Well, it's been quite some time since the launch ball and although our website has been quiet Milele has been carrying on forging forward. We have been over-run with fantastic donations of clothes, toys, books and shoes and have now cataloged over 1000 items! We are hoping to take almost all of these donations out with us to give out to local families and children. There are so many generous people who have donated some truly fantastic items and we would like to thank them all very very much, the items will make such a massive difference to people out in kenya! There will be loads of photos of these donations and all our other antics appearing on our new look website over the next month as we get back from our first offical visit to Mtwapa!!

But that's not all, we have also managed to carboot a large amount of collected and donated stuff which we just couldn't take out to kenya such as homeware items. We spent a full day from 6:25 til 1:00 standing on a field selling our wares. This all paid off and netted us over £100 which will be a fantastic help in shipping extra items out to kenya and buying mosquito nets etc out there. While at the carboot we also met lots of people who were great and helped us massively. David Freer who runs the A47 carboot near Earl Shilton allowed us to set up stall for free and kept announcing our face painting over the loudspeaker, we are very grateful for this help as I am certain it helped to push our total upwards. There were also lots of very generous customers and other stall holders who we would like to thank for donating left over items and cash.

Anyway, we have lots of packing and organising left to do before we jet off on monday, so thankyou for your interest, and keep checking out the website for regular updates from Mtwapa!!

Friday the 20th March was a big day! Our launch ball was held at the Sketchley Grange Hotel and was a huge success. There were 59 people in attendance whose generosity has meant the event has now raised a grand total of £2254! This amazing figure just shows how generous and helpful all those in attendance were and how supportive everyone was on the night.

A massive thank-you goes to everyone who attended and donated in many different ways, as well as all those who donated auction items, specifically Rebecca Dawe Photography, PBO Tickets, ‘Fun on the Run’ Childrens’ Entertainment, Flash Event Photography, David Lloyds Leicester, Constance Woods Beauty Salon, Narborough Hall and Hinckley and Bosworth Youth Council. Thank-you to Lisa Mitchell who entertained us with her singing, Sean Curtis the table magician and RJC discos; all of whom did a fabulous job for a largely reduced cost, enabling more of the profits to be allocated to Milele itself.

We’d like to say a HUGE thank you to Malcolm for being our auctioneer, he was fantastic and managed to help us raise just over £1000 on the auction alone! He also made the auction one of the most entertaining parts of the evening, somehow managing to sell a ham sandwich for £10!

Last, but by no means least thank-you, thank-you, and thank-you some more to Josh, Millie, Emily, Amy MJ and Dan for helping me and Rich on the night. We genuinely could not have got through such a busy evening without you!

£2,254! That is amazing. It will really make a phenomenal difference, and will allow us to take on some children onto the sponsorship programme in September, which is so exciting!! Thanks again everyone!!

Thank-you to everyone who turned out to the staff event at the end of January. It was a great afternoon and it was lovely to meet so many interested people!

We're sorry to hear you won't be able to make it to the ball. We’d love to have a room full of lovely Milele supporters on the night so if any of your friends or family might be interested please feel free to forward on the save the date email.

If you have any comments, suggestions or you would like to help out with the ball please drop us an email or leave a comment below. We are currently looking for raffle and auction prizes so if you, someone you know or a business you have links with would like to donate something we'd be delighted to hear from you.

Thanks again for being one of Milele's amazing supporters.