The Kariandusi School Trust (KST) has been very fortunate to receive the financial backing of the Woodard Corporation to build a secondary school in the Rift Valley of Kenya.  This year the Corporation is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Nathaniel Woodard's birth.  He was born on 21 March 1821.  He dedicated his life to provide a Christian education for the children of 'destitute gentlefolk' in England and Wales.  Lancing College, founded in 1847, was the first and is perhaps, the most remarkable of his schools.  Ardingly College, long-term supporters of our work in Kenya, was founded in 1858.  There are now 47 Woodard schools and academies with some 39,000 studying under Nathaniel Woodard's ethos.

As part of the celebrations, the Woodard Corporation is holding a memorial service in Westminster Abbey on 24 November 2011.  The Abbey will be full to capacity with invited guests.  We have heard that the collection is in aid of our new school in Kenya.  Two recent photographs showing progress on site are shown below:


The computer block, administration block, staffroom and library are taking shape


Roof trusses being made ready to receive their green corrugated iron coverings

On 6 November, BBC Radio 4's 'Sunday Worship' came from Lancing College during which listeners were told of the construction of our school in Kenya.  We expect to admit the first 90 children in early February 2012 and to have the school full with 540 children by 2015.  Most of them will come from the five primary feeder schools that KST has built within walking distance of what was called ‘Plot 68’.  Our aim is to provide an affordable, day, mixed school for those with faith and no faith.  No child should be denied a secondary education on the grounds of poverty alone.  It will be 'The First Woodard School in Africa'.  Let us hope it will not be the last! 

Much more detail can be seen on Google's 'Woodard Langalanga' pages.