Mvumi School Trust

The boys of Caldicott Prep School and their families chose Burnham Beeches in Buckinghamshire for this year's sponsored walk. So far over £1,500 have been raised.

This will be sufficient to pay for the education of two students at DCT Mvumi Secondary School through Forms I to IV. The boys will correspond with two students who receive the bursary awards and follow their progress.

J O Hambro Investment Management, the highly acclaimed London-based Private Client Wealth Management firm which is part of the Credit Suisse Banking Group, has donated £20,000 to Mvumi School Trust.

This is intended to be the a first instalment. J O Hambro and the Trust intend this to be a long term relationship. In announcing this donation Christopher Rose, a Director of J O Hambro said, “We have chosen to make this donation to help the DCT Mvumi Secondary School in Tanzania following a careful selection process. We were seeking a charity to which our involvement would make a difference and in which our staff could make a real and direct contribution to the charity's future. DCT Mvumi Secondary School is a great success story and we are delighted that we shall now be part of it”.

Julian Raymond and son Paul have reached the top of Kilimanjaro.

Julian Raymond and son Paul celebrated Julian's 60th birthday by trekking up Mount Kilimanjaro and in doing so they have raised the magnificent sum of £7,900 (and rising!) for Mvumi Secondary School through sponsorship of their trek. The trek began on the 29th of March 2008 and they reached the summit on the 2nd of April - Julian's 60th birthday.

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Last summer, Hugo Frith and Laura Buxton decided to do something different with their holidays.

Using the idea of combining a charity project and their mutual enjoyment of horse riding as a basis, they decided to raise money for African Schools by performing an extended endurance ride on their horses Basil and Drummer.

Hugo chose to raise money for the DCT Mvumi School in Tanzania, while his companion chose to fund a new library for a similar school in the Zambian copper belt.

The ride took place over a period of four nights and five days; completing at 8.00 pm on Friday evening, thus achieving their goal.

The route of their journey totalled over 100 miles in length, and took them through such places as Salisbury Plain and Cranborne Chase.