Welcome to our first newsletter for 2025! We have lots of exciting developments to update you on. But first, we have a favour to ask of all of our amazing sponsors…..
SPONSORS' SURVEY
We think that our sponsors and supporters are Amazing!
Sponsors, the team at the Future of Taru would love to hear your feedback!
Please complete our short survey, and the results will then be shared with all sponsors and charity followers in our next newsletter, and on our social media channels.
Please note that all responses are anonymous.
Thank you for taking the time to share this feedback with us!
To complete the survey, please click here.
THE SEARCH FOR SPONSORS....
We currently have 280 children sponsored by around 150 separate sponsors. This means that we still have 220 children without a sponsor.
As a loyal supporter of the Future of Taru, do you have a family member or friend who may be likely to support us by sponsoring a child please? If so, they can either
a) complete a Sponsor Expression of Interest Form by clicking here
or
b) please ask them to email us at:
futureoftaru@gmail.com
CHRISTMAS IN TARU
Paul is asked regularly what does a Future of Taru child do for Christmas? Well, they are likely to travel to visit grandparents quite often in a different part of Kenya, they may well have the best meal of the year which will likely be a pilau rice dish with goat meat and chapatis, the girls may get their hair done, and a child may be bought a new outfit – there are no wrapped gifts or money gifts etc.
So, this is why when Paul is asked this question by a sponsor that he suggests a food parcel for their sponsor child and their family (£25) as this may well last them for one month, and for a gift for the child then new school shoes and a school bag are always very welcome. Thank you to our sponsors who provided such gifts last Christmas, you can see some of the happy recipients in the images above!
DEVEMOPMENT NEEDS
We desperately need to install Gas across both schools, plus we also desperately need to rebuild the toilets at High School as they’re now too small and inadequate – if any supporters know of any funders who can help us with these two projects please do get in touch.
SCOUT UNIFORMS
Some of our supporters very kindly funded us to buy Scouts uniforms for a number of our pupils; thank you so much to those of you who made these generous donations!
SUSTAINABILITY PROJECT - SOLAR LIGHTING
We were blessed to receive funding for solar lights at our High School.
BOARDING FACILITIES PROGRESS
We were also blessed to received funding for development of a new boarding sector, as directed by the Kenyan Education Authority – this will be for our High School girls. Paul will post further updates when he is back in Taru later this month!
And that’s all for our latest update from the Future of Taru. As always, thank you to you all for your incredible support! To share this newsletter with your friends and families, use the buttons below!
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