'Splashing out' at FDC
Our supporters
splashed out in every sense of the word on Friday night – braving the raindrops
and puddles, to party and dance with us into the wee hours of Saturday morning!
The spirit of giving was not dampened by the weather and we are absolutely thrilled
to report that we raised Ksh 1.95M (the equivalent of GBP 15,350 or USD 19,300).
What an amazing achievement, as this is nearly half of what we need to raise to
keep our cohort of secondary and tertiary students in education for a year!
As anyone in the
fundraising business will be aware, it is not easy to raise money year in, year
out – particularly within a small community. We are so grateful to our
supporters and sponsors who give the vital auction and raffle prizes with such
good cheer and it is always wonderful to see them round our tables on the
evening itself, to witness first hand how their generosity reaps such reward
for our students. Four such lucky individuals (Festus, Monica, Jane and Frederick - pictured below) came to help out on Friday and
were a) so touched to see all the effort that goes into preparing for such a
function and b) pleased to meet some of the supporters who bid and bought (for
auction prizes, raffle tickets and wine) throughout the evening.
A big hand must also
go to our merry band – Mojo, and to the Karen Country Club team for the
poolside venue. Last but not least, "asante sana" to our MC and auctioneer,
Alastair Addison – who with his easy wit, winkles out a ‘bid’ from nearly everybody!
And here begins our long list of thank yous:
Peter Thande - for blowing and hanging up a ridiculous number of balloons!
Festus Wachira, Monica Kibaru, Jane Wanjiku and Frederick Kingara for 'manning' the wine sales.
Rea Vipingo for sponsoring Mojo the Band
Wines of the World
Wildfire Flowers and the Murray family for all the roses
Karen Country Club Events Team
Auction:
Governors' Camp Collection and Governors' Aviation - Dominic Grammaticas
Alastair Addison
Lapigems - Sheelagh Zagoritis
The Safari Collection - Tanya Carr-Hartley
Crista Cullen
Elewana Collection - James Haigh
Safarilink - John Buckley
Stuart Cohen
The Cuthbert Family
Raffle:
Hemingways Collection - Dicky Evans and Alastair Addison
Air Kenya - Cheryl de Souza
Emakoko - Emma and Anton Childs
Patrick Mavros - Lucy Freemantle
Summit Recruitment - Sue Withers
Talisman - Stuart Herd & Satyan Patel
Serenity Spa - Petra Somen
Sophie Walbeoffe
Joss Taylor
The Cuthbert Family
Damon Ansell
