There will be a Christmas Tree festival to be held in St Helen’s Church, Northwich over the first full weekend of December.

Under The Mango Tree will be decorating a 3 foot tree and dedicating it to the children of Timboni. The plan is to use our logo colours of green and red.

We plan to make our own decorations and if you have any ideas we would be pleased to hear from you.

The Weaver Valley WI choir has arranged a concert in the magnificent St Helen’s Church, Northwich, with raffle proceeds to Under the Mango Tree. We are grateful for this generous support so please do come along to support them and Under the Mango Tree if you can. For details of tickets CLICK HERE

It promises to be a fabulous night out.

We are pleased to report that the ambition to secure sponsorship for top performing children to go on to High School has been well received.

A group of Trustees and supporters will be visiting school in Timboni in January 2020 and we will be able to update you further about progress at that time.

You can read about a new initiative to provide vocational training for older pupils who will not go onto high school in this news feed (prior to a firm announcement).

We have a new quiz edition. This can be printed off and used for your own amusement or within your community group. As you will see the theme is around our Nets for Nets project. It is humbling to think that for the cost of a cup of coffee a child from this rural community in eastern Kenya could have a safe and effective mosquito net. In some rarer cases children from Timboni school have died from malarial related diseases. Much more common are cases of children experiencing many months lost schooling and the lifelong disadvantages this brings.
 
We trust you will enjoy the quiz – all the necessary details are on the attached form CLICK HERE

We are, as always, indebted to trustee Frances for all her hard work putting this together and then for checking returns.
 

Dressmaking and tailoring
 
Under The Mango Tree is looking forward to helping the older pupils and Timboni local community with vocational training, with the aim of better equipping young people for the future.

Two young people who are active supporters of Under The Mango Tree were recently married. They added to their wedding gift list, an opportunity for family and friends to make a donation to Under The Mango Tree.

This generosity has resulted in a £250 donation.
 
Thank you John and Nicky