By Vic Hancock Fell | UK Co Director
Hi friend,
We've had a record-breaking year so far in terms of the number of young people we have enrolled acoss our Seed of Hope vocational training centres. Whether it is the steep uptick in unemployment in Kenya or word of our award-winning programme is getting around in the communities we serve - whatever the cause we have enrolled an incredible 463 young people so far in 2022 - significantly more than we ever have before, since the programme was founded in 2005!
This is obviously great news and we have taken time to celebrate being in a position to offer our free holisitic programme of vocational training so many young people. But the impact of cost of living increases and the drought is still being felt by Seed of Hope students and their families and now we have more than ever before to support.
Thanks to your support through this project, we have been able to continue providing students and their families with food parcels every Friday. These parcels have provided a life-line for families whose crops have failed or whose limited income hasn't been able to keep up with sharp increases in cost of basic food items - in most cases items are at record highs.
With families struggling to make ends meet due to the lingering impact of covid and cost of living increases children are not returning to school so they have no employment skills or qualifications, and therefore have very few opportunities available to them. We will continue to provide vocational training and business skills courses for free, along with counselling, cooked meals, food packs for families, vouchers for childcare and travel, menstrual hygiene packs - anything young people need to be able to learn skills and become self-reliant. The additional food parcels are on top of this already comprehensive package of support. We wouldn't be in a position to do this without your help through this project. Thank you so much.
Next time you hear from us, we will have enrolled even more young people on to our Seed of Hope programme! We hope to be able to report that life has become a little easier for the families of these ambitious young people - keep your fingers crossed for us all.
With gratitude,
Kirsty (UK), Flo (Kenya) Vic (UK), Mary (Kenya)
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