New shoes to prevent wounds and disease This week, in rural Kenya, children got a pair of shoes for the first time. Basic things like this should be paid for by families and local communities but the area is just so poor this still can’t happen. We are working...
Gender Based Violence Awareness Workshops Volunteer Bethany Throssle and her husband Gareth, are currently running Gender Based Violence Awareness workshops in Abimbo village. Violence against women is a big problem in rural Kenya, compounded by poverty and lack of...
National Tailoring Qualifications for our Students We are very proud of 6 of the tailoring students taking their national exams this month. Beryl, Lillian and Margaret, all orphaned young women, came to the Challenge Africa Abimbo Centre three years ago looking for a...
Who doesn’t love Christmas? On Christmas day we held an orphan party and gave donated clothes and shoes to the orphans. It is our hope that all our projects will become sustainable and clothing will be made locally at our centre but until this is possible, your...
Another shipment We are delighted to be sending out another shipment of tools, stationery and sewing items for our projects. Our partners Blythswood Care ran a sanitary towel collection across South Wales for this and provided the shipping. Thank you Blythswood...
Thank you for visiting our website- it’s great to have your support. Challenge Africa is running projects, programmes and activities in Kenyan villages; helping local people to help themselves. I set up Challenge Africa in 2006 because I found people trying...