Tag: #solarlights
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Keeping Going During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Schools in Kenya have been closed since 15th March. All of the schools that the Mwezi Foundation supports are in rural locations and the students live in very poor conditions. We have been unable to communicate with the teachers but we assume that it is unlikely any significant home learning has taken place, due to…
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Welcome to our New Website!
Mwezi Foundation new website address We are delighted to be back up and running with our new website address. We have been publishing updates on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, but can now add much more content to the website. One of our direcctors, Claire, visited some of our schools projects in July 2019 with her…
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Olympian George Nash MBE becomes a Patron of the Mwezi Foundation
We are delighted that George Nash MBE has become a patron of the Mwezi Foundation. George is an Olympic rowing gold medallist. He won Olympic Gold at Rio 2016, bronze in the men’s pair at London 2012, and numerous World Championship medals. A Cambridge University engineering graduate, he recognises the importance of a good education and…
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Doing whatever it takes to get solar lights to school children
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Mitsajeni Primary School receives their first Mwezi light library
The 43 students at Mitsajeni Primary School in class 7 can look forward to a brighter future after their school successfully applied for Mwezi lights. Dorcas (at the back of the photo) visited them in February to deliver their first light library of 15 lights. Dorcas was received with honour by a committee including Mr…
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Expanding into New Schools and Orphanages
The Mwezi Foundation is expanding! We are accepting applications (forms available from claire@mwezifoundation.org or Dorcas can supply them in Kenya) from schools and orphanages in south east Kenya, around the Mombasa region. We have given more than 50 light libraries to over 22 schools, and provided 6 home lighting systems to orphanages, with a further…