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    partnering with Kenyan farmers and families

Ledwell & Haines for Farmers Helping Farmers

Ledwell & Haines for Farmers Helping Farmers
Friday, November 4 7:30 PM Florence Simmons Performance Hall Holland College Campus Tickets $30 Proceeds to support project work in Kenya Contact us for the tickets & information:  farmershelpingfarmerspei@gmail.com
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Largest group returns from successful trip to Kenya

Largest group returns from successful trip to Kenya
Largest group of Farmers Helping Farmers volunteers returns from Kenya Farmers Helping Farmers is celebrating another successful trip to Kenya – handing out mosquito nets at schools, working with women’s groups and educating farmers. This time, more than 20 volunteers travelled from P.E.I. to Kenya – the largest delegation since the first group traveled to…
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Milk and Cookies….for a goat in Kenya!

Milk and Cookies….for a goat in Kenya!
A group of students at Kinkora High School found a unique way to fundraise for a school in Kenya. The Grade 11 and 12 students are part of the Agricultural Academy Diploma Program.  The Aggies, as they call themselves, are interested in becoming twinned with a school in Kenya through Farmers Helping Farmers.  The 'Buy…
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Soccer Balls for Kenya 2016

Soccer Balls for Kenya 2016
Please join us in this exciting new campaign to send soccer balls to schools in Kenya as part of our group travelling to Kenya on January 22, 2016. Soccer Balls for Kenya 2016! In January, a group of nursing students from UPEI will be visiting Kenya as part of the 2016 volunteers with Farmers Helping…
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Largest group of volunteers in 35 years heading to Kenya

Largest group of volunteers in 35 years heading to Kenya
In January, a group of 20 volunteers from Farmers Helping Farmers travels from P.E.I. to Kenya – the largest delegation since the first group traveled to Africa more than three decades ago. The group includes nurses, FHF members and four volunteers who are part of a new project with Veterinarians Without Borders-Canada. Nursing students from…
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Grade 1 class turns lesson in human rights into fundraiser for solar lights

On Thursday December 10th at 11:30 a.m., the Grade 1 class of Vernon River School is doing a presentation at the Open House of the Human Rights Commission in Charlottetown. They will be making a presentation about their Rights and Responsibilities Project which raised enough money to buy 10 solar lights for their twinned school…
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Giving a Thumbs Up to Their Twinned School in Kenya

Giving a Thumbs Up to Their Twinned School in Kenya
Asante sana—many thanks—to a group of dedicated students and their teacher Kelly Allen at West Kent School in Charlottetown. They are creating "thumbprint cards" that will be sold to raise money for their sister school, Mitoone Primary, in Kenya. This is a fundraiser that started several years ago when West Keny was first twinned with…
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Lighting Up Lives in Kenya

Lighting Up Lives in Kenya
The Sunday School at Hillcrest United Church in Montague wants to "light up" the lives of families at their twinned school in Kenya.  They;re taking part in this year’s Farmers Helping Farmers Holiday Campaign. They hope to raise enough money for 38 solar lights –one for each child in standard 8, the Canadian equivalent of…
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