Sports and Games Field for DGS!

Moray School Bank are fundraising for Destiny Garden School in Mombasa, Kenya as we have a group of young people and adults going in June 2024 to volunteer and support them how we can.

A bit about the school ....

Destiny Garden School is situated in Mtongwe, one of the poorest suburbs of Mombasa, on Kenya’s coast. The school opened in May 2009 with 160 children and 7 classes and now has over 470 children and 12 classes all with qualified teachers, providing children from infants to 15 years old with a good education. Many of the children are orphans and some are HIV positive.

The main aims of the school are:

• Providing all the children with a good standard of education

• Bringing out the full potential of each and every child

• Ensuring all children receive a good meal during the school day

• Offering educational programmes on HIV/AIDS and also care for those already infected by HIV/AIDS

• Offering training and counselling to all, especially the orphaned children

The school are looking to transform the rough, uneven, flooded and unsafe ground they use for playing games into a safe, even sports and games field. This will cost £29,000, however an interim measure would be £5000 so our volunteer team are looking to raise anywhere between the two figures in the hopes that we can help in any way. We are determined to do all we can to give the children a place to enjoy physical education and playing.

Our young volunteers are on their journey to raising £9100 as a team of 7 just to make their trip possible so as soon as that is completed they'll be continuing this fundraising to hopefully raise enough to make a difference and start the work on DGS' sports and games field!