The zebras around our school are dying of starvation, every day we find more casualties. The marsh they (and the community) have always relied upon to get them through the droughts has, for the first time in living memory, dried up. There are approximately 60 zebra that have become confined to the area that was …
The brilliant children’s author Daniel Kirk has sent Olng’arua School more books. The delivery included copies of his new book ‘Rhino in the House’, telling the wonderful true story of the baby rhino saved by Anna Merz, here in Kenya. It is very fitting that the books should arrive in time for world rhino day. …
Dear Friends, I wanted to let you know that despite the problems here, in our part of Kenya, everyone at the school is safe and well. There is still a great deal of insecurity in the area, we are desperately short of water and food is becoming scarce in the community but, despite all this, …
Sadly the area around the school is still insecure. The constant stress of conflict and drought is wearing everybody in the community down. However, the school is open and it is great to see that when the children are there they get a chance to forget the problems for a while. In these photographs they …
Happy World Book Day! The children at Olng’arua love books. With no TV, books are their window to the world, their inspiration and a way to escape the daily hardships they face. Sadly though we have very few books. Why don’t you help us celebrate world book day by sending us a book from our …
In the last few weeks the security situation around the school has deteriorated rapidly. It is nearly two years ago that conflict first broke out in this previously calm area. At that time all of those living to the north of the school fled their homes. The school became a shelter during times of fighting, …