Hello Everyone! So, we're back in England and now have four lovely boys waiting over there in Kenya for 12 lovely sponsors over here in England!

Each child who is part of Milele has four sponsors, so we are now looking for 16 people/families/organisations to fill those places.

As a sponsor you will recieve a welcome pack giving you details about the child you sponsor, an address to write to them at and photos of them. You will also recieve their most recent school report and will continue to get their school reports throughout the year. They will write letters to you and will be extremely excited to get replies if you want to send them.

Sponsorship is a unique opportunity to build a relationship with one of our boys. They are really lovely kids and sponsors are a big part of their lives, enabling them to attend school and get lunch every day, and also making them feel that someone on the other side of the world cares about them personally.

If you would like to be a sponsor, it costs £75 per sponsor for the entire year. This pays for all their school fees at the best school in the area including computor classes, exam fees, extra tution, school bag, uniform and PE kit, school shoes, text books and exercise books, mosquito net, toiletry set with soap, toothbrush, toothpaste and flannel as well as extras such as school trips.

If you are interested in becoming a sponsor contact us at the email address milele@live.co.uk and include your phone number. We will give you a call to sort out the details

We are looking forward to hearing from you!

Amy and Rich

On our last day in Kenya we took the four sponsored boys Charo, Safari, Kaingu and Emmanuel to visit their family in their rural hometown of Takaungu.This is a coastal town, but it is very sprawling and much more spread out than many of the more urban areas closer towards Mombasa. Poverty is extremely prevalent here and there are many fundamental issues and challenges faced in normal daily life for all the families living here. For our part, the determination and cheerful optimism of everyone you meet inspires and deserves the utmost respect and admiration. This was also our opportunity to say hello to the family, for Rich to become more familiar with the background and tribal culture of our boys and for us to let the family know all the details of their sponsorship.

They were very pleased to see us all and very proud of the boys when we told them how well they were all doing in class and how hard they are working. Charo settled into his role of photographer yet again and lots of funny photos with fingers over the lens ensued, just as at Riziki!

The boys rural home is still dilapidated, although the walls of the house have been partially repaired. There is still no furniture to speak of but there appears to be slightly more food with less mouths to feed and the boys' older sisters, Mariam, Mpenzi and Kadzo, all seem healthy and strong. They are also all attending school, which is some improvement, although we got the impression their attendance is not very consistent and that the school is far from ideal.

The boys really enjoyed meeting with their Aunts, Uncles and sisters again and we encouraged the family to be visiting them in New Light Childrens' Home as regularly as they possibly can. It was a wonderful way to spend our last day and gave us some true perspective on the trip before we returned to England. I really hope some of the brilliant atmosphere and the pure honesty of Takaungu itself has been translated in these photos.

We gave Charo and Kaingu bags of boys and clothes to distribute among their sisters and cousins. They clearly adored this responsibility and we hope you enjoy the photos of it as much as we have!

Thanks again, congratulations to those of you who can spot the toys and clothes you have donated personally among the chaos! Im sure you can tell how well used they will be!

Hello everyone! We are now updating the website on the super fast computors and using wonderful internet connections of England, which means you will doubtless be inundated with news of the trip!! So, on the final Saturday of the trip, we took the four sponsored boys to meet their younger sisters Dama, Karembo, Amina and Agnes at another children's home called Riziki. Riziki is situated further up the coastline in a rural area near Kilifi town. The journey there only took around half an hour since we were lucky and managed to find a large bus which didn't stop too often! The boys were pretending it was all perfectly normal and that they were just too cool for words...but were clearly secretly thrilled by the big bus and the speed they were moving at; craning their necks to look out of the window and pointing and chattering excitedly as we passed recognisable places near their homeland.

We arrived at the stop and walked down the track to Riziki, the boys exclaiming at the size of the place! Its a very large children's home with more than 80 children staying there and a large farm and a nursery school on site. The boys met with their sisters and I got my first chance to see the girls again since i took them to Riziki a year ago! I must say all of us developed very watery eyes to see the family meeting up again and the excitement of the children to swap stories about their new home.

The boys had been given some sweets before we left for Riziki, and without our knowledge had quietly slipped them into their pockets, so when we arrived they pulled them out and immediately began to share them out among the girls, bringing yet another tear to my eye!

Charo, being the eldest and quite a thoughtful sort of child was a bit apprehensive at first, but once Rich had given him a digital camera and the title of official photographer he was in his element, showing his sisters photos of themselves and feeling extremely important in his role in 'teacher' of how to use a camera!! This means that many of our photos of Riziki are complete with added extras such as small fingers over the lens and lots of shots of the floor, but we did manage to take a few sneaky ones of our own for you to look at.

The girls are all doing really well, being in the kindergarten classes at home at the minute and clearly get on brilliantly with their teacher, whom they called over excitedly to meet their brothers. The manager of the home knew the boys immediately as she recognised the resemblance between the family straight away, and seemed to know the girls very well indeed.

We left many of the clothes which had been donated and were left over from Mtopanga School there with the manager to distribute to the children who needed them most at the time in the home, all of the items will be shared fairly amongst the girls and boys there, adding another 80 children to our running total of children touched by your gifts while we were out there!

It was a wonderful day. An absolute joy to bring them together again after so long, and to encourage a regular link between the homes which should allow them to be in contact with each other all the time.

Thanks once again for your support and enjoy the photos!

Hi all, So here it is... the Official Mtwapa Academy School Photo 2009.

This is one of many photos taken (including a serious one which Madam Director requested before the thumbs revealed). It took around half an hour to organise the children into a vague semblance of order before the photos could be taken (which took about 2 mins).

Anyway hope you all like it.

Rich