Highlights from 2011:

In 2011 more than 90 brave runners ran the 2011 Brussels 20k race to support Neema, one of the schools in Kenya supported by Giraffe Project.

It was a warm day by Brussels standards (around 26C). All the runners, whose ages varied from 12 upwards, did really well and raised a huge amount of money for the school, going on for 29,000 euros.

Why Neema School?

Shacks made of mud, sticks and corrugated iron sheets, sewage-strewn streets, unemployment, shortage of water, hunger. In Korogocho slum, (the word means "rubbish") tens of thousands of teenagers roam the streets without hope, in the knowledge they are indeed on the scrap heap of society.

There are no secondary schools in the slum, and schools elsewhere are costly.

The school is 95% funded by the Giraffe Project. The students themselves pay small amounts of fees according to their ability, but most have no means, and many are orphans.