About

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The word Urafiki means friendship in Kiswahili. Urafiki is a small charity – our aim is to bring people together as friends in the UK and beyond and at the same time raise money to support health, education and social projects in Africa. All the money donated goes to Africa. Urafiki is very informal – [...]

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Sponsorship A blanket for someone who is cold every night costs £4 Feeding an older person for a year costs £50 Feeding a child, sending them to primary school and buying uniform costs £60 Repairing a house so it doesn’t leak costs £60 Buying a cow for a family costs £150 Sending a bright child [...]

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Our Mission

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What does friendship mean to you? Through friendship we can help people to maintain the dignity that is their right, we can help people to enhance and sustain their communities, we can help people to plan and participate in their social and economic development Across many parts of Africa there are people and communities that [...]

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More Events

We are very flexible about what we do. For example, we have had bands playing at different venues (Jive Jacks, Thick as Thieves,  Melosa to name but 3, coffee mornings, Annie organized a clothes swap and we hosted the legendary Noel “ Windmills of your Mind” Harrison. A skydive, and several people ran in the Exeter 2011 Half Marathon raising thousands of pounds in sponsorship.

Every event serves a two fold purpose – raising money to support African projects is important – but so is the fun we have doing things together. Other fund raisers have included calendars, hand made greeting cards (thank you Hannah) and CDs from a South African choir.

So if none of the above events is your sort of thing. What is?

We would be happy to support you if you wanted to organise something different.

Projects

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    Children

    Vulnerable children The scheme was set up in May 2009 and now supports over 100 primary school children in Yala. Primary education is free in Kenya but does not include the compulsory school uniform, shoes, bags and examination registration fees which many families cannot afford. This results in children not attending school so the scheme funds [...]

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    Sustainability

    Sustainable projects “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for life”. Each month the feeding scheme helps keeps 200 old people alive. This is great but we recognise that it is no way sustainable. This has been recognised by the old people [...]

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    The Centre

    Yala community centre Phase 1 of the community centre is now being used and phase two is well under way.

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    Feeding

    Urafiki feeding scheme The feeding scheme in Yala was set up in May 2007 and feeds 150 elderly and vulnerable people a year. There is hidden hunger in the area with many older people caring for grandchildren whose parents have died of HIV / aids. Many are on the verge of starving all year round. [...]

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    Education

    Secondary Education Scheme The URAFIKI education scheme was set up in August 2004. Education is considered the main route to alleviate poverty and create sustainable, self-supporting communities. There are currently over 40 young people on the scheme. In Kenya, education beyond the age of 14 has to be paid for. There are three types of [...]

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Urafiki is a Registered Charity in the UK Registered Charity Number: 1078505