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Published:
October 24, 2006
Burnham-On-Sea
clubs raise £1,300 for visiting Kenyan schoolchildren
Generous
members of Burnham-On-Sea's Rotary Club and Inner Wheel this week
handed over £1,300 to a group of visiting Kenyan schoolchildren
who are in the area hoping to raise enough money to build a new
orphanage.
 Organiser
Sue Stevens is pictured receiving a cheque from Val Shelland (Inner
Wheel) and Mike Young (Rotary) with some of the young dancers
in the background at Brean Leisure Park. The money was raised
at a special fundraising event at the Battleborough Grange in
Brent Knoll.
The
30-strong group of young singers has been performing in front
of large audiences across Burnham-On-Sea, Highbridge and Berrow
during recent weeks, visiting schools, churches and community
centres.
Under
the SCA Children's Appeal, the choir has performed more than 20
times and raised thousands of pounds. Its
last performance was at Southleigh Kindergarten on Tuesday (October
24th).
 The
Samson Chivatsi African Children’s Appeal was established
in 1998 to give the poorest children in Kenya access to a good
education.
Since
then the organisation, which was named after the first child that
Maureen and Ian sponsored, built the primary school in the village
of Utange. This school and a rented nursery school now have more
than 600 children, all of who are sponsored by people in the UK
and Europe.
Sue
Stevens, the Southern Representative for the charity, is based
in Burnham. The group hopes to raise enough money to build an
orphanage near to their primary school in Utange, near Mombasa.
Burnham's
Mayor, Eric Gill, told Burnham-On-Sea.com earlier this month:
"I hope they enjoy their time here as much as the pleasure
they have given us with their wonderful performances. Burnham
is very happy to welcome and help them."
RELATED
LINKS:
Burnham-On-Sea
welcomes visiting group of Kenyan schoolchildren
Kenyan
schoolchildren to perform at Burnham-On-Sea garden centre
Singing
Children of Africa [External Website]
Photos
courtesy of Mike Lang
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