Update - Jan 2003

Triangle Project - £500 is now on its way to the project for their self-help clinic, which is near completion. 
Thanks, too, to those who are sponsoring children through their schooling. 
For further details on how you can help, or, if you want the hold a fund-raising event, contact Cec & Julie Jones 

Update - May 2002

Julie and Ces write:

Our visit to Timboni, Kenya at Easter

Easter Sunday dawned and we went to 8.00 communion in church and then shared a wonderful Easter breakfast consuming special homemade croissants and hot cross buns.  We went by bus to Gatwick and set off on our long plane journey to Kenya.  

The new school has been built in Timboni since our last visit.  They have added another classroom already as other children have heard about the new school being completed.  The newly fitted blackboard brings back memories to Ces of the time he spent as a head teacher.

There is no glass in the windows and as yet no doors have been fitted to the classrooms but about 75 children sit in the room and when the teacher speaks you are able to hear a pin drop.  The children want to learn and are highly motivated to learn to read, especially English books.

We gave out the books and the cuddly toys we had taken with us.  The children had never had lolly-pops and even the grown men enjoyed them.  We in this country take so much for granted but the simplest of things really brings a smile to the Timboni Children's faces.

They have bought simply made desks with the money we have sent.  Two classes do not have desks yet and the children sit on blocks of stone.  The children are very proud of their new school and love the desks - but they also need cupboards so that all the books we have sent can be displayed and stored.

The Timboni people now have self-help clinic that they have longed for.  Now that you are supporting them, they look forward to the time that they can treat the people who come from a great distance to the clinic.

The clinic is situated on a very good site that the people have cleared.  Currently they are working on the floor of the clinic - getting buckets of stones and carrying them in very basic wheelbarrows and off-loading them at the clinic.  They pound the stones with tree trunks and then cement over them for a smooth floor.

The children happily work hard getting their daily supply of water from the local well.  They walk at least three miles to get the water and then carry the containers on their heads back home to their families.  This water is already polluted and they boil it on an open fire, before they can use it as drinking water.  Often they make this water last two or three days.  We must remember that it is very, very hot in the Timboni region and they walk in the heat without complaining.

We have given them sufficient money to link up to the water supply and they have plans for two "real" toilets and running water in the clinic.  Before they had a three "long-drops" for the whole of their village.  Often, we take too much for granted.  

The people of Timboni are very thankful for the support we, as a Church Circuit, have given them.  We need to maintain it as long as we can.

Thank you all for being very supportive.

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