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RAF Charitable appeal makes huge Kenya delivery
A team representing a Charitable Appeal based at RAF Shawbury in North Shropshire has completed 12 days of deliveries of football kit in the slum areas of Kenya in East Africa.
The Taking Football to Africa and Beyond Charitable Appeal is run by Wing Commander Neil Hope MBE, who is based at RAF Shawbury. The Appeal, which operates through the RAF Football Association, delivers ‘Aid through Football’ to the needy across the world. The Appeal, which started in 2006, has delivered over 153000 items to 52 countries worldwide to date.
The visit is to allow a diverse group of people to deliver items from the Appeal
to the needy in and around Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya in East Africa. A group of 12 Military and Civilians travelled to Kenya on 8th October and made 53 deliveries over 12 days of 15354 items including 4683 football shirts.
The items delivered were donated by football clubs and people from across the United Kingdom and included many items donated by Premier League clubs such as Manchester United and Leicester City, through the Leagues to Grassroots football clubs and County Football Associations. Many deliveries were made of items donated by Sheffi eld and Hallamshire CFA, Worcestershire FA, Durham FA, Dorset FA, Hampshire FA, Derbyshire
FA amongst others and including their member clubs.
Nearer to home in Shawbury items were donated by Shropshire FA, Shrewsbury Town, AFC Telford Utd, Shawbury Utd and many other teams. The deliveries included many of the huge slum areas in Nairobi including Kibera, which is the largest slum town in Africa with over one million people living in an area of less than three square kilometres with no mains electricity, no sewerage system and little running water. The schools are mostly very small corrugated iron buildings which are incredibly hot and have up to 60 children per class. The obvious desire of the children to learn however, is incredible.
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Winter 2016
www.raf-ff.org.uk
Day 6 - FB - Chris Skaife at Saidia Childrens Home - Gilgil.
Wg Cdr Neil Hope at Lizpal School in Ngando.
Alan Fish at Juja Farm Primary School.
Durham FA - FS Danny Jackson - Kibagare Ladies FC - Kibagare Good News Centre.
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