Welcome to The funzi & Bodo trust
The Funzi and Bodo Trust works in two isolated mud hut villages in Kenya called Funzi and Bodo. Places where people had been living without the basics of life including access to healthcare, clean water, toilets, electricity and adequate education. Poverty and malnutrition was common place.
The charity helps provide education and training, It cares for those who are sick or Disabled It supports families facing poverty by helping them to start small businesses and create employment through interest free loans. The Trust also provides local sanitation and helps girl stay in school through its sanitary pad project.
The charity provides up to 1500 meals every week to hungry and malnourished children and is pioneering a sustainable approach to beating hunger and poverty through a farm school for children and adults.
The charity removes painful parasites from the hands and feet of children.
ABOUT US
The Funzi and Bodo Trust was started by former BBC journalist Ashley Peatfield and his teacher wife, Sara, nearly 20 years ago. On a visit to the island of Funzi they helped a family get treatment for a sick baby, shocked by the poverty and suffering of other villagers they responded by building a small medical clinic.
Our Projects
Feeding families
The Funzi and Bodo Trust is beating hunger and malnutrition. The charity provide 1500 meals each week at the two schools it built. It also teaches children and adults to grow their own food and create income at its farm school.
Beating Illness
The charity runs two medical clinics, birthing rooms, a disability centre and funds operations. It cares for those with long term ill health and has mobile clinics to remove parasites in their feet and hands.
Learning to beat poverty
Education and learning is delivered at two schools built by the charity with libraries and computer rooms. The Trust helps fund young people through college and University. The occupations they go into bring income to families and break a cycle of poverty.
Creating Family Incomes
The Funzi and Bodo Trust helps people with small interest free loans to start, or grow their businesses so they can create income for their families and become self-supporting. A seaweed farm, a shop and a joiner’s workshop are among them creating jobs for workers.
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Funzi & Bodo Trust provides children with clean drinking water.
