KOFUP

Kenyan Orphan Fund and Uganda Project

Kofup is over 20 years old now. From the start Westborough has been the most generous of supporters especially in the early days when people felt abandoned and forgotten by the world. Knowing that there were people who cared added the gift of hope to their courage and resilience in direst of circumstances.

Children in Kenya

Despite the challenges people have hope, thanks to small donations from children combined with very generous donations from individuals and from school based fund raising. You will never really know what you have done. The children on the receiving end of your kindness do because they are alive to tell their stories. They are always amazed that you care about them without knowing them. So are we!

Thank you.

Brendan Bennett (retired Westborough teacher) and the Trustees of Kofup

LATEST UPDATE!

Kenya Visit - July 2025

Mr Brendan Bennett( ex Westborough teacher ) paid his annual visit to the Kofup projects in Kenya. The cost of trips is covered by the visitors themselves. Every penny donated goes directly to the people who need it.

The trustees of Kofup would like to thank the adults and children of Westborough who have remained loyal supporters of the work of the charity.

Money raised by Westborough tends to be used to provide food for children who attend a mini nursery. It is located in a rural area where food production has been undermined by climate change. People work really hard to grow food on small family holdings. Harvest doesn't happen every year due to flooding and drought.

Kofup has been able to pay for food for the children at school.

Looking at the photo below, the children look healthy and well fed. They send a big THANK YOU to the children of Westborough.

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Kenya / Uganda Visit 2024

Mr Bennett and fellow trustees from here visited their Kofup counterparts in Africa.

They had the pleasure of meeting highly educated and qualified young people whose education had been funded by Kofup. They had been orphaned as babies and young children. Thanks to the generosity of many people ,they are now working and in a position to support their own communities,which they do willingly.

It was also good to note that donated Westborough uniform is still bringing warmth and comfort to children who are poor and vulnerable.

Thank you for your ongoing support. It is greatly appreciated and much needed.Climate change is having a catastrophic impact on the cost of living for people who are already poor and living from hand to mouth.

KOFUP is still doing it's work in Kenya and Uganda.

With the help of your donations, people, whose lives have been put in danger by drought, can celebrate the sight,touch,feel and taste of fresh water. Every aspect of their lives has been transformed.

The bore hole had to go down over 60 metres to get fresh water otherwise the water is too salty to drink and damages any food that manages to grow.

Mr Bennett and, most of all, the children say a BIG,'Thank You' to the children of Westborough.

It was great to visit them in November 2023.

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