News from July 2010

Keep up to date with all the latest SKIP news! Here you’ll find out what all our branches have been up to across the UK and around the world.

On Project with SKIP St George's

Submitted by Andy Young on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 10:58

SKIP St. George's have just arrived in Kisii, Kenya to begin their pilot project with Voices for Hope. Having carried out rigorous research into organisations around the world, SKIP St. George's have decided to work with this orphanage that provides care to 50 orphans. Last year a small group visited Kisii to see what they would be able to do to assist and add to the work of Voices for Hope. This year they return to start their work!

Voices for Hope support children through their time at school, keeping them in contact with their original communities. The children will then return as adults to their original communities with vocational skills to help them live a life of their own, free from dependence on handouts.

For 6 weeks, the 11 volunteers will be trialling some of their proposed interventions for future projects. They will be teaching about sanitation and infection preventions, running sex education workshops for the over 16s and teaching English.

As this is a pilot project year they will spend a lot of time assessing the quality of these interventions and researching the need and plausibility of other ideas such as providing further infrastructure and capacity for the orphanage through building projects and obtaining a sustainable source of bed nets.

Through their work this summer the St. George’s team should be moving into full project status, with a well-researched project containing appropriate interventions that provide great support to Voices of Hope.

Here at SKIP we're looking forward to hearing the results of St. George’s time in Kisii, and wish them a successful and safe Summer!

For more information about SKIP St. George’s, their work in Kenya and to donate towards it, please visit http://www.skipkids.org.uk/projects/skip-st-georges-kenya

So how does a SKIP project establish itself?

How branches move from a seed of an idea in a students mind to becoming a fully fledged, life changing project - this is the SKIP prject life cycle:

  1. Research and Decide on Country
  2. Research Organisations
  3. Research and Needs Assessment Trip
  4. Pilot Proposal and Pilot Project Year
  5. Full Project!
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