Various encouragements

First, we were sent another £1,000 cheque yesterday! That was so encouraging. And there was also a £50 cheque in the same post. People are so very generous, and we are very, very grateful.

Secondly, our local village school gave us the retiring collection after their Christmas show - very appropriately, the theme of the show was how children in various countries around the world celebrate Christmas. We have also been invited to go there and do an Assembly about the Street Kids in January.

Thirdly:

Photographic Exhibition: A professional photojournalist, Carol Allen Storey, has taken some superb black-and-white photographs of the Kasese Street Children. She has generously allowed us to use these to publicise the Kasese Street Kids project, to raise awareness and raise funds. We have already, with her permission, used several of the pictures on this Blog.

Here is one we have used before: © Carol Allen Storey

http://www.castorey.com/

Now we are planning an Exhibition of these photographs, printed to the highest professional standards, in Holy Trinity Church, Kendal (a large and beautiful church beside the road entering Kendal from the south, and with the River Kent beside it).

http://kendalparishchurch.co.uk/

The Vicar of Holy Trinity, Rev. Rob Saner-Haigh, has told us he is very happy for the church to be used for such a purpose.

No dates have yet been fixed - it will probably be sometime in the spring of 2011. We hope to have a Private Guest Preview, to which we will invite all the local people of influence and distinction.

It will obviously cost a considerable sum to mount such an Exhibition, and we will be looking for sponsorship for that. Any suggestions and offers to kskjenkin@hotmail.co.uk!