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The Educational Frontier Trust (TEFT) is a UK registered charity providing funding for the educational needs of marginalised and vulnerable children in Kenya.
TEFT supports a Kenyan charity, the Kisima Trust, and its educational project Kisima School which works with communities mainly in northern Kenya, in particular pastoralist communities.
Northern Kenya is a marginalised region affected by recurrent drought, banditry and violent conflict and has virtually no public services. High percentages of the traditional pastoralist communities are illiterate and many now depend on relief aid for survival.
Kisima School selects children from these communities on the basis of need and potential and gives them the opportunity to transform their lives through academic achievement. A secondary education and the chance to progress to university offers these children new skills and training that can change their lives and bring new life to their families and communities.
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10 teachers teach the Kenyan national curriculum to 160 children, 80 boys and 80 girls. The students sit the Kenyan Certificate of Secondary Education in their fourth and final year. Their results determine whether they progress to university or other colleges and levels of government financial support.
Kisima School is located on a five acre site at Nyahururu, approximately 240km northwest of Nairobi. The school site includes classrooms, staff rooms, a dining room (which also doubles as the school hall), kitchens, dormitories, a games field and teachers’ accommodation. Vegetables for the school kitchen are grown in a large greenhouse and all other available space around the buildings. Goats are also kept near the games field. Watch the film
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TEFT selected as the BMF's charity partner for 2025.
September 2024
TEFT has been chosen as one of the Builders Merchants Federation's (BMF) charity partners for 2025. The BMF is the only trade association representing merchants and suppliers in the UK and Ireland. Currently it is made up of 1,000 merchant and supplier companies who together employ just under 203,000 people in the building materials sector.
The BMF will also be supporting Variety, a UK based charity that works to improve the lives of children and young people throughout the UK who are sick, disabled or disadvantaged.
TEFT is excited about what this partnership will bring and are looking forward to a series of fundraising activities in 2025 that will make a huge difference to the lives of children in Kenya.
John Newcomb, CEO of BMF and TEFT trustee said:
“Both of our charity partners for 2025 fund and deliver life-changing programmes that give children and young people a better future and enable them to reach their full potential. Fundraising with our members will help them to continue their
invaluable work.”