Baringo county is western Kenya is set to receive a donation of pencils worth 58 million shillings (Approximately 571,816 US dollars) from the United Kingdom’s Rotary club of Workington and Cumberland Pencil Company reports the Standard.
The pencils targeting over 30,000 students in the county will be shipped to Kenya in the next four weeks.
Chairman of a community group – Kalenjin Kootab Myoot Community- from the county accepted the donation in London in a flagged off ceremony that was officiated by the club president Patricia Hoggarth and Ken Kirkwood, the International Services director, at the Workington warehouse in London.
“The governor saw the importance of the pencils for the children of Baringo,” he said. “Our role here is to support charity work and we are very pleased to create such links,” he added.
The donor organization said that it has sent out six million pencils to over 46 countries already.
“We are pleased to donate these pencils to Seroney to take them to schools in Baringo County. They are good pencils and children will enjoy using them,” said Rotary club president Patricia Hoggarth
