These lovely Lelli Kelly boots are on the feet of 7 year old Ectovia Siteto

Please look at the Flickr link on the right to see the photos uploaded from the latest measuring.  Over 60 new Rafiki connections.  This is 149 St Francis shoes on Il Masin feet.

The money raised from the Feet Bleat in November last year is enough to supply the whole school (400 children) at Il Masin with school lunches for two months.  Well done to all our Maldon Rafikis.

 

Photos from the latest measuring will be uploaded to the Flickr link on the right hand side in the next few days.  Search through the names until you find your shoes on your Rafiki’s feet.

The next shoe measuring is taking place on Friday 21st May.  We hope to film this to take back some video footage of Rafikis to the UK.

Yesterday, 12 April 2010, a further 58 pairs of shoes from St Francis school in Maldon arrived in Kenya in the bags of Damon, Phil and Abisha on their way to a workshop.  Thank you so much to them.  

Damon also carried the work on Traditional English Tales written by children at St Francis and we are hoping to receive some work back on Kenyan Traditional Tales from the Il Masin children.  

We are a bit behind on measuring as people at the Kenyan end are very busy.  As well as expecting her first baby very soon, Sara has been working on projects in Kenya and the Congo as well as keeping Shoe Rafiki going.  She has been fantastic.  We hope to find some more volunteers in Kenya to help with the measuring sessions.

The T-shirts for the children who took part in the Feet Bleat walk in November are at St Francis’s and will be given to children after half term.  Samples shown by our models here.  Well done to you all.

Thank you so much to the wonderfully talented Louie Eden Brown for designing these for us.

Johnnie McMillan, who runs a fruit/flower export company in Kenya, has given over one third of his luggage allowance to carry 30 pairs of shoes on his flight to Kenya on 10 February.  

We delivered the shoes to him at his hotel in London today before he returns home from his business trip.  Johnnie is a friend of Sara’s in Kenya and we are really grateful to him.

Sequoia High School in Redwood City, California have set up a Shoe Rafiki programme using our model at St Francis’s in Maldon.  Caroline Bauhaus, a member of staff at the school, contacted us to set up shoe collections after meeting Louise in the States and hearing about the project.  They now have a Shoe Rafiki club made up of 8 students who meet every Friday and are collecting shoes for Il Masin in and around their college.  

This should enable us to have Rafikis in Kenya and, vicariously, Rafikis in Redwood City.