every journey begins with a single step...

‘Footsteps for Africa’ is a UK based charity that makes a very real difference to people living in desperately poor communities near Lake Victoria. It is run entirely voluntarily and every penny raised goes to fund its work in Kenya.
‘Footsteps’ provides Kenyan children with the opportunity to reach their potential as individuals and become healthy, educated, self-sufficient and valuable members of their communities.

We do this in a variety of ways:

  1. by building schools, providing education materials, teaching support and water;
  2. funding the provision of medical facilities to help prevent deaths from easily treatable illnesses such as diarrhoea and malaria as well as HIV/AIDs;
  3. through a successful child sponsorship programme for particularly disadvantaged children; we invite individuals and families in the UK to join in a ‘long distance adoption’ programme;
  4. through an annual voluntary programme (Rafiki) aimed at broadening the experience of the children: introducing  sports, arts and fun and providing some understanding of the world outside their village.

Click to view the Rafiki 2009 video (Double click for larger size)

Our fundraising event at the Light House, Wimbledon on Sunday 15th November, met its target and we are now beginning the planning and building of a new school for Kanyalwal. Check out our news page for further details.

David Burditt and Peter Jackson are embarking on an expedition to climb Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, at the end of February 2010. Please support Footsteps by sponsoring them on this venture.

Click above to go to David and Peter's Just Giving page and sponsor their trek on Kilimanjaro