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Secondsight – raising funds for Kenyan schools at Employee Benefits Live

Friday, September 02, 2011
Secondsight, the employee benefits adviser, is delighted to announce that it will be raising funds for two Kenyan schools at this year’s Employee Benefits Live Exhibition & Conference.

After a trip to Kenya, one of the Partners, Darren Laverty, pledged to support the Amani Junior Academy and the Showers of Blessings school, both situated in Watamu, two hours north of Mombassa, Kenya. Employee Benefits Live provides an opportunity to raise awareness of the schools plight to provide education for 5 to 16 years olds and to raise funds to buy school equipment.

In an age of austerity, the Partners at Secondsight supported the decision to not offer a competition at the show and instead channel the savings made towards purchasing school equipment, including textbooks and desks, for the two Kenyan schools. Funds will be raised for very enquiry form completed at the show. Each enquiry form completed by a member of the Secondsight team will result in Secondsight donating one textbook to the schools. The schools have requested 1700 books, one for each child in each of their six subjects.

 

Darren Laverty, Partner at Secondsight comments, “This is only the second year Secondsight has been present at the exhibition & conference but we were astounded by the number of suppliers providing similar, high priced prizes to attendees. Great news for the few winners but we wanted to do more for those who have much less than we do here in the UK and the show gives us a perfect platform to do this. I went to Kenya recently and saw for myself the hardship kids have to go through in order to go to school, yet I was overwhelmed with the dedication the children show in learning and of the teachers who know education is a way out of poverty. On my return home, I was determined to support some of those I had met; pledging to give them a better future. Not only do their parents have to pay for their education but they cannot go to school unless they have books and pencils. The least we can do is to make available textbooks and desks. So, we have pledged to raise enough money to purchase the 1700 text books the schools would like. Our involvement at Employee Benefits Live will go some way to achieving this goal”.

Updates on our progress in purchasing all 1700 books & subsequently, desks, will be available on the Secondsight website – http://www.second-sight.com/AboutUs/GoodCauses.aspx, as well as more information on the schools.

Secondsight will be at Employee Benefits Live, stand no 111.