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Kenya School Desk is an aid project, open to all, which supports the cultural development of children in Kenya.

All our projects are designed and implemented to provide education and training in rural areas of Africa, such as Kambe, Bondora and Kaloleni, where neither tourists nor caucasians have ever been before, with the aim of supporting personal development in the field of education, offering all children the opportunity to study and build a future where they themselves will have a fundamental role in the development of the continent.

From 2017 until the present day, using just word of mouth, we have equipped 24 poor schools with charitable desks and blackboards, and built 3 schools from scratch.

HISTORY

A PROJECT BORN FROM A GESTURE OF LOVE

I am Cinzia. I want to tell you something about myself and, more importantly, about my family of independent travelers: Kenya School Desk.
We know Kenya well. For thirteen years we have been visiting, traveling independently throughout this wonderful land where three very trustworthy African families host us and accompany us to safari lodges and on excursions ... Imagine, my son Andrea, now fifteen, experienced Kenya for the first time when he was just three-and-a-half years-old.

A love for Africa that in 2017 turned into so much more.

On February 24th of this same year, I left for Kenya in search of a miracle. My 29 year-old niece Karin was going through chemotherapy and had a very difficult case of cancer. I felt so helpless in front of this terrible affliction that I was compelled to do something, to be helpful in some way, to support those who, despite being full of life, are unable to eat, learn, and live decently.


One of my African families—Khamisi Mbaru (Robbie Rasta)—advised me to set up the Bondora Miracle Center school at Kambe Kaloleni as a form of prayer/help.

I arrived in Kambe, a village near Mombasa where I had already ordered the wood to create school desks, and set to work: broken nails, back aching, you work until 11 at night in a place where electric light is a luxury...
I delivered my first 31 desks telling myself all the while "YOU CAN DO IT, KARIN!” On the day we delivered the desks, we found there were not enough, and many children had to remain standing.

Appeal on Facebook "Who will help me finish this school?"

On March 22, 2017, my mother died, and before leaving me, she asked me to continue on this same road; it is at that exact moment that Kenya School Desk was officially born.

IN JUST 24 MONTHS, ALL TOGETHER, WE HAVE:

  • set up desks and blackboards in 24 schools in Kaloleni, Kilifi, Malindi, Watamu, Timboni, Kakoneni on the Tsavo road

  • built one school from scratch in just 35 days: the Hawaa junior School in Jimba. In December of 2018, with the help of Caffè Borbone in Ganda, the three-classroom Baraka School was inaugurated. During Easter of 2019, we inaugurated the third school, the Furaha Junior Academy in Malindi - Furunzi.

  • In just 12 months, we schooled for 1 whole year 300 orphaned children in our schools with 1 guaranteed meal

  • restructured 2 schools: the Hope Junior School in Gede, through donations from individuals, and the Birght Angels School in Dabaso near Watamu

  • distributed food to the victims of the flood in Langobaya and in the Kirepwe Island in front of Dabaso

  • received clothes and lots of school supplies from the many tourists who visited Watamu

  • during Christmas 2018 and Easter 2019, we donated food packages to families in need, with the help of Juliet

  • in July 2018, we welcomed the first volunteers who came to help school children

  • on April 18, Easter 2019, the first solidarity trip to Kenya began. A tour of schools and villages met with unprecedented success: everyone donated to the project directly and experienced it first-hand

  • from April 9, 2019, we became a Volunteer ASSOCIATION and we issue receipts that can be deducted in tax returns

We don't have a lot of money, but through word of mouth, we are doing great things that you can see and touch "few words, many facts".

"For me, Kenya School Desk is a medicine, helping others. In fact it helped me overcome a great pain and win the fight against any disease. I'm sure the same goes for a lot of the many donors who follow us."

WE ARE A LOVE TEAM THAT WILL NEVER STOP.

“KENYA SCHOOL DESK, WE ARE HERE FOR THEM, FOR THE COMMUNITY, FOR A BETTER WORLD!! ”