Take note of our new notelets!

Send a friend a little bit of Kenya by supporting FDC and buying a packet of our newly designed notelets. These are now selling in packs of five cards, at Hardy Provision Stores, Karen Provision Stores, Utamaduni, Langata Link Shops and Karen Country Club.

Again, our huge thanks to Laura Cuthbert for her beautiful beach-themed drawings, below.

Spring Newsletter

Read our latest newsletter (Issue 12 - May 2016) which is hot off the press! In it you will find articles on our latest in-house training course, KCSE results and exam issues, fundraising, our latest range of notelets and what it costs to support a student through secondary education if you or a group of friends or family are looking for a worthy cause to support! Our AGM will be on Wednesday 18th May at 2.30pm at Mahali Pa Watoto School - please email us if you are able to attend. 

New Funky Fruit and Veg Notelets

Our immense thanks to Laura Cuthbert for her funky fruit and veg designs for our latest range of notelets. These will be selling at Ksh 500 for a pack of four and are blank inside for your own message! Find them at Karen Provision Stores or the Karen Country Club shop. Alternatively, please do contact a committee member.

FDC feels Christmas Cheer at the Christmas Fair 

Many thanks to all those who visited our stall last weekend at the Christmas Fair, chatted to our students and bought our Christmas cards, notelets, aprons, etc. It was a fabulous sunny weekend and everyone agreed the set up of the Fair was perfect for vendors and visitors alike!

Many thanks to the organisers, The Christmas Trust, for our tent and the generosity they have shown to Friends of Dagoretti Children over the last few years! We are so grateful.

We had a great weekend, both in terms of sales, and spreading the word about FDC. Likewise, so did many others - some wonderful Christmas gifts bought and many other charities, like us, benefited too! Christmas charity with Christmas cheer! What could be better?

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Fundraising and Features

We are pleased to report back that tables are filling fast for our big Fundraiser on Friday 28th November at Karen Country Club, 7.30 pm by the pool. We are still taking bookings, so please contact us if you would like to buy a ticket or better still, organise a table! It is shaping up to be a fabulous evening with some great auction donations and lively entertainment by The Soul Syndicate.

We have also printed a new Christmas card design as they have been selling like hot-cakes! These are available in various Karen shops, at the Karen Country Club shop or via a committee member. 500 Ksh for a pack of five! 

Last but not least, we are thrilled to see an FDC photo on the front cover of the Karen Country Club Charity Golf Day magazine, and an article on Duncan Wataka on page 4. Copies of the magazine can be picked up at the Club and once again we would like to thank all our supporters for their continued interest and donations over the years - be it through corporate or private donations, attending our fundraising events or buying our cards, notelets, aprons and bridge pads! It all makes such a difference to our ability to fund the students (currently 56) through secondary and tertiary education. 

Our Year 4s have just taken their KCSE exams and we wish them the best of luck in getting the good results that they deserve!

Bridging the gap to make fundraising fun

On Tuesday we held a fabulous bridge afternoon - to ring the changes with our fundraising! The event was exceedingly well supported by friends and 'members' of Friends of Dagoretti Children and with nine tables of competitive (and some not so competitive!) card players and a raffle, we managed to raise just over Ksh 80,000 - which was wonderful! It was also the perfect opportunity to launch our new range of aprons, notelets and bridge pads for sale - which all went down a storm! We are also so grateful to the Murray family for donating their beautiful roses for sale and to Hemingways for donating dinner for two as a prize. Many, many thanks to all those who played, and/or contributed the most delicious cakes, sandwiches and biscuits - some of which, were even themed - a kind and creative thought, Denise! 

Last but not least - very special thanks to Linda for coordinating all the bridge players and to Charlie for hosting the afternoon at her beautiful home. 

The photos say it all:

Well done to all those who won a prize and "better luck next time" to those of you who missed out! We will definitely be doing this again!