2019 FUNDRAISING APPEAL

We will be sending out a fundrasiing letter on Saturday 10th August with more information regarding our big fundraising campaign to raise funds to finish the El Bokoch School in Ileret.  In the meantime please go to the yellow DONATE button to show your support - thank you!

UPDATE 3rd MAY 2018

NEEDED: $30,000

A huge thank you to the following Donors who have given to this round of fundraising.  We need to raise $30,000 to enable us to finish El Bokoch School by building the last two classrooms.  Donate a brick for $25 ... building success in one of the most remote and environmentally challenging places on earth brick by brick!

PRIVATE DONORS:

LaDene Federico

Sharon Conlin

Sue Whittington

Geoff Cronhelm

Mev Camozzi

Anisa Diab

Justin Noormand

Josh Yeager

Janet & Preston Bascom

Charles Hayward

Amy Cronhelm

Elizabeth, Brad, Heath & Piper Anderson

Liz & Dave Temperton & family
Karolyn Timarkos

Catherine (Kate) Gellert 

Richard & Barbara Reynolds

Anonymous

KOOBI FORA FIELD SCHOOL (KFFS):

Class of 1994: Megan Roemer

Class of 2003: Jane Steele

Class of 2004: Mary Whittington

Class of 2017: Sarah Seeley

To all the years of the Koobi Fora Field School. 

Please get on board and encourage your Year to give to this incredibly worthwhile project.  One Brick is $25.00.

A huge thank you to all the friends of the MCFT & MCTC who are planning dinners and/or have pledged to donate.  Your support is critical.

WE CAN DO THIS!!  THANK YOU.

WHAT WE NEED ...

RAISING FUNDS FOR THE FINAL CONSTRUCTION OF TWO CLASSROOMS AT EL BOKOCH SCHOOL IN ILERET, NORTHERN KENYA.

GOAL: $30,000 USD

All it takes is mates, plates and a willingness to donate!  We are asking you to host a dinner (or BBQ), get your friends together, tell them about our project and ask for their support by donating to this worthwhile cause.

Ask your friends to sponsor the classroom construction by buying a brick for $25.00. 

Our goal per dinner is for your guests to buy 20 bricks. 

Pick your date in April 2018 to host your dinner.  

We will be following up with you to give you more information and to confirm you are able to give us a helping hand.  Thank you.

Asante sana, Liza and Amy

To date we have built four new classrooms and provided funding for the day to day running of the school since 2014. With these final two classrooms constructed we will have capacity at El Bokoch School to educate 280 children. 

FOOD FOR THE DAASANACH COMMUNITY IN ILERET, NORTHERN KENYA

WHY:   PEOPLE ARE STARVING TO DEATH

WHAT: WE WILL PERSONALLY DELIVER THIS FOOD (MAIZE) TO ILERET

HOW:   YOU DONATE ONE 90KG SACK OF MAIZE

Please go to the Newsletter Page and click on 'Newsletter May 2017' to read about what you helped accomplish by so generously donating.  

THE A-MAIZE APPEAL - FUNDS REQUIRED BY 21 FEBRUARY 2017

Sit down for 10 minutes, make a sandwich and have a coffee, please take the time to read this.  As all of you are aware we have been working in Ileret, Northern Kenya building and operating educational facilities since 2009.  This fundraising effort which we are asking you to respond too is different from the other requests we have made to you.

WHY: Right now Northern Kenya is in severe drought. Normally the rains would have come by this time of year and the situation wouldn't be so dire.  But right now the Daasanach Tribe are losing their animals, their livelihood and now their lives. We have received disturbing information, images and media reports from our Ileret coordinators and Kenyan newspapers.

WHAT: we are doing is putting this urgent request to you all to give funds to buy maize in Nairobi (13.5 tonnes) and truck it to Ileret.  Liza leaves this Saturday to head to Kenya to be on the ground to organise this relief mission.

HOW: you can help.  Please donate one bag (90KG) of maize which will cost you $70.00 New Zealand dollars or $50.00 USD.  This is the equivalent to 17 cups of coffee in New Zealand or ten sandwiches.  What it will mean to our children and their familites in Ileret is LIFE.

What an A-Maizing response from you all!  Thank you to all the people below who gave so generously:

*  Please let me know if I have inadvertantly left off your name.

There are three ways you can donate:

1. PAYPAL - simply click on the PayPal icon on this website and give your donation.

2. DIRECT CREDIT to our New Zealand MCFT bank account.

(For New Zealand residents only.  Simply email your contact details to              info@michaelcronhelmfoundation.org and we will be in touch with the information).

3. CHECK - to our USA MCTC Foundation. 

(Go to the Donate Page for details).

Click on the link below to read the article in The Standard (Kenya Newspaper):

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001228627/hundreds-too-weak-as-famine-ravages-region

We will be updating our Facebook page daily to let you know how our fundraising efforts are going!  PLEASE DONATE THIS IS AN EXTREMELY CRITICAL SITUATION.