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The process of choosing who would get the chance to go to the Oxford Royale Academy’s Global Leadership programme this summer was a long one.

After being shortlisted for interview and giving a short presentation, I was very happy to be selected for this wonderful opportunity!

Not only will I get the chance to travel to Oxford, England and stay in the picturesque Lady Margaret Hall for two weeks, but this will also give me the chance to learn from Oxford teaching staff and meet students from all over the world, including the 14 other students on my course who hail from eight different countries.

I hope to use what I learn in the future. I am so grateful for the chance given to me by Oxford Royale, and would like to thank all the teachers involved in the selection process.

Muriel Kasanga,
Year 12,
British  School of Bahrain.

A successful collaboration between St Christopher’s School and Hillcrest School in Kenya has resulted in delightful smiles on the faces of school children in the slums of Nairobi.

Through the combined effort of parents, teachers and pupils from St Christopher’s Infant, Junior and Senior Schools, alongside a complimentary flight for 86 boxes of clothing from DHL, our consignment arrived. Once there, our friends at Hillcrest School found two deserving recipient schools.

Hillcrest’s community service coordinator, Dorcie Agundah, emailed: “We identified two schools where the uniforms will go … we are privileged to have been chosen to carry out this noble work on behalf of St Christopher’s School. We are very grateful for this rare opportunity to partner with you in serving our society and we look forward to more of such interactions.”

The recipient schools are

- Lighthouse Grace School; home to 60 children which schools 150 children every day in the slum area of Dagoretti, Nairobi

- Tender Foot School started out as The Tenderfoot Self Help School and comprised originally of eight street children being fed, clothed and taught in a corrugated iron shack in a slum on the outskirts of Nairobi. Through the hard work and determination of Esther Wamai, now the school’s head teacher, Tenderfoot gradually grew into a functioning primary school for the Kangemi slum children.

St Christopher’s would like to say an enormous ‘Thank You’ to everyone who made this dream possible. 

Kirsty McKay,
St Christopher’s School.