Helping Kenyans

AFTER the horrifying attack on the shopping centre in Nairobi, I am happy to report some good news from Kenya.

John Harris

John Harris

info@virtualcom.it

12:00AM, Monday 07 October 2013

AFTER the horrifying attack on the shopping centre in Nairobi, I am happy to report some good news from Kenya.

Marcel Wagner has led Shiplake College expeditions to the country for two decades and this year was no different as two teachers and eight pupils joined the 28-day expedition, visiting the Kikunduku Schools Project, run by the British charity Gap-Africa.

They helped make school desks and IT teacher Jack Caine used a basic Raspberry Pi computer he had taken with him and a borrowed television for a monitor to teach staff and pupils how to program.

The group then helped repair a porter’s lodge on the ascent of Mount Kenya and constructed an outdoor sheltered eating area.

They also found some time to relax, climbing, walking through the plains and game-watching as well as swimming in the warm Indian Ocean at Kilifi.

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