There always seems to be so much news to put into our quarterly newsletters that we never get a chance to really share some of the intereseting small scale projects we're supporting around the world

In Western Kenya for instance we've been helping 30 primary and secondary schools to start income generating educational projects.

Left you can see one of these projects, at Obwolo Secondary School near Kisumu, where supported by our friends at Africa Now, they've been focusing on bee-keeping.

Despite thte opportunities for making money from honey, local farmers are often scared to take up bee-keeping as an extra source of income. By teaching students how to look after the bees properly, it becomes a safer activity all round - and one with a tasty & valuable product.

The student groups vote how to spend the income from the project, ranging from buying extra school equipment to supporting school fees.

One thing you can say about Kenya - although true of most low-income countries - is that kids love going to school.

Ondati Primary School (left) is no exception. Having helped them establish a mango nursery and poultry project, we're now working on starting a Financially Self-Sufficient girls' secondary school with them.




This means that all the girls' who couldn't stay on in school because the nearest high school was too far away (and on paths which were too risky in the dark) will now get a chance to keep going with their studies.

The next shot is the new poultry shed at Ototo Secondary School which is running a Teach A Man To Fish project.

At this stage it was empty, but we're looking forward to our next visit and seeing it filled with cute fluffy chicks.

Maybe it's the reason why Kenya spawned the Green Belt Movement and Nobel Winner Wangarai Maathai, but they do like their trees.

At Luanda Dudi Secondary School they're planting one (left) to commemorate our visit, which is very sweet of them.



When you actually get all the teachers from all these different schools together, like we did here, the ideas fly around fast and furious.


Before you know it they're swapping a nucleus of bees for some mushroom farming secrets and taking their projects up to a whole new level!



Finally, it'd be wrong to stop without a vote of thanks to Elly our Teach A Man To Fish Kenya field officer - what the man doesn't know about F1 Ana Hybrid blight resistant tomatoes you could write on the back of the proverbial postage stamp (before they all became auto-adhesive).