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RHP employees help Kenyan families

A group of RHP employees have returned to the Twickenham office after helping families living in poverty housing in Kenya.

08/12/2010

The volunteers from RHP raised funds for over a year to work for the international charity Habitat for Humanity, which has helped over 1.5million people living in poverty in over 3,000 communities. The Twickenham based group had the task of raising over £18,000 to help four families by helping them build a safe, decent home to live in.

Habitat for humanity Kenya 1The group hit their fundraising target by organising events, raffles, collecting in the rain on rugby days, selling doughnuts, and even sang on a local radio station to raise enough money to go out to Kenya and help support families who lived in housing conditions like none seen in the UK.

Supported by RHP with annual leave and fund raising facilities and local businesses, including the Cabbage Patch pub, the Royal Military School of Music, and RHP partners Mears and Cyan Group Ltd.

Volunteer, Lloyd Constable said: "Having worked in social housing we thought it would be very rewarding to help families who live in conditions that would not be accepted in the UK. We were able to help four families living in poor, dilapidated, overcrowded conditions by digging new foundations, lifting bricks, mixing cement, building and plastering walls using only basic tools.

"The local Mitaboni community (a small village 65km outside Nairobi) welcomed us as family and we worked with them to give them a 'hand-up' not a 'hand-out'. We would like to inspire and encourage other groups to go out there and make a real difference to peoples' lives all over the world."

For more information about the project contact Lloyd Constable at RHP by emailing lloyd.constable@rhp.org.uk