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The Karuri School Project, Northampton UK (UK Registered Charity 1139378)

The Karuri School Project is an ambitious attempt to bring education to the children of a remote area of Kenya. It is the dream of one woman, Wangari Cecilia Karuri, who experienced the shocking effects of poverty in countries around the world before making the decision to save all her income and start a fund to build a school for the poor and vulnerable children close to her hometown in the Kahuru district of Kenya.

Thanks to her dedication and hard work over the last few years the school is taking shape, and the dream is gradually becoming reality. Supported by her family in Kenya, and by friends in the UK, she has raised enough money to buy the land and put up the first classrooms. The school is formally known as The Sacred Heart Primary School, and is located near Naivasha, some 100km northwest of Nairobi. The first children started as day students in January 2011 in the partially completed school, but there is still more work to be done and many obstacles to be overcome. The Karuri School Project based in Northampton UK continues to raise funds to maintain and develop the school.

The children's residential unit was completed in January 2012 when the first boarders started at the school. By April 2012 there were 14 children living at the school, and about 65 day students.

The charity was registered with the Charity Commission in December 2010 with the stated intention of building and maintaining a residential school providing care and education for orphaned and vulnerable primary school age children in the Naivasha district. The charitable objectives include:

1 To advance education by establishing, supporting and developing a school.

2 To promote and protect the good health through the provision of food, health checks for children and relationship education within the curriculum, providing safe residential care placements for orphaned children, and by such other means as the trustees deem fit.