Its time for one of our Peacemakers UK member's to spend an extended time in Kenya!

Christine Gibbard has been the Head teacher at Ardeley St Lawrence School for the last 18 years. On the 30th June she will be resigning from this position and making herself available to oversee the building of the Resource Centre in the district of Embu and all the many projects that Peacemakers have initiated in the surrounding area, over  the past 20 years.  You will see from our web page, that the Prayer House  and the Abandoned Baby Refuge Centre structure is now completed and we need Christine's expertise and managerial skills to furnish and get the first stage of the Centre operational.

Christine has been an active and committed member of the work that this Charity has been involved with, both at home and abroad, from the beginning and knows the Kenyan people and the area very well.  She is also greatly loved and respected by the Peacemakers Kenya Team, who are looking forward to her joining them.  She will be flying to Nairobi 9th July 2009.

Christine has desired for a long time to spend more time in Africa and earlier this year spent  11 weeks in Rwanda, with other Head Teachers  going into schools and assisting the Heads and passing on their experiences.  She also wants to spend more time in Rwanda and follow up this work and friendships that were made then.

Peacemakers UK have also been invited to bring God's vision to Tanzania, which has been postponed until we have the Resource Centre up and running.  Incidentally, this Centre is going to be named ‘The Dennis Marshall Foundation’ Dennis Marshall was the founder of this work. So this is something for the future for Christine, while she is in Africa.

Christine will be non salaried while she is there for whatever length of time, so if you would like to be one of her sponsors during this period, please get in touch with me and I will arrange for donations to be transferred to her in Kenya.

Brenda Marshall
Director of Peacemakers International
Email: brenda@peacemakers-international.com

Thankyou to everyone who came along and supported us at the Oasis fundraising meeting on the 29th November. It was well attended and much interest was shown in the work of Peacemakers. The theme this year was "Wool" for school uniforms. £68 was raised towards funding school uniforms for children in Kenya who cannot attend school without them.

A big thank you to everyone who helped or attended the Cream Tea & Bring-n-Buy sale on the 7th August. We are very thankful that the weather was good and contributed to a very successful day. The Total raised was £637.24 which will go towards buying an Oxygen Concentrator for a children's hospital in Kenya.

The results of the two raffles are as follows:

Raffle (Pink Ticket)  A Professional Cake!        Winning Ticket 17  (Mazzy)

Raffle (White Ticket)                                                         Winning ticket
1st    Picnic Hamper                                                            No.  25

2nd    Coffee Maker                                                               No. 284
3rd    Massage & Foot Vibrator                                             No. 118

4th    Plant & £10 Garden Centre Voucher                             No. 274

5th    Soap Stone                                                                No. 214

6th    Body & Hair Care Travel Pouch                                    No.   51

7th    Boots Amazon Forest Skin Treats Toiletry Bag             No. 129

8th    Glass Ice Bucket                                                        No.  10

9th    Mug & Coaster Set                                                     No. 227



For a few more photos of the day, Please click on full story Below.

Are you able to volunteer? Several young people have already joined Peacemaker teams.
Take Hannah and Charli for example. After visiting a variety of continents they arrived in Runyenjes, Embu, to volunteer their help in setting up a Plant Nursery for the community centre. Here were two gap year students who certainly didn’t mind rolling up their sleeves and getting dirty. See the photos of the planting. They also helped get the prayer house ready for painting! Thank you Hannah and Charli, You were brilliant!

If you feel you would like to volunteer your services, for whatever length of time, we would be able to make good and valuable use of you. Please contact Brenda Marshall via the websites contact form.
Thank you.

For more photos, please click on the "Full Story" link just below.

A big thank you again to everyone who helped or attended the Cream Tea & Bring-n-Buy sale on the 31st July 2009. The weather was very good to us and like last year made for a lovely event. The Total raised was over £800 with some money still coming in. It will all go towards varous projects and needs in Kenya.

Another big thank you to everyone who donated prizes to the raffle and to those of you who baught a ticket.

The results of the raffle are as follows:

Raffle                                                                            Winning ticket

£40 Voucher for Cory's Mill Beafeater ------------------------------ Pink No. 6

£25 Voucher for Frankie and Benny's ------------------------------ Green No.459
3 bottles of Wine    -------------------------------------------------------- Orange No. 231

Teddy bear, Toiletries and Chocolates. ---------------------------- Green No.705
2 Cinema Tickets ----------------------------------------------------------- Green No.226

2 cinema tickets ------------------------------------------------------------ Green No.350
African Warrior Sculpture ------------------------------------------------ Orange No.240

Spin Curl Hair Dryer. ------------------------------------------------------ Orange No.207
Summer Bag ----------------------------------------------------------------- Green No.274
Peacemakers Football --------------------------------------------------- Orange No.248
Buiscuits ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pink No.78



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MBDA (UK) Ltd at Stevenage has held the Harrison Cup inter departmental football competition since 1955.  This year’s final between "100 Spartans" and "Turners" was a little different as the footballs were supplied by our good friends Alive and Kicking in Kenya.

Alive and Kicking had provided all the balls for Peacemakers in 2006 when a team of youngsters from the UK, led by a National Physical Education tutor, spent one week coaching Kenyan Teachers and a second week had the Kenyans putting their new skills into practice.  600 footballs were bought for this and at the end of the week four footballs were given out to each participating school.

The 2008 Harrison Cup was brought to a conclusion on Thursday 5^th June with Turners defeating 100 Spartans in a wholly second-half match! Chris Chalat opened the scoring on the hour before Matt Arlick confirmed the Golden Boot award with his 5th and 6th goals of the tournament.

The photograph shows Captains Martin Barrett (left; Turners) and Alan Kenney (right; 100 Spartans) with the footballs and several other photographs of the footballs in use.

The players were very impressed with the quality of the footballs and we are hoping that orders will be forthcoming as a result.

Letter of Thanks from Ministry of Health

Runyenjes – Embu

Kenya

 9th - 25th April 2008

 By Len Little

As I flew out of Heathrow enroute to Nairobi on the evening flight I made a mental note of the fact that having been a complete novice in visiting Africa, let alone Kenya, here I was three years to the day almost, starting my fifth visit to Kenya as a volunteer with Peacemakers-International. My briefcase was brimful with sheets of paper relating to the numerous individuals and projects that our charitable trust has given training and support to over the last twenty years.

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This year we were thrilled to have the support of the Kitchen Tables Trust donation. This Trust is just amazing; it is supported by John Humphries, who, in his incisive and "non nonsense "way, donates funds to small charities like ours who meet the needs of children, healthcare, sustainable projects, education for all ..

http://www.kitchentablecharities.org/

Let me tell you what we have managed to achieve just this year because of your continued support and generous donations.

In Kenya during the month of August, we had a very successful Sports Primary Teachers Training week (Residential Course) held at Moi High School. Kim Henderson, the England National Sports Trainer led the course, helped by 5 students in their gap year. This was followed by a Sports Leaders Training Course for youth who are members of our re-hab DACA groups(Drug Abuse Campaign). Both courses led to a 'Certificate of Attendance' being awarded to all those who completed the whole week.

..For the rest of Brenda's summary and pictures, please click Full Story below..