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Welcome to your monthly e-news update from AbleChildAfrica. This month we bring you a few words from our Chair, Steve Broach, on his recent trip to visit our partners in Kenya, a volunteering update from Ella and news from our Triathlon teams.
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A Trip to Little Rock & ANDY with our Chair
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I have now had the privilege of chairing AbleChildAfrica's board for three years. In all this time I have never felt that our work was more worthwhile than I did during our recent visit to our partners Little Rock and ANDY in Nairobi.
 | | Lily & Steve stand outside of the rapidly growing Inclusive ECD building |
The main purpose of the visit was to see the progress on the construction of Little Rock's new inclusive early childhood development centre, which has been generously funded by Euromoney and a number of major banks. The building site was a hive of activity and meeting all those involved in the project gave us welcome assurance that the centre is set to open on time in January 2013.
I was just as pleased to meet up with ANDY and their inspirational director Fred Ouko, to see the benefit of our programme funded by Comic Relief which helps youths with disabilities benefit from both sport and employment. We went to see a small business set up by a young woman in Kibera, providing internet access and computer training. She told us how much confidence she had gained from ANDY's sports programme and how this had helped her progress her business.
 | | Steve & Jane meet some of ANDY's team |
Thank you to all of our supporters who have made this build possible. If you are not already a Friend of AbleChildAfrica, I would encourage you to sign up and help us to sustain this work with a regular gift.
Little Rock and ANDY are just two of AbleChildAfrica's five current partners. Alongside Kenya, amazing work is also happening in Uganda and Tanzania.
Stephen Broach - Chair
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Ella's Volunteering Update
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Hi Everyone!
 My name is Ella and I am currently volunteering at AbleChildAfrica. I've been here for about 3 months and I'm helping them create a Child Participation Toolkit, which, once completed will be a good practice guide that will provide practitioners with some activities and information that will support the active inclusion of children with disabilities in AbleChildAfrica's work in Africa. I am currently studying for a Masters in International Development. AS part of my course I have to complete a placement at an NGO and I'm so glad I did my placement at AbleChildAfrica, as they are the only UK based NGO that works specifically with children with disabilities in Africa. and although the placement has finished I still hope to continue working with them. What I really love about AbleChildAfrica is the fact that they focus on a local response to a local problem by working closely with their partner organisations and providing them with support, information and the all important funding. One of my main interests in International Development is child participation; I firmly believe that all children should have the opportunity to be involved in making changes and decisions about things that affect them and so I was thrilled to do some work with AbleChildAfrica around this. I have learnt so much during my time volunteering at AbleChildAfrica. The experience has been really interesting and extremely valuable and I'm so grateful to the whole team for all their help and support and mainly for giving me the opportunity to be involved! Thanks! Ella
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Euromoney get ready for the London Triathlon
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With less than two months to go until the London Triathlon on September 22nd and 23rd, our 3 teams from our corporate Partner Euromoney are ready and are raring to go!
The Euromoney teams, made up of Ben, Hannah, Louisa, Harry, Christian, Gerry and Romain have committed to 10 weeks of crash course training to complete the London Triathlon to raise a combined £4,500 to support our work! If you would like to help them along they have a fundraising page on MyDonate.
We're still looking for more competitors for the London Triathlon so if you'd like to enter on your own, or as part of a 1,2 or 3 person team, email us on info@ablechildafrica.org.uk or call the office on 0207 793 4144 for more information.
The deadline to sign up is the 31st August!
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How you can be involved!
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Application for places for our London Marathon 2013 team are already coming in thick and fast! If you would like to don your orange T-shirt next Spring and support great projects such as Little Rock and ANDY, then get your shoes on & sign up here!
As Steve mentioned becoming a Friend of AbleChildAfrica is simple and easy way to make a huge difference to the work of our partners in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Friends receive a whole host of bonuses for their ongoing support and you can find more about the scheme and how to be involved here.
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