Linking Arms with Rescued Kids

supporting

Eldoret Children's Rescue Centre, Kenya

Welcome to the LARK website

LARK was set up specifically to support the Rescue Centre because its founders had a personal contact with the first Director of the Centre. In 2011 we have sent £2,000 a month to the Centre as a contribution towards maintenance costs (food, staffing and so on) together with funding for secondary school and vocational training fees, and for special projects. LARK is a UK registered charity, but is based in the small village of King's Sutton, near Banbury, so it is a huge challenge to maintain the funding. Over the past five years several of the Trustees and others have visited the Rescue Centre to undertake voluntary work,  to support the Director and staff and to ensure that the funding is being properly deployed. So - we know where our money goes and get we regular updates from the current Director.  For further information about LARK please go to the website section on Linking Arms with Rescued Kids.


The Rescue Centre

          


The Rescue Centre in Eldoret is a safe refuge for about 200 children and young people who have been living on the streets. Its focus is rehabilitation and it provides a safe, caring environment, health care, counselling and education - key to enabling the young people to gain independence and to grow into useful, productive members of Kenyan society. It is an exciting, challenging place, dealing as it does with children rejected by society - abandoned through extreme poverty, orphaned, and those who have run away from an abusive situation.

In 2009 the Trustees of the Children's Community Society (the charity in Eldoret responsible for the Centre) signed the lease on the land occupied by the Centre plus an adjacent field - a total plot size of 20 acres.  A volunteer UK architect has drawn up plans for the development of the whole site and continues to be responsible for all detailed planning. The plans involve replacing the old wooden and galvanised huts with purpose built stone buildings and developing the overall facilities. Further details of the progress with this project are in the Eldoret section of the website.

Newsletter

For the most up to date news about both LARK and the Rescue Centre please look at the newsletter.

Donations to LARK, gift aided if possible, should be sent to LARK, 19 Wales Street, King's Sutton, Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX17 3RR, or on-line through charitychoice . Thank you

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