Armagh Tigers Charitable Trust, is appealing for people to join a charity walk, Walk for Life, in aid of World Vision Korogocho Slum School Kenya Project and Diabetes Education and Awareness in Northern Ireland.
The 100 mile walk from Dublin to Dungannon, which takes place on Saturday 23rd April, will be divided into 10 stages each consisting of 10 miles opening up the event to everyone to help support the two very worthwhile causes.
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By supporting World Vision’s Korogocho Slum School Kenya Project, the Armagh Tigers Charitable Trust hope to improve the quality of life for children in Africa by building a second floor on the TBA preschool and primary school providing six classrooms as well as a library, kitchen and toilet facilities for the 300 students and 7 teachers.
The current facilities are not fit for purpose with the school receiving prohibition to open in 2020 due to its poor condition from local government until corrections required by the authorities were made. This resulted in the school being demolished and the need for the whole school to be rebuilt.
Speaking of the need for facilities to provide a better life for the children at the school Headteacher Rosemary Nuru, said:
“We have great and smart students who deserve better. They have all the prerequisites to study, but they just need the opportunity. Many students have difficulty in paying school fees, but we have kept the school doors open to the needy children as well. Even the children of slums must have the right to learn and hope for a better future.”
Walk for Life aims to improve the quality of life for people with diabetes in our local community by using funds raised to support diabetic research in Queens University Belfast.
Walk for Life seeks to fund a project with the aim of helping to transform care for people with diabetes, Type 1 with a particular focus on young people and not forgetting those who develop Type 2 in later life.
ATCT is supporting the diabetic research programme at Queen’s University Belfast, through a donation to the QUB Foundation
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Join Us In Walk For Life
Join us in our public 11.8 mile leg from The Armagh City Hotel, Armagh to Donnelly Group Showroom, Dungannon. We hope to have over 500 walkers taking part in this final leg. Each walker will raise £200 minimum and will be rewarded with a Walk for Life Medal commemorating their achievement.
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Stories
We have great students
Teachers and students are eagerly awaiting thecompletion of the school building. The hope is to get the serious shortcomings fixed, have more space and maybe even build a small play area and a garden outside the school.
Claire Donnelly
My Experience in Africa
In 2013, I was incredibly fortunate to have got the opportunity to go out to help teach in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya.
Who discovered insulin?
Insulin was discovered by Sir Frederick G Banting (pictured), Charles H Best and JJR Macleod at the University of Toronto in 1921 and it was subsequently purified by James B Collip.
Emma Donnelly
My Experience Adapting to the Diabetes Lifestyle
As type one diabetes was seen as a “normal” way of life in my immediate family from my dad and sister having the condition before me, I knew I had to accept reality quickly when my diagnoses came along.
100 Years of insulin
11 January 1922 – Insulin was first used in a human to treat diabetes.
In January 1922, Leonard Thompson, a 14-year-old boy dying from type 1 diabetes...