…you encounter an amazing group of people. This morning I had the privilege of thanking a group of around 1,000 pupils who had ALL, along with staff, parents and the community, raised £5,600 to build a classroom in Kakuma Refugee Camp. The classrooms such as the one above are in a desperate state and often house classes of anything up to 200 children. The morning … Continue reading Sometimes …
I’ve tried to ignore the impending chaos and panic that Christmas inevitably brings. Yesterday my neighbours decorated the outside of their house with lights. I am groaning – it’s too early! It will however, shortly be December so I wanted to propose an alternative to Christmas cards. I won’t be trying to remember who lives at what number, sending cards from ‘Number 2’. I won’t … Continue reading An alternative to Christmas Cards
The start of a new term is always one of mixed emotions. The excitement of new classes, the blank page – the new stationery mixed with the wistfulness of missing family and the slower days of Summer. For many children school is the one place that they have security. Following our visit to Kakuma refugee camp the first classroom from our fundraising is now built … Continue reading Looking for the positives
Friday I lead an assembly at Springwell about raising funds for #Kakuma refugee camp – they have decided to do a #4000milechallenge! This is roughly the distance from their school to the camp in Kenya. http://www.janehewitt.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/4000milechallenge.html I played with flowers from the garden and a ‘jam jar’ yesterday. Tommy stayed overnight – this morning was bath time! xx Continue reading 8th – 10th May
I spent the morning doing a ‘photo session’ for a local primary school in their foundation outdoor learning space. The children were delightful. They were happy, polite, friendly and self sufficient. I then spent the afternoon editing images from Kakuma refugee camp where the contrast could not be more marked. – We are all living our lives, due to a total random ‘accident of birth’ … Continue reading 20th April
Playing with oil and water photos, so difficult to get ‘clean’ shots – need to try again! Saturday was setting up at Darton College for the TSA carnival of Learning and Teaching on Monday – great team, lots of laughs and Haribo! AND we reached our target of £5,200 to build a classroom in Kakuma – so a good day all round really x Continue reading 10th & 11th April
It’s now just over a week since we returned from Kakuma refugee camp. It’s been a harrowing time due to family circumstances but it has also really made me think. We had Tommy for the day yesterday and despite the challenges that he has to face with his little arm he also has to have an operation on his hips which will result in him … Continue reading 30th March 2015
Very tired today – think that last week is catching up with me 🙂 Single flower from a plant bought at B&Q this morning. Remember you can still donate to our #classroomchallenge and help us raise enough to build a new classroom at Kakuma Refugee Camp https://www.justgiving.com/ww-ep Continue reading 27th March 2015
I have spent the last few days editing and categorising photos from our work in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. All of these images are suitable for use in schools. There will eventually be several folders but I have currently uploaded 170 high res school images and several more in a generic refugee camp folder to dropbox If you want copies of these images I … Continue reading 22nd – 25th March 2015
Posting an old image today but the leaf is symbolic of the book the ‘Red Tree’ by Shaun Tan which we are using in our visit to Kakuma refugee camp – v early flight tomorrow morning so Manchester airport hotel tonight. Might not post for a few days but will catch up when I get back https://theroadtokakuma.wordpress.com/ if you want to follow our journey x Continue reading 11th March 2015 70/365
Jane Hewitt 