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If you are not familiar with RSS’ partnership with Together in Sport to support children in need, have a read of our previous article here!

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Kari Spence has returned from her trip to Africa where she was overseeing her latest project – building a kitchen so children at a Rwandan school can have a hot meal.

The teacher started fundraising for the initiative last year and, thanks to a donation from Removal Services Scotland (RSS), she hit her target figure faster than expected. Kari and her partner Richard recently travelled to a school in Rwanda, The Faith and Hope Academy, to see the newly-built kitchen for themselves. Many of the children at the school have just one small meal a day and Kari decided to take action after seeing the terrible effects that lack of food was having on the pupils.

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She said: “I will never forget walking into the nursery classroom and seeing a young girl lying at the back of the class on the concrete floor fast asleep due to not having had any food. The number of times I have seen children bent over with stomach cramps due to hunger is heartbreaking. This is why I am so passionate to ensure the food programme is sustainable.”

Speaking about her latest visit, she said: “Driving up to the school for the first time and seeing the kitchen made me feel extremely excited, and I felt quite overwhelmed that we had been able to make this happen so quickly.
 
“Felix, the head-teacher at the school, was so proud of his new kitchen and he couldn’t wait to put it into action.

“The day we launched the food programme was a day we will never forget. It was incredible to be there helping with the preparation of the porridge, cooking in the big woodburn fires and finally being able to help serve the porridge to the children for the first time.”

She added that a hot meal made a huge difference to the pupils’ energy levels, with one teacher saying “it is the most energy and enthusiasm I have ever seen the students have in the classroom.”

The kitchen building project, called The Food Programme, is just the latest in the line of initiatives for the African school the inspirational teacher has come up with.

Back in 2012, Kari founded a project called Together in Sport Rwanda, which aims to improve the opportunities open to school children in the country. At the moment, there is only enough funding for each pupil to have a hot meal once a week. However, the charity’s priority for next year is to raise enough money to feed every pupil, every day. To give each pupil a meal every school day for a month costs £1200 – about £2.40 a month per child.

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To help reach their target, Together in Sport Rwanda are holding a fundraising event on Thursday 21st of July at Dirty Martini, Le Monde on George Street, Edinburgh, from 7:30pm till late.

The band BLEEKER will be making sure the evening goes off with a bang! Tickets are £10.

For more information contact: info@togetherinsportrwanda.org

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