Woman raises £1M to pay back Kenyan villagers who helped her when she was injured
Linda Greenland was knocked unconscious by a falling tree branch in Kenya and the kindness of villagers inspired her to build two schools and two nurseries.
A holidaymaker who was injured while visiting a Kenyan village has raised more than £1million for the local people who helped her. Linda Greenland, 61, was knocked unconscious when she was hit by a falling tree branch in Timbwani, near Mombasa.
She woke up in hospital to find local children had left scraps of paper wishing her well and kindly villagers visited her for the next three weeks. During that time she formed such close bonds with locals that she decided to dedicate her life to helping the village escape poverty .
The librarian came home and founded the Maji Safi charity and has since raised £1.2 million – building two schools and two nurseries.
Linda, who caught malaria during her Kenyan hospital stay, said: “I had plenty of time to think, and it made me realise that this was happening for a reason and I could help these people.
“In Kenya if you don’t work you don’t eat, and that kept going over and over in my mind in hospital.
“We’ve just tried to visit the community in Kenya a couple of times each year – we always pay for our own travel costs.
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