | Fundraising
Boo has funded a month’s supply of sanitary towels for 70 girls in Life Skills Centre and committed to continue providing them on an on-going basis. It is a topic often not talked about but it has a major impact in East Africa, as in this region menstruation is...
Feb 8, 2017 | Fundraising
In one of our Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres, in Kibera, it was recently identified that the floor on the upper level needed some serious attention. The previous floor had completely broken up leaving the children at risk from cutting themselves and also,...
